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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 23:40:00

the january 6th select committee is preparing to release yet another batch of transcripts for witness interviews. cnn political correspondent sarah murray is here in the situation room with me. she s got more information. the transcripts already released have been packed with new revelations, as you know. we learned that trump considered issuing blanket pardons for some of his allies in the final days of his presidency. tell us more. reporter: that s right. we re learning that president trump floated blanket pardons for people involved in january 6th. he got pushback from the white house counsel. he said what if we just pardon the people who walked into the building, the white house counsel said no, no, no. he also floated the idea of blanket pardons for white house staffers. again, the white house counsel is saying why do we need to do this? the people here did not do anything wrong. it gives you an idea about trump s concerns about january 6th. we ve continued to hear this from h

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Transcripts for CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20240604 22:15:15

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Transcripts for MSNBC Deadline White House 20240604 21:09:00

to defraud the united states requires knowledge of fraud. obstruction of an official proceeding requires a corrupt intent. and so to demonstrate those intents one of the things prosecutors can use as evidence is consciousness of guilt. as evidenced by this desire to have blanket pardons. you know, pete, on the way out the door trump pardoned a lot of the architects of the coup. he pardoned what s his name bannon, he pardoned flynn who makes his way into the west wing in all of the days leading up to the insurrection. he pardons manafort. you know, they were not hard to get, but so it s always interesting when someone pushes back and it s almost like how bad was it? it was so bad that someone said no to blanket pardons for the entire white house staff and the entire lot of insurrectionists at the u.s. capitol. what does that say about the importance of pat cipollone as a witness to doj?

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20240604 18:25:00

counsel. trump also floated the idea of blanket pardons for many of his white house staffers saying he didn t want, quote, they to be able to come after his staffers for, quote, any little thing, again, the white house counsel rejecting that idea, but saying, look, no one here has done anything wrong. unclear if the white house counsel knew what mark meadows was up to in his office with all of those fireplace logs. thank you so much for all of that, paula reid. now let s continue this conversation with our cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers. jen, thank you so much for joining us for this. this burning of documents, it s got to be something the justice department and special counsel jack smith is very much interested in. reporter: 100%, abby. this kind of evidence is like gold to prosecutors. first of all, of course, it could support freestanding criminal charges if they can demonstrate these were documents subject to the presidential records act, if

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Beat With Ari Melber 20240604 23:04:00

insurrection. barr telling him, quote, if i were you i d resign, get out of there. and new transcripts revealing how trump himself were considering blanket pardons for not only insurrectionists but for white house staff. now, there s a growing body of evidence about the extent to which many in mr. trump s orbed were seeking pardons after the 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol. as ari likes to say pardons are for criminals and if accepted an admission of guilt. joining me now is the political investigations reporter for the guardian. and emily, legal writer for the new york times magazine. hugo, i m going to start with you. how big is this new testimony on mark meadows burning documents and concealing meetings? i think it s really big. we had reported previously that cassidy hutchinson testify today

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