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You? >> too familiar and it's not a happy day. it's not a happy day when aides to the president of the united states or candidate for the president are indicted by the united states government. it's not a happy day. it's not a happy day when a tweet goes out that suggests that the president knew that flynn had lied before it came out that he had lied. it's a serious situation. and i'm troubled that we have a lawyer to the president who said, i wrote the tweet. i made the confession. i'm the one who basically implicated the president. the president is not guilty. that's just nonsense. as far as...

If trump authored the tweet and sent it out and said he fired flynn because he lied to the fbi, that could be used against him later as some evidence, certainly not the only evidence, but some of the evidence against him in an on instruction of justice count. so if it instead can be contributed to the lawyer, then that can't be used as directly against donald trump and he can say, that wasn't me, that was my lawyer trying to help explain the situation to the public. so i think it is potentially a strategy to help minimize the harm that it can do for president trump. >> i want to have you respo...

He interested in flynn. he didn't say to let the entire russia investigation to go but flynn specifically and he said he fired flynn because he lied to the vice president. so it raises more questions than answers and on the best of days and worst of days, instead of talking about tax reform we're talking about russia and the twitter account distracting from the message he would like to be focusing on. >> betsy, one of the questions asked now is does this put the president in more legal jeopardy because of this very tweet. >> potentially. and one thing that we could say with a high degree of co...

Trump's lawyer, and pretty quickly that operation fell apart. the lawyers that have replaced them, john dow, ty cobb, have taken a much more conciliatory strategy towards mueller. that's something that has been -- it's premised on the the idea that investigators aren't going to find any kind of collusion. what we can see from papadopoulos' guilty plea is at the very least there were attempts at collusion. think that's something that trump and his legal team need to worry about. >> josh greene, thank you so much. before i go, let me turn to the reason i am sitting here in washington, d.c. in ...

Is that a red line? >> would that be a breach? >> i would say yes. by the way, i don't, i mean it's possible that there's a condo or something. i sell a lot of condo units, and if somebody from russia buy as condo. i don't make money from russia. >> "washington post" reports that the president's team is looking into whether he can grant pardons to aides, family members, even himself. >> the president maintains pardon powers like any president would. but there are no announcements or planned announcements on that front whatsoever. >> the attorney representing mr. trump and matters related to th...