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Would do this on his own. would do it days after. sara huckabee sanders said he wasn't going to announce it at a rally in phoenix. the president went on to hint it was coming at some point. clearly this is something that the president wanted to do. sources said it's something the president was talking about doing even when his aides said he wouldn't announce it at that phoenix rally. that's exactly what president trump did. >> the attorneys for sheriff joe sources indicating justice department was not involved. president went outside the normal pardon process. it's within his rights to do. it'...

Them and they'll get a lot of talk tomorrow on the sunday morning programs an i think we'll talk about them all throughout next week. so i think it was the attempt to bury the stories as katherine mentioned, yes, but i think these are going to be another few stories that are going to hurt the trump administration and his agenda going forward. >> one of the things that i've just mentioned of that tri fecta, ronaldo, is the president moved forward in a pardon process and short circuited it. what does that mean going forward for pardons that the president might be doing? >> well, what it suggests...

He pardoned richard nixon. before there was even an opportunity for him to be indicted. so it's pretty unlimited and he could do it, but i would remind the president, president trump, that when president ford did that, he suffered political consequences. he lost the re-election in large part because of having pardoned president nixon. so, while it is legally possible for him to do that, and while i'm sure that he would feel compelled to do it for his own family, and for his closest advisers and for those whom he cannot say anything bad about, for some reason, it might be a politically unwise m...

Without saying what day are. that's what president gerald ford as soon as he took office. he pardoned richard nixon. before there was even an ton r opportunity for him to be indicted. so it's pretty unlimited and he could do it, but i would remind the president, president trump, that when president ford did that, he suffered political consequences. he lost the re-election in large part because of having pardoned president nixon. so, while it is legally possible for him to do that, and while i'm sure that he would feel compelled to do it for his own family, and for his closest advisers and for ...

Pardon process. something that presidents don't even consider or contemplate until the end of a presidency. he's six months in yesterday. and trying to understand the pardon process. he's talking about character assassination of his own special counsel bob mueller hired by his deputy attorney general. he smeared his sitting a.g. who recused himself. i think the notion we're talking about when he's going to wake up and act more normal is our own delusion. i mean, this is who he is. there is nothing about the presidency so far that has changed him. i would just look at some of the dots we have, ...