Page 3 - Pardon Process News Today

The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Associate independent counsel for the Watergate Investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a Watchdog Organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former Virginia Attorney general. Ill start with you. The president in his own words admits to making the payment. Your reaction . Kim or ken . Kim, go ahead. Ken, well go to you n...

When heartburn hits. Fight back fast with tums smoothies. It starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. And neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum. You can do it. Smoothies. Only from tums we can do this. At fidelity, our online Planning Tools are clear and straightforward so you can plan for retirement while saving for the things you want to do today. Whoo all right. Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. Im jim sciutto. Many president s have been ...

Number one, youre talking about minimum jail time to any of the rico charges, she already made that clear and she talked about it during the press conference. you also talk about the fact the pardon process in georgia is entirely different. so this is one of the types of cases that when youre talking about a rico case, you have more and more people involved. rudy giuliani is a former u.s. attorney. none of these people would have ever been in this sort of position before, so now youre talking ab...

This is a state case and wont involve federal charges. last hour when i was talking to election attorney ben ginsberg, he reminded us that state cases, if trump were to be re-elected, he would be unable to pardon himself. what else is significant about the types of charges the fulton county prosecutor is considering? >> a few things. not only would he not be able to pardon himself, but the pardon process in georgia means that governor kemp would not be able to pardon him either. theres a pardon ...

Prepare for trial on multiple fronts. also, this is an indictment that, you know, trump cannot easily do away with if he gets elected president. there is a pardon process in georgia that would not involve the president of the united states. it wouldnt even involve directly the governor of georgia. so there would be a pardon board that he would essentially go to. and the attorney general of the united states, who might be appointed by a future president trump, couldnt get rid of that investigatio...

>> so is this the best of a.i.? >> i mean, i was just before in the green room, i mean, i asked about what he thought about donald trump. he was forward in saying that criticizing bidens doj as well as saying he would offer trump a pardon. i then followed up and then asked his stance on ukraine and financial support for ukraine. once again hi averted telling me about a pardon process about donald trump. i asked about his stance on immigration, i went to the border but didnt mention daca once. no...

Conviction? im of the theory ive shared with you before, there is not a trial until after the republican primary is likely decided, which would be arguably march 19th coming out of florida. well have a good idea if its donald trump, ron desantis, or somebody else. if donald trump indeed has secured the nomination, that makes the question in front of the nation next summer going into the fall one of enormous gravity and of great consequence. do we elevate donald trump or not. >> you know, claire,...

Clear. if you have the authority to declassify, you are not acquitted to any bureaucratic process. >> could you tell by the way? >> it exactly like the -- >> hoodie? tell >> me finish the thought so your viewers understand where im going. if you have a pardon, it might be something where you go through the pardon attorney or the attorney general makes a recommendation. the bureaucratic process. that is not the constitutional part of it. you have the authority as president to do it. so if somebod...

You the authority as the president to do it. so if somebody walks in and says pardon jack johnson, he was treated horribly by racists, you can pardon him without the application process. same thing goes with declassification. you dont have to go through a process. >> im not disputing that. but like with the pardon process you would need to tell someone in the bureaucracy that youve done it. >> right. >> so who did he tell? >> we are not trying our case leak by leak. >> so let me ask you this. yo...

$2 million. is there any recording about that? >> theres not a recording about that though we know of. we expected it will be corroborated in other ways. >> how else could that be co are corroborated? >> the complaint alleges that somebody else was present during those discussions, and in part, we would like to talk to him about those conversations. >> did you catch the name? you remember parnas, his associate that participated in the pressure campaign in ukraine. also campaign finance charges n...