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>> if you have nothing to hide -- i understand what you're saying. if you have great lawyers, they're going to explore every option and they should. if you have nothing to hide, you're the president of the united states, which you should know before you run that everything is going it be scrutinized, by the way, why would you be trying to figure out how to pardon yourself at this point? >> well, i -- you know, i don't know what he's really considering about pardoning himself. that's -- >> or even family members. >> well, i think he -- one of his options is he wants to forestall this investigat...

Granting pardoning of people connected with the probe. a second person said trump's lawyers have been discussing the president's pardoning powers among themselves. the article goes on to say trump's legal team declined to comment on the issue, but one adviser said the president simply expressed a curiosity of the reach of pardoning authority into the reach of the mueller investigation. this is not the case of, i can't wait to pardon myself. with the russian investigation continuing to widen, trump's lawyers are continuing to question the propriety of the work, they're looking at potential conf...

Lawyers are exploring ways to limit or under-cut special counsel robert s. mueller iii's investigation basing it on allegations they say he is granting pardoning of people familiar with the effort. trump has advised his attorneys about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe, according to one of those people. a second person said trump's lawyers have been discussing the president's pardoning powers amongst themselves. the article goes on to say trump's legal team declined to comment on the issue, but one adviser said the president has simply expr...

Leadership of the trump campaign. he was the leader. >> if you have nothing to hide -- i understand what you're saying. if you have great lawyers, they're going to explore every option and they should. if you have nothing to hide, you're the president of the yooirk united states, which you should know before you run that everything is going it be scrutinized, by the way, why would you be trying to figure out how to pardon yourself at this point? >> well, i -- you know, i don't know what he's really considering about pardoning himself. that's -- >> or even family members. >> well, i think he --...

Themselves. are you saying the president has made decisions about these things? is this being floated as a trial balloon? do you have any idea where they are in the decision making process? >> sure. the way it was explained to us is certainly the president has made no decisions. it's more that the president is an affidavit consumer of news and he's reading about both the expanding russia probe and also about a president's pardoning authority and as part of that he's become curious in understanding well, you know, what is actually the reach of my authority as president? what could i do? how wou...