It's sad because the pardon power, it's a -- it's a very unusual power, right. It's completely unchecked. And it's designed to give our system of justice something that it doesn't naturally have, which is mercy, you know.
Rep. Jim Himes discusses the implications of President Trump's use of the pardon power, particularly in relation to Michael Flynn.
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The president has now assured through this appointment that the single most important intelligence collection tool... is probably the worst appointment into the intelligence community I have ever seen.
The only right answer here, Margaret, the only right answer, and I don't have a lot of confidence that it's going to happen, is that the President says, you know, 'oops, that was a mistake,' and pulls the Bill Pulte appointment.
Our elections are not corrupt. They are fair and free, and that is sort of an undebatable fact based on the evidence that is out there.
What you have is somebody who is so demented that they are either wittingly or unwittingly participating in a coup d’état.
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