anyway. he has no life jacket. he s got no cooperation agreement with the southern district of new york or mueller team and not getting a pardon for donald trump. i think that actually makes his testimony even more credible and if you believe what he s saying, it s very damming for the president and it gives us the responsibility to put back in place the rule of law in our country, which is a wrecking ball taken to it in the last two years. do you expect this wall street journal report will lead to a new series of questions for michael cohen the next time you speak to him? it s going to be at the intelligence committee behind closed doors. the issue of whether the president is offering pardons or whether there are discussions is something that we should definitely run to ground and explore not just with michael cohen because i think there are other witnesses who are similarly situated who the president is probably done this with and of course, showing that he has no loyalty to th
he has no life jacket. he s got no cooperation agreement with the southern district of new york or mueller team and not getting a pardon for donald trump. i think that actually makes his testimony even more credible and if you believe what he s saying, it s very damming for the president and it gives us the responsibility to put back in place the rule of law in our country, which is a wrecking ball taken to it in the last two years. do you expect this wall street journal report will lead to a new series of questions for michael cohen the next time you speak to him? it s going to be at the intelligence committee behind closed doors. the issue of whether the president is offering pardons or whether there are discussions is something that we should definitely run to ground and explore not just with michael cohen because i think there are other witnesses who are similarly situated who the president is probably done this with and of course, showing that he has no loyalty to the pardon
i don t see how they keep the report from congress, let alone the evidence mueller collected. doubleheader for you, this question of whether adam schiff and chairman nadler will be successful but also the manafort filing really striking for what was kept out of public view more than what was revealed he was a lifelong criminal. i think that complicates, but maybe that s just me, the pardon process for donald trump. this was someone who engaged in a decades-long criminal conspiracy. the manafort news coupled with the push from the democrats plea, the democratic party squarely on the side about answers from a known adversary, russia. terrible politics, terrible optics for the gop. it is. i think right now what i saw over the weekend was chairman schiff, chairman nadler basically not intentionally but really sending a message to the administration that that report is going to come forward, that congress has a responsibility to figure out what happened in the
want manafort to supply information on. unquestionably, it indicates that there s active on-going work happening. what is next for manafort and what would the process look like if the president indeed decides to pardon him? for manafort himself, they re going to be in for a fight with the special counsel over whether he really lied or not. but it is important to know that for a co-someone, the agreement say the determination of whether he cooperated is in sole discretion of the united states government. so they ll have an uphill battle convincing the judge they still deserve benefits of the bargain. with regard to the pardon process, normally, i emphasize normally, it is structured, there s a pardon attorney at the justice department, i worked for the ag there, that was one of the areas we liaisoned, but president trump has
does appear before a judge and one of the articles of says that he misled congress in impeachment against richard terms of what the president knew nixon included that the about trump tower, moscow and those efforts. of course, nothing ever came of president abused the pardon it. as we know, the deal fell apart. process. if you say to someone who is but there was a letter of intent signed by the president in 2015. potentially cooperating, don t but again the president cooperate because you will get a continually distancing himself pardon. even if you just message it saying he didn t know anything about it. michael cohen has come out. in that way through an interview. well, that becomes a hard in the past when he was trump s question. attorney, he no longer is, and obviously impeachment is a said he didn t know much about political process in the house it. we will have to wait and see of representatives. what michael cohen is going to but the issue of abuse of the pardon process as p