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Welcome, it's Arraignment Day in America.

Yeah, I just, oh, you got to laugh or you roll your eyes and cry this stuff.

The media is so obsessed with it.

I do have to give you some internal gossip from some of the political campaigns about it.

I want to take your phone calls as well.

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I actually want to start with a phone call here because I've been getting this quite a bit, and it relates to the rest of this stuff. So, Donna, I want to go to you next. Welcome to the show. Hi there. I appreciate the analysis. It kind of keeps my head straight about all this rigamarole. Thank you. And this is the question I've Googled and discussed with people and nobody

seems to know the answer. So maybe it's a great unknown. Maybe we're venturing into territory

we've never been in before. But the question, if Trump is convicted, either before or after,

and he wins the presidency, he pardon himself that is a good

question and it is uncharted territory I mean we've never had an indicted

president or former president before so yeah so let me let me explain this one

to everybody and thank you very much for the question on it because it relates to

the rest of this.

Can a president pardon himself?

This was actually a question that people began exploring

when Donald Trump was in the presidency

over all the allegations at the time regarding Ukraine and the things that led to his

impeachment. And there are two schools of thought. I will give you both of them. The first is that,

yes, the president can pardon himself because the president has the pardon power, and the

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