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Willing to issue a pardon for these particular types of crimes to someone who had this high level of standing inside of the white house. almost as though it's a message to paul manafort or to mike flynn in many ways. it feels like the circle of hypocrisy in this administration is fully complete at this point with trump starting out complaining about hillary clinton and potential release of classified material and now pardoning the quintessential conviction for that same sort of conduct with scooter libby. >> i can't thank our opening panel tonight enough for joining us and adding to our conver...

Idea of sitting down with robert mueller, something he thought he would do. the mueller investigation can ramp up without that. where do you think this sort of places the investigation and donald trump? >> well, my reaction when i read that was that mueller has enough to finish his obstruction report without actually having to interview the president. there is -- there's reason to believe that they would be able to subpoena the president to be interviewed if they felt like that was absolutely necessary. but the fact now they have written essentially four different points at which they believe ...

Truth-tellers. and so by the way, even if they were lying, no good defense attorney would walk their client, the president or anyone else for that matter, into a grand jury unless the defense attorneys were also convinced that they had a plausible tale to tell. so a., they don't lie. and beb., nobody would fall sen. it makes no sense this is a trap or a ruse. >> and he plans to do multiple reports reports -- and send them to rosenstein and he doesn't have to report to congress. is the most likely scenario and we've discussed this before and i don't want to go deep into every aspect but the mue...

>> cnn's athena jones trying to get the president to respond to the obstruction report to no avail. >> mr. president, do you believe that you are under investigation now? mr. president, do you now believe -- do you want to comment on camera? to the "washington post" report, mr. president? >> president trump keeping mum on camera. he had plenty to say, though, on twitter. we get more on that from cnn's jeff zeleny at the white house. >> reporter: christine and dave, there is a policy here at the white house to not comment on the russia investigation, the ongoing russia investigation. that, of c...

President. the "washington post" reported wednesday the special counsel is probing that angle. now the leaders of the senate panel say they will focus instead on russian meddling and possible collusion. >> cnn's athena jones tried to get the president to respond to the obstruction report to no avail. >> mr. president, do you believe that you are under investigation now? mr. president, do you now believe -- do you want to respond on camera to the "washington post" report, mr. president? >> president trump keeping mum on camera, but he did have plenty to say on twitter. we get more now from cnn'...