jinping. they are trial stabilize the two super powers secretary blinken, we are following that meeting this morning, former president trump and his attorneys ordered not to disclose evidence in the mar-a-lago classified documents case members of his administration ramp up their criticism. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes. he constantly engaged in reckless conduct. ukraine making gains in its counteroffensive against russia, recapturing a village in the southeast on sunday. carrying out a strike on rusch s ammunition depot deep behind enemy lines this morning, an increasing tensions between the u.s. and china. secretary of state antony blinken became the highest ranking official in the biden administration to visit that country. he met with china s president xi jinping for 35 minutes and had an hour s long talk with china s top diplomats. the u.s. is describing the meeting candid and constructive and the china foreig
charges are. you also have his opponents who are trying to side-step or step very carefully and figure out exactly how they communicate about it because they are afraid of alienated any voter if they have a chance to ascend to this nomination it s creating quite the political landscape that is very difficult to predict. very difficult to predict, indeed danny, i mean, there was more pardon talk from former vice president and presidential candidate mike pence on meet the press. it s something that the press is asking pretty much all of these candidates let s play just some of what that exchange looked like and i ll get your reaction on the other side, danny. i don t know why some of my competitors in the republican primary are presumed the president will be found guilty if i have the great privilege of being president of the united states, as i did when i was a governor, we would value any request for pardon for any american. if you were president biden,
reque with michael cohen. it s why he said it so much. his line about we are the only ones talking about is not true. he has tweeted about it, brought it up in other interviews, it s been a constant topic of conversation oftentimes brought up by him as it was in the tweet today. heidi, there s reporting, the new york times talks about how trump s lawyers have offered pardons or discussed pardons with paul manafort and michael flynn previously. i mean, again, this pardon talk is just, i mean, it s been a constant feature, and obviously on some level it s because of the fact there s more legal jeopardy and people around trump who have been in legal trouble than any president in history. as we get a sense of how much this has become a fabric of the discussion, especially in relation to some of the people that are convicted felons or soon to be convicted felons, what do we make of all of that, and where that discussion is
to help understand the implications of all this pardon talk, i m joined by former u.s. acerny for the southern district and former white house counsel for president barack obama a and there seems to be a consensus that despite whatever article powers, can t exchange them for favors to cover opcrime. that we re agreed on, pretty much? i think we re all agreed on. the problem is we re in completely unchartered waters. the pardon authority has typically been used after is someone has been convicted of a crime when all the facts are known and here we have the opposite. we have the pardon discussion getting mixed in to investigative work going on while hints are being thrown
and he s learning his guy he thought was going to face maybe 15 to 18 and more next week. he sees him get a much better deal. is he going to give him a pardn to wipe away the four years? i don t know if he s more likely. i know there were reports rudy giuliani is that white house. there s a lot of pardon talk. people will have the idea it wasn t that serious. we ve dock ynumented how seriou was. if he gets the maximum in washington that would put him at about 14 years and he d still be under the guidelines of what normal people would get in virginia. is this the kind of sentence,