Hear the Trump statement one source told Maggie Haberman was a 'confession'

CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with New York Times reporter and CNN senior political analyst Maggie Haberman after former President Donald Trump gave multiple television interviews. #CNN #News

[censusgary]

“A couple of lawyers told me I could pardon myself.”
Let me guess: Those lawyers are now some of your criminal co-defendants, right?

[Jericho]

If he hasn’t broken the law, why would he need to be pardoned…?

[UncleEbenezer]

Let him babble long enough, he’ll confess to crimes we never even suspected him of.

[ronaldcole]

As it's been said, a pardon is an admittance of guilt. A self pardon would be that admittance. Then he'd find out the courts wouldn't uphold his self pardon after he admitted guilt. Hence why he didn't.

[AniBAretz]

What I love most about Maggie Haberman is that she comes across very much like a Fair Witness from Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." Her objectivity, coupled with detailed observations, are clearly stated and well contextualized. She is amazing.

[Idlewyld]

The idea a President can pardon themselves is beyond idiotic. How can anyone take that idea seriously?? Totally insane.

[teresalegler]

Let him keep on talking. He can’t resist responding.

[camelsheit_on_the_walls]

These days it is not uncommon to see comments about Hitler's Germany, making comparisons with today's goings-on, refreshing our memory of past abhorrences that frighteningly echoes out in our society all too loudly today.
It stirs more personal memories in many of us, too.
I'm a Norwegian. My grandfather, working as a railroad maintenance man during the time of the German occupation, was by pure luck spared a very certain death when the Norwegian resistance, in a last minute change of plans, decided NOT to blow up the railroad where a German regiment were to travel. Same Germans who forced my grandfather to go before their train on this little contraption that he used (I do not remember what it is called), just so he would be the one blown into the air, were there to be any railroad "sabotage."
This was before my mother was conceived (and her younger siblings).
Sometimes when looking back on this episode in my family's history, I am very aware of how the existence of myself, my brother, our cousins, and innumerable more human beings, boils down to pure luck.
And yes of course this somewhat personal experience/history, combined with reading loads of History, has me also very aware of what fascism looks and acts like.
Added to that, I'm at the moment living in a South American Banana Republic, which nefarious, stupid, inept, and ruthless regime is sadly, tragically, becoming increasingly authoritarian.

And this I'll say: Should trump get into the White House again, Banana Republics will become peanuts compared to his Covfefe Republic.
And the first thing he'll embark on is a revenge spree, naturally, because that's his nature.
Things will be ugly.
Don't ever give him the chance, you good, sensible people of USA, *don't you ever give him that chance.*

[wileyschmitt]

He went for that damn air accordion BIG TIME in that last clip (his biggest tell).

[darrellrees]

If the Constitution is ambiguous on whether or not a president could pardon himself, it is only because the framers could never envision a scenario where it would be attempted.

[sixbladeknife]

This traitor is still walking around free, unbelievable.

[nmflash]

"People said, 'Would you like to pardon yourself?"...laughed out loud at that one!

[garykubodera]

I'll post this again... trump should have been arrested, placed in handcuffs, held in isolated cell and hauled before a judge to answer for his actions AS SOON AS THEY FOUND JUST 1 PAGE-just like anyone else if found with these documents!! How is this guy not sitting in a cell AWAITING TRIAL LIKE ANYONE ELSE is beyond belief!! He should have been treated like any other national security threat to this country.. A disabled US Army Veteran

[MarmaladeSally]

A pardon is by definition an admission of guilt.

[uuic]

“Once you get a subpoena you have to turn them over”….. “ I know this, I don’t even know that” Holy shiteballs 😳

[melly]

Once you hear the phrase "couple of friends" or " several lawyers" he's lying 😂😂😂

[YardHead]

What a Time to be living in America, Lord help us!!!!

[seandean]

A pardon comes with an official admission of guilt and loss of fifth amendment immunity. It simply takes away the sentence, not the crime. If convicted he will always be convicted.

[randal_gibbons]

"I know this. I don't even know that."

-TFG, Donald J Trump

[floridacrackerguitartips]

I worked in the defense industry for 36 years and one of its prime missions was protect classified information. The companies I worked for had a security infrastructure, routine training, clearance management, and document tracking to assure that classified information was protected. The way Trump took classified information, and some of it being sensitive compartmented information, and didn't return it when requested is beyond belief. If I did a fraction of what he did, I would be sitting in jail right now awaiting trial. It's insane that he remains a free man and is leading GOP polls to get back into the White House.