jared kushner is doing, trying to bring attention to cases where people are locked up, for example, for routine drug offenses for long periods of time. president trump seems to have no interest in looking at using his pardon power for people who don t have recognizable names, but he is going after people who have been, according to their supporters, the victims of political persecution or at least whose cases have been highly politicized. that s where his interests seem to lie and raises a question whether he s trying to raise the groundwork for people caught up in the russia investigation. as you point out, people he has pardoned have pretty high profiles. some of them are celebrities themselves. mark warner hit on that last point, vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. he thinks there s a method to trump s pardons. the president s ad hoc use of the pardon power is concerning enough, but the possibility he s sending messages to witnesses in