Washington (CNN) Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that he doesn't think President Donald Trump should grant a pardon to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, calling such a move "a mistake."

"It would be a mistake," Rubio, R-Florida, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," when asked about the possibility. "And I would strongly counsel against it. I don't think that -- in my view, the presidential pardon power was not created for these sorts of purposes."

"I just think it would be the wrong thing to do," he said. "And I think it would be a huge political mistake as well. So, I hope that doesn't happen. And that would be my position on it."

A potential pardon for Manafort has become the subject of much attention after special counsel Robert Mueller said Friday in a heavily redacted document that Manafort lied about five major issues, including his "contact with administration officials," after agreeing to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

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