her partner, charles rowley, remains in critical condition. he was also exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter in march. following this story, our phil black is live from salisbury, england. phil, surely this is adding to the concern of people in that area about even the possibility of coming into contact with this nerve agent. reporter: yeah, george, that s right. you ll remember after the nerve agent was used in the attempted assassination of sergei skripal, the former intelligence officer and his wife back in march, the view of the british government was that in its view the russian government would dare to use a weapon like this, something that was so deadly, and so indiscriminate really. they felt that this was a truly reckless act. so there was enormous concern about risk to the public in the days and weeks after that. we saw people, large numbers of police and military move in and decontaminate the sites.
that he s facing in terms of the charges against him and willing to engage in such a reckless act as to try to compound his problems. it also says to me that he must not be certain that he s going to get a pardon after all, and maybe he hears the president diminish his role in the campaign. well, he was there for a short time. and maybe he s taking that to mean the president is going to want to be arms length. but at the same time you ve got the president sending completely different signals that he can pardon anybody he wants. he can pardon himself. there s no limit to the mischief he can commit with the pardon. but i think it s a sign of desperation on manafort s part. i am guessing with some knowledge you did better than average in law school, went on to be a federal prosecutor among your other job titles. talk about self-pardoning vis-a-vis our discussion in the last segment, it really would place one person above all known laws for the rest ofs. it would. i would never claim t
could pardon himself. they said no, and no one may be the judge in their own case. he resigned three days later. in case you want to follow the nixon model, that would be thsday. congressman adam schiff, the lead democrat on house intel, is with us here in our new york studios tonight. welcome. thank you for coming in. thank you. i feel like we were going to start the, but we ve had news break on your way to a television studio tonight. so let s back up with paul manafort. this is an allegation that he s witness tampering. wht have to say about his mindset? he s in effect out on bail pending trial. well, it says a lot. it says, for one thing, that he s terrified of the exposure that he s facing in terms of the charges against him and willing to engage in such a reckless act as to try to compound his problems. it also says to me that he must not be certain that he s going get a pardon after all, and maybe he hears the president diminish his role in the
the judge in their own case. he resigned three days later. in case you want to follow the nixon del, that would be thursday. congressman adam schiff, the lead democrat on house intel, is with us here in our new york studios tonight. welcome. thank you for coming in. thank you. i feel like we were going to start there, but we ve had news break on your way to a television studio tonight. so let s back up with paul manafort. this is an allegation that he s witness tampering. what would that have to say about his mindset? he s in effect out on bail pending trial. well, it says a lot. it says, for one thing, that he s terrified of the exposure that he s facing in terms of the charges against him and willing to engage in such a reckless act as to try to compound his problems. it also says to me that he must not be certain that he s going to get a pardon after all, and maybe he hears the president diminish his role in the campaign. well, he was there for a short
if he s just renovating the kitchen or burning down the whole house, if the whole house burns down, you still need to rebuild it if you want somewhere to live. do you feel a responsibility, especially in your role in the foreign relations committee, to try to help him to reach some new deal with iran? well, he will have jeopardized our relationship with our european allies, the british, the french, the germans, they oppose him pulling out. they will have empowered, emboldened the most radical elements inside of iran who never liked the deal in the first place. and so of course i will work on a bipartisan basis where necessary. but the president is engaging in a reckless act, destroying the treaty which works and substituting no new pathway towards achieving this larger goal of ensuring there is no nuclear weapons program in iran. just a real quick question. do you see him being able to kind of do a halfway measure, a