gates were -- manna manafortanna for paul and mr. gates had nothing to do with the campaign but a legend money laundering and other businesses. under those circumstances, with the president consider a rollout pardoning them? not had anye conversations with impaired we should let the process go through before we start looking at that. referring toos was jeff sessions at the time overseeing foreign policy committee. what does this mean for jeff sessions? on a volunteer committee, i'm that sure how that would concern the attorney general directly. can you say given what we have learned over the last few hours, when the president was first aware that russia was behind the hacking and what they considered to be damaged emails about the claim command that way -- they were trying to get to the trump campaign? when was the first aware of that? sarah: im not sure of the specific date when that took place. -- i am not sure of the specific date when that took place. hiring paulegret manafort? sarah: he is not worried about it distracting becaus