The only thing that's going to matter is that evidence when it comes out is going to satisfy a larger number of republicans than the 30% dies hards will believe until it comes out.

A difficulty is that the right has already beat up a lot of what we know about Trump obstructing justice, and the right doesn't see it that way even though a hundred acts are doing exactly that.

The right and Trump seems to think a defense of, "it was said in the open, so it can't be obstruction" flies legally. Try looking at an act of discussing stopping the investigation that was done in secrecy, it would be automatically seen as a crime. Just because it's tweeted, or Giuliani admits something does not change it from being obstruction. Trump is openly sealing a case for obstruction when he openly tweets about wanting Sessions "to protect him", that is not his job. It's not white house counsel's job to facilitate the things Trump wants to do, it's their job to tell him what he cannot do as much as what he can, and he objects to that. He says he wants can do people not you can't do that people.

The only thing that's going to matter is that evidence when it comes out is going to satisfy a larger number of republicans than the 30% dies hards will believe until it comes out.

A difficulty is that the right has already beat up a lot of what we know about Trump obstructing justice, and the right doesn't see it that way even though a hundred acts are doing exactly that.

The right and Trump seems to think a defense of, "it was said in the open, so it can't be obstruction" flies legally. Try looking at an act of discussing stopping the investigation that was done in secrecy, it would be automatically seen as a crime. Just because it's tweeted, or Giuliani admits something does not change it from being obstruction. Trump is openly sealing a case for obstruction when he openly tweets about wanting Sessions "to protect him", that is not his job. It's not white house counsel's job to facilitate the things Trump wants to do, it's their job to tell him what he cannot do as much as what he can, and he objects to that. He says he wants can do people not you can't do that people.

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August 31 at 7:00 AM
President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm e******ns, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s wide-ranging probe.
Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.
[Read full poll results | How the poll was conducted]
And a narrow majority — 53 percent — say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Mueller’s investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.




What's next for Trump after the Manafort and Cohen convictions

After Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen's convictions, The Post's Carol D. Leonnig unpacks the fallout and path forward for President Trump and the Russia probe. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Overall, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, with 36 percent approving, according to the poll. This is only a slight shift from the last Post-ABC survey, in April, which measured Trump’s rating at 56 percent disapproval and 40 percent approval.
The new poll was conducted Aug. 26 to 29, in the week after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of federal tax and bank fraud and after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and implicated the president in illegal payments to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

The four-month gap between Post-ABC polls makes it difficult to attribute the modest uptick in disapproval of Trump to specific events. Other public polls have shown Trump’s disapproval rating in the low- to mid-50s and have not tracked a rise since the Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea.
Trump has tried to rally support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 e******ns by pointing to his economic record. This week’s poll finds that despite the president’s unpopularity with v**ers, he gets better ratings when it comes to the economy: 45 percent of Americans approve and 47 percent disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.
[Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring]

Trump’s overall popularity breaks down along lines of partisanship, ethnicity and g****r, according to the poll. While 78 percent of Republicans approve of his performance, 93 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents disapprove. More men support him than women, and while 45 percent of w****s back him, 19 percent of nonw****s approve.

The poll finds that there are clear limitations to Trump’s efforts all summer to politicize and discredit the Russia investigation. The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a “witch hunt” and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 e******n, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.
Opinions on Mueller’s work also break down on partisan lines, with 61 percent of Republicans opposing the probe but an even larger 85 percent of Democrats expressing support. Among independents, however, a two-thirds majority of 67 percent back the investigation.
Trump has complained that Manafort was treated unfairly by Mueller’s prosecutors, and after a jury convicted Manafort earlier this month the president tweeted that he felt “very badly” for him.

But 67 percent of Americans think Mueller’s case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.
Trump’s praise of Manafort has stirred speculation that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, but the poll finds that it would be a political land mine for the president. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump pardoning Manafort — 53 percent strongly oppose it — and 18 percent support a pardon.
Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.
But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.

Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trump’s criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.

Two-thirds of Americans say they had read or heard at least some of the news about Cohen’s guilty plea to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, though less than a quarter heard “a great deal” about the news.
Cohen told a federal judge last week that before the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump directed him to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public.
[Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women ‘in coordination’ with Trump to influence 2016 e******n]
The poll finds that 61 percent of Americans think that Trump committed a crime if he did direct Cohen to make the payments, while 31 percent say he did not commit a crime.

Democrats are hoping to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in November’s e******ns. If they do, party leaders will face pressure from their energized base to use congressional oversight committees to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his administration, as well as perhaps begin impeachment proceedings.
The survey finds a clear partisan divide on the issue. While 75 percent of Democrats say Congress should begin impeachment hearings, 82 percent of Republicans say lawmakers should not. Among independents, 49 percent support impeachment while 46 percent oppose it.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on conventional and cellphones; the margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-60-percent-disapprove-of-trump-while-clear-majorities-back-mueller-and-sessions/2018/08/30/4cd32174-ac7c-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.a220634d7f95&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

August 31 at 7:00 AM
President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm e******ns, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s wide-ranging probe.
Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.
[Read full poll results | How the poll was conducted]
And a narrow majority — 53 percent — say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Mueller’s investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.




What's next for Trump after the Manafort and Cohen convictions

After Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen's convictions, The Post's Carol D. Leonnig unpacks the fallout and path forward for President Trump and the Russia probe. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Overall, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, with 36 percent approving, according to the poll. This is only a slight shift from the last Post-ABC survey, in April, which measured Trump’s rating at 56 percent disapproval and 40 percent approval.
The new poll was conducted Aug. 26 to 29, in the week after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of federal tax and bank fraud and after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and implicated the president in illegal payments to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

The four-month gap between Post-ABC polls makes it difficult to attribute the modest uptick in disapproval of Trump to specific events. Other public polls have shown Trump’s disapproval rating in the low- to mid-50s and have not tracked a rise since the Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea.
Trump has tried to rally support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 e******ns by pointing to his economic record. This week’s poll finds that despite the president’s unpopularity with v**ers, he gets better ratings when it comes to the economy: 45 percent of Americans approve and 47 percent disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.
[Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring]

Trump’s overall popularity breaks down along lines of partisanship, ethnicity and g****r, according to the poll. While 78 percent of Republicans approve of his performance, 93 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents disapprove. More men support him than women, and while 45 percent of w****s back him, 19 percent of nonw****s approve.

The poll finds that there are clear limitations to Trump’s efforts all summer to politicize and discredit the Russia investigation. The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a “witch hunt” and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 e******n, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.
Opinions on Mueller’s work also break down on partisan lines, with 61 percent of Republicans opposing the probe but an even larger 85 percent of Democrats expressing support. Among independents, however, a two-thirds majority of 67 percent back the investigation.
Trump has complained that Manafort was treated unfairly by Mueller’s prosecutors, and after a jury convicted Manafort earlier this month the president tweeted that he felt “very badly” for him.

But 67 percent of Americans think Mueller’s case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.
Trump’s praise of Manafort has stirred speculation that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, but the poll finds that it would be a political land mine for the president. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump pardoning Manafort — 53 percent strongly oppose it — and 18 percent support a pardon.
Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.
But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.

Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trump’s criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.

Two-thirds of Americans say they had read or heard at least some of the news about Cohen’s guilty plea to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, though less than a quarter heard “a great deal” about the news.
Cohen told a federal judge last week that before the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump directed him to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public.
[Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women ‘in coordination’ with Trump to influence 2016 e******n]
The poll finds that 61 percent of Americans think that Trump committed a crime if he did direct Cohen to make the payments, while 31 percent say he did not commit a crime.

Democrats are hoping to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in November’s e******ns. If they do, party leaders will face pressure from their energized base to use congressional oversight committees to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his administration, as well as perhaps begin impeachment proceedings.
The survey finds a clear partisan divide on the issue. While 75 percent of Democrats say Congress should begin impeachment hearings, 82 percent of Republicans say lawmakers should not. Among independents, 49 percent support impeachment while 46 percent oppose it.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on conventional and cellphones; the margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions

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All F**E NEWS! Reported by Washington Post, one of the weapons of F**E NEWS agents against president Trump. Washington Post, along with the rest of the MSM media, except Fox, go along with the fabricated lies of the DOSSIER/FISA warrant to frame up against the president. W. Post then circulates it among the people. Denying all facts and creating instruments to destroy.

Fact of the matter is president Trump every time there is a rally for his political allies, he gathers ten to 20 thousands attending the rally. Compared to Hillary's p**********l campaign rallies, there were only hundreds to few thousands who attended. She had to invite Hollywood actors/actress or comedians to attract me audience. Still few attended.

MSM'S ignore all the fantastic achievements of president Trump. Instead rely on their FABRICATED lies of destructions.

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August 31 at 7:00 AM
President Trumps disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsels Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm e******ns, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs wide-ranging probe.
Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.
[Read full poll results | How the poll was conducted]
And a narrow majority 53 percent say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Muellers investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.




What's next for Trump after the Manafort and Cohen convictions

After Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen's convictions, The Post's Carol D. Leonnig unpacks the fallout and path forward for President Trump and the Russia probe. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Overall, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trumps job performance, with 36 percent approving, according to the poll. This is only a slight shift from the last Post-ABC survey, in April, which measured Trumps rating at 56 percent disapproval and 40 percent approval.
The new poll was conducted Aug. 26 to 29, in the week after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of federal tax and bank fraud and after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and implicated the president in illegal payments to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

The four-month gap between Post-ABC polls makes it difficult to attribute the modest uptick in disapproval of Trump to specific events. Other public polls have shown Trumps disapproval rating in the low- to mid-50s and have not tracked a rise since the Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea.
Trump has tried to rally support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 e******ns by pointing to his economic record. This weeks poll finds that despite the presidents unpopularity with v**ers, he gets better ratings when it comes to the economy: 45 percent of Americans approve and 47 percent disapprove of Trumps handling of the economy.
[Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring]

Trumps overall popularity breaks down along lines of partisanship, ethnicity and g****r, according to the poll. While 78 percent of Republicans approve of his performance, 93 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents disapprove. More men support him than women, and while 45 percent of w****s back him, 19 percent of nonw****s approve.

The poll finds that there are clear limitations to Trumps efforts all summer to politicize and discredit the Russia investigation. The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a witch hunt and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Muellers investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 e******n, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.
Opinions on Muellers work also break down on partisan lines, with 61 percent of Republicans opposing the probe but an even larger 85 percent of Democrats expressing support. Among independents, however, a two-thirds majority of 67 percent back the investigation.
Trump has complained that Manafort was treated unfairly by Muellers prosecutors, and after a jury convicted Manafort earlier this month the president tweeted that he felt very badly for him.

But 67 percent of Americans think Muellers case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.
Trumps praise of Manafort has stirred speculation that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, but the poll finds that it would be a political land mine for the president. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump pardoning Manafort 53 percent strongly oppose it and 18 percent support a pardon.
Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.
But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.

Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trumps criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.

Two-thirds of Americans say they had read or heard at least some of the news about Cohens guilty plea to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, though less than a quarter heard a great deal about the news.
Cohen told a federal judge last week that before the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump directed him to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public.
[Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women in coordination with Trump to influence 2016 e******n]
The poll finds that 61 percent of Americans think that Trump committed a crime if he did direct Cohen to make the payments, while 31 percent say he did not commit a crime.

Democrats are hoping to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in Novembers e******ns. If they do, party leaders will face pressure from their energized base to use congressional oversight committees to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his administration, as well as perhaps begin impeachment proceedings.
The survey finds a clear partisan divide on the issue. While 75 percent of Democrats say Congress should begin impeachment hearings, 82 percent of Republicans say lawmakers should not. Among independents, 49 percent support impeachment while 46 percent oppose it.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on conventional and cellphones; the margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions

L*****ts love their polls, no question about that. I'm willing to bet that most conservatives are like me when it comes to polls. We don't "do" them. The government has enough information about me that I haven't been able to restrict their access to. I know the importance of getting conservatives out to v**e - we cannot be complacent. Considering what happened on 11/06/2016, I just scratch my head when you guys tout these polls and thump your chests.

The only thing that's going to matter is that evidence when it comes out is going to satisfy a larger number of republicans than the 30% dies hards will believe until it comes out.

A difficulty is that the right has already beat up a lot of what we know about Trump obstructing justice, and the right doesn't see it that way even though a hundred acts are doing exactly that.

The right and Trump seems to think a defense of, "it was said in the open, so it can't be obstruction" flies legally. Try looking at an act of discussing stopping the investigation that was done in secrecy, it would be automatically seen as a crime. Just because it's tweeted, or Giuliani admits something does not change it from being obstruction. Trump is openly sealing a case for obstruction when he openly tweets about wanting Sessions "to protect him", that is not his job. It's not white house counsel's job to facilitate the things Trump wants to do, it's their job to tell him what he cannot do as much as what he can, and he objects to that. He says he wants can do people not you can't do that people.

Fit2BTied sure did hit a home run

Next BB will be posting his usual laughing memes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-60-percent-disapprove-of-trump-while-clear-majorities-back-mueller-and-sessions/2018/08/30/4cd32174-ac7c-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.a220634d7f95&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

August 31 at 7:00 AM
President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
At the dawn of the fall campaign sprint to the midterm e******ns, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of Congress, the poll finds a majority of the public has turned against Trump and is on guard against his efforts to influence the Justice Department and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s wide-ranging probe.
Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings that could lead to Trump being removed from office, while 46 percent say Congress should not.
[Read full poll results | How the poll was conducted]
And a narrow majority — 53 percent — say they think Trump has tried to interfere with Mueller’s investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice; 35 percent say they do not think the president has tried to interfere.




What's next for Trump after the Manafort and Cohen convictions

After Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen's convictions, The Post's Carol D. Leonnig unpacks the fallout and path forward for President Trump and the Russia probe. (Jenny Starrs /The Washington Post)
Overall, 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, with 36 percent approving, according to the poll. This is only a slight shift from the last Post-ABC survey, in April, which measured Trump’s rating at 56 percent disapproval and 40 percent approval.
The new poll was conducted Aug. 26 to 29, in the week after former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was convicted of federal tax and bank fraud and after former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty and implicated the president in illegal payments to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump.

The four-month gap between Post-ABC polls makes it difficult to attribute the modest uptick in disapproval of Trump to specific events. Other public polls have shown Trump’s disapproval rating in the low- to mid-50s and have not tracked a rise since the Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea.
Trump has tried to rally support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 e******ns by pointing to his economic record. This week’s poll finds that despite the president’s unpopularity with v**ers, he gets better ratings when it comes to the economy: 45 percent of Americans approve and 47 percent disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy.
[Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring]

Trump’s overall popularity breaks down along lines of partisanship, ethnicity and g****r, according to the poll. While 78 percent of Republicans approve of his performance, 93 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of independents disapprove. More men support him than women, and while 45 percent of w****s back him, 19 percent of nonw****s approve.

The poll finds that there are clear limitations to Trump’s efforts all summer to politicize and discredit the Russia investigation. The president has fired a near-daily barrage of tweets labeling the probe a “witch hunt” and attacking the credibility of Mueller and several current and former Justice Department officials.
But 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 e******n, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe.
Opinions on Mueller’s work also break down on partisan lines, with 61 percent of Republicans opposing the probe but an even larger 85 percent of Democrats expressing support. Among independents, however, a two-thirds majority of 67 percent back the investigation.
Trump has complained that Manafort was treated unfairly by Mueller’s prosecutors, and after a jury convicted Manafort earlier this month the president tweeted that he felt “very badly” for him.

But 67 percent of Americans think Mueller’s case against Manafort was justified, while 17 percent say it was unjustified, according to the poll.
Trump’s praise of Manafort has stirred speculation that he might pardon his former campaign chairman, but the poll finds that it would be a political land mine for the president. Two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump pardoning Manafort — 53 percent strongly oppose it — and 18 percent support a pardon.
Trump has ratcheted up his public attacks on Sessions in recent weeks and has consulted his personal attorneys and other advisers about firing the attorney general, whom he has viewed as insufficiently loyal after Sessions recused himself last year from overseeing the Russia investigation because of a conflict of interest.
But the public is squarely behind Sessions. Sixty-four percent of Americans do not think Trump should fire Sessions, with 19 percent saying he should and 17 percent saying they have no opinion. Nearly half of Republicans, 47 percent, say Trump should not fire the attorney general, with 31 percent saying he should.

Just under a quarter of Americans, 23 percent, say they agree with Trump’s criticisms of Sessions for allowing the Mueller investigation to proceed, while 62 percent say they side with Sessions, who has said he is following the law.

Two-thirds of Americans say they had read or heard at least some of the news about Cohen’s guilty plea to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, though less than a quarter heard “a great deal” about the news.
Cohen told a federal judge last week that before the 2016 campaign, then-candidate Trump directed him to pay off two women to keep their stories of alleged affairs with Trump from becoming public.
[Michael Cohen says he worked to silence two women ‘in coordination’ with Trump to influence 2016 e******n]
The poll finds that 61 percent of Americans think that Trump committed a crime if he did direct Cohen to make the payments, while 31 percent say he did not commit a crime.

Democrats are hoping to retake control of one or both houses of Congress in November’s e******ns. If they do, party leaders will face pressure from their energized base to use congressional oversight committees to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his administration, as well as perhaps begin impeachment proceedings.
The survey finds a clear partisan divide on the issue. While 75 percent of Democrats say Congress should begin impeachment hearings, 82 percent of Republicans say lawmakers should not. Among independents, 49 percent support impeachment while 46 percent oppose it.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted among a random national sample of 1,003 adults reached on conventional and cellphones; the margin of sampling error for overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions