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Transgender policy, divide us with a pardon of arpaio, divide us by suggesting that white supremacists and neo-nazis are equivalent to those who would protest them. at every step of the way he is affirmatively, it seems, going out of his way to appeal to the prejudices of the american people and try to divide us. that is not the kind of qualities we look for in a commander in chief. and i think it really is tearing at the fabric of the country. >> your colleague, senator schumer, the leader of t...

Interesting is, a pardon can even come before someone is charged with a crime. for example, president ford pardoned president nixon before he was charged with a crime outside of the impeachment context. and so theres really no limit on the presidents power to pardon. he could pardon proactively, even before charges come against manafort or michael flynn. and so in that way, i worry that robert mule eller and his team could lose the leverage they would ordinarily have in such a case. >> barbara, ...

Prior to this use of the power. youre saying the very recklessness, the very flouting of the law, the fact that this all was done by president trump tonight during this hurricane, as people deal with that, and doing it before even the criminal justice process played out with arpaio, he was facing perhaps up to six months but hadnt been sentenced yet, youre saying that very flouting could be deliberate, to send this message to others who are going to be dealing potentially with bob muellers crimi...

President did not honor the process. joining me, arizona congressman rubin gallego. any normal time on night like this would probably be discussing the hurricane and disaster preparation. weve been covering it throughout the day and will cover it more. but all of these developments require us to discuss the arpaio pardon. your view of the pardon and whether in any way you think it was more than inappropriate but somehow an abuse. >> to begin with, its cowardly. the president, you know, decided t...

Latino were being pulled over. veterans, mothers, business owners, were being pulled over randomly and asked for their citizenship. some of them actually held in jail until they could prove they were citizens. thats actually what ended up creating the situation that got him into the process that he is right now. he actually signed a doj agreement saying he would no longer racially profile because he ended up arresting an american citizen and held in jail for a couple of days without any proof of...

Issues. do we have any indication that the process was followed? weve been hearing all week, and rachels reported on this, the idea that general john kelly is instituting order and affecting what paperwork goes into the white house. based on what we know, does it look like this went through the formal pardon review in your experience or not? >> no, theres no indication of that at all. he doesnt mention for example in his statement that he had a recommendation from the department of justice. one ...

Only one of them can be. >> i appreciate the logical line youre drawing. why do you think this president, who got famous pretending to fire people on a reality show, has such a difficult time closing the deal if he did it anything like his famous catch phrase in any public setting or had a clear and orderly process, there wouldnt be these constant recriminations, every friday night they force someone out. >> thats just trumps style. its a cliche almost at this point to note that the president do...

Thats not what he was convicted for. its for racially profiling americans. and at the end of the day, why is the president doing this? the president doesnt care about anybody. this president cares less about sheriff joe like any other citizen. it has nothing to do with that. at the end of the day hes just trying to set up, again, and erode the idea of the rule of law so he can end up pardoning other people. he didnt go through the normal doj process for pardoning. he didnt get the recommendation...

Process. tonight, donald trump very explicitly used the onset of what were told could be the most dangerous u.s.-bound hurricane in over 12 years to unveil a pardon of sheriff joe arpaio that very clearly flouts that criminal justice process. and it sends a message, quite frankly, to sheriffs and law enforcement officials who may be found violating the law by judges, donald trump has your back if your violations involve cracking down on immigrants in this country. so legally, there are two thing...