Country, and my way of doing that is going to be departing donald trump on day one. i take the pardon authority very seriously. it is an enormously important power of someone in executive position, and i just think it is premature to have any conversation about that right now. we need to believe in our judicial process in this country, or we don t. we either stand by the rule of law or we don t. would you commit to pardoning him on any federal charges against him? what i ve said is very simple, i m going to do what is right for the country. i don t think it will be good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old, former president go to prison. so that s a yes? we shouldn t be promising and holding out for the big leaf of a pardon because it undermines our jury system. i want to bring in washington correspondent for the journal of constitution, tia mitchell. also, former associate white house counsel to george w. bush, and jamele jaffer, and former fbi deputy director o