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I don't want to spark the good party punch here, but you guys got to wonder, with all of the shots that trump is taking, if one of them hits, after all, that was a worry that we had a couple of months that didn't happen with the trade stuff, especially with vladimir putin. but they are throwing more and more at him every day. >> neil: thank you all, very, very much. with the drama around the news development and the drip, drip, drip, the president was considering a pardon melted off his lawyers for paul mena four. his team saying that they did not consult him about any of that. about pardoning...

And they will lessen their sentence. that extreme just because they hate me. keep in mind this is the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation was looking into manafort's past,as looking into cohen's past and that led them to all of these tax fraud. it has nothing to do with russia. >> sean: is he more mad at michael because of the tape than paul manafort? i noticed in his comments yesterday he mentioned manafort but not michael.i >> he mentioned pardoning manafort and you have michael cohen's attorneys. he said he considered that. he feels, i think -- i think he feels bad for manafort...

Say about me they will use that and they will lessen their sentence. that extreme number just because they hate me. keep in mind this is the mueller investigation. the mueller investigation was looking into manafort's past, looking into cohen's past and that led them to all of these tax fraud. it has nothing to do with russia. >> sean: is he more mad at michael because of the tape then paul manafort? i noticed in his comments yesterday he mentioned manafort but not michael. >> he mentioned pardoning manafort and you have michael cohen's attorneys. he said he considered that. he feels i think -...

Counts, 10 could not even be decided in the paul manafort case, witch-hunt. but we now know a single juror held out on convicting manafort on all 18 charges. trump added, i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him. such respect for a brave man. following the president's tweets, the white house disputed that he was planning on pardoning manafort. >> the manafort case doesn't have anything to do with the president, doesn't have anything to do with his campaign and anything to do with th...