Pardons Nixon News Today

eastern time. the committee saying tomorrows hearings will focus on former president trump pressuring state officials to overturn election results and pushing to advance phony slates of electors. a lot to discuss with doug jones, charlie dent, a former republican congressman, and political analyst, the national politics reporter at "the washington post." also the co-author of the book "his name is george floyd." so happy to have all of you on. why dont i start with you. good evening to...

There are people who say, look, you have got the evidence on him. why do you treat the president any differently? but we do have a precedent here, which is nixon and ford. ford pardons nixon, himself try basically vindicates it. hes unrepented. he continues to inflame the voters. he continues to have the same toxic effect on our politics, and thats one of the reasons we should be going ahead. but there is no avoiding that whole set of concerns that goldschmidt summarizes as what is in the nation...

The end of the day probably in consultation with the white house which might itself say, no, you do it, merrick. but, again, the political considerations are strong enough that i think you have to involve the -- you know, the absolute accountable figure. that being the president of the united states. >> okay. so you said the political. but, i mean, what other president -- the last president who did something like this and not even, you know, i think this is worse was nixon, right? >> and nixon a...