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There s all sorts of views on that but appreciate you saying that as a colleague. ari melber, thank you. coming up, no verdict and an early dismissal for the manafort jury. the president called the trial sad but what did trump have to say about a pardon. back after this. ....
Things, but it goes back to the point of people in the room and in government can reveal new information. ari, it was fascinating to watch. you kept him on point and kept it moving. you did a great job. i appreciate that. there are all sorts of views on that, but i appreciate that as a colleague, sir. no verdict and an early dismissal for the manafort jury. the president called the trial sad. what did they have to say about a pardon? back after this. ahh. summer is coming. ....
The middle of deliberations. it s an unsequestered jury. and then imagine that the president, the leader of the free world, publicly calls the case unfair and a sad day for the nation, praises the defendant and leaves wide open the possibility of a pardon. i know many of us have become numb to it but there was a time when that kind of thing was considered inappropriate. try to remember that as you listen to president trump responding to the question of whether he ll pardon paul manafort from earlier today. i don t talk about that. i think the whole manafort trial is very sad. when you look at when s going on there. i think it s a very sad day for our country. he worked for me for a very short period of time but you know what? he happens to be a very good person. and i think it s very sad what they have done to paul manafort. the president s comments as the manafort jury s in the middle of deliberating. for a second day. ....
maybe it may be true. but the problem is you re trying to pin down something that can t be pinned down. you need to know where he s at. and intent is so important here. i think aaron touched on this earlier. the revocation of brennan s security clearance is a new angle here, and the president is getting into more dangerous ground. i think we re all familiar with the concept of obstruction of justice. what i don t think know if everybody understands is it s also a federal crime to retaliate against somebody who s a witness. i don t know if brennan quite qualifies as a witness. he s more of an investigator. but keep in mind if the president follows through with his threats to pull comey s clearance. clearance comey will be a crucial witness here. and it s a federal crime 1513, if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone to or who provided truthful information to law enforcement. so he s getting closer and closer to dangerous ground here. terrific point. first time s ....
You don t have to be felix frankfurter to know that a question from the jury is not good because if they re asking about it at all it s not good period. there will be more questions within the coming days. we re going to dive in and look at these four questions here now but know full well there s a lot to come. they just sat through two mind numbing weeks to hearing from evidence, tax preparers, rick gates, hearing from rick gates, a lot of people who paul manafort was purchasing very expensive things from. now they re in a room and don t have access to those 2,500 pages of transcripts and don t have access to google. and the reasonable doubt one is interesting. that s something manafort s lawyers in their closing arguments tried to hit on. making it clear this is ....