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>> well, you know, it would be explosive thing for him to do. you know, every president who has waded into, you know, the investigations of people around him with a pardon ends up paying a political price. they usually do it after their last election when they're on the way out of office. that's when george h.w. bush pardoned casper weinberger and bill clinton pardoned mark rich and others on the way out the door. for president trump to do it in the middle of the first term and the middle of the midterm election season. to pardon the person who was his campaign chairman just convicted on a num...

5 1/2 months. it's not as if these people have gotten off scot-free. you know, they suffered a hefty penalty for this. of all these people that he is considering pardoning, martha stewart probably makes the most sense from the standpoint of what eric holder was talking about, contrition and recognition of wrongdoing, having served her time, et cetera. the other ones i'm not as sure. and eric and i, i think, are making the same point. you go through the pardon attorney and get their recommendation and let it go. that said, of course, eric, i think, was in the department of justice when bill cli...

He had nothing to lose or gain other than he wanted to pardon his friend mark rich. the president has a lot to gain by issuing the pardons now, by sending signals to people that potentially could provide information against him. >> yeah. >> that's the issue have i with the pardons he is doing. now. >> and we've been talking about dinesh d'souza and some of the other folks. listen, let's get become to this issue. and you were talking about moral leadership, right? this is a gallup poll this week. and it says that 77% of republicans believe trump provides strong moral leadership. does that numbe...

A lot of it is relationship driven and remember, he does so many things, he, donald trump, in opposition to what he doesn't like. so so much of his presidency to date has been what did barack obama do? okay. we're doing the opposite. it doesn't even matter really what that is. it's just the opposite. i think it's relationship driven. and there is a score settling piece. i don't think there is any other question. one other quick thing to kirsten's point, don't underestimate what a big deal it is. this is a huge deal to pardon people. this is usually at the end of administrations because they're...

Elite. donald trump does so many things in opposition to what he doesn't like. so much of his presidency to date has been what did barack obama do? we're doing the opposite. doesn't matter what that is. it's relationship driven and it's score settling. don't underestimate what a big deal this is. it's a huge deal to pardon people. remember mark rich in the bill clinton days. this is a big deal. kirsten is right. we should not overlook it. >> just do it and don't say you're not doing it for that reason. stick around. so much more coming. so much for roseanne's promise to leave twitter and why t...