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Well see. Thank to you phillip, zerlina, john. Thank you for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. I dont want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet. A New York Times bombshell. Can you say unequivocally no one here has discussed pardons in this case . The president s lawyer reportedly floated pardons for flynn and plfrt before they were charged. Ive always found Paul Manafort to be a very decent man. Tonight it the reporter who broke the story and what this means for the Obstruction Case against the president. Then, did the Special Counsel just file...

That he shouldn't be in violation of the agreement at that point with the government. the question really is did trump know what dowd was doing? and it's hard to imagine just in the common sense level that he didn't and that, in fact, he was involved in it and directed it. mueller decided not to go there and not to press dowd on this because of the attorney/client privilege. frankly, i think that is something that other prosecutors would have treated differently and been more aggressive about. that's one area where mueller didn't go. i think a lot of prosecutors would have gone there because o...

That's how it sort of comes back to cloak the communications. so i mean, this was sounds to me like he didn't like the answer he was getting because he didn't like the fact that flynn was cooperating. that's what he was -- that's what dowd or whoever it was who was communicating was getting angry at. right? it was the fact that flynn was actually cooperating. and to get angry at a witness for cooperating is trying to dissuade them from cooperating. that is an obstructive act in my mind. now, it's very interesting as you pointed out. i mean you immediately think why is this not yet another obst...

Defense agreement, which happens automatically when someone is cooperating which by this point they well knew that flynn was cooperating, once the joint defense agreement goes away, there's no basis for him to be sharing for flynn's lawyer to be sharing information anymore with trump's lawyer. i mean, it's not only that he can't.an he shouldn't be, right? because now we have attorney/client privilege be basically in effect again. that's how it sort of comes back to cloak the communications. so i mean, this was sounds to me like he didn't like the answer he was getting because he didn't like th...

Privilege at the start. that was against what dowd and cobb wanted. mcgahn put his head down and said i'll go talk to mueller. i'll do it. base od my reporting, even though mcgahn didn't want to go talk to mueller for 30-plus hours, he did. as much as he's a conservative and a partisan, at his core, mcgahn, he cooperated because he has a lawyer. he has a duty to the law to answer questions frankly from federal investigators. so that's what's made him somewhat of a ghost in this west wing. people who know mcgahn say he may not like cooperate with mueller but he did. he probably told federal inv...