president can pardon everybody. let s bring in the hardball roundtable, tim mac, political reporter for npr. ginger gibson, and john thnatha lemire. it seems to me he s out there showing his stuff, you know. these are practice baskets before an nba game. i was on air force one yesterday when the president sprung this discussion of pardons on us about not just dinesh d souza but the considering for martha stewart and governor blagojevich. it does seem like there s a message being sent here. first of all he s suggesting this is a part of the presidency that, woulds like he thinks it should. he s been so frustrated with the legislative process, with members of his own staff. like a monarchy. exactly right. this is something he can snap his fingers and do, which is how he used to run his business. so i think he s very comfortable why has he been so sparing, ginger, in only going after arpaio, a couple people, now dinesh. he hasn t really shown his you know, shown his muscle h
going to do to you is going to be [bleep] disgusting. do you understand me? there is nothing reasonable about using donald trump s name with the word rape. do you understand that? do you understand what a disgusting word that is? you put mr. trump s name in on to it, rest assured, you will suffer the consequence. so you do whatever you want. you want to ruin your life at the age of 20, you do that. and i m going to be happy to serve it right up to you. leading off our discussion matt miller, spokesperson for eric holder, and david corn coauthor of the new best selling book russian roulette also an msnbc political analyst. and maya wiley is with us, former counsel to the mayor of new york city. maya, i want to start with you on the michael cohen tapes. and let s just remember, also within this tape, we didn t play this part, he insists that it is legally impossible to rape your wife and the reporter tim mac, who he was talking to corrected him on that. and there s this long moment o
happen. the special counsel has awesome powers, this is stone talking. but the president has even more awesome paurpz he s bragging how the president can pardon everybody. tim mac from npr, ginger gibson and jonathan lemire from the associated press. jonathan, it seems to me he s out there showing his stuff. those are practice baskets before an nba game. i can hit from out here and will do it. i was on air force one yesterday when he sprung the discussion of pardons on us considering for martha stewart and for governor blagojovich. it does seem like there s a message being sent here. he is suggesting this is part of the presidency that works like he thinks it should. he s been so frustrated with the legislative process, with members of his own staff. like a monarchy. he can snap his fingers and do which is how he used to run his business. i think he s very comfort
mr. trump s name in it with the word rape and i m going to mess your life up for the rest for as long as you re on this africain planet. i m going to turn around, you re going to have judgments against you for so much money, you ll never know how to get out from under it. that s the last one. i can report his life is going perfectly fine. it has not been messed up by michael cohen. the reality is that when bullies come at reporters like this, the best thing reporters can do is take some pleasure in the toothlessness and the sometimes amusing quality of the way these people talk. at the daily beast, we were proud to go forward with the story, that helped people make sense of the character of donald trump and of michael cohen. we stood up to this bully and it worked out perfectly fine for us, for tim mac, and we re grateful for the lawyers who work at the daily beast for helping navigate us through the entire process. the last word goes to you. thank you for being here. up
that. and on that subject a sort of strange thing emerged. concerning john bolten. the man who president trump announced yesterday as the new national security adviser. since that announcement reporter tim mac turned up a strange video. this video from 2013. featuring john bolten. can we drop the lower third on the screen. thank you. i want to play a tiny bit. you have to see the subtitles. while he s talking. thank you for this opportunity. to address the russian people on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the russian constitution. today, you re engaged in historic debate about the possible expansion of your freedom. should the russian people have the right to bear arms? you see the subtitles in russian. npr reporting today on what they re calling boltens curious appearance in a russian gun rights video.