Jeff Flake: “Well, I think it's made it a little more difficult for him to round up support.”

With the president tweeting on a regular, daily basis that the special counsel is conflicted, that he is leading so-called 12 angry Democrats and demeaning and ridiculing him in every way to be so sanguine about the chances of him being…

And as Mitt Romney said, I think we've fallen short in that regard.

I think it's certainly detrimental to the country, and I think ultimately detrimental to Republicans.

The president's pardon power is nearly absolute. And so, yes.