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here with me today in washington we ve got senior justice correspondent evan perez, tmnt for the atlanta journal-constitution and former federal prosecutor elliott williams. commentator adam kings, injure and political commentator the carrie sellers. i am so glad to have all of you here, but let s talk right now about what we just heard from the former president of the united states, that he did nothing wrong, essentially he believes that he can challenge, it is true but it is the way that you go about doing it. that was the crux of the january 6th investigation, right? look, i was there on january six. he did, he challenged it like 50 times in court? only one minor case, everything else was thrown out. and, at that point, he decided for three hours he sat in the oval office and, for the first time in his life, proactively resisted peer pressure to act. u.s. person thing in his ear, he ll do it, i ll say it.
from lawsuits for actions while on duty and senator dick durbin told cnn that issue still isn t resolved and they will miss president biden s deadline of today to pass that legislation. now, just moments ago the white house press secretary said biden remains in close contact with the negotiators, let s discuss with former boston police commissioner ed davis and baa carrie sellers. one of the lawyers representing the family of graernandrew brow. as we reflect today and as the white house meets with the family of george floyd right now i want you to listen to what his brother told cnn this morning. i think things have changed. i think that it s moving slowly. but it s making progress. i just want everything to be better in life because i don t want to see people dying the same way my brother has passed.
david urban and carrie sellers. just from a legal standpoint, the president s power to pardon is pretty absolute. it is. executive power for the president, a pardon is one of the fundamental exec ty powers executive powers that he has. we don t even know what michael cohen might be charged with. if he s charged at all. we should point out he hasn t been charged nobody has charged him yet, so there is a little bit of anticipation of going towards the pardon power. the only limit, and correct me if i m wrong here, on a president s pardoning power is if it s done in order to buy somebody s silence, correct, or if there is a deal? there is nowhere that is that specifically spelled out. what we would be talking about would be an abusive use of constitutional authority. it really gets to the president s executive,