Page 16 - Pardoning Manafort News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Presumably with mueller and will not step on his investigation. but this is an outgrowth. the fact they're following up on the tax counts as well with michael cohen is a factor also. and, in fact, in virginia, they can file open tax counts on manafort. he talks about pardoning manafort but there could be state counts as well. >> yes, the breadth of this is really extraordinary. i want to bring in jeff horowitz, a reporter for the associated press, and you broke this incredible story about david pecker keeping documents in a safe. what do we know about what exactly was in there? >> we know this...

Reach eight guilty verdicts. >> when the president was asked about a pardon for manafort, he side-stepped the question. >> i have great respect for what he has done and gone through. he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob dole. his firm worked for mccain. many, many people and many, many years.gainst him, every consultant and lobbyist in washington does. >> that means they will be busy at the irs, i guess. "the new york times" reports the president and rudy giuliani have discussed the potential political repercussions of pardoning manafort. giuliani says the president is not ...

Perspective, there really doesn't seem to be a case against it. if there were evidence that, for instance, republicans in his own party would really put up a fight about this and say this dle clearly shows obstruction of justice, which is what a lot of democrats are arguing, then maybe there would be a risk. he seems to use these pardons as almost political tools, to shore up support on his side of his base. i think a manafort pardon would do that. i don't really think he would suffer from a lot of political consequences. if he's going to be impeached by a democratic congress, it's not going t...

What he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant and lobbyist in washington does. >> the new york times" reports the president and rudy giuliani have discussed the potential political repercussions of pardoning manafort. giuliani says the president is not considering it. john bolton is meeting with his russian counterpart this morning in geneva. we have cnn's fred pleitgen in moscow with the latest. fred, good morning. we assume election interference at the top of the show, but one would hope? >> reporter: i think we are assuming correctly. not sure if it is on top o...

Ed poorly and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, has admitted he's discussed the possibility of pardoning manafort with the president. >> mr. giuliani is also saying he doesn't this it will happen. we reported at "the times" some months ago that the president's lawyers had talked to the lawyers for mr. manafort about the possibility of a pardon, you know, i think, i think they recognize, at least the people around the president recognize that that would be a line that perhaps even staunch republican supporters of the president would, you know, that if he crossed that line, that would cause him a whole...