into a proffer meeting, enters into a proffer agreement, provides information to u.s. attorneys, and enters into some kind of deal, you can t unring that bell. the ausas who hear the information he hase them unhear it after it s out the door. so if time to pardon is if it s going to happen, the time is now. and cohen certainly knows that. and maybe within theext couple of days we will see what president trump s temperature is on the pardon process. mimi, does a pardon cover the evidence? like if s say the president pardons michael cohen tomorrow. all that evidence that was gathered up by prosecutors and to decide how much of it falls under attorney client privilege and how much of it can investigators legally use what happens to that under a pardon situation? nothing. the evidence still exists. you know, it s the same thing
it s not every day that either one of you deal with clients who have the opportunity to perhaps get a pardon in order to deal with their situation. but danny, let me start with you. first of all, havyou everence w perhaps had an access to a pardike this? and if not, what do you make of trying to sendnal lik this. no, i have never dealt with a pardon. most of my colleagues never dealt with a pardon. the pardon process is so distinct from the criminal justice system that i can t think of a single colleague who has handled one although they are certainly out there and i could probably look them up if i needed to. you are absolutely right. in this case we have a rare instance where a potential targetaybe a future defendant like cohen it may be sending up a signal saying, i ve changed attorneys, if that makes you nervous, mr. president, now is the time to pardon me. the clock is ticking. because if michael cohen goes
by republican leaders. thank you, wolf, for your question. as many americans now know, the president just makes stuff up. and in this case, there s no evidence that there was a spy put into the trump campaign. but there is a lot of evidence that what the fbi did is they ran a counterintelligence operation because they were so freaked out by what some campaign associates were doing with their interactions with russia. the republicans and democrats looked at this and said it was appropriate what the fbi did. let s get to some other news. the president, as you just heard the breaking news, commuted the sentence of alice marie johnson, serving a life sentence for nonviolent drug offense. kim kardashian-west met with the president in the oval office the other day to advocate for her release. what is your reaction? the pardon process is supposed to be based on justice
the president tweeted saying he has the absolute right to pardon himself. his willingness to ignore justice department guidelines on issuing pardons has democrats worried he ll use it to help allies caught up in the investigation into russian meddling in the election in 2017. unfortunately the president has perverted the pardon process. now it seems like he s pardoning people based on their celebrity status or because a celebrity talked to him. reporter: as he did when he pardoned joe arpiao last year. the white house is playing down reports that relations are souring over new u.s.adian stea impor
and to vinunfortunately, the prt has perverted the pardon process and now he s pardoning people on their celebrity status or because a celebrity talked to him. in this case, it s clear that the only reason trump pardoned ms. johnson is because kim kardashian talked to president trump about this case. it shouldn t be based on which celebrities have access to the president. it should be based on a process, and i urge the president to go back to the same process all previous presidents have used. some presidents in the past have averted that process of going through the office of pardons and clemency over at the justice department. but this president clearly has done so in these first initial pardons. we learned by the way that he s assembled already the paperwork at the white house to pardon dozens of other people, some of the pardons would be instance where is he thinks the justice department, the u.s. attorneys