Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180601:08:08:00
Kind of put it into categories today, noting that this lacks the usual rigor, the usual process we've seen in pardons and acts of clemency. >> yeah. sam was saying the way it's supposed to work, that way it's traditionally worked is there's actually an office within the department of justice, an attorney there who is supposed to handle pardons. it often takes years to vet these cases. it's supposed to go first through that office. then it heads off to a deputy attorney general, who is supposed to then refer cases to the president. now, there are hundred, thousands of these cases that are broug...