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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations.

76 days from today, you have a massive opportunity to protect your vote in 2016, preserve that vote, repair the system of justice, make this country a better place for every american. theres a lot riding on this midterm. they want to undo the agenda you voted for. they want to stop the progress we have obviously made that theo will never talk about in the media. before we wrap up our monologue tonight, lets turn to thishe horrific, sad story out of iowa. 20-year-old college student mollie tibbet...

76 days from today you have a massive opportunity to protect your vote in 2016, preserve that vote, repair the system of justice, make this country a better place for every american. theres a lot riding on this midterm. they want to undo the agenda you voted for. they want to stop the progress we have obviously made that they will never talk about in the media. before we wrap up our monologue tonight, lets turn to this horrific sad story out of iowa. 20-year-old college student mollie tibbetts s...

I dont think any president has ever done what ive done. >> so jeremy, youre out there talking to a lot of republicans. after all the events of this week, youre sensing that some of them are finally beginning to be very worried about this white house. >> yeah, i would say thats a little bit of grade inflation there, andrea, a-plus is certainly not what i think most republicans would give him, even. what they say publicly is one thing, and as i said, publicly theyre fearful of breaking with him. p...

>> he did. >> so that happened. peter, what are we to make of that? >> well, you know, it would be explosive thing for him to do. you know, every president who has waded into, you know, the investigations of people around him with a pardon ends up paying a political price. they usually do it after their last election when theyre on the way out of office. thats when george h.w. bush pardoned casper and bill clinton pardoned rich and others. for president trump to do it in the middle of the first ...

That? >> well, you know, it would be explosive thing for him to do. you know, every president who has waded into, you know, the investigations of people around him with a pardon ends up paying a political price. they usually do it after their last election when theyre on the way out of office. thats when george h.w. bush pardoned casper and bill clinton pardoned rich and others. for president trump to do it in the middle of the first term and the middle of the midterm election season. to pardon ...

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The election, democrats said, we are all going to be against it, its totally safe. thats the question here. if you have a 40 seat democratic gain, do republicans have a different attitude after the election? >> lets talk about nixon. i have heard you in the past say that the only reason that republicans started to break with nixon during that whole impeachment, not quite impeachment, but that saga, and the tapes and whatnot, watergate, was when there was a special election that they lost? >> the...

>> well, you know, it would be explosive thing for him to do. you know, every president who has waded into, you know, the investigations of people around him with a pardon ends up paying a political price. they usually do it after their last election when theyre on the way out of office. thats when george h.w. bush pardoned casper weinberger and bill clinton pardoned mark rich and others on the way out the door. for president trump to do it in the middle of the first term and the middle of the m...

>> listen, a bad bet is what democrats and people who just hate the president like rick have done which is spent a year and a half now telling the american people russian collusion, russian collusion, russian collusion. thats what this is all about. putin, they colluded with the russians to win. that has been the democratic party message heading into the midterm. its what wall to wall media coverage is. so then when something like this happens, a lot of the public goes well this isnt russian col...