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Okay. juliette, what did you want to say? >> no, just on the pardon issue, even if he assumes there is going to be a pardon, it is quite a calculation on his part. we all have kids. why do kids lie? because the truth is worse. so what's the truth for manafort? either implicates the trump family or it implicates a foreign government. and we keep sort of forgetting how much manafort is tied to russia. we think he's protecting the trump family. he may be protecting a foreign country because the man has no allegiances. we know that now. >> when you spoke earlier about foreign intelligences, i hadn...

That they want to if trump behaves in a way that they find problematic. this is why many -- what many voters were hoping would happen. there are a lot of questions people still have about this investigation and there's real fear trump could squash it, especially if matthew whitaker stays around. >> one of the interesting challenges for democrats dealing with all these issues is who gets to investigate these questions? the pardon issue is very interjurisdictional on capitol hill. the house judiciary could have questions about it, if there are financial questions, the committee maxine waters is ...

Manafort, well, that's an issue that they are concerned about. >> all right. we'll delve into the pardon issue in just a second. but as far as the president when it comes to this level of calm or this uncertainty of what he'll do, what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, again, since -- i mean i primarily cover capitol hill, so i get -- i have a better perspective of their response to what the president's thinking. but, again, sometimes one person mentioned to me this could be kind of the calm in the eye of the storm. and, again, once that eye moves forward, you know, the storm erup...

The district of columbia, get acquitted on all of the charges there, then get all of the charges on which you're convicted in virginia overturned on appeal is approaching absolute zero. so if he's keeping his options open i think it's a wise thing to do but it may be just a throwaway line. >> what do you do with the pardon issue as a prosecutor? that that's sort of hanging up there. not many clients that you successfully convict, you know, have a pardon they might be able to pull out of their back pocket pretty quick. >> i would say there's almost nothing you can do. you have no control over i...

In alleged financial crimes and the president keeps leaping to his defense. >> and the chairman of the president's campaign, the tsunami of sleaze, they have bank accounts in cyprus, that is called a tell. a lot of this is just russian money that seems to be flowing through the false accounts. playing the victim card doesn't seem to invoke. >> i know the question of pardons always comes up. can the president pardon him? and that brings us to don junior. sources athe president is more concerned about his own son and if she in legal jeopardy. so what to you want to know about the pardon issue.