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It. then they saw the unsealing of documents in the eastern district of virginia that said that julian assange had been charged. and that had been a huge mistake. if it wasn't done purposely and sent a message to the president's lawyers that what is the justice department doing? is there something more afoot here. they knew about manafort. they knew what was going on between manafort and mueller's investigators. they looked at these three things and said we don't feel good about this. are they setting the president up? would the president respond? as soon as he responded, would corsi's plea de...

Imminent? and manafort was offered a pardon before. i think mike and his colleagues reported on the president's last lawyer, or maybe three lawyers ago, dangling lawyers in front of mike flynn and in front of paul manafort before they were charged. so pardons have been in the water. what other motive would manafort have for lying to mueller? >> i spoke to giuliani as well. and he said to back up the reporting about the pardons. it's not an act of consideration that his legal team are not considering it now but they're not ruling it out down the road. perhaps after this process with the mueller...

Exactly right. giuliani has clearly -- they are trying to undermine the credibility of whatever testimony is coming. some of these details we'll probably find out in the sentencing agreement when manafort is sentenced. those documents that mueller who, of course, doesn't speak publicly but those details were reveals in the sentencing documents that he told me that they accused -- andrew weisman, one of mueller's top lieutenants was keeping manafort in solitary confinement for almost the entire day. they were trying to pressure him to flipping on the president to say things that were untrue. of...

President is making the effort to undermine the american justice system in order to benefit himself. and it becomes normal. we sit around and we're all talking about the fact that the president of the united states has a joint defense agreement with 32 other individuals. they are all under investigation for federal crimes. and somehow that's becoming normal. and we have to resist that urge and keep it from becoming normal because it's not. the president's job is to sit atop the executive branch and uphold the work of the justice department in keeping all of us safe. what he's doing is making a...

Learned last night from "the new york times" that lawyers for paul manafort have been feeding donald trump a steady stream of information about special counsel robert mueller. information that's likely been loaded into donald trump's fragile psyche and weaponized in the public relations war against that investigation. the times reports on an alliance on information sharing agreement between paul manafort's lawyer and the president's legal team that continued even after paul manafort entered into a cooperation agreement with the special counsel. the times reports the arrangement inflamed tensio...