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But i wanted to look at some of the other people that were pardoned over the years. and if you look at as an example president clinton pardoned mark rich who was charged with crimes going back decades including illegally buying oil from iran while it held 53 american hostages. wasn't allowed to do that. selling to the enmys of the united states. he was pardoned after his wife donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the clintons. then you have dangerous criminals, president clinton pardoned susan rosenberg, a member of the weather underground. charged as part of a bank robbery that led to a...

Comparison bill clinton pardoned mark rich in the middle of the night when john podesta was doing an interview on television. but this was beyond the pale. it made no sense substantively, politically, morally, in in way and it's just more evidence that donald trump knows how to do one thing and one thing only and that is to divide and demon iiz and that's not governing, that's campaigning and you have to wonder where john kelly, the chief of staff was, and what he was thinking when this decision was made. >> can i bring up the tweets you have put out there? one, you write "earth to john kelly,...

Critical of this, you need to look back at president's prior decisions. president obama pardoned more people than any other president in history. almost 2,000. eric: some of this has been controversial. chelsea manning. >> sure. eric: some consider a traitor. bill clinton, mark rich, denise rich gave thousands to the democratic effort and the clinton administration said there is no connection to that. not only, that the faln, a terrorist issue. >> yeah, susan macdougal is the most questionable in my mind. eric: let's stick with this president now, and let me read to you two prominent democrats...

Let them fast agenda they want. their problem is they're fighting, not only are we fighting across the aisle but they're fighting internally. and these leaders, they the cannot just and go force somebody to cast a vote a certain way. look, i do believe there is a path toward stabilizing the exchanges on health care. and working with john, a terrific guy, there's a way to deal with our financial problems. get it done internally and then push it to the other party. paul ryan like you criticized the president's decision to pardon. congress scrutinized the pardon with 9/11. when bill clinton par...

Presidential and doing a very good job. >> if you had to do a scouting report on a chief executive, how would you compare him? put these two men side by side. the new president we've watched for 100 days now and the president we had for eight years. >> well, you're talking about opposites. bill clinton was very comfortable, very everything. but you know, look, a lot of people were extremely upset with him and especially the way he got out. i like him very much. but i know of mark rich. i've been studying mark rich for years. and to give him a pardon was just -- it was just something that was i...