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Pardoned, trump asked, according to that advisor. he said, some people think i should pardon them. he thought if he could do it, these people would never have to testify or be deposed. ultimately, he decided against issuing pardons. but now he keeps floating the idea again and again, if he gets back into office. >> if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons. because they are being trea...

Was considering blanket pardons for january 6th riots rioters. according to politico, between january six and joe bidens inauguration, trump made calls to discuss the idea. do you think i should pardon them? you think its a good idea? do you think i have the power to do it? that is according to the source. another adviser told politico about how participants in the right might be charged criminally and how a uniform pardon might be -- is it everybody that had a trump sign or everybody who walked...

>> first, lets get to the the essential argument here. i heard this from a lot of service members as well in the wake of this story over the weekend. you have done your service on the ground. you say in this op-ed and im quoting here, soldiers take most serious ly the things their leadership makes most serious. by issuing pardons, is the president making it less serious when u.s. soldiers break the law, break u.s. military law and kill civilians. >> soldiers do what the leadership tells them or ...

Special prosecutor investigation of his administration. richard nixon discussed the possibility of pardoning his white house chief of staff bob alderman who ended up doing 18 months in federal prison, and carl bernsteins book on nixons final days captured the whispered backstage drama about the possibility of pardons at the white house. a subject richard nixon would not dare discuss publicly. the presidents senior advisers including his new chief of staff alexander hague and the lawyer with the ...

Richard nixon thought about issuing pardons to obstruct the special prosecutor investigation of his administration. richard nixon discussed the possibility of pardoning his white house chief of staff bob alderman who ended up doing 18 months in federal prison, and carl bernsteins book on nixons final days captured the whispered backstage drama about the possibility of pardons at the white house. a subject richard nixon would not dare discuss publicly. the presidents senior advisers including his...

Issuing pardons to other people before and all sorts of other things. that clip you just showed suggested i may do this, i may do that. what that does is it heightens the rhetoric and it heightens the divisiveness. i think as one of your prior guests said, the congresswoman, the moment he tried to issue such an executive order, which in some ways i would welcome, which may sound odd, because it would immediately be a huge constitutional fight and i think donald trump would be handed a resounding...

The president tweeted saying he has the absolute right to pardon himself. his willingness to ignore justice department guidelines on issuing pardons has democrats worried hell use it to help allies caught up in the investigation into russian meddling in the election in 2017. >> unfortunately the president has perverted the pardon process. now it seems like hes pardoning people based on their celebrity status or because a celebrity talked to him. >> reporter: as he did when he pardoned joe arpiao...

Announced a major breakthrough in the renegotiation of the korea/u.s. free trade agreement. that sounds arcane, but that means we have resolved a big point of disagreement with our key allies. >> things seem to be moving in a positive direction. >> they could be. i dont think we really know, wolf. weve seen the north korean abuse negotiations before. i think the pressure campaign has been very successful. what we need to see next is how this meeting between the north korean and the south koreans...

An article posted on politico today looks at a strategy behind this and says, "the purpose of the onslaught, according to people close to the white house, isnt to encourage the president to oust the special counsel, rather, these people said, the goal is to sow public doubt about mueller and his prosecutors in advance of upcoming criminal trials and give the president police officer cover if he wants to start issuing pardons." a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll gives indication of how mem...

Lawyers sometime this week. donald trump has said hes not going to fire mueller, but theres a smear campaign under way against mueller. its happening largely on the right, friendly media. an article posted on politico today looks at a strategy behind this and says, "the purpose of the onslaught, according to people close to the white house, isnt to encourage the president to oust the special counsel, rather, these people said, the goal is to sow public doubt about mueller and his prosecutors in ...