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Then issues the pardon. >> maybe mueller doesn't have to issue a report anymore. he's going to do this memo. in this memo he may very well detail a lot of the things that he's been talking to manafort about. this may be a way for him to go around matt whitaker and get information out there that perhaps would have been redabctd in a report. maybe from mueller's point of view, maybe it just like let me just push all this information out there and make it politically impossible for trump to pardon manafort. >> yes. gloria and paul, thank you very much on that news breaking this afternoon. >> comi...

Manafort has breached his plea deal and now the president is saying the pardon is on the table. >> so trump, who never really liked manafort before is now feeling kind of sorry for him and likes him. and, as you know, manafort's attorney has been keeping the white house apprised of what's been going on. and i think the real legal question here, and paul can talk about that better than i can, is that just leaving the notion out there is one thing, but dangling a pardon to paul manafort would be another thing. and that's something that jerry nadler, who is the incoming chairman of the judiciary ...

You? but you cover this stuff, i've practiced law and covered this stuff. this isn't how it works. and for your analysis, i want to play eric swalwell saying, yeah, why do you need help from manafort to get out from under this. that doesn't make sense if you're innocent. take a look. >> it's not appropriate. manafort was a cooperator. it sounds like he's breached his agreement with the government. it's not the way innocent people conduct themselves. the president was not colluding with russia, why is he colluding with manafort to get a window into the powell special counsel investigation. >> i...

Now, remember, during watergate, richard nixon could have tried pardoning all those burglars early on to shut them up just like trump could have tried pardoning manafort, flynn, or gates, say, two years ago. for all the bluster, trump has not done that yet for the same reasons nixon didn't do it even as things got worse -- because pardoning the guilty people in a conspiracy in the middle of an open probe does make you look like you're part of the conspiracy. and trump continues to insist he's not part of this conspiracy. and there's word leaking tonight that he has submitted those written answ...

From manafort. >> i recently spoke to one person in the president's orbit who said he didn't have direct knowledge of the president's thinking but said if the president were to pardon manafort, it's likely it would come after any 2020 election. the political consequences, of course, pardoning manafort in the lead up to his re-election would be tet tonic. however waiting until after that date passes would else the political cost on trump himself. >> meanwhile, democrats are like we have thoughts if you end up pardoning paul manafort. adam schiff talked about that. watch. >> i think it would be ...