requires pardons, we will give them pardons. reporter: by dangling the prospect of pardons, trump has complicated future negotiations for potential plea deals for hunlses of varieties. the prosecutor probing trump s efforts toover turn the election asked for f.b.i. security after former president singled out black prosecutors who launched investigations with ties to the former president. if these radical vicious racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal i hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in washington, d.c., in new york, in atlanta reporter: trump also lamented former vice president mike pence did not overturn the election, writing in a statement, mike pence did have the right to change the outcome. unfortunately, he didn t exercise that power. actually, pence could not have. doing so would have been unconstitutional.