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more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. lets start with cnns jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. >> reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restri...

Front of someone or saying why dont you think about your testimony? those are all forms of witness intimidation and coercion, and i think the justice department could easily get there on some of the things that have been publicly reported. >> good to see you, elliott. thank you so much. coming up, the supreme courts historic term ends with a big blow to the epas power to tackle climate crisis. a former head of the epa joins us next to react. make your home totally you. i did with wayfair. some...

And the house intelligence committee. as if that wasnt enough potential peril on the pardon front, trump also just today appeared to leave the door ajar to guess what, a pardon for paul manafort. >> i feel very badly for paul manafort. i think its been a very very tough time for him, but if you notice, both his lawyer, a highly respected man, and a very highly respected judge, the judge said there was no collusion with russia. this had nothing to do with collusion. there was no collusion. its a ...

Ready for re-election as opposed actively cooperating against trump, its also a brand-new to kind of what the way its initiative that trump had a being portray ed is shine got fired and the job on the explicit conversation about a campaign is face-saving gesture? pardon when cohen was still lying on trumps behalf. >> because the campaign has come to be the place everybody goes we have been hearing for months to dump the bodies. about trumps witnesses and when you get fired from the white house, ...

Dont take much stock in them and it doesnt persuade me at all. angelina jolie when she talked about the plight of children and refugees, that was effective. >> greg: yes. >> dana: and so if you have a platform and want to do good, that is to be admired and i would say on the pardon front. it was not the pardon i was expecting today. we talked about matthew charles who is actually back in jail, it was a government error and i hear is kicked around that his sentence would be commuted and a pardon ...

Subject has never come up. >> the president said on camera that it was an open question. gloria, it is a legal question and a political question. the real question is, does he feel he could get away with firing him politically? >> it depends on the pardon front. it depends when you pardon someone. most presidents pardon people the day they leave office and they pardon the most controversial people the day they leave office when they dont really care anymore. i think the big question here is, if ...