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All about war. it is all about him puffing himself up. it is all about the former draft dodgers and wrapping himself in the flag. it is instruction to see how narrow a base he is. it is not just white men. it is not just white evangelical men. it is evangelical men who are upset of weapons. he narrowed his base so and i think there is a large segment of women in america, we saw this in 2018, i think we'll see this in 2020 who has just had it. they do not want to see them. >> it is interesting to make that point of the split screen of the trump administration of donald trump's obsession creatin...

Draft dodgers. if he pardoned all the white draft dodgers and none of the black, it would have violated the equal protection clause. the president is getting up against the limits of the pardon power. if he is using it to protect himself -- >> the dangling of it prospectively could do what he needs it to do without granting it retroactively, keeping it's the power he holds in front of you. we know this guy. if there is one thing he is good at is screwing over someone in a deal and double crossing him. we know paul manafort has acted in ways that make zero sense unless the guy is angling for a ...

Jimmy carter came into office and pardoned all the draft dodgers. the president is getting real ea up against the limits of the pardon power because if he's going to use it to protect himself, he's going to find it doesn't work >> the dangling of it can do what he needs it do without ever actually granting it. if there's one thing he's good at, it's screwing over someone in a deal and double crossing them. so throughout this whole thing we know paul manafort acts in a way that makes zero sense unless he's dangling a pardon. >> representative adam schiff represented a bill this week to

Do solemnly swear. >> president johnson did believe this was a treasonous act, that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this was not just tinkering with a few votes. this cost us 20,000 american lives. i don't know how many thousand wounded. the cost of that was horrendous. it was treason. by any standard. >> those who said no to the war, draft dodgers, resisters, they were described as treasonous. if i would have known as a soldier in vietnam that nixon scuttled or certainly delayed for...

>> we saw them in the michael cohen case. there are other cases involving trump associates, roger stone, paul manafort, that's raising questions that the idea of a presidential pardon. and you received a lot of questions about this. so here's the question. must a pardon be specific to a particular crime or kit be used as an umbrella to all future charges that are not yet filed? >> so the presidential pardon power is very broad. a president can pardon an individual, famous exam wills, richard nixon, the yankees owner was pardoned, arpaio, or a group. presidents have presidents vietnam draft dod...