analyst, he should get a refund from law school. i m not sure if he s aware of the separation of powers but the presidential pardon is a constitutional power. the reason it was implemented was so the executive branch could have a check over what were perceived gross abuses of our system. a president can do that. having said that, joe is right. he nailed it. i m sure that richard will try to make the case otherwise. there is no predicate crime. zero evidence of collusion, no less conspiracy to collude or any crime at all. if mueller was really doing his job, which he s not, he would be investigating the real russian collusion which is collusion between the hillary team and russians. there is real evidence of that. laura: richard, it came up tonight that they are upset about manafort s ukrainian business dealings. which i guess go back some years involving a lot of different people, including one russian
from law school. i m not sure if he s aware of the separation of powers but the presidential pardon is a constitutional power. the reason it was implemented was so the executive branch could have a check over what were perceived gross abuses of our system. a president can do that. having said that, joe is right. he nailed it. i m sure that richard will try to make the case otherwise. there is no predicate crime. zero evidence of collusion, no less conspiracy to collude or any crime at all. if mueller was really doing his job, which he s not, he would be investigating the real russian collusion which is collusion between the hillary team and russians. there is real evidence of that. laura: richard, it came up tonight that they are upset about manafort s ukrainian business dealings. which i guess go back some years involving a lot of different people, including one russian
it s clearly delineated. clearly that is not good enough for the democrats. not only are they setting up for one path or impeachment. they are setting up a path to politically bankrupt the president. we all have a political bank account. i ran for office, you build it up for positive credit, good speeches, there is a way to diminish that. negative advertising. this is an ongoing negative advertising campaign against the president. what joe said is important, though. there is no predicate crime here, mark. not only could the department of justice handled well by the way, an investigation of counterintelligence investatn into rsian collusion, but the fact there was nredicate crime to appoint a special counsel to investigate the president says this was meant as a political operation as well to diminish the political capabilities and to basically drain the political bank account of the president. one more thing, i think it was also sent as a message to people joining the trump administrati
it s clearly delineated. clearly that is not good enough for the democrats. not only are they setting up for one path or impeachment. they are setting up a path to politically bankrupt the president. we all have a political bank account. i ran for office, you build it up for positive credit, good speeches, there is a way to diminish that. negative advertising. this is an ongoing negative advertising campaign against the president. what joe said is important, though. there is no predicate crime here, mark. not only could the department of justice handled well by the way, an investigation of counterintelligence investigation into russian collusion, but the fact there was no predicate crime to appoint a special counsel to investigate the president says this was meant as a political operation as well to diminish the political capabilities and to basically drain the political bank account of the president. one more thing, i think it was also sent as a message to people joining the trump adm
with a free and fair press you would expect they would do basic things like journalism and say something like hey, is there a predicate crime we are investigating here? tucker: yeah. what was the actual crime? i don t believe the collusion story at all. but the fact is even if there was collusion, collusion is not a crime. there was none of that. this is an embarrassment. journalism completely failed us. this is their most embarrassing moments in a series of embarrassing moments in the last few decades. tucker: well, you would think someone in the press would sail i don t like trump, i get it or i disagree with his policies. fine. what would happen if it happened to me? any american, it could happen to carter paige or roger stone why couldn t it happen to you? why shouldn t we worry about that? i have heard you bring this up before and i hope i get it. listen, in some respects we are preaching to the choir for some viewers but we have