cochran family, and we'll be usaa members for life. >>> we are back with questions about possible pardons for president trump's former national security adviser michaelnn and former campaign chairman paul manafort. the "new york times" and "washington post" reporting president trump's former top personal attorney, john dowd, floated the idea of pardoning flynn and manafort last july. as special counsel, mueller was building a case against flynn and manafort. flynn accepted a plea deal and is cooperating with mueller. manafort pled not guilty. dowd told the "new york times," quote, there was no discussions, period. as far as i know, no discussions. he resigned last week. ty cobb said in a statement, i have only been asked about pardons by the press and have routinely responded on the record that no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the white house. here's press secretary sarah ha sanders. >> can you say no one here discussed pardons in this case? >> i can say that ty cobb is the person that would be most directly involved in this, and he has a statement on the record saying there is no discussion and there's no consideration of th