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take this country backward. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. >> biden slammed what he called trumps threat to democracy, the former president publicly dangled pardons for the rioters who violently stormed the capitol on january 6th, attacking police officers, and threatening the lives of lawmakers at the capitol of both parties. this as two former trump white house lawyers are expe...

George, thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with this pardon dangle. the former president didnt just call for people to take to the streets if these court cases go against him, but he also seemed to suggest he would, if elected, pardon the people behind the insurrection. listen. >> 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 becaus...

If they are going down this rabbit hole, they can go down there. i want to make sure theres not undue influence put on the intelligence community or any effort to disclose sources and methods because peoples lives have been at stake. >> mike flynn. there seem to be a very overt tweet from the president today about mike flynns new lawyer. he fired his attorney. great lawyer from the president. is this a pardon dangle? >> i dont have the foggiest idea. >> are you worried about it? >> it worried y ...

Pardon? >> and thats the big question. let me ask our legal analysts how they interpret it. jennifer, friends in high places? does this sound like a pardon dangle to you or just somebody trying to keep the relationship strong or even repairing a relationship that may not be as strong? >> well, you know, its hard to tell, obviously, its very vague. but here is a time when the feds have gone in and seized, pursuant to court order, a bunch of materials. a lot of that communications between trump an...

Separated from in the summer of 2018, but if he remained on the presidents team, he would have nothing worry about. >> all right, thank you for the reporting, gloria. lets break it down with our legal analysts. asha and nicole are back with us now. asha, friends in high places, sleep well tonight. you have friends in high places. how do you interpret that? pardon dangle or just trying to make sure the relationship stayed strong? >> it sounds more than simply keeping the relationship strong, but ...

About these pardons, and whether or not pardons can eventually be viewed in the context of obstruction of justice, the pardon dangle, whatever it is, how do legal experts view that? >> iter opens up a really thorn question. can prosecutors, members of the executive orbranch, investigate the president for exercising ai constitutional ngauthority? thats not really clear. its pretty clear congress can certainly look at it, and my reporting says congress is very interested in the question of whether...

Research showed that we really had no option, that the pardon, as the professor just said, it is a very unlimited and powerful piece of power that he has to pardon. it cannot be undone. but it doesnt apply to the state. >> professor, so, theres a sort of interesting constitutional question here, because of the power of the pardon, right? which is, in the text of the constitution, essentially unconstrained, as far as i can tell, and yet, it does seem intuitively that if you were to say, hey, crim...

Does a pardon dangle, if such exists, have? >> well, this is a question thats come up a great deal over the course of the mueller investigation and the issue is not whether or not the president has the power to pardon whom ever he wishes. i think its clear that he does. but he doesnt have the power to violate other laws, including those that prohibit obstruction of justice. for example were showing that president was offering a pardon or extending a pardon for the purpose of obstructing justice ...

Loyalty from comey, asking comey to drop the flynn case, firing comey, dictating a false statement for a key witness, his son, now this pardon dangle. any one of these by themselves you might say, oh, it could go either way, but now theres almost two years of it, and i think it is taken together, it is very substantial evidence of what you look for in obstruction, interference with an investigation with corrupt intent, with some improper purpose. so, well leave it to bob mueller to say in the fi...

Hes working with his boss. that may turn out to be fascinating because he was in the june meeting with the russian and with don junior, and thats so critical were all interested in. its hard to believe after you read these memos, which i invite your viewers to read, theyre all online, that he isnt the type of guy that would tell his boss, look, look, im going to bring in these memos or look, look, i know about these memos. what were looking for is to find out whether trump knew that meeting was ...