presidential pardon friday night and the washington post is now reporting trump had tried to intervene even before arpaio was convict tsd last month. according to the post, trump asked attorney general jeff sessions whether he could instruct federal prosecutors to drop the case. he was told that would be inappropriate. the white house has confirmed the post s report saying it was a normal discussion about legal matters. a normal discussion about legal matters. joining me now is republican strategist evan zig freed, the former chief ethics lawyer for rich thank you for all of you for being with us. richard, let me start with you. i ve seen tweets from you about this. i guess there are questions people have. would such a conversation be legal? and would such a conversation be ethical? well certainly not ethical. it s not appropriate for the president to try to influence a
what evan spoke of and i spoke of there is there a problem. if there isn t bipartisanship and the democrats do promote fear instead of cooperating, we ll get the worst of all possible worlds, polarization, no legislation and angry and restive public. harris: let s hope they don t take the kuf the outgoing president obama. boy is that bad, the republicans have to work with the democrats too. harris: doug, evan, thank you. thank you. harris: a show of faith as donald trump was sworn in as the new president of the united states. more about the religious leaders from varying backgrounds who stood with them
evan zig freed is the author of gop gps, doug schoen former adviser to president bill clinton and fox news contributor as well. good to see you. you, too as well. harris: you have 68 democrats who decide to skip the inauguration, no one missed them, apparently, it was not a headline. here s what it sets up. many are women, people of colors, certain groups are not represented at the table if they continue to sit out. how in the world is your party justify they were elected to be there, how do they justify that? justify it given the protests that we saw, the million woman march, which arguably matched intensity and numbers, the crowd at the inauguration. country s become so polarized that what you are saying which makes common sense, harris, we need to work together, you got to be there. but with the country dividing already and the polarization being starker and starker, there is pressure on those democrats not to contribute, not to cooperate, thus making
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what evan spoke of and i spoke of there is there a problem. if there isn t bipartisanship and the democrats do promote fear instead of cooperating, we ll get the worst of all possible worlds, polarization, no legislation and angry and restive public. harris: let s hope they don t take the kuf the outgoing president obama. boy is that bad, the republicans have to work with the democrats too. harris: doug, evan, thank you. thank you. harris: a show of faith as donald trump was sworn in as the new president of the united states. more about the religious leaders from varying backgrounds who stood with them backgrounds who stood with them