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Issuing pardons to other people before and all sorts of other things. that clip you just showed suggested i may do this, i may do that. what that does is it heightens the rhetoric and it heightens the divisiveness. i think as one of your prior guests said, the congresswoman, the moment he tried to issue such an executive order, which in some ways i would welcome, which may sound odd, because it would immediately be a huge constitutional fight and i think donald trump would be handed a resounding defeat by any judge, democrat or republican appointed. >> all right. preet, thanks very much. let's...

The president tweeted saying he has the absolute right to pardon himself. his willingness to ignore justice department guidelines on issuing pardons has democrats worried he'll use it to help allies caught up in the investigation into russian meddling in the election in 2017. >> unfortunately the president has perverted the pardon process. now it seems like he's pardoning people based on their celebrity status or because a celebrity talked to him. >> reporter: as he did when he pardoned joe arpiao last year. the white house is playing down reports that relations are souring over new u.s.adian ...

Announced a major breakthrough in the renegotiation of the korea/u.s. free trade agreement. that sounds arcane, but that means we have resolved a big point of disagreement with our key allies. >> things seem to be moving in a positive direction. >> they could be. i don't think we really know, wolf. we've seen the north korean abuse negotiations before. i think the pressure campaign has been very successful. what we need to see next is how this meeting between the north korean and the south koreans go. and if kim is actually willing to come speak with president trump and have a substantiative c...

An article posted on politico today looks at a strategy behind this and says, "the purpose of the onslaught, according to people close to the white house, isn't to encourage the president to oust the special counsel, rather, these people said, the goal is to sow public doubt about mueller and his prosecutors in advance of upcoming criminal trials and give the president police officer cover if he wants to start issuing pardons." a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll gives indication of how members of the public view the special counsel these days. 28% held positive views of robert mueller i...

Lawyers sometime this week. donald trump has said he's not going to fire mueller, but there's a smear campaign under way against mueller. it's happening largely on the right, friendly media. an article posted on politico today looks at a strategy behind this and says, "the purpose of the onslaught, according to people close to the white house, isn't to encourage the president to oust the special counsel, rather, these people said, the goal is to sow public doubt about mueller and his prosecutors in advance of upcoming criminal trials and give the president police officer cover if he wants to s...