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Take the enormous criticism that president clinton got over the last-minute pardon to mark rich who had fled the country for financial crimes whose wife was a major democratic fundraiser who had given tremendous amounts of money to the clinton efforts and in the closing moments of his time in office he granted a pardon. there was no support in the justice department or in the prosecutorial community. the president would have the same problem with blagojevich who was sent to prison for requesting...

The far right. oprah once gifted pontiacs to suburban moms. >> were one step closer to becoming a third-world power as of today. tariffs and pardons. these are b things we see from banana republic. >> president not only announced hes pardoning a darling of the far right, hes considering leniency for two stars of his former tv show making this white houseme once again seem detached from reality. >> hannity: mark rich, faln, clinton, drug dealers, obama. ok, we dont need lectures from these people...

At the beginning, well then maybe that pardon power is not so absolute. >> right, i mean i think in both of those cases you mentioned, joe, i think the question is, is not that we dont know, right? there are, as with so many things in donald trump were in the realm of the unknown. weve made this point before -- its the case that theres no one has ever tested the question of whether or not a sitting president can be indicted. theres decades of policy that doj puts forward. but no one has ever tak...

Billions. whether you are preybarra or fitzgerald, they are political by nature. they prosecute the high-profile crimes. >> you think they are innocent? >> i dont know. they hunt scouts for a reason. >> the jury or the judge makes the decision. >> we saw what happened in the senator menendez case. high profile. the department of justice goes after him for a long time. hung jury. super complex crimes. president obama pardoned chelsea manning, not so controversial. he had 212 pardons. president cl...

Those charges in particular, its a subtle move but not necessarily -- i dont know thats actually what hes doing, but if thats part of it, its a calculation that makes a lot of sense. but look, also, as were talking about the trump process versus the regular process, why would this be the one thing where trump and the doj are in lockstep. this is not exactly a relationship thats healthy right now. to have this all of a sudden be the one place where theyre holding hands and working in tandem in a ...

Almost anyone, former legal adviser to trump, attorney to scooter libby who was among those pardoned by this president. victoria, great to have you back. this is the crucial question. is president donald trump sending a message with these pardons to people like manafort, flynn, cohen? >> if their lawyers dont know that the president has pardon power, they better get into another line of business, for goodness sakes. the president has pardon power, we know that. its unfettered. and what is this t...

>> if you had to do a scouting report on a chief executive, how would you compare him -- put these two men side to side. the new president well watch for 100 days now, and the president we had for eight years? >> youre talking about opposites. i mean, bill clinton was very comfortable, very everything. but, look, a lot of people were extremely upset with him, and especially the way he got out. i like him very much. but i know of mark rich. ive been studying mark rich for years. to give him a par...

Most of the people, im sure to all of your viewers, the fact is she really does -- she is totally in love with this man. but boy, she has had a tough time of it there is no question about it. >> do you they that pardon for mark rich, which you think wasnt a good idea, do you think that hurt her in new york? >> i think it hurt her. i think it really hurt him. people that were really backing him and willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, just said at the end, look, weve just had it. it was ...

But he really has stepped up to the plate, and i think he is becoming very presidential and doing a very good job. >> if you had to do a scouting report on a chief executive, how would you compare him -- put these two men side to side. the new president well watch for 100 days now, and the president we had for eight years? >> youre talking about opposites. bill clinton was very comfortable, very everything. but, look, a lot of people were extremely upset with him, and especially the way he got o...

Pardons to hundreds of nonviolent drug offenders. presidents get in trouble when they go outside that process. bill clinton went outside that process to pardon mark rich. president trump, the pardon of scooter libby, joe arpaio, was not in that process. its problematic, its politically troubling, but as a matter of presidential power, theres no doubt that the president has the authority to do it. >> im so glad jeffreys finally, finally learning that the president really does have these enormous ...