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Prosecutions are politically motivated and hes trying to use that as a way of sending a signal to people dont flip and frankly that this prosecution by robert mueller and by the justice department is somehow politically motivated. >> it is noteworthy the confluence of coincidences and perhaps not. weve been talking about blagojevich and martha stewart. rod blagojevich had a moment on "the apprentice" years ago. i know we lost, we did not win. but if you were looking at this like a baseball team,...

Which became a political controversy. he claimed in the campaign he was against the war, but he wasnt. cue howard stern. >> are you for invading iraq? >> yeah, i guess so. you know, i wish the first it was done correctly. >> the celebrity obsession is carrying over. there you have the president with kim kardashian wednesday. and as weve been reporting, hes also considering pardoning celebrity style figures like martha stewart or rod blagojevich who both appeared on th"the apprentice." stern says...

Eyebrows at the white house? well, donald trump unexpectedly announcing a full pardon this morning for dinesh dsouza, a conservative commentator who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations similar to the charges trumps former fixer michael cohen could be facing. he also hinted at more pardons to come for former stars of the apprentice, martha stewart and former illinois governor rob blagojevich blagojevich. its not hard to connect the dots between them and the russia investigation. martha ...

Primary, be on "the apprentice" or have the kind of twitter following that he notices, because hes doing this by tweet. this is not a joke. as for dinesh dsouza, he spoke about this today. heres his take. >> im very relieved to have my record clean. i mean, in a way, this fully restores my faith in america, my american dream. something thats hanging over you and you have the united states of america versus dinesh dsouza, and that is now gone. >> legally the case is over. he had confessed and adm...

Illinois governor rod blagojevich both of whom were connected to trumps reality show, the apprentice. back with me halle jackson, josh barrow. halle, i want to go to you first since you have been patiently waiting throughout this hour. >> anything for you. >> thank you for that i appreciate it. whats the thinking here? there are so many connections behind these pardons, whether its the prosecutors that have gone after these people. >> jamts comey, bethat rara. depend how you want to split it up....

Are you going to cancel "the apprentice"? whats going to happen? and multiply that by all the people who are at the network. i do think that for abc, we had a couple of things in play here. we had the fact that abcs owned by disney, and disney has a very definite family-friendly, inclusive brand that bob iger has defended quite often. and there was a sense that this kind of statement violated that. and certainly they may have felt some pressure to deal with that. there was also a sense that boyc...

When you have so much television programing to find something that stands out. and, you know, abc did. >> and eric, you have been to so many television critics association gatherings in los angeles where, as you know, you get to speak to the casts of and the writers and the producers of all of the shows on all of the networks. and thats the part of this that i think people dont quite understand, is that roseanne personally was visiting a burden just not on her castmate, laurie metcalf, how would...

Long they had to answer questions about donald trump before he got elected president. i mean, it was a year and a half of reporters saying is he going to be in "the apprentice"? are you going to cancel "the apprentice"? whats going to happen? and multiply that by all the people who are at the network. i do think that for abc, we had a couple of things in play here. we had the fact that abcs owned by disney, and disney has a very definite family-friendly, inclusive brand that bob iger has defende...

About decorum. >> of course. we can look at kanyes lyrics. he loves kanye. but we ought to have a lyric reading here with kanye west. >> yeah. >> and then secondly i dont think he looked like the clean cut candidate. this was the same time that the "access hollywood" tape had come out. the same exact type that he was talking about. so you could compare jay-zs lyrics. half the people in the crowd are going jay who last night? i noticed last night, by the way, i was flipping channels. we dont want...

>> i believe you 100%. two months ago, this is how president trump spun remember, mega, mega ratings. >> look at roseanne. i called her yesterday. look at her ratings. i got a call from mark burnett, he did "the apprentice." hes a great guy. he said i called just to say hello and to tell you did you see roseannes ratings? i said how big were they? they were unbelievable. over 18 million people and it was about us. >> so claiming credit at the time, p.s., no trump tweet. >> he said its about us. ...