mrs. mueller. she's dressed in a lime green jacket. and she's floating face up. he actually found her. i believe he used the word "pinned" under the log and face down. >> reporter: leslie had no pulse. but golub thought there was still hope that she could be revived. fred had caught up, towering over them from the creek embankment. >> he says, "is she dead?" i tell him it's too soon to know. >> reporter: golob sent fred back down the road to look for more help. by then, a small village of first responders had assembled at the start of the trail. among them was hinsdale county sheriff's deputy justin casey. >> we had other officers responding, but we also had the e.m.s. personnel coming in ambulances, and we had fire personnel coming with the fire trucks. >> reporter: dispatch put a call into then local sheriff ron bruce. >> we had gotten a report of a drowning up on cottonwood creek. and they said they'd keep me advised. >> reporter: by then a group of medical responders made their way up to the cr

infections through restrictions in the past weeks but he stressed if they case load remains too high on mr mueller said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections in care homes where increasing numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he warned that hospitals are are coming under growing strain. and i mean who do you want to conquer noise in some regions we're seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacities and as a result for having to perspire surgeries or treatments. we also see the number of severe cases in deaths rising from week to week and since both always occur after a certain time lag we must expect many more. all right alysa to q. were now to do these political correspondent. who is following this story very closely for you and what's behind the rise of these of these death rates here in germany. well i lie you have to look at what infections happen of course more infections mean more deaths but not only these time around the virus has spread much more widely and in places like hospitals and care homes where it affects vulnerable people there's in

mr. mueller, was not able to determine whether the president broke the law. that was a judgment mr. mueller said. and now the president has pardoned the people who did not cooperate with that investigation. that leads many people to believe that the president has been able to live above the law, a belief that not just democrats have but many legal experts, and that's really the legacy tonight that we see of the mueller investigation. >> but, joyce, the interesting thing about that is that the president gets political cover on this. i want to play for you what lindsey graham said about pardoning paul manafort on march 13th of 2019, almost two years ago. let's listen to what lindsey graham said. >> would you advise the president against pardoning paul manafort? >> yeah. i mean, the point is that pardoning manafort would be seen as a political disaster for the president. there may come a day down the road after the politics have changed that you would want to consider an application for him like everybody else, but now it would be a disaster. >> you know, my producers can tell me if we'

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mr. mueller said if he could have held the president, he would have done so and he did not. what does that mean? the president, one by one, wants to eliminate those who would provide testimony in other settings to get to the truth of what happened with the russia investigation. it's sad that a commander in chief has taken his powers, and used them in this manner. >> so, when you take these pardons over the last two nights. you take the veto of the defense-authorization act. if you take his veiled threat to veto or to not sign the huge relief package. what do you think he is trying to do, in his last 28 days in office? >> you know, i'm on the budget committee. i deal in numbers. 54 million americans are food insecure. i have been home for two days, and i've been in more than one food giveaway. be going to one tomorrow. and people are lined up. they are hungry. as well, there are people facing eviction. they need either the extra unemployment or they need some cash dispersement. so, what i see is a president who is now leaving washington. where he is not engaging with how do y

also convicted as a result of the mueller investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election was roger stone, a long—time political ally of mren now find themselves rewarded for their loyalty and basking in the glow of a presidential pardon. pardoned with them was charles kushner, the father of mr trump's senior adviser, jared kushner. a real estate developer, charles kushner was convicted of multiple crimes in 2004, including setting his brother—in—law up with a prostitute and then trying to blackmail him. news of the pardons came after the president had left the white house to spend the holidays at his florida retreat, mar a lago, and after he'd thrown the future of three important pieces of legislation into doubt. chief among them, a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill, which, in a video address on twitter, the president branded "a disgrace". he is not participating in any of the congressional efforts to govern. but he comes in at the last minute and issues pardons, then heads down to mar—a—lago for his christmas vacation. it is very disruptive. in the meantime he is not participating with the biden administration to ach

mr. mueller the former fbi director said many years ago, only two types of organizations and it is thosehat have been hacked and those that don't know it yet and so that is why right now this is not an american problem, this was an attack on us all so we have an extreme global issue that needs to be reviewed and assessed one of the things that organizations need to do is assume compromise. i liken to, you know, if you start to suddenly see fingerprint on the outside of your house on the windows and on the doors, it could be your kids looking in, or maybe santa peeping in, but it could also be people with nefarious intent that is what you do in a threat hunt, you look to see whether digitally you are being surveilled i'd position be looking at logs to see what kind of information will be taken which is hard to do when we're in the work in home situation >> and this is a situation that i think is position concerning because it wasn't the government that caught that it was being hacked this was private companies or publicly trading companies that picked up on this and alerted the government

manafort's prosecution and conviction grew out of investigations by special counsel robert mueller's team. mr. manafort has whole big long sections of the mueller report devoted just to him. paul manafort at one point entered into a cooperation agreement with mueller's team. i remember this crisply because i was supposed to have a day off that day, and i was in los angeles, and all of a sudden i found myself being hustled into a tv studio to talk about the fact that the president's criminally charged campaign chairman, paul manafort, was becoming a cooperator. well, he did sign a cooperation agreement, but it wasn't ever anything that came to pass. the agreement broke down when manafort repeatedly violated that cooperation agreement by repeatedly lying to the prosecutors he was supposed to be helping. so he never did become a cooperator even though he signed that deal. among the mysteries that remain unsolved today because of manafort's continued lying about his interaction with russian entities during the campaign and what exactly he did on the trump campaign during the time that russia was

also convicted as a result of the mueller investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election was roger stone, a long time political ally of mrry both men now find themselves rewarded for their loyalty and basking in the glow of a presidential pardon. pardoned with them was charles kushner, the father of mr. trump's senior adviser, jared kushner. a real estate developer, charles kushner was convicted of multiple crimes in 2004, including setting his brother in law up with a prostitute and then trying to blackmail him. news of the pardons came after the president had left

also convicted as a result of the mueller investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election was roger stone, a long time political ally of mre with the mueller inquiry both men now find themselves rewarded for their loyalty and basking in the glow of a presidential pardon. pardoned with them was charles kushner, the father of mr. trump's senior adviser, jared kushner. a real estate developer, charles kushner was convicted of multiple crimes in 2004, including setting his brother in law up with a prostitute and then trying to blackmail him. news of the pardons came after the president had left the white house to spend the holidays at his florida retreat, maralago, and after he'd thrown the future of three important pieces of legislation into doubt. chief among them, a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill, which, in a video address on twitter, the president branded a disgrace. although he's not participating in any of the congressional efforts to govern he comes in at the last minute issues pardons or threatens pardons and then heads down to maralago for his christmas vacation. it's very disruptive. in the meantime, he's not

due to prosecutorial misconduct by special counsel mueller's team, mr.tone was treated very unfairly. he was subjected to a pre-dawn raid of his home, which the media conveniently captured on camera. mr. stone also faced potential political bias at his jury trial. pardoning him will help to right the injustices he faced at the hands of the mueller investigation. so neal, breathtaking statements aside, can pardons equal real-time obstruction of justice, and if so, who do we see about that? >> yes, i think they can. and boy, that sounded like being written by a bad defense lawyer. and the idea that this president is a law and order president, with that language, my foot. trump is going full banana republic in his last 28 days. and, you know, i think at this point, if you want donald trump to give you a pardon, you have to be a republican, you have to be a war criminal, someone who didn't rat on trump, or a turkey. that's about it. and these people, like paul manafort and roger stone, were convicted by juries. this isn't a circumstance in which they were po

in 2004 to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations and in another rebuke to the mueller investigation, mrrdoned his former campaign chairman paul manafort he was convicted of hiding millions of dollars he made from political consulting for the pro-russian government in ukraine. the president also gave a full pardon to long time ally and former campaign adviser roger whose sentence he had previously commuted stone was convicted last year on charges of making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering. as the virus continues surging, there are growing calls to stay home despite this, 85 million americans are expected to travel for the holidays 20 states plus d.c. now have travel restrictions for new arrivals >>> finally, the nba has fined james harden $50,000 and ruled him unavailable to play in wednesday's game that was ultimately postponed for violating the league's covid protocols. this is after video surfaced of hillary clinton him partying maskless as a club earlier this week >> phillip rng tha, thank you. coming up, it is eve, but if you haven't finished your shopping just ye

his latest book, which is required reading, is called "where law ends: inside the mueller investigation." mr. weisman, it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. thanks very much. >> nice to be here, rachel. >> so, is it overstating the case to talk about election interference here, to talk about not just the president fighting to make sure that the election, that he has every chance of winning the election to the end, but actually pressuring election officials to falsify these results? to me, that puts this in the category of potentially criminal behavior. >> so, you're right on. i know that you like to say that you're not a lawyer. you turn to lawyers as guests. but your instincts are completely right here. so, first, there are two types of statutes that are at issue here. one is very specific, and it relates to election interference -- 18usc-241 and 242. what's interesting historically is those statutes came about because of emancipated slaves and the concern that people were going to interfere with their votes. there are also general statutes, such as the statute that prohibits falsifyin

wednesday, mr trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his long—time adviser, roger stone, were among the latest 26 people to benefit. both were jailed as a result of the mueller election. mr trump also pardoned charles kushner, the father of his son—in—law, jared. mr kushner served a two—year jail sentence for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions. let's speak to max kutner, a us political commentator in new york, who's been watching the developments over the last day or so. thank you for your time. as we have just heard, as we havejust heard, among those to receive the presidential pardon our close personal contacts to president trump. what has the reaction been? president trump comes from the world of real estate and construction where doing favours for allies is currency so we favours for allies is currency so we shouldn't be surprised that his doing these sorts of things and of course presidents have done these in the past especially the end of their terms but there is some outcry as is yet another attempt by president trump, and in this case kind of a successful attempt, to blunt the effort of that russia investigation and we

wednesday, mr trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his long—time adviser, roger stone, were among the latest 26 people to benefit. both were jailed as a result of the mueller. mr trump also pardoned charles kushner, the father of his son—in—law, jared. mr kushner served a two—year jail sentence for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions. max kutner is a us political commentator who's been watching the developments over the last day or so. he gave us his thoughts. president trump comes from the world of real estate and construction where doing favours for allies is kind of currency, so we shouldn't be surprised that he's doing these sorts of things, and of course presidents have done these things in the past especially towards the end of their terms. but there is some outcry as this is yet another attempt by president trump, and in this case kind of a successful attempt, to blunt the impact of that russia investigation. and what's interesting is, we are seeing in the past couple of days president trump pardoned not only people who refused to plead guilty in the investigation and kind of stick with him and have his back in the inve

wednesday, mr trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his long—time adviser, roger stone, were among the latest 26 people to benefit. both were jailed as a result of the muellerned charles kushner, the father of his son—in—law, jared. mr kushner served a two—year jail sentence for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions. we can now speak to seth weathers who's a republican strategist and former campaigner for donald trump in the 2016 presidential election. thank presidential election. you, as always, your time. thank you, as always, your time. you have thrown your full support by mr trump and his pardons, but he has been accused of abusing his power, rewarding those who are loyal to him and close friends, what is your take on this? i'm glad he's not rewarding people who have been disloyal to him, but the first thing that comes to mind for the people who have an issue with the pardons, it reminds me of when president clinton pardoned roger clinton, his brother, for cocaine among other issues. so for the people that are feigning outrage right now, they really don't give a damn, it is all politics. they are trying to make a point about

line prosecutors as quote unquote frenzied when there is still an open review of the mueller probe precisely because mr. barr leaves with that protected under a special counsel set of rules as one more sort of appears to be one more sort of legal trap for the next administration. >> well, the madness of trump is on the one hand he does these things in the open so we can see it and it all out there and he wants everybody to believe it not what you saw. it really didn't happen. those ten charges of obstruction, which are the strongest part of the mueller report and which five of which you can take putting an indictment in against trump and probably others who are involved in those acts. but they deny all of that and it very interesting. we have a president who interfered in two elections, one to get elected and the second to lose because america woke up and realized that this man does not care for what's happening to america. he wants to dominate it and run it. he wants to run the party, the courts and everything and that's not the american soul, and that's the good news. >> you know, this won't be the v

mr. van der zwaan pled guilty as part of the mueller investigation. e thanks very much for joining us. you appreciate you being here on short notice. >> no problem. >> let me ask first your reaction to this wave of pardons tonight and of course specifically i want to know if you will like you can give us any reaction to the pardon of mr. van der zwaan. in particular feel free to correct me if anything i said about his case was wrong or misconstrued. >> my initial reaction is very similar to what mike just said, which is you're seeing here a spate of pardons for corrupt politicians and corrupt law enforcement figures. that just from a messaging in terms of what you're trying to tell the american people is really remarkable. these are not people you normally think are formally deserving of a pardon. that's why there normally is a process by which you dull out pardons to only the most worthy. and these by and large are rich, white men who are connected to the president in some way. so, you're really seeing corruption of and abuse of the pardon power when you look at the types of crimes an

has been under investigation by robert mueller for contacts the younger mr.mp had on the russians offering damaging information on hillary clinton during the 2016 campaign. mr. kushner provided false information to authorities but was given security clearance anyway. the nature of mr. trump's concern about any criminal exposure of eric trump or ivanka trump is unclear, although an investigation by the manhattan district attorney into the trump organization has expanded to include tax write offs on millions of dollars in consul consulting fees by the company, some of which appear to have gone to mrs. ivanka trump. mr. giuliani's criminal exposure is unclear although he was under investigation as recently as this summer by investigators in new york in his role in ousting the american ambassador. the plot was at the heart of the impeachment of mr. trump. potential legal liability for all of them in addition to the president himself. now the news breaking trump has discussed with advisers pardoning all his kids and rudy. joining us now is one of the reporters who

mueller pro. reacting in a tweet writing "mr.sident, my family and i humbly thank you for the presidential pardon you bestowed on me. words cannot fully convey how grateful we are." roger stone, the president's longtime political confidant was also pardoned. stone, whose sentence was already commuted this year had been convicted of lying to congress and witness tampering. >> they wanted me to bear false witness against the president and i refused to do so. i think that's what this charge was about from the beginning. >> also on the pardon list, carles krishna, the father of the president's son-in-law jared kushner. in 2005 the real estate executive was convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering tied to a family scandal. within hours of the pardon list being released, there was outrage from lawmakers, including nebraska g.o.p. senator ben sasse who in a one sentence statement wrote "this is rotten to the core." we're still waiting to see if the president may issue some more pardons while he's down here in florida. as for congr

has been under investigation by robert mueller the special counsel, for contacts the younger mr.n russians during the 2016 campaign. mr. kushner provided false information to authorities about his contact with foreigners for his security clearance but was given security clearance anyway by the president. the nature of any potential criminal exposure of eric trump or ivanka trump is unclear although an investigation by the manhattan district attorney into the trump organization has expanded to include tax write offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees by the company some of which appear to have gone to ms. ivanka trump. presidential pardons, however, do not provide protection against state or local crimes. mr. giuliani's potential criminal exposure is also unclear although he was under investigation as recently as this summer by federal prosecutors in new york for his business dealings in ukraine and his role in ousting the american ambassador there. the plot was at the heart of the impeachment of mr. trump. potential legal liability for all of them in addition to the presid

i said the fact such a former loyal allay of mr trump has publicly dismissed his claims is quite something. yeah, it is. look, barr misinterpreted the muellervery close trump ally, but there is even a line that bill barr won't cross — its later than it should have been, but late is better than never. and yet mr trump's legal team are plainly not accepting what the country's attorney general is saying and intend to press on, despite losing something like 38 court challenges so far? yeah, well, that's typical for trump and his legal team. they are not just at war with thejustice department, they are at war with reality and they have been at war with reality for weeks and actually years now. trump is going outjust as you expected he would, just as he came in, on — it's built on lies. i must say, though, the conspiracy theories themselves are not even sophisticated. this is the kind of thing you would expect to see in a monty python series. this is a clown show, and everybody must know it. but it does show you the strength and the pull that donald trump still has within the republican party, that they would perpetuate this hallucination and peo

mueller looked at trump. >> so jeremy, this new acting a.g., mr. rosen, doesn't start until december 23rd. it appears his first major decision may be laid out for him long before he takes office. >> yeah, and that may turn out, brian, to be the reason why bill barr was pushed out and jeff rosen was elevated. just to remind viewers the reason why we had a special counsel in the form of bob mueller is because donald trump fired the head of the fbi who was investigating russia's 2016 election interference. and but for that event there would have been no need for a special counsel. so when senators come forward and say we need a special counsel, they haven't established any facts precedent that would justify such a move. in fact, it looks completely political. looks like retribution and sour grapes for a president who lost the election big time, trying to use the engines of law enforcement in our country to investigate a political rival. that is banana republic stuff, brian. we don't do that in the united states of america. and any senator who claims we should needs to understand and reread ou

mueller iii, the special counsel for contacts that the trump -- younger mr.ns offering damaging information on hillary clinton during the 2016 campaign. but he was never charged. mr. kushner provided false information to federal authorities about his contacts with foreigners for his security clearance, but was given one anyway by the president. the nature of mr. trump's concern about any potential criminal exposure of eric trump or ivanka trump is unclear. although an investigation by the manhattan district attorney has expanded to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees by the company, some of which appear to have gone to ms. trump. joining us now is mary trump, author of "too much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man." mary trump, thank you very much for joining us once again. could you help perhaps "the new york times" report on the line where they say, it's unclear -- unclear why eric trump or ivanka trump might need a pardon? >> well, whether it's unclear or not, donald certainly seems to think t

counsel and after he was arrested mr papadopoulos gave additional information on his prior statements to the special counsel today's pardon helps correct the wrongs that mueller seem inflicted on so many people. now there has been a wave of criticism of the trumpet ministrations decision around at george papadopoulos but many are looking at the fact that there was another set of individuals who got pardons that is a little bit more controversial these were guards who work for the military contracting corporation known as blackwater who were convicted of killing civilians take a listen to this they were charged with killing civilians in iraq. for the north america rhetoric. there were dead bodies everywhere and the printing of money on the only t.v. viewing is going to be among the dead bodies ministry with those who were chosen in 7 years old. now these were guards who work for the private military contractor corp known as blackwater now paul slow evan liberty and dustin heard were convicted for involuntary manslaughter and the individual nicholas slotting who opened fire and 1st started shooting into the crowd of iraqi civilians he was convicted of 1st degre

counsel and after he was arrested mr papadopoulos gave additional information on his prior statements to the special counsel today's pardon helps correct the wrongs that mueller seem inflicted on so many people now in addition to george papadopoulos there has been widespread outrage about the trump administration's decision to grant clemency to some members of the blackwater military contracting company these were guards who were employed by blackwater who killed civilians in iraq or the north american aircraft or. that they were dead bodies everywhere and this is the argument going to be on the only 2 people in authority among the dead body of the ministry but that's a ritual that was in the room of 7 years old at. the time. paul slow evan liberty and dustin herd were convicted for involuntary manslaughter and the individual nicholas slotting who opened fire and 1st started shooting into the crowd of iraqi civilians he was convicted of 1st degree murder but now the white house is letting all of them off they will no longer be in prison serving their sentences they have been pardoned and this is the feeling of the white house about why they made this decision

mr. flynn was subject to abuse of power by both the fbi and bob mueller, special counsel.when it makes a mistake and try to correct justice. it did that here and it's an important first step in restoring respect from the american people and trust in the institution. paul: kyle. >> i'll give it to spacex for opening up because of private spaceflights. americans glued to the tvs and make went to nasa astronauts climbed into a spacex capsule atop a spacex rocket and blasted off to the space station. if you can believe it, the company repeated that be in november. a flight junkie putting private competition into a used to be centralized government program. elon musk says mars is next and he's sounding more believable all the time. paul: mary. >> it for american officer and restaurant tours who kept going despite government shutdowns. healing the economy and serving us all. a special shout out to new york restaurant who have found creative ways new capital to keep during the public through a blistering summer heat. now climbing over snowbanks. along with our first responders, t

i think the mueller investigation stands on its findings, regardless of any pardons that the president issues at this point. these people who have been granted clemency by mr think clemency by mr trump, recently, 409i think so far, he would say they are victims of injustice, ofa they are victims of injustice, of a witch—hunt. what would you say is motivating the president? i think what is unusual about many of these pardons, and what distinguishes them from other presidents is number one, many of them are people who are very close to the president, campaign managers, political and personal associates, so really, it reflects the stench of the trump administration, but number two is that the president has not gone to the normal process, in thejustice department that are normally followed. when president george w bush left office, the vice president employed him to issue a pardon to his closest aid and one of bush? type aids, and he refused to it because he didn't think that it fit within the criteria of the justice department. that doesn't seem to be something this president ta kes accou nt to be something this president takes account of. professor, mr trump

mr. flynn was very fraud, pardoning him for any violation of federal law that may have been the subject of the muellertigation. also very broad pardon. the contours of how broad a legal pardon can be has never been tested in a meaningful way. unless the department of justice tries to prosecute esther flynn goa -- mr. flynn going forward asserts defense on the base of his pardon, we will not see an actual test of the president's power. david: rudy giuliani has been the president's personal lawyer. the accounts in the press suggest he is charging a fair amount of money to the resident for that service. noah feldman, professor of law at harvard and a bloomberg opinion columnist wrote it might raise questions about pardoning people. is there any precedent for that? people with whom he has personal business dealings? greg: most pardons do not affect the president personally, with a couple of exceptions whereby the presidents have pardoned family members or someone with whom they have some sort of business or personal relationship. there have been pardons like that in the past. it's anticipated by many obse

mr trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, and his long—time adviser, roger stone, are among the latest 26 people to benefit. both were jailed as a result of the muellern. cbs correspondent debra alfarone joins me from washington. how unusual is it for an outgoing president to grant pardons to so many people? it's an interesting question because actually up until this point the president had given lot less power than other presidents at this point in their term. however, as you said before, he is definitely ramping up at this point. it's not unusual for present stu d e nts to it's not unusual for present students to give so many pardons at this point in the presidential career, with just 20 this point in the presidential career, withjust 20 plus this point in the presidential career, with just 20 plus days left. however, what is a little bit different, is that so many people that he is granting the pardons to, 90% is one estimate, people that he has a direct tie to. loyalty may be one of the things that is driving him to give these types of pardons to people. you mentioned roger stone, and paul manafort. they had some connection with the president and