they want to make st the people are deserving. they want to make sure that there s been time for the people to showatonement, that theirliv think it s very interesting in sources attribute the motivation for the president to some instances where he thinks that the justice department has overstepped. it s hard to imagine something more at odds with the concept of having the department recommendations because he s basically saying that he s interested in the department s wrong because he wants to shoth. i wonder, shan, if he s talking about where the paperwork is being produced and not prepared by the justice department and it sounds like conversations right now are within the white house, chris. yeah. remember that we know he did not go through the office of right. with dinesh d souza and with scooter libby and i believe with joe arpaio, as well. that s one fact. the other thing is look at sha. reporter: makes the right point, look at the kind of
state, especially two heads of state where you re not friendly countries. how much can happen at the table no matter how you re prepared for it, it s like a realtime crisis in the making. so when we come back, we ll move on to other topics. man, just got granted a pardon from trump. dinesh de souza and are there more pardons to come? why they may be stepping on the gains we ve seen in the company. and rosanne and samantha bean. one fired for racist tweet and the other kale fafacing calls t fired. double standard or false equivalency? we ll talk about that coming up. and the safey for most parallel parallel parking job goes to. [ drum roll ] .emily lapier from ames, iowa. this is emily s third nomination and first win. um.so, just.wow! um, first of all, to my fellow nominees,
indicted and prosecuted d souza. part of a pattern. one thing is becoming clear. attack the things he believes are wronged and what he must to protect himself and the issues today are a small hint of what could be coming as the russia investigation heating up. in washington, from the washington post, bureau chief phil rut ger. southern district of u.s. and at pace university s law school. and we quoted from the the new york times editorial, start with you. a lot of things to say about the pardons but the notion of the pardon as not a form of clemency or forgiveness but retribution, not really what the pardon was designed to serve. not the function it was designed
is a [ bleep ] department. laura: de souza was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center and five years of probation and community service. a $35,000 fine and counseling. he calls it a failed attempt at reeducation. when republican members of congress who suspected political motivations pushed for release of the fbi file, the department balked. when they turned over the file and made access to the file they found out his political affiliation and work critical of obama had indeed been referenced. from the fbi report it said the following, de souza is likely an ultra conservative right wing author and creator of a documentary critical of the obama administration because of de souza s purr ported conservative beliefs it is likely he orchestrated the excess contributions. the agent s name who wrote the
we all heard the case about how he was doing it like a mafia figure. the fact of the matter is that trump has unfettered pardon power but he can t use it corruptly. and you know, and michael cohen, but all the crimes, obstruction, lying, et cetera, campaign finance, goes list by list. that s exactly what that cast of characters looks like laura: you agree that article 2, section 2, clause one he can fire comey but not for corrupt reasons. laura: you re saying the pardoning of dinesh de souza could be tantamount to obstruction of justice. every single one of those crimes laura: how about mark