wing doj friends and my middle of the road doj friends. we re united the world. we do. i mean, it is not the president s personal sword. it s not his personal shield. it s the department of justice. it has to stand for something larger than political goals. something else that s in here, special counsel wants to know a little bit more about another new york times report. john dowd raised the prospect of pardons for flynn and manafort. how does john dowd figure into this? in discussing who might be the source of these questions, of course, we can t pose that question directly to the witness here we have before us, mike schmidt. he d shoot all of us before he d tell us who any of his sources are. john dowd is someone who used to be part of the trump legal team, is now no longer. the new york times reported that this did not come from the