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Post he has not ruled out a pardon for paul manafort, quote, it was never discussed but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? the president says. he also alleged manafort was political advisor roger stone, and his associate jerome corsi were pressured to lie, quote, you flip and you lie and the prosecutors will tell you 99% of the time they can get people to flip. it is rare that they can't. on the senate floor bill to protect robert mueller's investigation was blocked after democrats and one republican made their case. >> we've seen the forced resignation of the...

Reaction to president trump saying that a manafort pardon is not off the table. >> well, that's par for the course, i guess, to hold that and dangle it out there. is what the president is kind of doing on this investigation. i just can't for the life of me understand why more of us here in the senate aren't concerned about this investigation. the attorney general is fired, somebody is brought in that is hostile to the mueller probe. i think that we ought to be much more concerned than we are right now. >> the president -- i mean, mueller right now is pressuring manafort. he's trying to get him...

>> i'm not sure why he said that, he talks on the record about the investigation a lot. and he basically said that this was something that was helpful to them, that allowed them to learn it. and he said it was fine and legal so he was defending it. and i think he thought maybe if he talked about it on the record he could defend it better. i'm not sure. but what this did do is it gave them real insights into what was going on and it helped feed the president's anger about the mueller investigation. the president was learning that investigators were pressuring manafort. this is what manafort's l...

What kind of information was shared, as far as you know, by manafort to trump through the intermediaries of their specific lawyers and how did the president's lawyers according to your reporting take that information and weaponize it, my word, not yours? >> the most significant thing we learned about this was that mueller's investigators, led by andrew weissman, were pressuring manafort, this is according to manafort's lawyers, to tell them what he knew about the 2016 up from tower meeting and what specifically the president knew. did the president know that his son was going to be meeting wit...

I have no intention of doing anything. well, let's bring in our lead-off panel on this tuesday night, michael schmidt, pulitzer prize-winning reporters and one of the by-lines on this latest story from the "new york times." philip rucker, bureaucrat from the "washington post" who interviewed the president the other day, and frank faluzzi, investigator for counter-intelligence who am the past has worked for and with robert mueller. robert, i'd like to begin with you. what information, if any, was shared by mueller to trump within the mediaries of specific lawyers, and how did he take it and wea...