to try to say there is nothing here. to throw to attack attack the intelligence analysts and the central intelligence agency instead of trying to find out. that is what i hold him responsible for. i don t understand why, as president of this country, you will be president, why he doesn t want to us to know what happened here. in this case, the fbi was investigating. this is the case that during this election the fbi was investigating palm manafort s rule and it is his connections to russia. i do not understand why, if they think everything is up and up, why they want to shift information, why they don t want to share this information. it does make people wonder what is going on. one more question before i bring everybody else in. do you what do you think of the effort by a number of democrats to urge republican electors to vote for someone else? look, i think the most important thing here is really just getting the information about russia. i know that there are a lot of el
not wanting to give us the facts. to try to say there is nothing here. to throw to attack attack the intelligence analysts and the central intelligence agency instead of trying to find out. that is what i hold him responsible for. i don t understand why, as president of this country, you will be president, why he doesn t want to us to know what happened here. in this case, the fbi was investigating. this is the case that during this election the fbi was investigating palm manafort s rule and it is his connections to russia. i do not understand why, if they think everything is up and up, why they want to shift information, why they don t want to share this information. it does make people wonder what is going on. one more question before i bring everybody else in. do you what do you think of the effort by a number of democrats to urge republican electors to vote for someone else? look, i think the most important thing here is really just getting the information about russia.
vanity fair reporting this week it has been don mcdawn who has been insisting to the president that, no, he can t pardon his campaign chairman palm manafort ahead of manafort s second felony trial, which is due to start next month in washington, d.c. vanity fair reports the president is so set on partdonig him, he has been considering bringing in a different lawyer to draft the pardon since don mcgahn won t do it. now don mcgahn is leaving. it appears that a follow up report in the new york times is don mcgahn is being fired as opposed to hmm leaving on his own. axios report this morning said he was looking to leave sometime this fall, wanted to get through with the kavanaugh supreme court nomination. the time s pounced on that story to basically fire don
use the president s pardoning power to meddle with mueller s probe or afraid of what flynn and manafort might tell mueller? and then the president. did he know about these alleged conversations. about pardoning flynn and manafort. would the president s lawyer really freelance on something like that? president trump was asked about possibly pardoning flynn back in december. he did not rule it out. about michael flynn, would you consider a pardon for michael flynn. i don t want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. let s see what happens. let s see. i can say this, when you look at what is going on with the fbi and the justice department, people are very, very angry. dowd who resigned from the preside president s legal team denied there were any discussions about pardoning flynn and manafort. the president s lawyer ty cobb said no pardons are under
there was reporting that he had been asking his aides and counselors what his part pard power was. how much of that will factor into weighing a conversation that dowd might have had with the lawyers from manafort and gates. once again it creates a context that bears additional investigation. the timing of the president s remarks with mr. dowd s approach to the witnesses and his apparent mention of the pardon power, will only encourage the investigators to determine whether he was in fact authorizing and approach in which he was offering up the pardons as a potential inducement to the witnesses not to give truthful testimony about the president s actions. so i do think and we ve seen this before in other political context, it is not without consequence what the president said in public. it is not without consequence what he said by twitter or without consequence as he walks across the white house lawn or in the press briefing room or anywhere. and i think it would be mistaken to beli