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who s could be in legal jeopardy. last summer according to the washington post, the president even asked advisers whether he can pardon aides, family members, even himself in connection with this probe. recently, the president has appeared to dangle, that s the key word now, the possibility of a pardon for cohen. in an unexpected move days after the fbi raid on cohen, trump pardoned scooter libby, the former aid to you dick cheney convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007. one of the prosecutors in the libby case tells yahoo news he believes the parred be was intended to send a message to mike cohen to stay loyal. i don t see any other logic to it, he said. joining me now is the carol pa lee zee, federal and white collar defense attorney. thank you for joining us. what seems on the surface to be a dangling operation could, it be anything else? it couldn t be anything else. fact is, there s explicable timing here before the fact is over the weekend the president went o
message. whether that is the intention behind it, whether they are looking to send a message. i ve also seen this is a message to comey because of a connection comey had in terms of the libby case. i think all of the above could be true. i do think that the president, you know, was very conscious last year when he discovered that he had pardon power and what that meant, which he didn t really process until after the joe arpaio case, according to my reporting. the president was really enthralled by this and loved talking about how he could pardon anybody he wanted to. not entirely true, but it s close enough. i do think it is hard not to see given what we know about how his folks, his legal team has approached the issue of pardons with potential with witnesses in this case and targets in this case, flynn and manafort, it s hard not to see this as somehow not related. maggie, what s your sense of whether or not, whatever the atmosphere is inside the white house, whatever it is that t
the other. do you buy it? i m not sure the press secretary has a tremendous amount of credibility. no, i don t buy it at all. i think that this is, this is a tra travesty of justice. what we re seeing now is as it s unfolding, we don t want to see that trump is he s gone ahead and done this. it s really disgraceful. jim comey was involved in the libby case. the deputy attorney general at the time. he appointed the special counsel who investigated the case. is it coincidence that this pardon for libby is happening on the same day comey s excerpts came out? no, i don t think it is a coincidence at all. i think donald trump has done a r very good job. a masterful job of distraction. over here, over there. and this is i think we re more
ayesha. i wanted to ask about the pardoning process. it seems like we have had these three pardons. they all were somewhat high-profile or gotten media attention. how is the president deciding when to take action on a case, i mean with arpaio, he hadn t even been sentenced yet. the libby case was very old. how are you deciding when to take action on these cases? and can a normal person who feels like they have been unjustly convicted, can they get their case to the white house? i mean there is a justice department process, but it seems like the president is taking special interest in certain cases. again, the president has exercised constitutional authority, and he determines when and how he s going to use that when it comes to the pardon process. he looks at each one individually and makes a decision. and we make that announcement. nadia. what are you calling?
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