GOP/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, suggested Monday [6-4-18] that the President should hire a new lawyer if his current one is telling him that he can pardon himself. ‘If I were President of the United States and I had a lawyer that told me I could pardon myself, I think I would hire a new lawyer,’ Grassley told CNN when asked if he agrees that President Donald Trump could pardon himself. Trump tweeted Monday that he had the ‘absolute right to pardon myself’ but would not do so because he’d done nothing wrong…A decision by Trump to pardon himself — or even his close allies like former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — could raise constitutional questions for Congress, as some Democrats have said that such pardons or the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller could be grounds for impeachment.”
-Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, “Grassley on Giuliani pardon comments: ‘I think I would hire a new lawyer’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 4, 2018 3:09 pm