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At all concerned that the president is sending a message to people, associates who may be under fire from bob mueller, just listen, if you protect me, then i will protect you with a pardon if it comes to that? >> well, i would hope most of the folks involved in this already know the president has the power of pardon. he's showed that with arpaio in arizona. most what i read on libby's pardon is they thought it was overzealous prosecutor. okay, there's a way to deal with that. don't hire overzealous prosecutors, he was convicted if memory serves me correctly of a false statement and obstruction...

Of former cia agent whose husband joe wilson tried to sound the alarm about the faulty case used wi the george w. bush administration. >> my personal sense is i didn't think any contempt for donald trump could go lower but he surprises me each and every day. >> reporter: it's an odd move for the president given his past comments about the bush administration during the campaign. >> you call it whatever you want. i want to tell you, they lied. they said there were weapons of mass destruction. there were none and they knew there were none. there were no weapons of mass destructi destruction. >> ...

Of justice and the investigation into the leak of the identity of valerie plame, a former covert cia operative, then president george w. bush commuted libby's 30-month sentence, which spared him sentence time, but he didn't pardon him. since the conviction, libby has since had his law license streered and former virginia governor bob mcdonnell extraordinary his voting rights in 2013. the president has already signed off on the pardon. attorneys joe digenova and his wife, victoria tensing are among the conservatives who have been urging a pardon for libby. joining me once again is my friend, ni...

In this race for the white house, i am the law and order candidate. >> 449 days into his presidency, is he fulfilling that pledge? he's at war with the fbi, publicly undermining his own attorney general, and threatening his deputy attorney general, the man overseeing the man investigating him, robert mueller. he's also using the presidential pardon in unusual ways, his first one to sheriff joe arpaio convicted of criminal contempt of a federal judge's court order not to detain illegal immigrants. senator john mccain showed it a front to the rule of law. now it is "scooter" libby's turn. the fo...

Than a president pardoning a member of his own administration? well, first of all, as i said, president bush did not actually pardon scooter libby. he simply eliminated libby's prison sentence, which was only a 30-month prison sentence. president bush did not eliminate the $250,000 in fines that was part of libby's sentence, and president bush did not eliminate libby's obligation to report to a probation officer for two years. and perhaps most importantly, president bush allowed the legal process to come to a conclusion in the libby case, including sentencing before the president took action. ...