according to a memo written by manafort proposing this arrangement to deripaska in 2005-2006, manafort proposed that for the low, low price of $10 million a year, he would run a campaign to influence politics, business and news coverage in the united states to benefit the putin government. quote, we are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the putin government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success. in manafort's view, the appropriate commitment was reportedly $10 million a year as specified in the contract. the a.p. says they saw records of wire transfers of millions and millions of dollars to paul manafort in conjunction with that contract starting that year, 2006, and ending -- we don't know when. over the years, oleg deripaska and paul manafort would have a lot of political and business engagements together. manafort, of course, now sits in federal prison. he may ultimately be looking at a long state prison sentence that picks up after his federal sentence. as such, we may never fully know the extent of what was going on in man

the law that mike flynn, paul manafort and manafort deputy rick gates all admitted to violating.. questions about whether mr. barrick complied with far fara arose during the russia inquiry led by special counsel robert mueller and referred to the the united states attorney's office in broork lynn. quote the inquiry has proceeded far enough last month that mr. barrick was interviewed at his request by prosecutors in the public integrity unit there. now for the record barrick spokesman says that prosecutors told them they have no more questions for him. and barrick has not been accused of wrongdoing. but it really is remarkable. that here we d a half years int administration and we are still learning about things that were happening on the very first day. we're still learning abouttrump inaugural. into his inaugural chairman and we'll be right back. inaugural we'll be right back. you try hard, you eat right... mostly. you make time... when you can. but sometimes life gets in the way, and that stubborn fat just won't go away. coolsculpting takes you further. a non-surgical treatment

at manafort's expense. rick gates admitted on the witness stand in that trial to stealing money from paul manafort, even as the two of them were busy defrauding other people and institutions to steal money from others. honor among thieves and all that. today the alumni reunion of the president's campaign continued in court with rick gates back on the witness stand again as a star witness for the prosecution. this time he was testifying in the trial of greg craig, the former obama white house counsel. the only member to get caught up so far in one of the prosecutions that derived from mueller's investigation. prosecutors say he lied to the justice department about his work on a paul manafort project in the ukraine which took place after he left the obama white house a few years before the 2016 election. the basic allegation against craig is he didn't want to register as a foreign agent being paid to work for a foreign country because that might interfere with future jobs he might be able to get in the u.s. g

the trump campaign chair at the time was paul manafort.ll about locking up political opponents. before taking over the trump campaign manafort had made millions of dollars working as a political consultant for ukrainian strong man viktor yanukovych, the head of a pro-russian political party. with manafort's help the pro-russian strongman won the presidency of ukraine in 2010 by defeating his opposition rival yulia tymoshenko. a year later with manafort's guy in charge of the ukrainian government tymoshenko was put on trial, sentenced to seven years in jail. they literally fitted her up, framed her and locked her up. which as you can imagine didn't look great to the rest of the world. but part of paul manafort's job was to make this "lock her up" operation look legit. legit enough. to help with the pr cleanup manafort hired a sleazy u.s. pr firm and a high-powered u.s. law firm that had a great reputation. a firm called skadden arps. manafort arranged for skadden to be hired to write a report on why the trial of the ukrainian president's po

gates had been paul manafort's right hand deputy working for ukrainian oligarchs before manafort joined the trump campaign and brought gates along. manafort was pushed out in august of 2016, but rick gates stayed on through election day. gates then served as the number two official on the trump nug ral committee. because he held those key positions, rick gates was a first-person eyewitness to what was going on inside the trump campaign at a very high level. in october 2017, he was first charmed alongside manafort on multiple counts, including conspiracy, money laundering, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. after prosecutors hit him with another round of charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. he pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to robert mueller's team. and this was a pivotal moment in the special counsel investigation. rick gates, who knew so much about the inner workings at the highest levels of the trump campaign was willing to spill secrets to robert mueller's team. >> cooperation agreement he just signed is probably

gates had been paul manafort's right hand deputy working for ukrainian oligarchs. manafort was pushed out in august of 2016 but rick gates stayed on right through election day. gates then served as the number two official on the trump inaugural committee. because he held those key positions rick gates was an up close first person eye witness to what was going on inside the trump campaign at a very high level. in october of 2017 he was first charged alongside manafort on multiple counts including conspiracy, money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. after prosecutors hit him with another round of felony charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. he pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to robert mueller's team. this was a pivotal moment in the special counsel investigation. rick gates who knew so much about the inner workings at the very highest levels of the trump campaign was now willing to spill secrets to robert mueller's team. >> cooperation agreement he just signed is probably a nightmare scen

you may remember for manafort's federal trial, manafort's deputy on the campaign has turned out to bene of the most important and interesting cooperators in all of these cases. technically flynn was a cooperator, but that seems to have gone off the rails. manafort was a cooperator, but that definitely went off the rails. rick gates's cooperation does not appear to have gone off the rails. rick gates testified against his former boss paul manafort, he was the government star witness at manafort's federal trial. now here's an announcement that he got today in federal court that i did not see coming. we're about to see rick gates on the witness stand again tomorrow. rick gates himself is still awaiting sentencing. his sentencing has already been delayed a half a dozen times while he continues to cooperate with prosecutors. the whole basic idea is, the more you cooperate, the more of a break you get on your own sentence. well, tomorrow we learn that rick gates will be back on the witness stand in another mueller derived case. rick gates will play the part of the prosecution's star witness

we know the nellie ohr specifically created the dossier on paul manafort. here's a question we need to find out from his lawyers. were they ever given out in discovery? did they know that nellie ohr had created dirt to be used against paul manafort? that's a very important revelation. there is talk in the area of multiple contacts between kavalec and steele. much earlier and much more extensive suggested in this notes. m i think we need to look at that and find out if there are other records at thehe state department beyond the ones we recently found in the law suit in september. here is the most important revelation. it is clear now that the that the state department was a major conspirator in building the story.n going back to when the state department invited ukrainian prosecutors here in january of '16 and met with them along national security council and asked them to find dirt on paul manafort, all the way through facilitatingm these contacts with christopher steele, john weiner, victoria newland, kathleen kavalec, three people that probably need to b

stay warm while, lack of candor and paul manafort, lack of candor.nt after michael cohen, lack of candor. they all played a criminal price. now we have the fbi, former fbi director's super patriots jim comey apparently you had a lack of candor. that's just the tip of the iceberg for him. i suspect lindsey graham, i'm just thinking that maybe if my name was brandon and my name was clapper, and might not be sleeping too well tonight. >> well, let's go back to what jim just said about a lawsuit. mccabe would have you to believe that horowitz is the guy that believes that mccabe violated his duties, right? cool replaced strauch? it was molar? it will mueller fired struct. it was horowitz that told us about what mccabe did wrong. the trump justice if the department i don't think will hold water but -- >> sean: do you believe that they lied purposely, they were warned numerous times. do you believe that they purposely lied in a pfizer application, a premeditated fraud on the court to obtain a warrant to spy on the trump campaign transition and presidency?

. >> with homes, cars, and that $15,000 ostrich coach, paul manafort was the personification of moneypolitics. >> i will stipulate you can characterize this as influence -- >> in a story told in the next "american greed," manafort secretly pedalled influence around the world, and now he's in prison for conspiracy. >> the paul manafort story is a great illustration of how important it is for discloser, to be timely. >> in politics, money talks, but where is that money coming from? there are ways to find out who is funding your candidate. sheila of the center for responsive politics says start your search online, and her website, opensecrets.org lists candidates. >> these guys offer a window into the services of money to whom candidates might be beholden if they win office. >> the sites won't tell you about dark money donations that don't have to be disclosed but you should be able to get a good idea of who is backing your candidate and why. scott cone, nbc news. >>> and one man who started the festival is also an artist. >> looks like burning man behind us right now. >> it sure does. >

look at other people, papadopoulos, paul manafort paul manafort, michael cohen, general flynn, i wantk you, gregg, would mccabe -- when general flynn says, do i need a lawyer, and mccabe tells him no, and comey brags about doing something he would not do inn the obama or george w. bush administration, took advantage of the chaos and sent his guys in when they had already unmasked general flynn, they had a chapter and verse on everything he said, remember, the fbi guys do not think flynn was lying. then you have to ask a question, why would he admit he was lying? number one, going bankrupt. number two, they are threatening his family. they are saying, we will have to go after your son, too. i think that is why he said, i'll fall on the sword for my family. that is what i think happened. that is how we treat a 33 year vet that served in combat. >> mccabe was instrumental in that -- >> sean: and comey. >> he was essentially lying andd deceiving and trying to entrap michael flynn to pursue the russia hoax against donald trum donald trump. >> sean: did he deny flynn basically his miranda r

he hasn't at least as of yet pardoned paul manafort. do you think this is the kind of thing that would actually encourage somebody to take a step over the line on a comment that hey, maybe you're getting a pardon down the line? >> well, you know, there's a huge sense of loyalty and obedience to the president of the united states, particularly with his own political appointees, many of which i'm sorry to say are squirrelly characters in the white house. i do think if trump tells the departments of his government to carry out illegal acts as a general statement they're not going to do it. i've run into minor experiences like this in public life. we normally send a letter back saying here's the objections, the problems with what you're telling me to do. if you want me to do it, put it in writing. and that normally suffices to back people up. but nothing on this order where he's apparently saying i'm going to order funds to be spent, actions to be taken, land to be seized, by the way, which is going to go over very badly in texas, new mexic

the dnc has repeatedly denied working with the ukrainian government to get dirt on manafort.for his part released a statement to us. it says this. times completely turned a story about astounding allegations of serious crimes concerning democrats into a piece trying to suggest i did something nefarious except they can't say what it is. typical spin against trump or anyone close to him. one of the reasons this story matters so much is that it shows the degree to which the president is wielding his official powers against his political rivals. not just having his personal attorney look into joe biden but we can go back in time. he grounded a military jet that was set for nancy pelosi. he yanked a security clearance to a cia director that was critical of him. he threatened to withhold disaster relief to a state held by democrats. he pushed the investigation of hillary clinton. so his use of political powers to go against his political rivals, perceived enemies, is really unprecedented in mott earn history. >> we're looking at brand new approval ratings. we'll have the numbers an

ja jerry nadler just last week basically said the forfeiture from paul manafort would cancel out all the costs of the probe. we did a little bit of the number crunching ourselves. it doesn't exactly work out that way. paul manafort is expected to forfeit $11 million. 6 million will go to the irs and the other fines will go to the banks that he defrauded. others here who have been guilty like michael cohen, they would go into a crime fraud fund and only total about $130,000. in all, brooke, it does not look like the government will direct live recoup this near live $32 million. that is the final will price tag for the mueller investigation here that has wrapped costing taxpayers near live $32 million. brooke? >> thank y the same day as a positive jobs report, but how good is the economy really? we'll take a look next. (door bell rings) it's open! hey. this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under

because he's a democratic administration official who for some reason was caught up with paul manafortn particularly weird to see him in court in d.c. where half the jury pool seems to know him. people who worked with him at the white house. a cia analyst who specialized in ukraine. one woman whose boyfriend is a new york times reporter who has been covering the mueller investigation. it has been small worldville like you can't believe. but one thing greg craig is is a very esteemed lawyer and experienced. for everything else that's nuts about this trial, it makes it astonishing that his lawyers had to formally apologize to the judge on his behalf today because after the prosecutors rolled out their first witness, but before the defense had their chance to cross examine the first witness, greg craig apparently took it upon himself to walk up to the witness in the courthouse and say, quote, i know i'm not supposed to do this, but i just wanted to say hello. i mean, even if you're not like one of the most famous lawyers in america, you probably know the general rule which is don't touch

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paul manafort, convicted of lying. yes, they are all facing jail and so is paul manafort.onight, james comey seems to be getting a free pass, at least for now. however, the investigations into fines of views, the origins of the ones for ongoing. so while super patriot james comey appears to be dodging charges right now, i'm told by my sources tonight this is just a tip of what is a giant iceberg of corruption. here with a lot more, he broke the story, he is the executive price has the president of the hill, investigative reporter john solomon is with us. after your report last night, i did my own digging and i made a lot of phone calls and i said okay, so, if, in fact, they believe that he was going to be prosecuted, the attorney general has declined, i understand there is a real deeper reasons for it. that's what you are reporting tonight. >> yeah, listen pure there are two reasons. this isn't a very strong case if you're going to court and a jury in new york city or washington, d.c. it has some complexities to it that doesn't make it easy for a jury to understand but the

michael cohen, paul manafort, papadopoulos, why does the same laws not apply to mccabe? should day and will they? >> they absolutely should. if i don't know if they will. i certainly hope so. what we do know is that mccabe actually lied three times under oath to the inspector general and he lied a fourth time, which he was not under oath. he also leaked information and remember, let's talk about this. he leaked information to "the wall street journal" to try to build himself up. he leaked information regarding the clinton foundation investigations. he really wanted to build himself up, but the thing was, comey even admitted that he never authorized mccabe to leak. so even if lisa page -- remember, the former attorney who was the lover of peter strzok -- even if she came out to a grand jury inside, he he may have been authorized alone, himself, he could have authorized himself to leak, it doesn't matter. comey himself was in charge. he was the director. he did not authorize any leaks whatsoever. secondly, sean, he was involved in the foreign intelligence surveillance act

trump talked about how unfair the treatment of manafort was. he said the president would look to see if anybody was treated unfairly and he might get a pardon. robert mueller said obstruction of justice is not usually taking place in public. the fact that it takes place in public does not make it more legal. president nixon was the more subtle one. when he was trying to encourage his aides to not cooperate with the special prosecutor investigation and the congressional investigations of watergate, he did things in secret. the tape we are going to play was made the day after john dean testified to the senate watergate committee in may of 1973. house counsel. nixon had refused to allow dean to testify, just as trump is trying to prevent his aides from testifying before congress. trump is invoking executive privilege. as nixon did then. he discovered that when your former aide volunteers to testify, executive conflict is not going to stop them because your aide has a right to do that. he discovered that if he does not send the aides on his side to

we saw what they did to manafort. we saw some of the cases how they come down. not favorable to the president. so that's part of the decision making. >> it's part of the decision making. but, remember, laura, this is just the first of three bullets that are going to be fired at james comey. >> laura: we don't mean bullets like the -- we don't want to say it that way. >> you know where i'm going. >> laura: the three things he has to face. >> that are coming down the pike that are targeting him. he's got the fisa application scrutiny that they've yet to release. and john durham is doing a thorough investigation to determine whether or not james comey should have opened up a investigation to a presidential campaign in the first place. and, in fact, i think where that's going to lead is revelations that comey along with other senior leaders of the intelligence community co-lewded to manufacture reasons to open up a counterintelligence investigation into the trump campaign. >> laura: and that's getting in to how the dossier came to light in the first place, how it wa

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opponent in ukraine of the pro-russian leader guy who paul manafort was working for. go on trial on monday. but just as that gregory craig trial is due to start on monday the judge overseeing his case has thrown out one of the two felony charges gregory craig was facing. this is not something that's happened in other mueller prosecutions, but it is worth watching. both because this is the only democratic official caught up in the russia mess so far, and because this is the prosecution that is in the most trouble. one of the two charges being thrown outright before the trial starts. and because this thing is about to start in open court, monday in federal court in d.c. so, yes, i know there's a lot going on right now but honestly there is a lot going on right now. no time to waste. watch this space. red dest, ripe, they make everything better. like our strawberry poppyseed salad and new strawberry summer caprese salad. order online for delivery. panera. food as it should be it's been a long time since andrew dusted off his dancing shoes. luckily denture breath will be

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it has housed el chapo and paul manafort. >> yeah, it's housing paul manafort right now.this is a facility that is used to very high-profile defendants. most of the major terrorism cases and terrorism suspects that have been held or occurred here, in this country, they've gone through mcc, because a lot of those cases have gone through the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york here in manhattan. yes, this is a facility that should be able to handle somebody like jeffrey epstein and knows how to handle high-profile people and they're going to have to answer questions on the apparent suicide. it just raises questions by anybody that's taking a look at this. >> no doubt. embarrassment for the system as well. tom winter, our thanks to you. >> the brand backlash, the owner of the miami dolphins as well as equinox, a growing boycott. >>> plus, the new information we are learning on the death of jeffrey epstein. any physical changes to this man's appearance are purely coincidental. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ so, eve

the question was asked about pardons about paul manafort.'m not taking anything off the table. looking at pardons. some of these soldiers are people who have fought hard and long and when they fight, they get treated unfairly. the power to pardon is a beautiful thing. you got to get it right. get the right people. >> in a series of tweets, trump slammed the washington post and amazon writing, quote, another totally fake story in the amazon "washington post" lobbyist which states if my aids broke the law to build the wall, which is going up rapidly, i would give them a pardon. the amazon "washington post" and cnn just did a fake interview on pardon for aids on the wall and that i didn't think the wall in the southern border was that important. wrong, vitally important. will make a big impact so bad. there has never been a time when the media was so fraudulent, fake and corrupt. when we look back, i hope a big part of my history will be in exposing the fake news. >> hurts our feelings. >> coming after the "washington post" reports through his

apparently couldn't remember details from a totally irrelevant email exchange he once had paired paul manafortart because he didn't file t paperwork, with ukraine pit if you're involved in politics in washington, suddenly there is not a lot of room for error -- unless you happen to be jim comey. if

this facility has been used to house other high-profile notable figures, from defendants like paul manafort to even most recently el chapo who was recently transported for his full sentence here. so based on what we're hearing from the department of justice, there is concern about the ability to secure this individual that is as high profile as it can get, kate. >> you're absolutely right. thank you so much. for more on the investigation, joining me now the james gag lae yan oh, a cnn law enforcement analyst. thanks for being here. you've been to this jail many times, worked through that system many times. about this, what has happened, you wrote that you were dumbfounded that he was able to commit suicide. why? >> it's astounding. and look, we're still awaiting the toxicology reports and that usually takes about a week or so to come in to give more details. but kate, with every new detail that's revealed, i become even more baffled and perplexed. i've been inside there many times. it is a crown jewel in the federal system. it was built in 1975 and it was slated to house 460 prisoners and t

trials of greg craig for lying about ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wiki leaks and paul manafort. what is the take away here? >> rick gates seems to be one of the most successful cooperators that the mueller investigation produced. i don't think that there is anything very surprising here. we knew that he would cooperate. the beginning work on a report is relatively routine. it has to happen before a defendant can be sentenced. he has to have access to it sufficiently in advance to review it and make any objections. i think the biggest piece of information we get out of this filing is that apparently gates' cooperation is coming to an end. he won't for instance apparently be a witness in anything to do with the inaugual investigation that is believed to be underway. >> and now phil mud by way of welcoming you here, this is where your life's work intersects with the news today. when you hear the president say you don't really believe that do you? what happens inside you internally? and what's the reality. >> it makes me hurt. i spent 25 years doing this. the president has three re

let's see, paul manafort, papadopoulos, you are in trouble if you lie to the fbi. out right fraud is a stain on the greatest law enforcement agency on this planet. our fdi. the committing of fraud in a fisa court, one of the many ways the obama spied on opposition party during an election. we know at least three trump campaign officials were spied on by fbi sources. we also know the fbi ordered an undercover up to spy on george papadopoulos. let's not forget unprecedented level of unmasking and leaking raw intelligence and abuse of surveillance powers. how did samantha power ever -- what is it a u.n. ambassador and why she unmasking 300 million americans in 2016? she claims she didn't. okay, who did then? by the way the question comes down to this, what did obama, what did joe creepy, crazy sleepy uncle joe know? what did loretta lynch know, what did rice know, powers know, when did they know it? this question must be asked by law enforcement. it is time for obama to be put under oath. here is why. according to former u.s. attorney andy mccarthy and his new book "o

that would be what manafort, papadopoulos, flynn, and others got charged with, which andrew mccabe mayace. i have a problem if we don't apply our laws equally. the next will be the fisa abuse issue, that was the bulk of information, grassley-graham memo, saying them bulk of information was hillary's bought and paid for russian lies. my question to you, how devastating -- he said this will be devastating -- walk us through what you think is going to happen. >> what i think you are going to see, basically, an attempt to defraud the fisa court. that the dossier is not verified to this day. without the steele dossier, there would be no warrant issued against carter page. i think you are going to find pretty early on, there was no real belief that papadopoulos was actually working for the russians and had no real contract with the president. i want to repeat what i said earlier on in the interview. cnn has just hired the person horowitz is investigating for committing crimes against the trump campaign. cnn has just hired the person horowitz is investigating. how seriously do you think they

it has housed other notable figures that have been prosecuted by the federal government from paul manafort and el chapo who was just released from here so he could serve his life sentence elsewhere. some facts are suggesting that policies were not followed that loud jeffrey epstein to take his own life. some of the failures include him not being constantly supervised. the inmates are supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes and a source familiar with his time is telling us that was not done. and then secondly, poppy, he was potentially left alone in that cell. the policies and procedures require inmates fresh off of suicide watch to not be left alone in those cells and we are now hearing at this point that that was not certainly done. so that is something that not just the fbi but the department of justice and office of inspector general are looking into and we could potentially hear the attorney general address that in the next few minutes. >> the question becomes, just before you go, about the guards. why was he left alone in a cell with no cell mate. they're supposed to check on him e

. >> we have no exoneration and we've got pretty clear evidence that manafort was sharing internal polling data. we can talk about whether those -- those are things that we now know. from a political side, you have lindsey graham -- you'll remember from a "new york times" interview in february 2019, he said his goal was to remain relevant. that's what he was trying to do. we're seeing that again. i have a hard time understanding why he would attack the court. >> dana: let me give jim a chance for a last word. should people be skeptical of the investigation? believe where there's smoke there's fire? >> it's a little of all of that. the bottom line is durham is a political professional prosecutor. he has access to more information than any of us have. he will look hard at this. what we're talking about is not i love donald trump or i hate donald trump. it's whether the fbi in the most sensitive public corruption investigations that we see is playing by the right rules and doing the right thing when it comes to the court, when it comes to witnesses, use of charges. all of that is fair game fo

let's see, paul manafort, michael cohen, papadopoulos -- you get in trouble when you lie to the fbi. outright fraud is a stain on what is the greatest law enforcement agency on this planet. our fbi. but committing fraud on a fisa court was just, well, one of the many ways obama's government espied on members of an opposition party during an election. we know at least three trump campaign officials were spied on by fbi sources. we also know that the fbi ordered an undercover operative to spy on george papadopoulos, and let's not forget the unprecedented level of unmasking and leaking raw intelligence, and abusive surveillance powers. how did samantha pat samantha powernt ever -- a u.n. ambassador. why is she unmasking 300 americans in 2016? she claimed she didn't. who did that? the question is coming down to this. what did obama, what didn joe, creepy, crazy, sleepy uncle joe no? what did loretta lynch know? what did rice know? wanted powers not? when did they know what? this question must now be asked by law enforcement. it is time for obama to be put under oath. here's why. accordin

. >> paul manafort among just a few recently. >> exactly. so this is a prison where they should, you know, have procedures and be able to take care of inmates like jeffrey epstein. >> so then, mark, you know, all this taking place, you know, less than 24 hours after federal -- new york court unsealed documents were provided. every major national newspaper is profiling some of the accusations, including yours in those documents. do you see a correlation? mark, are you able to hear me? >> yes. i'm sorry. >> do you see any potential correlation between the fact that he's now committed suicide less than 24 hours ago these documents were released. your newspaper, "the new york times," all national newspapers are reporting on the details. cnn.com. the details that come from these documents in terms of the accusations against him. >> yeah, there wasn't a lot new and certainly nothing that would be new to jeffrey epstein in those documents. these are accusations that have been kicking around in lawsuits against him for many years. also, we should ca

it was trump's incest with the nra and russian interest that propelled him to the presidency with manaforthind it. fact of the matter is we'll see lethal death fatality again and again and the house is goilt to produce important legislation and judging by the standard of recent history the senate will not act, this president will not act. there's ample opportunity, whether it's legislation, executive order to reinsert himself into this conversation productively. they've now turned the table and focused on mental health. mental health is important but let's also really attend to the crisis -- >> it is important. which is why you don't need that available to people at all. we should deal with it as the obama administration was. but you don't arm them while you're dealing with it. sara, is the republican party having a crisis in terms of who they are and what they are about? i mean i never thought i would see the day where i would say george bush and ronald reagan at least we felt they were fit to be president. >> we're definitely having a crisis. one of the things that you're seeing is that

>> was he not dpoigoing to pard for manafort. the president likes pardons. i think in this particular case on the issue of the war and the way it just comes up now. the white house has said before this was a joke. he said he's going to pardon these people and take the land illegally. please, it was just a joke and the press lost its sense of humor. we hear it repeatedly and we find out reporting a few weeks later it was more than just a joke. it wants something that the president had been interested in trying. i don't take it too seriously. this is probably something that the president has looked at and trying to get this land by force and it will be another thing that democrats if it happens would want to bring up as part of the investigation. the problem for the democrats, the reverend, it is all abo about -- democrats have to find a candidate that could beat trump. investigations going to keep ongoing but so far indications of all the polling those investigations does not sway public opinion one way or another. >> but i do think democrats are actually mak