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He did it with joe arpaio and dick cheney s chief of staff scooter libby. several people the president has done typically, kate, presidents wait until the end of the term to pardon people like this. typically someone they had a relationship with or someone they re allies have lobbied them to pardon. that doesn t seem to be the case here. the obvious question that is going to be raised here is is the president sending a message to other people by pardoning people like dinesh d souza, is he sending a message? that s the question we re going to walk away from this pardon with here, kate. thank you so much. i appreciate it. let s discuss it. jamil jafer is here, and mark preston. mark what do you make of this pardon? it seems out of the blue. it is out of the blue, but not unexpected in the sense that nothing is ever unexpected with this president. ....
Carter page was on the fbi s radar as far back as 2013. he was warned by the fbi that the russians were trying to target him to be a spy. so it is not at all surprising to me that the fbi would have kept tabs on that, and would have been concerned if he ended up working for the russians and then being a part of the campaign. so that is the kind of context that i think if it is excluded from this memo would be would make it incredibly misleading to the american public. jamil, it is even logistically hard to know exactly how all of this is going to proceed. it is really unchartered territory to release a document this way. you worked in the white house counsel s office, you ve been at doj, worked for a congressional committee. do you have a sense of how this would roll out? yes, look, under the house intelligence committee s rules, i worked there under chairman mike rogers and the way it works is the committee decides it wants to release the memo, sends a note to the president, the ....