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Russia and uncertainty in europe. all those things could have gone haywire at any point. the restraint, the caution, the lack of spiking the football that they showed was, i think,en enormous achievement. this could be a busy week for special counsel robert mueller and the ongoing russia investigation. mueller is considering bringing new charges against president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort for allegedly violating his plea agreement. at a hearing on friday, the special counsel said that prosecutors are weighing new criminal charges for manafort which could potentially incl...

That from manafort's end it's an obstruction of justice impeding the investigation and from trump's end it's a witness tampering or obstruction or both. the intermediaries here are lawyers who clearly know better and whose licenses as well as liberty are at stake and really i've been scratching my head since yesterday trying to figure out what could they have possibly been thinking? >> it's possible -- it's interesting what you said. is it possible that mueller's team or the department of justice could bring charges against manafort's lawyers or the president's lawyers? >> totally. more than t...

Here in washington, well come to "mtp daily." we begin with obstruction in plain sight. why would paul manafort break his plea deal by lying to mueller's team? why they would do something highly unusual by it being possibly illegal? why would manafort basically risk spending the rest of his life in prison unless there was a presidential pardon on the table? well, the president basically just confirmed it for us. there's a pardon on the table. that's what he told "the new york post." he told them that pardoning paul manafort is still a possibility. quote, it was never discussed, but i wouldn't ...

Counsel robert mueller in writing that he was not told beforehand about the 2016 meeting with don jr. and ronald stone did not tell him about the killings. we have a panel with us. mr. litman, let me start with you. welcome, all, by the way. why is what manafort did with the president or what the president's legal team did with manafort's legal team -- how is it not a form of obstructing justice or witness tampering? >> yeah, i mean, it sort of beats me. it's certainly a classic double cross and i can't explain how irregular it is. in the 30 years in the legal

System -- >> by the way, everything donald trump touches ends up with something saying what you're saying. in the 30 years of x -- >> it isn't just the legal world, it's the political world, it's the diplomatic world. anyway. i apologize. >> it's so true. giuliani has presented it as a sort of routine thing. yeah, we were -- we were just discussing things. look, manafort had a cooperation agreement, a great reduction in sentence and to be this double agent and funnel this information to a criminal suspect who's also the president of the united states and can reveal -- and revealing to him the ...