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Bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell, who is on the north lawn of the white house. when we talk about pardons, we've now heard from rudy giuliani. our team spoke with his team, rudy giuliani and his legal team overnight, about the idea that the president is pressing pause on the pardon button, if you will. >> reporter: hallie, we know this is a power unique to the president, that he has enjoyed and has gotten some benefits from in certain instances, where he's intexercised it. freeing a woman on the behest of kim kardashian. got favorable press for that. criticism when he pardons joe arpa arpaio. th...

To know whether all the nominees come down on whether or not you can indict a president. and he's going to get to the bottom of this. >> he already knows, because his selection process has been outsourced to the federalist society, which is a very conservative right wing organization of lawyers and law professors who have given him this list of 25. they would not let anybody on this list who was not against roe versus wade, who did not support marriage equality, who was not against affirmative action. so this is an extremely important -- but this is something that president trump actually does...

This in light of this morning's development. when jared kushner made that statement, he knew that he and others at the presidential transition team at mar-a-lago in december 2016 had conferredmar- december 2016, directed him to have contacts with ambassador kislyak. when the fbi questioned mike flynn, he lied about it. the white house was informed from the justice department. jared kushner and the president knew all of these things and, of course, had to fire mike flynn as a result. people say, we had no improper contacts with russians and know all of those facts, it really makes us question w...

Immigration than sheriff joe? he doesn't deserve to be treated this way. for his part, sheriff arpaio expressed surprise that trump was aware of his legal predicament but said he would gladly accept a pardon because he says he's 100% not guilty. this of course would be president trump's first pardon if he issues one. a pardon which has a nearly 100% chance of being very controversial, not to mention totally against doj rules. the aclu has already said if president trump follows through with the pardon, quote, make no mistake. this would be an official presidential endorsement of racism. contro...