Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180601:04:19:00
To someone if that would reasonably construed as an effort to protect yourself from your own presidential criminal liability. pardoning someone who's in trouble with the law, fine. pardoning someone who's in trouble with the law because that person is in a position to testify or not against the president, that is not a legal use of the pardon power. that is criminal obstruction of justice by the president. or at least that was believed to be the case during watergate, including by some of the people who went to prison for watergate. but here's the fascinating part. that specific tape i just pl...