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People. they cannot use their pardon power to obstruct another live criminal inquiry. they cannot use the pardon power as leverage to persuade someone, say, a bob haldeman, from flipping and cooperating with prosecutors and testifying against the president himself. and i say that not because i'm a legal scholar. i say that because at least that was the impression that even nixon and his own staff labored under during the watergate scandal. that's why haldeman was saying nope, don't say that, don't even say that, boss. and we know from sam dash saying so the exchange if known to the committee a...

And i say that not because i'm a legal scholar. i say that because at least that was the impression that even nixon and his own staff labored under during the watergate scandal. that's why haldeman was saying nope, don't say that, don't even say that, boss. and we know from sam dash saying so, the exchange, if known to the committee at the time, would have justified a separate article of impeachment all by itself. we know that the people who were preparing to impeach and remove nixon from office over his watergate crimes, they were laboring under that assumption too. yeah, the president has a ...

Know why. that tape was never produced to the watergate committees in congress who proceeded with impeachment proceedings against nixon. for some reason, i think a logistical reason, i don't know. for some reason that particular tape where he dangles the pardon didn't come out until years later, whereupon sam dash, who was the chief counsel to the senate watergate committee, said had the watergate committee received that particular tape during their investigation, had that specific tape come out, i'll quote you from the "new york times," "if known to the committee at the time, that would have ...

Logistical reason, i don't know. for some reason, that particular tape where he dangles the pardon didn't come out until years later, whereupon sam dash, who was the chief counsel to the senate watergate committee, said had the watergate committee received that particular tape during their investigation, had that specific tape come out, i'll quote you from "the new york times," quote, if known to the committee at the time, that would have justified a separate article of impeachment all by itself. sap dash marvelled to "the new york times" when that tape finally came out years later. "even hald...