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Nonlawyer -- >> man leading an otherwise blameless life. >> relatively. to see how big of a difference it makes with judges. the downside of the risk that donald trump has, he stands on the lawn and he's beating his chest about he only got four years, these judges have had very different approaches. mike flynn's judge said why wasn't treason on the table. you have the federal judge who was hearing the case on whether the special counsel was -- whether his bounds or just the legality of it and they said absolutely. so while this might be a win for the white house, it might only be for 72 hours ...

Country more justice for more individuals so we can prevent things like this from happening in the future where people who have so much power allow others to get away with things they should not. >> the optimist in me and the optimist in you looks at what happened to paul manafort this week and thinks maybe that will kick start this sentence. let's talk a bit about the manafort case. you have his lawyer coming out of that courtroom saying there was no collusion, parroting what the president has said. i guess implicitly, saying maybe the president might consider a pardon for his time. what did ...

Honored that the judge in the case had declared that there was no collusion in russia. first of all, that's not true. the judge did not say that because, again, that's not what the manafort case was about. but trump was very honored by those image anywhere words from the judge. and donald trump didn't stop there. he kept on steering the discussion back to no collusion. and even back to his longtime lawyer michael cohen, even though there is literally nothing in the cohen saga that benefits him. let's talk about my other close associate who is headed to prison soon. #nocollusion. so a couple of...

What do you know about that? what's the white house saying? what are you hearing? >> reporter: all along the white house has really tried to avoid engaging in these discussions about a pardon's they haven't taken it off the table but certainly president trump hasn't been signaling directly he is going to pardon anyone involved in the investigation. you know, pardons are part of the conversation separately in the case of right now michael cohen, the president's former attorney, who is right now facing some scrutiny after making claims to congress about his lawyer potentially advising him to see...

Internet and all tv stations seen here in russia, see if anything is disrespectful to the government or fake news as they put it, of course, also including most probably criticism of vladimir putin. then tell whichever platform that was on it needs to be removed. they'll get fined and in the worst case up to 15 days of administrative detention. of course on top of the already existing laws here in the country that make free speech difficult for a lot of people. you're right. it comes a the a time when vladimir putin is facing historically low approval ratings here in russia. still high for wes...