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Pardon. even george bush refused to pardon him. he was vice president dick cheney's staff and accused of lying to investigators, all this in a special counsel investigation into who leaked the identity of valerie plame. she was an undercover cia officer. her identity was exposed in 2003 and she is "outfront" now. it's wonderful to see you again. why do you think trump is pardoning libby right now? >> timing is everything, isn't it? thanks for having me on. look, donald trump is doing what president trump did not. this has nothing to do with justice. i think the times is not coincidental. there...

Merits. pardoning libby was the right thing to do. >> bret: tom? >> yeah, i think it's quite clear that this is about manafort. it's about cohen potentially. it's about the president saying i'm going to support you if you stand with me. but ultimately i think just going back to this broad environment of president vs. the judiciary, one interesting insulating factor here is director wray. i think as much as you do see a few comments at the white house, director wra staying off the radar that's going to be the ultimate take away no matter what happens. the fbi you will get a lot less engagement ...

And now he has accepted a pardon, which means he accepted, despite what people might say about judy miller's recantation, he's accepted he was guilty of the crimes of which he was accused. now the problem with a pardon is, it is not just a pardon of "scooter" libby, the individual. it is a pardon of the entire neoconservative, divisive movement that drove this country to a false war in 2003 and which still has imbigs to drive this country to war in iran. and what he has done is he has given a plank kblanket pardon essentially to this movement and he's invited them back into this administration...

At the time, covering this day in and day out, it was the dominant story of the moment and it had, as its backdrop, the war in iraq, which at first had a lot of support from the american people. and then that crumbled with the weight of not finding weapons of mass destruction and all the things that unfolded. what happened here that conservatives -- and it has been really hard-line conservatives who have carried the libby cause over the years. their claim has been that the underlying crime of outing a covert operative was not what was prosecuted in this case. and in fact that they claim -- and...

George w. bush. in a statement the white house said mr. libby presented credible evidence in support of his innocence. the statement included a comment from the president as well. i don't know mr. libby but for years i have heard that he has been treated unfairly. hopefully this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life. why is this unbelievable? because of the message it sends and it is also subtle. it is okay to lie to the fbi, it is okay to obstruct justice. if you do, i will protect you. that's at least how valerie plame sees it. >> the message being sent is, you can com...