well let's explore this further with richard painter who is a professor of law at the university of minnesota he worked as the chief ethics lawyer in the george w. bush administration is also vice chair of the group of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington and left the republican party in 2018 welcome to day w. are these pardons rotten to the core senator sas claims. yes certainly the pardons in connection with the robert muller investigation are russian and in fairness and the election we have several people who were material witnesses in that investigation including michael fay and george george papadopoulos roger stone and now with force have modified or for all been barking and it appears that their pardon for keeping their mouth shut and none of them turned over evidence of significant value to robert muller they did not cooperate with the investigation. even though michael flynn promised to cooperate with the investigation and the bottom line is that the president in our studies does have the right to pardon anyone he wants but he cannot take a bribe in return for apartme

the same special counsel, richard painter, said it could weigh that any further review is warranted.t is in the usa today. in the washington times, house leader kevin mccarthy expressing concern about representative eric swalwell, saying that he should be removed from the house permanent select committee on intelligence of to reports that alifornia democrat once had relationship with a suspected chinese agent. mr. mccarthy said he was not notified of mr. swalwell's relationship with the woman, after it was suspected she was a state agent. he says i am asking for a briefing now, he told reporters. he is a national security threat -- that from the minority leader. the house speaker yesterday during her interview with reporters also commented, particularly on the eric swalwell matter. [video clip] rep. pelosi: i don't have any concerns with mr. swallow. with mr. swallow. , who believe and i am among i don't have any concerns with mr. swalloswallwell. swalwell, in the 2015, the leadership of the house and the committee were informed about overtures from a chinese person were being made t