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Pardon. even george bush refused to pardon him. he was vice president dick cheneys staff and accused of lying to investigators, all this in a special counsel investigation into who leaked the identity of valerie plame. she was an undercover cia officer. her identity was exposed in 2003 and she is "outfront" now. its wonderful to see you again. why do you think trump is pardoning libby right now? >> timing is everything, isnt it? thanks for having me on. look, donald trump is doing what president...

Merits. pardoning libby was the right thing to do. >> bret: tom? >> yeah, i think its quite clear that this is about manafort. its about cohen potentially. its about the president saying im going to support you if you stand with me. but ultimately i think just going back to this broad environment of president vs. the judiciary, one interesting insulating factor here is director wray. i think as much as you do see a few comments at the white house, director wra staying off the radar thats going t...

And now he has accepted a pardon, which means he accepted, despite what people might say about judy millers recantation, hes accepted he was guilty of the crimes of which he was accused. now the problem with a pardon is, it is not just a pardon of "scooter" libby, the individual. it is a pardon of the entire neoconservative, divisive movement that drove this country to a false war in 2003 and which still has imbigs to drive this country to war in iran. and what he has done is he has given a plan...

At the time, covering this day in and day out, it was the dominant story of the moment and it had, as its backdrop, the war in iraq, which at first had a lot of support from the american people. and then that crumbled with the weight of not finding weapons of mass destruction and all the things that unfolded. what happened here that conservatives -- and it has been really hard-line conservatives who have carried the libby cause over the years. their claim has been that the underlying crime of ou...

George w. bush. in a statement the white house said mr. libby presented credible evidence in support of his innocence. the statement included a comment from the president as well. i dont know mr. libby but for years i have heard that he has been treated unfairly. hopefully this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life. why is this unbelievable? because of the message it sends and it is also subtle. it is okay to lie to the fbi, it is okay to obstruct justice. if you do, i wil...

He would contend that he was not, that cheney himself had not leaked the name. and so its a more discrete set of facts that theyre dealing with here in the midst of an enormous political storm. thats so similar to what were in right now. >> good point. and it is important to remember that this was an obstruction of justice case, not a conclusively a case of libby leaking plames identity, but part of the leak investigation that he got caught up in. legally speaking, whats your take on this whole ...

Servant for a long time. once her name was made public, she could no longer serve in that capacity at the central intelligence agency in an undercover position. so they paid an enormous personal price for being thrust into a national news story. at the same time, today the libby family is also thanking the president for this pardon. as ambassador wilson pointed out and the law may provide that a pardon does admit guilt, they are certainly not doing that. libby says that he and his family are imm...

You want to betray your country, thats fine, because trump will pardon you if it suits his venal political interests. he is a vile and despicable individual who is undermining the democracy of our country and whose administration is a rank repudiation of everything that my generation, since the end of the second world war, has tried to put into place to ensure global stability. he is a menace to society and by bringing the neoconservatives back into his administration, he is an appeaser to those...

Sending. >> well, if the president wanted to remove the appearance of message sending, he could have done this the day he walked in to the oval office. he could do it on his day walking out. or at some time when it is not the obvious question that is next asked. the president has that power. we saw that he didnt follow the department of justice process with the joe arpaio pardon, as well, although libbys lawyers say they have been going through the mechanism in the department of justice to file ...

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