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>>> THE PRESIDENT’S LONGEST Make the world you want.
>>> THE PRESIDENT’S LONGEST SERVING POLITICAL ADVISOR, THIS
MAN RIGHT HERE, ROGER STONE, IS
SET TO BE SENTENCED TOMORROW
AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY OF
OBSTRUCTION, LYING TO CONGRESS
AND WITNESS TAMPERING.
IT WAS THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S
INTERFEERNGS
INTERFEERNGS INTERFERENCE IN HIS CASE LAST
WEEK WHEN THEY CHANGED THE
RECOMMENDATION TO THE JUDGE THAT
CAUSED THE FOUR CAREER PROS
PROSECUTORS TO RESIGN.
ONE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE ENTIRELY.
JUSTICE ENTIRELY. TRUMP HASN’T KEPT HIS FEELINGS
QUIET.
QUIET. GOING AS FAR AS GIVING HIMSELF
ANOTHER NEW TITLE.
>> I’M ALLOWED TO BE TOTALLY
INVOLVED.
INVOLVED. I’M ACTUALLY, I GUESS THE CHIEF
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. I HAVEN’T GIVEN IT ANY THOUGHT.
IN THE MEANTIME I THINK HE’S
GOING THROUGH A PROCESS BUT I
THINK HE’S BEEN TREATED VERY
UNFAIRLY.
UNFAIRLY. >> FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR
COUNT
COUNT COUNTER INTELLIGENCE, FRANK.
I THINK I READ THAT HE WOULD
DANGLE PARDONS IN FRONT OF PAUL
MANAFORT AND MIKE FLYNN.
I MEAN, TRUMP HAS BEEN THINK
ABOUT PARDONS LITERALLY SINCE
THE DAY HE GOT THERE.
DO YOU THINK FOR A MINUTE HE’S
NOT READY TO GO WITH A PARDON
FOR ROGER STONE?
>> WE’RE ALL BEING GROOMED RIGHT
NOW FOR THE PARDONS OR
COMMUTATIONS.
COMMUTATIONS. WE ARE THE PREVERBIAL FROG IN
THE SIMMERING POT OF WATER AND
THE WATER IS NOW STARTING TO
BOIL.
BOIL. AND WE CANNOT SUCOMEB TO THAT.
WE’VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS
NOT NORMAL.
NOT NORMAL. AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS
NORMAL?
NORMAL? TRUMP SAYING HE’S THE CHIEF LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. THIS GOES BACK TO DECEMBER OF
2017.
2017. IF YOU RECALL ATTORNEY GENERAL
JEFF SESSIONS AT THE TIME
INTRODUCED TRUMP TO A LARGE
CROWD AT AN FBI ACADEMY
GRADUATION AND INTRODUCED HIM AS
THE CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICER OF THE NATION.
I IMMEDIATELY GOT TWEETS FROM
FBI OFFICIALS IN THE BACK OF THE
ROOM SIGHING SESSIONS JUST
SCREWED UP.
SCREWED UP. WELL, IT’S NOT A SCREW UP.
IT’S A DELIBERATE STRATEGY.
AND LET ME TELL YOU VIEWERS WHAT
THEY ALREADY KNOW.
THE CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFRGS
IS NOT AMONG THE ROLES OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WE CAN’T BECOME NUMB TO THAT
EITHER.
EITHER. THIS IS A DELIBERATE STRATEGY TO
PUT HIMSELF IN CHARGE OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
ENFORCEMENT. >> ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR AND
PEOPLE CLOSE TO HIM SOMEHOW GOT
IT OUT TO "THE WASHINGTON POST."
IF THERE IS A PARDON THAT
FURTHER UNDERMINES JUSTICE THAT
WAS MADE OUT BY CAREER
PROSECUTORS SO MUCH SO THAT --
SO TAINTED, SO CONTAMINATED THAT
FOUR CAREER PROSECUTORS QUIT THE
CASE, WOULD A PARDON NECESSITY A
RESIGNATION FROM THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL?
GENERAL? >> I THINK WE’VE ALREADY
ANSWERED THIS QUESTION.
IT’S RHETORICAL.
IT’S RHETORICAL. THESE HAS TO BE RUN THROUGH THE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. BARR HAD A CHANCE TO SAY NO TO
THE PARDONS.
THE PARDONS. AND I DON’T THINK HE’S GOING TO
DO IT.
DO IT. I GOT A GOOD PIECE OF ADVICE ONE
TIME MOVING UP THE CAREER RANKS
IN THE FBI.
ONE OF MY MENTORS SAID TO ME,
FRANK, IF ANY AGENT WALKS IN
YOUR OFFICE AND SAYS HE’S
THINKING ABOUT RESIGNING, TAKE
HIS BADGE AND WISH HIM WELL.
THE POINT BEING WE’RE NOT IN A
ROLE THAT YOU CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY
DO WHILE YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT
MAYBE RESIGNING OR RETIRING.
YOU NEED TO GO AND TRUMP SHOULD
DO THE SAME THING WITH BARR.
IF YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT BEING
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND
WHETHER YOU SHOULD BE IN A ROLE,
YOU SHOULD GO.
>> IT SEEMS NOBODY BELIEVES THE
PUSHESBACK BECAUSE HE’S BEEN SO
SUBSERVEIANT TO TRUMP.
SO
SO IF THESE ARE GENERAL ISSUES OF
CONCERN, NO ONE IS BUYING IT.
>> WE’RE WATCHING THE RULE OF
LAW IN THIS COUNTRY
SYSTEMATICALLY UNDER ASSAULT
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP DECLARES
HIMSELF THE CHIEF LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, IT SHOULD
SEND CHILLS DOWN THE SPINE OF
ANY AMERICAN THAT KNOWS WHAT THE
COUNTRY IS ABOUT.
THE WORLD’S OLDEST
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. IT IS, FRANKLY, TERRIFYING.
WE’RE SEEING A SEIZING OF POWER
BY A PRESIDENT WHO IS ACQUITTED
BY THE SENATE AND NOW UNCHECKED.
WE’VE SEEN THE COLLAPSE OF
CHECKS AND BALANCES.
AND THIS IS THE ISSUE, NOT TO
CHANGE THE SUBJECT, BUT ON THE
DEBATE STAGE TONIGHT IS THAT
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION.
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. NOBODY’S PERFECT.
NOBODY’S PERFECT. EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES.
WE’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE PERFECT
CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
BUT ALL OF THE CANDIDATES ON THE
DEMOCRATIC DEBATE STAGE, I
BELIEVE ARE FIDEL TS THROUGH OUR
SYSTEM.
SYSTEM. SO, THE SCALES OF JUSTICE IN OUR
IMPERFECT WORLD AND IMPERFECT
SYSTEM, IT DOESN’T MEAN THAT THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
GETS TO PARDON HIS FRIENDS,
PARDON HIS CRONIES AND WE WILL
MOVE, SHOULD HE BE RE-ELECTED I
THINK INTO AN AREA WHERE THESE