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Before. whether you believe that cohen actually tried to make a deal with stormy daniels by himself. now you have his own lawyer, cohen's own lawyer, calling him a fixer and saying he freelanced on this. clint, look, we're talking about a question about whether or not a president used his power or someone on his behalf used the power of his office to derail an investigation and we're talking about freelancing potentially here. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no. we've never seen anything like president trump. or why does he need a team of lawyers around him 100% of the time to get th...

This morning, there are new questions about presidential pardons in the russia probe. "the new york times" reports that president trump's former lead counsel john dowd discussed offering pardons for michael flynn and paul manafort as mueller closed in on them last year. "the times" writes this, the discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men and they raised questions about whether the lawyer, john dowd, who resigned last week, was offering pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation. dowd denies the repor...

Clint watts, msnbc security analyst. and good to see all of you. if this is true could this be obstruction of justice? >> well, it could. the idea he's possibly dangling out this idea of a pardon to paul manafort or michael flynn is very troubling. but, you know, the idea that constitutional powers are absolute, i mean, we all -- and that's kind of the argument here. >> meaning the president can pardon whoever he wants? >> for whatever reason. we all know in the constitution there are limits at times. for freedom of speech. you can't run into a crowded theater and scream fire. to kind of paint...