the dinesh tweet landed as we were taking off for texas yesterday and there was a fair amount of surprise about it but this is going around the normal process, which we've seen him do repeatedly. there could be lasting implications for other presidents that this is not necessarily a precedent that most presidents would want to set. >> he's not using the office of pardons. that's not being used at all. there are some like 2,000 pardon requests pending. >> more than that i think. >> instead what the president is doing is he's on tivo watching reruns of "celebrity apprentice" and -- >> or getting phone calls from someone who knows someone. making politically connected pardons is also problematic. >> we have dinesh, he was on television this morning talking