Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Out of millions of dollars. The president says he is a friend of ours, as they used to stay in the mob. Jim acosta joins us. I understand youre learning more about the advice the president is getting about issuing pardons related to the russian investigation. Reporter thats right, anderson. I have been told by a source inside the president s legal team he has been advised for months now to avoid any pardons in the russia investigation including Paul Manafort. Interesting to point out earlier this evening the Washington Post was reporting Rudy Guiliani told them in just the last several weeks, Rudy Guiliani had to talk the president out of pardoning Paul Manafort until it is over. Whats interesting here about all of that is that at the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was not under di
of us agree tonight it s deeply offensive to have a president who is the guardian of the justice system, protector of the law in our country so blatantly disagree what we believe, undermine much of what we believe. i agree very much with dan s analysis the dynamics have been changed. donald trump is a control freak in many ways. he wants to control everything he controlled this epic battle against mueller month after month. he alone had the platform and mueller couldn t speak. we talked about that before. mueller had a chance to speak in courtrooms. trump is losing control of the narrative and mueller is taking it away from him. you can see it in a fox poll that came out today, which was fascinating. in july, you ask americans if