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Become a reality among democrats. Up first, a tale of two felons. President trump praises Paul Manafort, his former Campaign Chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. The president tweeted this, i feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12yearold tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to break. Make up stories in order to get a deal. Such respect for a brave man. The president took another swipe at Michael Cohen, his former lawyer ...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his comments or explain, you know, his view of the situation. But what he has been doing over the last day or ...

Is it as simple as he's trying to get a pardon? or is it something even deeper? >> so ali, what happens to manafort now? >> he goes to sentence, he gets the book thrown at him, he's going to get double-digit years and he has to sit back and wait for a pardon. there's no other escape hatch for him. will he get a pardon? i don't think so. first of all, he can't hurt the president anymore. he is done as a cooperator. he can't -- mueller will not cooperate him, the southern district will not cooperate him. he is -- what we used to call burned as a cooperator. so he can't hurt trump anymore. on the...

Perspective, there really doesn't seem to be a case against it. if there were evidence that, for instance, republicans in his own party would really put up a fight about this and say this dle clearly shows obstruction of justice, which is what a lot of democrats are arguing, then maybe there would be a risk. he seems to use these pardons as almost political tools, to shore up support on his side of his base. i think a manafort pardon would do that. i don't really think he would suffer from a lot of political consequences. if he's going to be impeached by a democratic congress, it's not going t...

Contribution, and it isn't disclosed to the fec as an in-kind campaign contribution, wouldn't that be illegal? >> i honestly don't know that. and john edwards was tried on something very similar. he was not convicted on that. i think it's -- >> john edwards? >> yes. it's a very niche area of law, and not much expertise in this. but if i could draw one other comparison, if i could. i know, wolf, you may not agree with this. but i think it's fair to do this. and that is the american people hope that, two things. one is that no one is above the law. mr. manafort, though he was a friend of the prr...