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very good day to all of you. im alex witt in new york. here are the top stories in the final days of 2022. we have breaking news from law enforcement officials. a person in pennsylvania has been taken into custody in connection to the gruesome murders of four idaho college students back in november. this is huge news. we will get to that. former president trumps federal tax returns made public with redactions by house democrats days before losing their majority. we will have the late...

But it makes it certainly far less likely that he had no idea whats happening here and michael cohen was acting you know l-- unilaterally. >> president trump just commuted the sentence of a whom whose case was argued in the oval office by kim kardashian. now were told hes considering dozens of new pardons. were joined by senior white house correspondent pamela brown. the president is on a clemency spree. >> reporter: thats right. typically presidents wait until the end of their term to grant par...

Muellers investigators? >> you know, the president has this near absolute power to grant pardons. so he can do that. but weve seen in other aspects of this investigation that you can do something thats legal, you can for instance be rod blagojevich and select a new senator. but if you do it in exchange for a bribe, it becomes a crime. were seeing a little bit of that here, too. you can go ahead and grant pardons, but if youre doing it to obstruct an investigation, then it can become evidence in ...

Does it get to the oval office? ive been saying for, gosh, a year now that the problem for the trump white house is that the investigation is getting wider and closer rather than narrower and further away, right? and thats not just mueller. this is grand juries. this is, you know, judges approving warrants. and thats the problem theyve been living with for a year if not longer and will continue until trump decides to take action against mueller or grant pardons or we actually are at the moment, ...

Approvi approvi approving warrants. and thats the problem theyve been living with for a year if not longer and will continue if trump decides to take action against mueller or grant pardons or we actually are at the moment, you know, we are getting to, which is this investigation is getting as i said wider and closer. >> thank you, both. i appreciate your time. when we come back a conservative leaning broadcasting company which owns some 200 local news stations is forcing its anchors to read a s...

Are there were reports the president asked the director of national intelligence, dan coates, he them it was about the russians. he criticized jeff sessions for his part in the russian investigate. he discussed with it his lawyers, his power the grant pardons and his legal team combing through, looking for conflicts of interest. im sorry. it looks like he doesnt want to us get to the truth about his contacts with the russians. the old money trail, follow money, the woodward bernstein thing. he w...

This office and is and how the clarence aarons case came to be under your review. >> i think everybody knows, under the constitution, the president has the opportunity to grant pardons and commutations for offenses against the united states. as a practical matter, given the large number of cases that get filed and the small size of the presidents staff, he has to farm that out to somebody else to do investigative leg work. the president doesnt have the resources or time to do that part himself, ...

Administration to grant clemency, grant pardons -- what do you make of this part of the presidents goals? >> it will go into the books for a lot of people as another example of him ignoring the norms of presidential behavior. there is a process i which pardons are supposed to be gathered and processed and examined and recommendations made to the president. the president has to be sure sweeping authority to grant pardons. the purpose of all of those processes is to make it easy for him and to pro...

Correspondent kristen welker. kristen to you, pardoning himself. s no pcedent fthat are they still claiming he has these unlimited, extraordinary powers? >> reporter: overnight the presidents attorney, rudy giuliani, reiterated he believes the president does have the power to pardon himself although rudy giuliani stressed the president has no plans to do it bauds it would amouno political suicide. the reason hes making that argument because the constitution doesnt say he doesnt have the power. i...