White house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. Epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview . Hes making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. The president of the United States Isnt The Ar Bitter of that. Its judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. Also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. Hes trying to clarify things and make sure this wasnt a Campaign Violation but listen to what he had to say and well come back on the back end. He made the deals. And by the way, he pled to two counts that arent a crime, which nobody understands. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those two counts arent even a crime. They werent campaign finance. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what
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suggesting there are fine people in the nazis. that s not at all what he was stating. refusing to rule out a pardon for manafort. the president made his position on that clear. again, accusing the president s former personal attorney of lying to congress when he denied seeking a pardon. cohen s own attorney stated and contradicted his client when he said he was aware those conversations had taken place. i think it s time to stop giving him a platform and let him go onto serve his time. sanders declined to comment on the checks they said were to pay out of stormy daniels. he testified about this. the president has been clear there wasn t a campaign violation.
members by name. we ve made that clear. the president sorry. after charlottesville, saying there are very fine people on both sides in charlottesville. essentially suggesting that there are very fine people in the nazis. that s not at all what the president was stating. not then, not at any point. reporter: sanders was also pressed on the russia investigation, refusing to rule out a pardon for paul manafort. the president has made his position on that clear. he ll make a decision when he s ready. reporter: and again accusing the president s former personal attorney michael cohen of lying to congress, when he denied seeking a pardon from the president. what i can tell you is that cohen s own attorney stated and contradicted his client when he said that he was aware that those conversations had taken place. i think that it s time to stop giving him a platform. let him go on to serve his time. reporter: sanders declined to comment on the check signed by the president t
campaign violation it s been clear there wasn t a campaign violation. but the story changed. i would refer you back to the president s comments, that wasn t something i m part of and to the president s outside counsel. this comes after a key democrat challenged the handling of a witness in the russia investigation. president trump, will you remember that the president did agree to answer written questions for robert mueller and his team but house intelligence chair adam schiff said it would be a mistake if mueller ended his probe without having the president testify under oath. i do think ultimately it s a mistake because probably the best way to get the truth would be to put the president under oath because as he s made plain in the past, he feels it is perfectly fine to lie to the public. i don t think bob mueller should rely on written answers. when you get written answers, it s really the lawyer s answer as much as the client answer and here you need to be able to ask
trouble for tax deductions? perhaps. perhaps. because for one thing, trump could pardon himself, but he couldn t pardon himself for violating state law. and the income tax returns that he filed on behalf for the state would be false because he presumably deducted the payments to michael cohen. well, david, take a listen to the way the white house is handling this, deflecting basically on cohen, a problem that won t seem to go away. take a look. why did the president write a check to michael cohen for $35,000 in august of 2017? he testified about this. he specifically accused the president of engaging in conspiracy to engage in campaign violation. the president has been clear there wasn t a campaign violation. didn t know about the hush money. the story has changed. again, i would refer you back to the president s comments. david, your view of their struggle to even explain what is corroborated, which is these payments for, again, an nda that