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
see the role of this particular committee that you sit on, as being so important. it will be those trips that you all make as our elected leaders to that region and coming back with the intelligence. here are the things i would ask in terms of where you might put something. could you conceivably see somebody else erussia or china helping them hide stuff? this is not out of the realm of possibility, but where are we in doing some of that watching? yeah, and that is where the agency and the nsa and our military have such a critical role. you can say whatever you want, but as you say, carry a big stick. actually, verify, trust, but verify. that is the key to this thing. those assets are so important and could china help them? absolutely. could russia? potentially they could. measure intention of ark lies, particularly in china in this case. if china doesn t want this to go forward, it is very difficult to reach success without their help.