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The U.S. braced Tuesday for a final wave of clemency announcements, with speculation Trump might even pardon himself in advance of possible prosecution.
The open-ended nature of the constitutional power means other presidents have issued “bad pardons,” but none have done so as frequently as the current president, argues Tim Naftali, a presidential historian at New York University and former director of the Nixon presidential library.
“Donald Trump has taken the abuse of pardoning power to a huge new level,” said the Montreal native. “Previous presidents have had one-offs, or maybe three-offs, but Donald trump has made a habit of issuing pardons to cronies without any regard to the general reason for the power in the first place.”
it really is a weather emergency today, and not just one. a tropical storm, a blizzard, tornadoes, and perfect conditions for a devastating wildfire all on the same day. this is the big rainmaker. it s spinning off the coast right now, the gulf coast, right now, tropical storm karen. just sitting there but everyone from louisiana to florida just waiting to see where it will actually come ashore. cnn s chad myers in the cnn severe weather center. first question to you, karen, going to be a hurricane? nope. what else you need to know? this storm was a dud. i was singing bruce springsteen to this song my machine she s a dud, she s stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of jersey. this storm, the low, somewhere right around here, is nowhere near the convection is, where the center of convection is, and that s the problem. this storm never got its act together. never got all the way around. never got an eye. never got bigger, that s the great news. and then the storm will tr
now, democrats would say we do support those things. we just want to fund the government all at once. we want the house and republicans, the house of representatives to pass to bring to the floor of the house this spending bill that would reopen the doors of the government with no strings attached. listen to minority leader nancy pelosi and what she had to say after the vote today. right now enough republicans have publicly stated their support for a bill that could pass and be on the president s desk today. we re asking the speaker in our letter to bring up the vote to the floor for those republicans and more to show that there is a bipartisan what majority to end republican government shutdown. so there you heard her call this the republican government shutdown. that s part of the messaging battle that both sides are playing here. but i should mention that this is no change, no difference from what we ve been hearing for the last several days. the house democrats toda
police officer was among the group. if so, why didn t that person step in to help. and the family of miriam carey is talking. she s the woman who was shot and killed in washington, d.c. after the chaotic chase near the white house and capitol building. her sisters are talking to cnn about miriam s mental state and why they want to conduct their own investigation. hello, everyone. welcome to the cnn newsroom. i m fredricka whitfield. the house just approved to a bill to give back pay to furloughed federal workers. house republicans are expected to speak shortly, and we expect to hear from democrats later on this hour. this measure is the latest move to ease some of the effects of the government shutdown. athena jones is joining us from capitol hill. what s happening this morning? we heard the president yesterday say this is one of the peace meal deals that he would actually agree to. everything else he wants a full budget. exactly, fredricka. and we did expect the house
0 we know it s something the president has said he supports. but really it s the only small positive development we ve seen in the last couple of days in terms of something getting lots of bipartisan support. i ll show you what house majority leader eric cantor said after this vote. he is urging if there s a support by democrats why isn t there support from the other smaller spending bills. house republicans have passed in the last week. let s listen to what he had to say. what about the vets? do the democrats not feel it s important to make sure the pain is eased on them? what about the sick children that need access to clinical trials, is it not as important to ease the pain of the shutdown for them? or is it just the federal employees that the democratic minority thinks is important? and so leader cantor is talking about smaller funding bills to fund the veterans administration, national parks, and for instance the national institutes of health so that people can have access to