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Transgender policy, divide us with a pardon of arpaio, divide us by suggesting that white supremacists and neo-nazis are equivalent to those who would protest them. at every step of the way he is affirmatively, it seems, going out of his way to appeal to the prejudices of the american people and try to divide us. that is not the kind of qualities we look for in a commander in chief. and i think it really is tearing at the fabric of the country. >> your colleague, senator schumer, the leader of the democrats in the senate, has a new statement out decrying this as supporting a man in arpaio who ...

Interesting is, a pardon can even come before someone is charged with a crime. for example, president ford pardoned president nixon before he was charged with a crime outside of the impeachment context. and so there's really no limit on the president's power to pardon. he could pardon proactively, even before charges come against manafort or michael flynn. and so in that way, i worry that robert mule eller and his team could lose the leverage they would ordinarily have in such a case. >> barbara, you mentioned no limit, under the constitution, as you say, there's no time limit, it can come ear...

Prior to this use of the power. you're saying the very recklessness, the very flouting of the law, the fact that this all was done by president trump tonight during this hurricane, as people deal with that, and doing it before even the criminal justice process played out with arpaio, he was facing perhaps up to six months but hadn't been sentenced yet, you're saying that very flouting could be deliberate, to send this message to others who are going to be dealing potentially with bob mueller's criminal inquiry? >> you know, certainly the president is more than capable of that. it could be, you...

President did not honor the process. joining me, arizona congressman rubin gallego. any normal time on night like this would probably be discussing the hurricane and disaster preparation. we've been covering it throughout the day and will cover it more. but all of these developments require us to discuss the arpaio pardon. your view of the pardon and whether in any way you think it was more than inappropriate but somehow an abuse. >> to begin with, it's cowardly. the president, you know, decided to use the cover of a friday evening, as well as a hurricane, to pardon one of his racist friends. ...

Latino were being pulled over. veterans, mothers, business owners, were being pulled over randomly and asked for their citizenship. some of them actually held in jail until they could prove they were citizens. that's actually what ended up creating the situation that got him into the process that he is right now. he actually signed a doj agreement saying he would no longer racially profile because he ended up arresting an american citizen and held in jail for a couple of days without any proof of a crime. and then he proceeded to willingly violate that actual agreement for years. and then when...