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Cohen wasn't playing by the proper lawyer's handbook here. i don't think that that's really a question at all anymore. >> right. the question is whether or not the president wanted him to do this. and it gets squishy, right? because cohen talks, and i think accurately so, but i don't know how compelling it is to people that he says things without saying them. that doesn't go over well in a court of law. we've all studied, and some of you may have had experience in seeing a lot of rico cases and organized crime cases. that's hard to argue. either the guy told you to do it, or he didn't tell you...

Some facilities or some of the -- they shuttered some things they are doing at the facility. this is bayed on the west coast of north korea and this is where they were claiming they were launching satellites into space. since that time there has been some talk of maybe some low level activity, maybe vehicles driving around and whatnot. but there hadn't been anything definitive until these photos that were just taken on march 2nd. within about 48 hours of the hanoi summit breaking down, these photos, these commercial satellite imagery came forward which shows what appears to be very clear indic...

Forthcoming and that's when he turn against the president. >> were there -- in your judgment knowing what you know about the case at this stage, were there any magic words the president could have conveyed to michael cohen that would have held on to michael cohen's loyalty to the president? >> that's hard to say. i mean, whether some kind of, you know, ambiguous potential promise could have been held out. the issue is really obstruction of justice and that's something that, you know, congress is looking at and michael cohen testified at the house oversight committee last week and now the house...

And make decisions about whether he wanted to plead guilty. so that just wasn't what he was looking for. >> do you -- does your reporting find any sense of whether michael cohen gave up hopes for a pardon based on his own knowledge of donald trump and his interpretation of what he was hearing through his lawyers or whether michael cohen's lawyers in effect advised him to not basically play for the pardon? >> i don't know what the conversations between him and his lawyers were, but essentially he did -- that lawyer steven ryan after they reviewed the documents seized, cohen got a new lawyer, cr...

Still wants to have this happen. and i would not rule out some sort of a cash grab, you know, maybe short of an emergency order, but, you know, lindsey graham has already signaled that he's on board if the president wants to do that, and republican reaction to that will be fascinating to watch. >> adam jentleson, charlie sykes, thank you both for joining us tonight, really appreciate it. when we come back, you have heard more than enough from donald trump about the southern border. but you're going to hear more later in this hour. and you're going to hear donald trump say those magic words, ...