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Hasn't cut a deal yet? >> it does. he has the most serious charges. the first on charged. some of them are really tough to defend. so, he's going down. yeah, i don't know. maybe it's these pardons that trump has been handling. maybe that's making him hold out. >> let's listen to donald trump floating the idea or talking the idea of pardoning manafort and cohen. >> will you pardon paul manafort? >> i haven't even thought about it. >> what about michael flynn? >> i haven't thought about any of them. >> it's far too early to think about that. >> they haven't been convicted of anything. there's no...

All of a sudden all these russia related episodes started happening in the campaign. >> the thing we know is this guy who was indicted with manafort with witness tampering his name is constantine, this dude is an ex-russian spy. during the time that manafort is running trump's campaign, he's in constant contact. according to politico, he and kill ma knack discussed the dnc hackings. a russian spy trump's campaign manager are talking as he's leading the campaign. so this is the key to collusion. this is why i think mueller is leaning so hard on man dafort. >> it's a history of having done it be...

30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> well, trump can claim all he wants that manafort was a coffee boy. the truth is he ran the trump show during a critical time during the campaign. i'll start with you, natasha to clear up this idea that manafort was barely involved in the campaign. remind the viewers if you will just how involved he was? >> well, he was there for almost five month. he was hired to rangle delegates to the convention. at the time that paul manafort was brought on, nobody thought that trump would win the election and thought it would be a contested convention. paul manafort was ...

Treated unfairly, he might use that as a way to pardon them. >> but pardoning manafort, that would be a huge deal and cause a big uproar. do you think the president will do that? >> he would not rule out pardoning paul manafort and paul manafort is someone who has been indictmented indictment on conspiracy and money laundering and lying to the fbi and pled not guilty and declined to cooperate with the special counsel. now you have the obstruction charges on top of everything else. and so while the president has brought authority when it comes to pardons, paul manafort is not someone who has be...

Trump in the mueller probe? >> pardoning manafort would make sure that manafort would not need to cooperate with mueller to stay out of federal prison. >> reporter: flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and cooperated with prosecutors. but experts say as he awaits sentencing, a pardon could still be in play for flynn and could still tlirump in the russia investigation. >> they would still need flynn's cooperation, following up on any documents or any statements he's given to mueller for a trial or for further investigation. >> trump's lawyers consistently deny discussing pardons for any...