Article snippet: The White House on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility that MORE’s investigation. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a statement from lawyer Ty Cobb saying that there has been no discussion or consideration of pardons “at this time.” “There's no discussion or consideration of that at this time,” Sanders told reporters. “The president has the authority to pardon individuals, but you're asking me about a specific case in which it hasn't been discussed.” Sanders was responding to a New York Times report that Trump’s former lead attorney, John Dowd, floated the possibility of pardons for former Trump campaign chairman MORE and former national security adviser Michael Flynn in conversations last year with their lawyers. Dowd left the president’s personal legal team earlier this month. Cobb is the lead attorney dealing with the Mueller probe inside the White House and said in a statement that potential pardons had not been discussed. “I have only been asked about pardons by the press and have routinely responded on the record that no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the White House," Cobb said. Jay Sekulow, another personal attorney for Trump who had been on the same team as Dowd, similarly disputed the report. “Never during the course of my representation of the president have I had any discussions of pardons of any individual involved in this inquiry,” Sekulow told the Times. Manafort faces a litany of financial ch... Link to the full article to read more