the there would be a whole list, an explanation, a process. i don t think that that process is totally out the door either tr it s just it s very rare that president obama without that doj process pardon someone. i think the process is out the door because i dealt with the process on behalf of a client. you do to the department of justice, you have to petition them. there s usually five years between the sentence and the and the pardon. when you start, right. yeah, you have to show remorse and so forth. that is out the door. we re going straight to the president here, there s no process at the department of justice. d souza didn t show anything neither did arpaio. we re sliding all over the set today. up next we want to talk about samantha bee doing damage control about that rude comment for ivanka trump. a different comment canceled roseanne barr s show saying this
advise irrelevant micha adviser michael flynn. it s one of the president s most unfettered powers. he can wave a wand and say you get a pardon, you get a pardon just in the same way oprah might be offering a car. and it appears the president s been acting that way. he has been abanding on the traditional justice department process, just take the case of dinesh d souza yesterday, the far right fire brand he was only four years removed from his conviction, he pleaded guilty to campaign finance froud u fraud, normally it s five years that need to pass before someone can go through the office of pardon for the petition to be considered, that does not happen according to justice department in this case. just the president we understand it from the white house was moved by his story. d souza today saying that the president in a phone call yesterday said he was a great voice for freedom, said that had he been treated unfairly, his words were that he had about, use the language, screwed and th
looked at by the special counsel about another meeting before the inauguration. what he was doing with the crown principle of abu dhabi. and so what if they committed a federal crime, no questions about the power of the pardon and what signals the president might be sending to old pals. but let s start this morning with the white house and wall street. this newly triggered trade war picking up stream. there s the class act now from the european union and mexico announcing they will punish imports after the trump administration made it more expensive for people to send steel and aluminum over here. but today, we are seeing serious worries about whether this is going to cost you you and me more from everything from beer to cars and the u.s. might even be looking at some job cuts. so, stocks slid on that. but this morning all smiles because we ve got a bit of a bounceback. you can see the markets are ticking up slightly and that is partly because of a better than expected jobs report out
eugene and shawna are here too. jeff, if you re michael cohen, representing michael cohen and you see this, what are you thinking? i think the message is clear that what is happening is the pardon power s morphing into if you have been charged with something similar to what michael cohen can be charged with, what flynn was charged with, what manafort was charged with, you may be getting a pardon. i think the message is, hey, guys, don t cooperate, stay low, eventually we can help you out. do you think it is that explicit the thought process in the president s mind ore sees folks on fox news, he hears his pals on the phone talking about this and he wants ton please the people around him? i think it s more likely to be those advising and supporting trump trying to help him realize he should stay calm and not have much to worry about. i would be surprised if trump had come to this conclusion on his own. but i think it s interesting when you look at the individuals pardoned that the
blagojevi so you know we re always going after the who, what, where, when, and why. today we re focussing on the last one as the big question for the white house. why is the president considering a pardon nor martha stewart? considering shortening a sentence for governor robb blagojevich? would koh it be a signal to michael cohen the president s long-time loyal who is feeling pressure from robert mueller as he closes in on folks involved with this. or does this have to deal with mueller himself with james comey? rib he served as fbi director and back in 4 james comey was the whoub brought federal charges against martha stewart. peter, there s nothing more frustratings a journalist than having the question we don t know answer to. i m not sure we know the answer as to white president is considering this, but there are signs of where that is going. i think that anybody can sort of read this the way they like, including those individuals you named like the president s attorney michael