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White house officials have walked back as lighthearted suggestions in the past have proved true. in april mr. trump asked kevin mcaleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, to close the southwestern border to migrants, suggesting he could issue a pardon if he encountered any legal trouble. at the time white house officials suggested the president might have been joking." in public at least the president has certainly sounded serious when discussing the issue of pardons. >> i never want anybody to be above the law. but the pardons are a very positive thing for a president. the question...

Building the border wall. i think that's a lot of what we've seen is being fueled by this anxiety over the economy. >> jon meacham, those tweets we read from the president about the hurricane, ostensibly about the hurricane but by the end of one of those tweets there he is going after personally the mayor of san juan, this feels like one of those instances, there have been many of these, there probably will be many more, but one of those instances where you can take a disaster, a potential daft and think about how past presidents, democrat or republican, would have addressed them in public and...

Debates. it's something a lot of people have certainly wanted to see that will now happen in the next debate. you will have biden and warren on stage. it might even be next to each other on the stage. then the question becomes those other ten candidates, the ten who did not make the september debate but who as of now are still in the race for president. what happens to them? can you have a campaign for president? can you have an effective campaign if you're not getting in the debate? these are the 10 who right now they are saying they're still running. they're not going to be in the debate. on...

That opening, very active on twitter tonight. he was active as well on twitter yesterday. all sorts of subjects. he's addressing there. from kirsten gillibrand's presidential campaign ending to this hurricane passing through puerto rico today. and potentially heading toward florida. what's going on in the white house around him?>> well, i thi happened is he's come back from the g7 in france where he met with a bunch of world leaders and he has been dissatisfied with the coverage of that meeting. a lot of which was very critical and painted the u.s. as very isolated. so he's coming back looking...

But the pardons are a very positive thing for a president. the question was asked yesterday about pardons with respect to paul manafort. i said i'm not taking anything off the able. we're looking at a lot of different pardons for a lot of different people. some of these soldiers are people that have fought hard, long, and then when they fight sometimes they get really treated very unfairly. >> the power to pardon is a beautiful thing. you've got to get it right. you've got to get the right people. >> today trump slammed the "washington post's" reporting. he wrote, "another totally fake story ...