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Deal that manafort struck with the special counsel is off it will probably be a very strong sentencing memo. >> the district attorney is preparing separate charges in case there were to be a presidential pardon. we are learning about the prosecutors. they are doing this because they fear the president could pardon manafort. do you believe that the president would seriously consider pardoning manafort? >> if the president thought that pardoning manafort would save him i think he would do it. he care about two things,

Contact with officials as recently as this spring. prosecutors write, quote, in a text message from may 26th, 2018, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manafort's behalf. that could be key because as "the washington post" points out, the text message came two days after trump issued a posthumous pardon to boxer jack johnson and he has raised the possibility of pardoning manafort. let's bring in our panel former prosecutor cynthia oxley and maya wiley, senior vice president for social justice is back with me, paul butler, professor of law at georgetown law s...

Big thing. and coming up on "morning joe," the presidential mulls a pardon for paul manafort. trump's new comments on whether he would pardon his former campaign chairman as he continues the to ramp up his rhetoric against the special counsel. and dick durbin will discuss why he says trump pardoning manafort would be an admission of guilty on the president's part. oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (vo) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven a...

Harm that he's done to the united states over the years and leaking classified information. i wouldn't want anything to do with someone like that who i saw as someone who is a threat to the united states and our own security. so no, i wouldn't. >> do you see the president pardoning manafort? >> i would say if i was advising, i would say not to do so and not to even speculate about doing so. i think the president gets upset about these things. everything as this investigation winds down, they are going to get closer to him because that is part of the whole process here. if he doesn't keep some ...

Is something very, very different. what people forget here is when manafort is pardoned, if he's going to be pardoned, he loses his fifth amendment right to refuse to testify under grand jury subpoena. on the other hand, as long as his case is on appeal and it's going forward, he can assert the fifth and not be forced to testify against trump. so it's in trump's interest to delay the pardon, and this could be even why all of a sudden manafort after all of this time he wants to cooperate with mueller and right towards the end of the cooperation, he blows up the cooperation so mueller has to go ...