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People like michael flynn and paul manafort. >> ivanka. >> that's interesting. we know that robert mueller is looking into the way he's using pardoning powers in the obstruction case. and then, of course, with, executive privilege, that wouldn't protect him over things that happened before the election like the trump tower meeting. he's trying to flex muscles. he wants to intimidate people. it's backfiring when you have your department or deputy attorney general saying it's extortion. someone feels they're being extorted you're not supposed to bang on their door. >> it reminds me of the woman ...

Struck a nerve with the president. he has been fundamentally unable to ignore the way in which they have loomed over his presidency. i think people looking at the tweets about michael cohen might be interpreting that as perhaps a message to hang in there. we saw the president tweet about pardoning powers so perhaps a suggestion that if he is considering his options the president may have his back. i think that you have seen this with james comey. he had tweets that under score the way in which the president is distracted by the investigation. he says his legal team is cooperating, these are th...

Fallout on capitol hill. i would remind that this week is a very important week for republicans in terms of their tax reform effort. they had a ton of momentum after this weekend, after being able to pass the budget resolution to unlock, you know, this procedural method that will allow them to do it without democrats. and now these mueller charges are threatening to really suck up the oxygen in the room here. the last thing republicans want to be talking about on capitol hill especially this week is the russia investigation. so this could be a real problem for democrats and i expect that, you ...

Was so hot. >> their shoes melting it was so hot. pretty extraordinary. molly, when you think about white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, she was asked if the white house had a pardoning policy after the president hinted this was on the horizon. so when you take overall into account the president's tweet, the white house statement as well, what kind of signals is the president giving on how he's going to give his pardoning powers? >> well, that's the thing. if you look at the way democrats have been reacting on capitol hill and even some republicans, there is a question. you know...

Pardoning powers, calling his attorney general beleaguered. he continues to call the russia investigation a witch hunt. the list goes on. does this barrage of tweets seem a new and improved strategy to you? >> i guess it's supposed to be letting trump be trump which is confusing to me. have we instead been seeing some very well-behaved representative of the president up until now? i mean, what's been happening up until this moment if this is him being himself? i'm very confused by that. but what this is, it's just a reflection of what the president himself believes, which is this isn't about p...