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A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Manafort this summer. So this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. Listen, theres th...

Recollection or even recordings of calls between roger stone and the president discussing e-mails, all of these pieces come into sharper focus now that mueller has his hands on trump's written responses. >> mike schmidt, take us through what you and your colleagues have reported last night about the president's flow of information from manafort's lawyers, even after manafort had agreed to cooperate and i guess a nonlawyer would assume that meant be helpful to the mueller probe. that wasn't the case. >> yeah, so there was a pipeline from kevin downing, manafort's lawyer, to rudy giuliani. and t...

Lawyer told him that prosecutors hammered away at whether the president knew about the june 2016 trump tower meeting where russians promised to deliver damaging information on hillary clinton to his eldest son, donald trump jr. the president has long denied knowing about the meeting in advance. he wants manafort to incriminate trump, mr. giuliani declared of mr. mueller. here to take us through this reporting, one of the reporters who broke that story and some of our favorite reporters and friends. mick schmidt from "the new york times," from "the washington post," aaron blake, former u.s. att...

He's viewing them as -- >> take us through where the pardon responsibility lies. i'm old enough to remember when that process was run at the justice department. recommendations went to the white house. has this white house, this president, the people around him have they changed anything about the pardon process? >> yeah, it's supposed to be recommendations that come in. there's supposed to be a lot of paperwork. it's a real process. the obama administration used it to pardon a lot of people that were in jail for drug crimes to get them out sooner for what they thought were too long of sentenc...