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The least. you have to look at this not from manafort's perspective but from gates's perspective. if you read these indictments, the case is overwhelming. it's not a difficult case to prove in court. it's a hard case to investigate, but not a hard case to prove in court. so gates had to make a racial choi -- rational choice. and he gets the chance, knots the promise, but the chance to stay out of jail. so that manafort would make a statement like that for him making a decision about his own future, it's an odd statement. >> should we wonder if manafort has been ensured through is some back cha...

It's a hard case to investigate, but not a hard case to prove in court. and so gates had to make a rational choice. he did. what he gets out of it is some finality and the chance, not the promise, but the chance to stay out of jail. and so the notion that manafort would take a shot at him for making a rational choice about his own, gates's own future seems kind of silly and desperate. it's an odd statement to say the least. >> is it an irrational question to wonder if manafort has been assured through some back channel, a pardon if he does president plead guilty to these crimes? >> it's not od...

To do that. let me talk about north korea. last night the president tweeted -- sorry. excuse me. north korean leader kim jong-un just stated that the nuclear button is on his desk at all times. will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that i do have a nuclear button. my button works. north korea and south korea have reopened their phone line today. that's a really important thing. then you have trump's tweet, which is getting attention from the media. it's much more entertaining, but the substantive piece to this, you might have an opening for some diplomacy see...

I believe we have -- you'll have to ask those folks, but i think they know the real answer. they have more legislation passed, including the record was harry truman a long time ago. >> reporter: research team took a look at the numbers and they just don't add up. this is not in the ballpark of being true. the president in his first year has gotten 96 bills through congress. harry truman had more than double that. when we pull back the lens even further, president trump had fewer things get through congress than any modern president going back to jimmy carter who had the most. a strange stateme...

>> i don't remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting. it took place a long time ago. don't remember much about it. >> kind of an odd statement, considering how the president described his suburb memory just last week. >> there is no hesitation. one of the great memories of all time. >> one of the great memories of all time. the president might not recall the papadopoulos offer, but another former adviser at that march 2016 meeting does. j.d. gordon told cnn that not only did george papadopoulos make a proposal of this meeting, but president trump heard him in. let's b...