Pardon Politics (with Chris Christie)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, Axe and Heilemann are joined by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie! The Hacks dive into Christie’s unique insights as Donald Trump’s former Transition Team Chairman to explore what a second Trump term might look like: which cabinet picks are likely to stick, and which ones are simply Trump’s way of flipping the bird. Plus, the guys unpack the Hunter Biden pardon drama and ask Christie for his thoughts on the Kushner ambassadorship—an ironic twist, given their history.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.0	It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:14.0	You've lost this had several times that the president would not pardon or commute sentences for his son, Hunter.
0:27.3	I just want to make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months.
0:30.0	The president's saying it would not.
0:31.7	It's still a no.
0:33.0	It's still a no.
0:33.6	It's still a no.
0:35.7	It will be a no.
0:36.9	It is a no. And I don't have anything else to add.
0:39.8	Will he pardon his son? No. Well, that was then. And this is now, Heilman.
0:46.5	Yeah. Yes. I actually went back and looked at the, he was interviewed by David Muir when he was over
0:53.5	in Europe in June.
0:56.0	David Muir asked him, will you accept the verdict?
0:58.1	He said, yes.
0:59.0	Are you ruling out of pardon?
1:00.7	He said yes.
1:01.7	Then, I believe two weeks later at the NATO summit in Washington, late June, he was
1:09.9	asked again.
1:13.1	And again, he said, without even being asked whether he was going to rule out a pardon. He said directly, I'm not going to pardon my son. I believe those
1:17.9	are only two examples of countless examples. Yeah, including one. Yeah, some after the election.
1:23.4	I don't. So, uh, there's a lot of it. You can make a lot of super cuts if you were in the mood to do super cuts right now.
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