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Mr. dowd does deny scheduling the pardons but we're very confident in our reporting. >> there is a flat denial, no discussions, from john dowd, as far as i know, no discussions. >> listen iing to jo, seems to she has sources who understand very well that there were. the big question here is if this it did occur, why, if it was before flynn flipped? >> pled guilty and started to cooperate. >> it seems to me, to raise the question we talked about before, that the legitimate question that gets raised now is were -- was the president's lawyer -- and did he do it on his own, even though he says he ...

In an entirely different light. by the way, we don't know, as jo becker was pointing out, if there was freelancing go ping on here or the president knew about it or didn't know about it zblaes nothing wrong with the president asking his legal team, let's talk about pardons. the president has every right to do that. >> that's exactly what he should be doing, asking his legal counsel what are the parameters of my issuing a pardon. i think there's nothing wrong with that. if, however, his couldn't plaths was so that i can interfere with, that's where it becomes problematic. we don't have evidence...

People have them. and by his account, he's stunned. and either she's being sort of hopelessly naive because, of course, lawyers are going to turn these over and they're not going to deep six them. or she's suggesting somehow that they could all get together and destroy this evidence, or not turn it over. and what he's also deeply concerned about by his account -- now, hope denies saying this. let's just get that out there. hope denies this through her lawyer in our story today. but by his account, what he then -- he's so concerned that not only what she said, but that she said it with the pres...

Produced at this meeting and, you know, you just read from this intelligence blog. they say are you interested? maybe they dangled more. maybe there were others. if you look at like who did this come from, and the president is known to trust only a very very small group of people, his family. it came from a former business partner to the former business partner's russian son, this pop singer, to his son, you know, who brings in the brother-in-law and campaign manager. you have to wonder how many other things traveled through this or other similar kinds of close knit sort of -- >> yes. >> jo be...

Exactly one week from today, president-elect trump will be holding his first news conference since winning the aelection, alongside his children, he's set to announce the future of his business empire. new reporting indicates how trump plans to extract himself from his corporate endeavors and how far he'll go. a source tells cnn the president-elect's two adult sons will take a leadership position within the trump organization and trump i's daughter ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner will have roles in washington. with me, jo becker. i read your piece this morning, thank you for swinging...