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will be heavily involved in. to date, yes, comey made decisions. he s been faulted for those decisions. but in each of the ig investigations he s been found essentially to be a credible witness. and i think mueller found him to be a credible witness too. so nobody s questioning nobody s questioning comey s honesty and i think that s matters the most to comey. it s one of the things that matters most to comey. i think so far that particular aspect of his legacy has not been damaged. but we ve got another big part, another big part of his legacy coming up with the inspector general s investigation of the carter page five and how that was handled. it always continues, never ends. thank you all so much for starting us off. after the break, we turn to hurricane dorian with my friend al roker. that storm now expected to grow into a cat 4 hurricane as it hits florida over the weekend. and donald trump s love affa affair with the presidential power of pardon hits the brick
they moving forward? i don t know, other than cowards. and there s going to be immense pressure when they come back to recess to do something about it, something so blatant being done as abuse of power can t be ignored. the dangling of pardons was detailed in mueller s reports. and i understand that an argument was made pelosi needed more information. these dangling of pardons have been reported in the new york times and the washington post. it s credible. it s happening in realtime. and it can ti be ignored. we hope. and we put too much dragging us in another direction. it s okay. we put way too much weight on the mueller report, expecting that the mueller report would be kind of lay out of terrain, lay out all of the malfeasance the president has done, obstruction and collusion. there are so many more points for an impeachment of the president based on his daily and
medieval especially trump s wall. black and pointed and black. yes. and the wall is symbolic and will reveal he hasn t been able to accomplish anything. i want to go back to the pardon power and make a wonky point about it. please. the reason he lofves the pardon power is kind of a mistake, it s one of the reimmediatette powers the president has. it was a mistake of the founders. they didn t want to do anything kingly. and would i argue of all of these constitutional forum, the pardon power should be constitutionally remedied, the way congress approves nominees the president makes, congress should have to approve pardons the president makes. it should not be an unremediated power. i was going to talk about i president who doesn t read his peb should be so obsessed with a wall but you re smarter be so i think we should stay there. if you look at pardons and who he gave them to, george w. bush did not pardon scooter libby.