and surveyors in the construction industry and safety engineers who work in operations and maintenance and building industrial complexes. following on the success of tax reform, infrastructure is the next piece of the president s successful economic agenda. these workers represent the hardworking americans across the country, who will participate in the rebuilding of our nation s infrastructure, sparked from the president s vision and it will definitely be worth tuning in to see the president lay out that vision. with that, i ll take questions. are pardons on the table for anyone involved in the russia probe? look i would refer you back to the statement from ty cobb and the report that you re asking about in which he said i ve only been asked about pardons by the press and have routinely respond ed on the record that no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the white house. can you say unequivocally that no one here has discussed pardons in this case? i can say
and also said that paul manafort is a good man. i m wondering if the president believes he has the right to use the power of his office, power of pardon, to protect them from what he may see as unfair punishment down the road. does he believe he has that right? i would refer you back to ty cobb s statement. there s not discussion or consideration of that at this time. there would be no reason for me to have had a conversation with the president about that. that is not being currently discussed at the white house. with whether he believes he has the right to use the power of his office. the president has the authority to pardon individual bus you re asking me about a specific case in which it hasn t been discussed so i would not have brought that up with him. john? thank you, sarah. the president has the power, not ty cobb. which is what i just said to phil. not exactly. you talked about ty cobb s statement. the president has the power of
a annilise, the paula jones case against president clinton set a precedent, michael avenatti argues, to take the deposition of a sitting president. would it apply today? we all remember the paula jones case. when that went up the ladder to the supreme court, the supreme court said a sitting president will not be shielded, not be shielded from civil lawsuits that are unrelated to their official duties. because the sksuexual assault allegations were unrelated to serving in his capacity, they were able to move forward. this is very similar to what we re see nth defamation case brought against president trump right now. they just used this same argument successfully at the initial court level. we re seeing it one more time and we ll see how far it goes up
outcome of the election? and that s the prime issue. i suspect trump s attorneys are going to try to delay, delay, delay. but they can t delay indefinitely here. so, i think he will have to sit for deposition if the case does not settle beforehand. you mentioned $130,000. i was looking at my notes, annelease. did the president know that the hush money was paid? sarah sanders said again, i don t know. i refer you to outside counsel. will they ever answer that question? it s interesting that stormy daniels attorney has focused the conversation on the hush money. when you look at the actual lawsuit, what he s actually suing for is whether the nda was valid or not. it really has no bearing on if president trump was aware of the
picture. i don t. joshua, let me ask you about that. a key tenet in christianity is forgiveness. in order to forgive let s say one can forgive sins of someone s past, doesn t the person you re forgiving, in this case, the, need to ask for forgiveness, own up to those things? that s right. as pastor scott knows and i m sure teaches, a core tone of repettance is owning up to it. he said i don t bring god into this. that was a recent tape. we need to start thinking about this as human beings, as people who are looking after human dignity. if that was your brother-in-law and he was treating your sister the way that donald trump appears to have treated melania when she was pregnant or parenting their newborn, is that someone you would trust? if that was the pastor of your church or principal of your