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President, and i think you know, it's a mistake, sort of like during the moment, ooh, something is coming. nothing came. it's a mistake to promise people look, the attorney general's hired a guy from baltimore, it's seconds away, we're going to see something. that's not what's happening. it is very slow and this is a very difficult prosecution of the president because he's very slippery and very good at it and he doesn't write anything down and he's rarely recorded, so i think it's a very difficult prosecution. what i see is some people at the bottom of that mountain putting on their shoes but...

Before, the president's lawyer a couple lawyers ago reportedly dangled pardons before paul manafort, before mike flynn. we know michael cohen and conversations about pardons for the president's former fixer are under investigation by three bodies, the southern district of new york, by the mueller investigation, and now by at least one congressional committee. can you talk about how investigators and prosecutors look at pardons and dangling of pardons? it seems one tactic that make people like yourself and jim comey and andrew mccabe talk about the trump family and trump organization being more...

The media that there are cooperators on the topic of dangling of pardons. i would caution people to not get caught up in this he said/he said about who approached who first. because it almost doesn't matter at the end of the day in terms of initial approach. so if cohen's attorney went first and said hey, what about a pardon? okay, i'm less interested in that initial approach than i am in the response to it and what happened after. and who's a player in recent reporting being placed kind of squarely in the middle of all of this? rudy giuliani. and it's headed towards a situation where i think ...

They are not playing for that message. but at the same time they are putting themselves in peril because of this. paul manafort by virtue of that lighter sentence that he got last week increased the odds that his lies to prosecutors and no collusion message would actually earn himself more jail time in this hearing today. and there are arcments that he actually through some of these maneuvers, through pro-trump talking points and legal antics he's been engaged in, may have landed himself in prison for longer than he otherwise would have. he may be banking on that pardon eventually but if it do...