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And maybe holder says he's concerned with the president's recent pardons. in regards to that. "the new york times" wrote by choosing to pardon the political sporters whose cases largely failed to meet the basic guidelines for pardons, mr. trump could turn a slow and imperfect system into an unequal and unjust one. in which those with fame money or access to the president's ear are first in line to receive clemency. is there anything, mimi, that that committee or anyone else in congress can do to limit exactly what the president can use his pardoning powers for? >> not now, in other words the p...

Out of jail to campaign for him. so to suggest that he's actually applying justice in these cases is simply wrong. it's clear for anyone to see. and i do think that the pardon process is problematic. i don't think anyone is suggesting that the president should never step around it and pardon who he sees fit. the problem is trump is not applying a just lens here. >> john, your thoughts on scaramucci's explanation, does it pass the smell test for you? >> not at all. look at the people he's pardoned. jor arpaio, the sheriff in arizona so antagonistic to the community there. dinesh d'souza who is ...

A little more tolerant. >> the president is very blatantly flouting the existing pardon process. there is a robust pardon process. >> absolutely. >> at the justice department. there has been for a long time. presidents don't have to follow that process. what i'm wondering, though, is obviously that process was set up in order to make sure that the pardon power wasn't abused, that people can access it fairly and without disproportionate or inappropriate favor. when trump stops using that system and just randomly starts pardoning people he thinks would be of political advantage or because he's s...

>> has there ever been a circumstance in which a president is thought to have pardoned someone specifically to worm his own way out of his own legal liability? >> aside from nixon, there's not been as large a case as that. >> okay. >> and i think what donald trump is trying to do is, you know, he's pardoning celebrities like martha stewart or rod blagojevich as an illinoisian, i find that one a little bit strange -- >> if you start pardoning illinois governors -- >> where you are going to stop in we've had at least four governors the last 60 years have gone to prison. we illinoisans. but the t...

Period." any thoughts on that? >> yeah. i mean look it doesn't surprise me. one thing you see play out in the pardon process you have a sense from the prosecutors who try the case and obtain the conviction that a pardon is not warranted because there was no injustice here. i think prosecutors also sometimes feel and i don't necessarily know that it is the case here but they feel that pardons are issued as a way of giving out political favors. we saw that as you know at the end of the clinton administration. where bill clinton was doling out pardons like party fairs to his friends and -- party ...