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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Today had as much to do with the president but now that you have people that the Justice Department indicts, like congressman Duncan Hunter adopting the president s rhetoric, the chief Law Enforcement general in this country felt like he had to push back. We have to consider the context in which this is happening. The Justice Department has extracted guilty pleas or convictions for the president s former lawyer and fixer, his campaign chairman, his National Security advisor and Foreign Policy advisor. Indicted his number o...

Not, we don't know, could, should, all those things. >> the pardon question is relevant. the president has in previous questions pardoned his political allies who he said were treated unfairly. >> he did wait until the trials were over. >> he did do that. in the case of joe arpaio, that came out of nowhere. he pardoned him. manafort, arguing he's been treated unfairly. there is a pattern and that's why it's fair game to ask if that's what he's considering. >> oh, i think he's absolutely considering it. one of the messages from this interview is to manafort's legal team, which is to say that, y...

Anyone can point to and say this is what actually happened, then it becomes much harder for even the most die hard trump supporter to give the benefit of the doubt. >> the next trial, there's more paper. >> and these are boring trials. >> there's a lot more paper in manafort's next trial. before i go, the weird tweet from the president which then, about south africa, we put it up, i've asked secretary of state pompeo to study the large scale killing of farmers, south african government is now seizing land from farmers, unquote. that turned out to be about a segment on tucker carlson. there's b...

On his terms, which are the reality tv terms. and political people don't know how to behave that way. >> here's -- he does seem to be preparing to do something that you could tell there's a whole bunch of people in the west wing that want to tackle him and are trying not to. but he wants to lash out. logistically pardoning manafort right now doesn't make sense since he's got another trial, right? >> that's what rudy giuliani, his lawyer, told "the washington post" which is that he's been advised by his legal team not to do a pardon of manafort now, at least to wait until it's over. they can't ...