good morning. it's monday, july 24th. well, president trump spent much of his weekend putting his message out on twitter sending 19 tweets from his personal account alone and among them ten he sent before 8:30 on saturday morning was this one. "while all agree the u.s. president has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us. fake news." the president's lawyers had denied any discussion says of pardons as nonsense after the washington post reported trump had asked advisors about pardoning powers. now, a member of trump's outside legal team, continued to make that argument yesterday, but his new communications director anthony scaramucci said the president had actually discussed the issue with him. >> we have not and continue to not have conversations with the president of the united states regarding pardons. pardons have not been discussed, and pardons are not on the