house is a free crime zone. indeed. joe, trump is already been indicted for his mishandling of documents, but that doesn t mean jackson s through with him on that. the york times reported this week that the federal grand jury has issued more subpoenas in recent days, indicating the probe is expanding beyond the initial charges against trump and his aide turned codefendant. how strong is this case looking to you, jill, and how concerned are you that a photo jury that includes loyal trump supporters will never agree on a virtually let me start with your latter point which is, is there going to be a hung jury? that is a risk in florida. there is no question that in particular the in fort pierce, which is heavily red, that there could be a hung jury. there is no way that there will be an acquittal. i say that because jurors take a very seriously the guidance from the judge that says you
of course, sitting presidents should be vulnerable to indictment, otherwise the white house is a free crime zone. indeed. joe, trump is already been indicted for his mishandling of documents, but that doesn t mean jackson s through with him on that. the york times reported this week that the federal grand jury has issued more subpoenas in recent days, indicating the probe is expanding beyond the initial charges against trump and his aide turned codefendant. how strong is this case looking to you, jill, and how concerned are you that a photo jury that includes loyal trump supporters will never agree on a virtually let me start with your latter point which is, is there going to be a hung jury? that is a risk in florida. there is no question that in
presidents going to be living as a criminal class, allowed to do whatever they feel like, and the rest of us americans have to abide by laws that are extremely different from that. that is the question here. is there equal justice in this country? and when the constitutional convention, the original idea was that there might be a pardon power given to a president if there was a miscarriage of justice. or if someone really needed mercy, and was really very penitent about what he or she had done. alexander hamilton was the one who said this has to be a unilateral big power of a president. president has to be able to do this alone. not confirmed by the senate. some said, if a president pardon s, the senate has to confirm that. so the result is, presidents have made this almost into a free crime zone. richard nixon committed serious felonies, for which he almost certainly would have gone to prison. he was pardoned by gerald ford.
president has to be able to do this alone. not confirmed by the senate. some said, if a president pardon s, the senate has to confirm that. so the result is, presidents have made this almost into a free crime zone. richard nixon committed serious felonies, for which he almost certainly would have gone to prison. he was pardoned by gerald ford. nixon showed very little contrition. he soon said, if a president does something, that means it s not illegal. and even after that, he said that he had been railroaded, and should never have been driven out of office in the first place. i ve to tell you, so much of what you ve said between state constitutional convention, and alexander hamilton, reminded me that half of what i know about history is informed by musicals. when you said constitutional convention all i could hear was lin manuel miranda saying i was chosen for the constitutional convention. when you talk about ford pardoning nixon, what do you think the lesson is today? the lesson
was that there might be a pardon power given to a president if there was a miscarriage of justice. or if someone really needed mercy, and was really very penitent about what he or she had done. alexander hamilton was the one who said this has to be a unilateral big power of a president. president has to be able to do this alone. not confirmed by the senate. some said, if a president pardon s, the senate has to confirm that. so the result is, presidents have made this almost into a free crime zone. richard nixon committed serious felonies, for which he almost certainly would have gone to prison. he was pardoned by gerald ford. nixon showed very little contrition. he soon said, if a president does something, that means it s not illegal. and even after that, he said that he had been railroaded, and should never have been driven out of office in the first place. i ve to tell you, so much of what you ve said between state constitutional convention, and