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Take the enormous criticism that president clinton got over the last-minute pardon to mark rich who had fled the country for financial crimes whose wife was a major democratic fundraiser who had given tremendous amounts of money to the clinton efforts and in the closing moments of his time in office he granted a pardon. there was no support in the justice department or in the prosecutorial community. the president would have the same problem with blagojevich who was sent to prison for requesting a $50,000 contribution before he would approve an expense to a hospital on whose board the donor sa...

The far right. oprah once gifted pontiacs to suburban moms. >> we're one step closer to becoming a third-world power as of today. tariffs and pardons. these are b things we see from banana republic. >> president not only announced he's pardoning a darling of the far right, he's considering leniency for two stars of his former tv show making this white houseme once again seem detached from reality. >> hannity: mark rich, faln, clinton, drug dealers, obama. ok, we don't need lectures from these people. leave it to the media to totally ignore the massive abuse of power that took place during the ...

At the beginning, well then maybe that pardon power is not so absolute. >> right, i mean i think in both of those cases you mentioned, joe, i think the question is, is not that we don't know, right? there are, as with so many things in donald trump we're in the realm of the unknown. we've made this point before -- it's the case that there's no one has ever tested the question of whether or not a sitting president can be indicted. there's decades of policy that doj puts forward. but no one has ever taken it to the supreme court we don't know what the law of the land is on that question. similar...

Billions. whether you are preybarra or fitzgerald, they are political by nature. they prosecute the high-profile crimes. >> you think they are innocent? >> i don't know. they hunt scouts for a reason. >> the jury or the judge makes the decision. >> we saw what happened in the senator menendez case. high profile. the department of justice goes after him for a long time. hung jury. super complex crimes. president obama pardoned chelsea manning, not so controversial. he had 212 pardons. president clinton pardoned 400 people. if we go through the list, including mark rich, huge donor, we can go th...

Those charges in particular, it's a subtle move but not necessarily -- i don't know that's actually what he's doing, but if that's part of it, it's a calculation that makes a lot of sense. but look, also, as we're talking about the trump process versus the regular process, why would this be the one thing where trump and the doj are in lockstep. this is not exactly a relationship that's healthy right now. to have this all of a sudden be the one place where they're holding hands and working in tandem in a harmonious way that's traditional, we talk about trump being at war with the doj. >> you ha...