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Conviction hang iing over the heads of the people involved in the russia investigation? >> it would except i think by now, the president is aware that if he pardons these people, preempi preempively, they can then be forced to testify to test against him. who knows anything about his role in obstruction of justice or in working with the russians. they will no longer have a fifth ament and can be compelled to testify. then have them either refuse to testify, be held in contempt and do what he did...

Of our law enforcement are amazing. they do great work every single day. but its individuals like joe arpaio who get to flaunt their racism and give law enforcement a bad name. pank panties -- boxers are a perfect example of that. but even more importantly the law and order president pardoned someone today, don, who was in contempt of a civil rights violation, which was racial profiling. and i think david said it earlier, david said it best, theres a director correlation between what happened tw...

That sheriff arpaio is going to be just fine but kind of joking with the crowd saying he didnt want to make this announcement that night to sort of avoid controversy. well, now last night we got the official statement from the white house at 8:00 p.m. on this pardoning, this decision to pardon sheriff arpaio. we saw the president tweeting out about it a couple of hours later. in the white house statement they cite the sheriffs more than 50 years of admirable service to our nation. but this move ...

Administration, sally yates. with this pardon pen potus reveals his own contempt for our constitution, our courts and founding principles of equality and justice. this was the law and order candidate and the law and order president. this seems to maybe suggest a different definition of law and order. >> well, thats right. law and order is one set of principles. loyalty to trump and to trumps political base and his political ambitions is another set of principles. we can see in this case which on...

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Law enforcement and how donald trump loves law enforcement. donald trump in his tweets, said im pleased to inform you ive granted a pardon to joe arpaio. he kept arizona safe. a lot of critics of joe arpaio say that keeping things safe in law enforcement was actually a side hustle for him. most of what he did was round up immigrants. >> thats right. i mean, i think what this is a really troubling decision by the president to pardon, to use his first authority as the president to pardon someone w...

It technically gives them carte blanche to, you know, act in contempt of anything thats brought up. they could suddenly start stonewalling the investigation if they are under the belief that the president will bail them out. the president will sanction any illegal activity that the investigation may find. you know, the only salvation that may occur here is the presidential pardon doesnt necessarily protect them from crimes done at a state level, but for the most part, i think that the president ...

A suspended sentence or something very short. i questioned why the president felt he needed to pardon the sheriff when it wasnt clear if he would be going to jail for how long. >> and critics are saying just that. this undermines the judiciary and judges and federal rulings and the legislative system itself. usually they go through the department of justice system, this did not. let me read you what the arizona republic says today. a conservative news. paper. it did endorse hillary clinton. it w...

Very broad. using without even through his first full year yet, the fact hes using it on what is a contempt conviction. this is not someone thats been langsuishing in prison for years. he was not going to serve jail time and yet president trump took the time out to pardon him for something to the federal court was contempt. and you have the president nal signaling, hey, im going to use my pardon power. im going to take it out and see how people react to it. and if theres not enough push back on ...

He reduced the cal orric intake, he was running a experiment that a lot of people think is a experiment to run. this wasnt about law enforcement, it was about immigration mostly. >> it was about immigration and this idea that in some ways even though he might have -- not said it as clear, it was the fact he didnt have to treat people who werent american citizens or he viewed as somehow breaking immigration laws fairly. the courts found he was in contempt, he was not doing the right things. and t...