I'm Lana Ulrich, in-house counsel for the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit institution chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution

among the American people. In this episode we the people host Jeffrey Rosen

will be answering your

listeners have been asking. We've been collecting your questions over the past few months

from social media, our weekly newsletter, Constitution Weekly, and email.

Jeff, thank you so much for joining and for answering these great questions. Thank you

for joining and for answering these great questions. Thank you, Lana. It is so wonderful to be here and I need to thank you for

having prepared the phenomenal memo that will be guiding me as I answer these

questions. Lana, dear we the people listeners, is the head of our constitutional

prep team. She is Director of Constitutional Content and in-house

counsel at the National Constitution Center and her superb detailed and

accurate memos allow me to sound like I know what I'm talking about almost every day here at the National Constitution Center.

So thank you, Lana.

Happy to do it, Jeff.

Great.

All right.

Well, the first question is a question that has been in the news lately and this listener question asks,

can the president pardon himself?

So, the answer is, as usual, it's debatable.

The text of the Constitution doesn't strictly answer the question of whether the President can pardon himself if he's committed an offense against the United States.

Some say he can and some say he can't.

So let's try to sum up the arguments on both sides as best we can.

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