Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Interviews with newsmakers and roundtable discussions cover the top news stories of the day. Simply the fact that this strategy on the part of mueller and the other district of new york prosecutors may be working right now. One interesting question will be to what extent will there be information relating to state law charges against some of these people and that is legally significant because the president s pardon power does not extend to state law crimes. Harris all right, what you have seen with cohen and manafort and perhaps pecker and allen weisselberg, the cases, they have struck deals for immunity, you wouldnt imagine they would go anywhere legally. If the president wanted to pardon anyone, we are still within the zone with the previous men. State law doesnt tend to change that. As we look ahead in all of this, the president , though, does have something to consider as he is being asked
Being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter having a super pac that raised 15 million from wall street, that throughout ones life raised a whole lot of money from the Drug Companies and other special interests. You will not find that i ever changed a view or a vote because of any donations that i ever received. What [applause] and i have stood up, and i have represented my constituents to the best of my ability, and im very proud of that. You know so i think its time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks [applause] and lets talk, lets talk about the issues. Lets talk about the issues that divide us. There is a reason why these people are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining american democracy, and it is allowing congress to represent wealthy Campaign Contributors and not the working families of this country. Jon that race getting very hot. Molly line is watching
Republican field. The South Carolina gop primary is a week from tomorrow, and the democrats, well, their contest comes a week after that. Lets check in with john roberts, live in greenville, South Carolina, the site of the republicans next debate. That is tomorrow night. Hi, john. How are they preparing for this one . Reporter oh, in ways they typically do here in South Carolina. Heather, i know youre looking at me saying whats he still doing in New Hampshire or iowa . This is snow coming down in South Carolina today. Its getting rough out there, ill tell you. Theres so many balls being thrown back and forth that every candidate is going to come out with some sort of a bruise. Trump going after jeb bush, bush is going after kasich, cruz going after trump in ways that he hasnt up until now. Heres ted cruz from an event last night in fort mills, South Carolina. I would suggest to everyone here dont listen to what any of the candidates say, dont listen to me, dont listen to donald trump r
From right here in new york city. Meanwhile at least six suspects were arrested overnight. Reuters news service is reporting overnight that one of the them is the suspected accomplice of the brussels subway bomber. A live report in just a moment. In the meantime nor the number two isis leader, is, that this was in reaction to the bombings in brussels. Right and they have reason to be happy. This is a significant victory in the war on terror but you heard the secretary of defense they that killing these leaders is necessary but not sufficient. Its not going to solve the problem of isis which still controls territory in iraq and syria nor will it solve the problem of militant islam is greater than anyone leader. Jon this is a guy who was released from prison in 2012 we understand. He had worked in al qaeda and then set himself up in isis as being a number two, apparently on a College Physics professor your the fact that we went in with special Operations Forces, this was not a drone stri
Sure we dont know the shape of the economy or terrorism or the precise job Approval Rating of president obama in the autumn or the gas and scandals that may yet unfold on our way to the ballot box but gosh darn it, theres finally a pause in the nonstop primary calendar and were going to take advantage of that. Jon larry sato, the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia joins us now live. Its pretty bold to be looking at Electoral College votes this early larry. But youve taken a look at it first of all, youve got to pick your nominee. You say its all but certainly Hillary Clinton on the democratic side. Howabout trump . Trump is the frontrunner. He is the likely nominee but he is certainly not the prohibitive favorite to be the nominee and i think theres a real possibility that he will not get the majority 1237 delegates on the first ballot so you have to say john, if youre going to do this today at the end of march, obviously youre going to make the projectio