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You are forgiving a contempt of court which cannot enforce judicial proceedings if it cant hold a witness in contempt or a defendant in contempt. and it was for violating civil rights. its bad in and of itself. but i heard it definitely as a message, hang tight, dont worry. you may lose the fifth amendment privilege because ill pardon your original crime. but ill also pardon you if you refuse to testify. i think it was a very bad thing. i think it is a very good thing that the state attorney gen...

Give the president this authority, which is the same authority that the king had. they talked about the use of a pardon authority by a president to conceal his own crimes but all of that came up, but they decided it was necessary to bring an element of mercy, humanity to the criminal system. they were assuming the president would be the last possible resource for people who were either unfairly sentenced or in a few cases, even unfairly convicted. in the case of arpaio, he was neither. he was co...

To how to go about this. and i think will made an important point in his piece, this is not only to contempt in the u.s., its to contempt in north korea to meet all international standards of their behavior. this is an international problem, and i think the u.s. is correct to show the car rrot an the stick. >> isnt there a difference to saying all options are on the table and then to saying fire and fury locked and loaded and really leaning into the rhetoric? >> fire, fury and dialogue. so i thi...

Chris christie. i want to talk about friday night as the storm was bearing down. the president he pardoned sheriff joe arpaio. a lot of people were very critical of that. particularly those who worked in the rule of law who know how hard it is to get a criminal conviction of contempt. did the president make the right call? >> i talked to the president about this. i said if you feel really strongly about it personally, it is your call. >> in the end, listen. i think that the pardon power should b...

>> no country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in japan. >> president trump responded quickly saying north korea had shown "contempt for its neighbors." and that "all options are on the table to deal with the isolated regime." south korea responded by releasing video of their own. they conducted bombing drills, a rehearsal for taking out the rogue states artillery. the japanese military participated in a drill of its own ballistic missile system. despite previo...

Down. the president he pardoned sheriff joe arpaio. a lot of people were very critical of that. particularly those who worked in the rule of law who know how hard it is to get a criminal conviction of contempt. did the president make the right call? >> i talked to the president about this. i said if you feel really strongly about it personally, it is your call. >> in the end, listen. i think that the pardon power should be used very, very sparingly. a lot of people have changed their lives. i th...

Okay, in fact shes a hero. >> and he commuted her. >> right. the presidents reckoning was she served enough looking in other cases in similar nature and context. this is enough time so -- >> but what president trump is saying here isnt, hes done enough time, its, he dont nothing wrong. violating two federal orders, two judges found him in contempt, doesnt find anything wrong with that hes a hero do you like that message rick? >> i dont like that message. i think theres certainly a lot of evidenc...

Prohibited targeting people because of race or ethnicity, specifically prohibited that. but president obama made the statement that you could be a hispanic mother and presumably be going out for ice cream, be pulled over, stopped, and have them demand your papers. >> do you like that? >> i dont like it at all but the language in sb-1070 prohibited that there be anyone targeted because of race or ethnicity for that specific purpose. as long as it is part of a list of other things, profiling is ne...

Said "this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all member of the united nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior." threatening to stabilizing actions only increase the north koreans isolation in the area and all nations of the world. in the president adding this. all options are on the table. this morning, secretary of state rex tillerson said that the white house and like with the state department would have more to say about this later on toda...

A different judge. two different judges found him in contempt for his treatment of undocumented immigrants. president trump calls the sheriff an american hero. >> sheriff joe is a patriot. sheriff joe loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders, and sheriff joe was very unfairly treated by the obama administration especially right before an election, an election that he would have won, and he was elected many times. so i stand by my partner, sheriff joe, and i think the people of arizon...