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The "new york times" is first to report today that president trump's lead russia lawyer until recently, john dowd, the times reports that last year he raised the prospect last year with discussions with manafort and flynn's lawyers. according to the times, john dowd raised that prospect last year in discussions with
Manafort and flynn's decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation. of course manafort and flynn made very different decisions on that score. manafort pled not guilty and is fighting more than 20 felony counts from the special counsel, looking at life in prison if convicted. flynn pled guilty, and he's now cooperating. if the president's lawyer was talking pardons with them last year before they made those decisions, then why did neither of them end up with a pardon? and is the president or his lawyer potentially in trouble for doing this? if the pardons were offer...
So he has a strong bargaining chip. we only have to think, if this is what gates knows wlab does manafort know? >> natasha, let me ask you. two men working together closely on a whole host of issues, allegations is that they were representing ukraine with political interests here in the united states. their financial interests. what is the significance of this? intending to plead guilty now. >> the white house said that this will not have any impact on trump or his inner circle in the white house. but there are are a lot of reasons why that is not true. of course because manafort and gates wer...
President. pamela joins me now. pamela, good evening to you. what are you learning? >> well, don, sources tell our team that the fbi got permission from the secret surveillance court to monitor paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, both before and after the election as you mentioned. this is an extraordinary step for the fbi to do surveillance of a high-ranking campaign official. of course manafort is now at the center of the russia meddling probe, and we're told that there are intercepted communications, don, that did raise concerns among investigators about whether manafort was ...