you can however you can, rules, norms, law, institutions don t matter. you flout them, and do whatever you can goet away with. that s his business model. now he s president of the united states, and it has much much broader implications and everything he s involved in, including the way he governs and the way he runs his politics have been infected by that, and and the walls are closing in. so david gergen, it won t be until two weeks from now when democrats take control of the house that there would be a democratic led effort in any way to investigate the president. that will be when they first have control of the committees. what about the role of partisan and politics up until this point, the 17 different informations you noted about, how much does politics play in any of them? well, it has enormous political ramifications. and fighting back against all of
there s a process to pardons that again, the president s message yesterday was the process doesn t matter. the institutions don t matter. the rule of law doesn t matter. what matters is what i, donald trump, want to do of the moment. and of the moment means i want to pardon these people and here s the pardon. do you think just is there any chance we re going to get to this i m sure. people are drawing kind of a beautiful mind-style charts that paint the picture of the connections between those who have been pardoned, those who put those people behind bars, those who might be pardoned. is there a chance that all of this that donald trump likes the executive authority. he likes, as donnie said, for once there s something he can do that no one can tell him he can t do. in the end there s no real check on his authority. it s up to the president. i think that kim kardashian west came and made the pitch for sentencing reform and she made the pitch for a 63-year-old