Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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As the special counsel built his case against Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, pressure was mounting for the men to to cooperate with the Russia inquiry. Then a lawyer for President Trump came to them with an idea: What if the president were to pardon his former advisers? Guest: Michael S. Schmidt, who has been covering the Russia investigation for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is The Daily.
0:04.0	Today, as pressure was mounting on two of President Trump's former advisors, Michael Flynn
0:16.8	and Paul Manafort, to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller, a lawyer for the president
0:23.8	came to the men with an idea.
0:26.8	But if the president were to pardon them, it's Thursday, March 29th.
0:35.8	Okay.
0:39.8	Mike Schmidt.
0:42.8	Hey, it's Michael.
0:44.8	Barbarale, how are you?
0:45.8	Not bad.
0:46.8	We're actually, we're actually are you?
0:49.8	I'm in duck North Carolina.
0:51.8	Is that a vacation destination?
0:53.8	It's not a work destinations, put it down.
0:56.8	Anyway, I hope you have a good time.
0:57.8	I'm sure it's probably a little consuming to deal with all this, but I've got a good
1:01.1	landline.
1:02.1	It's all it matters.
1:03.1	That's all that really matters, yeah.
1:04.1	That's like if one of these things makes it, that's what I want to make it.
1:08.9	I have the two things I need, a great landline in a refrigerator filled with Coke's ears.
1:20.0	Mike Schmidt, where does this story begin?
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