SCOOP: 'Tis the Season for ... Presidential Pardons
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Plus ~ "Brain Rot"
✓ 2:00: Did Thoreau foreshadow doom-scrolling?
✓ 6:00: ‘tis the season for presidential pardons.
✓ 7:00: A PSA on these “historic” times.
✓ 9:00: An underreported detail when it comes to Pres. Biden’s son Hunter legal troubles.
✓ 12:00: The cases. And a couple caveats.
✓ 15:00: Let’s dig into pardons.
✓ 23:00: “A full and unconditional pardon” and why that language matters.
✓ 29:00: Can a president pardon themselves? And what Jenna’s curious about.
✓ 31:00: #ICYMI ... We shift gears to the cases against Pres. Elect Trump.
✓ 35:00: Pres. Trump’s clemency record compared to other modern Presidents, including Pres. Biden.
✓ 36:00: Jenna takes questions from the LIVE audience.
✓ 41:00: Barbara asks about breaking news interruptions, and Jenna provides some professional insight based on her experience.
✓ 48:00: What the networks might be thinking.
✓ 52:00: Why does the president have the power to pardon?
✓ 54:00: Jenna reflects on the Hunter Biden laptop story.
✓ 58:00: We leave you with one pardon from 50 years ago that got a lot of news.
SHOW NOTES
“Statement from President Joe Biden”
“President Biden Pardons Son Hunter” (SmartHER News)
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| 1:01.3 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. |
| 1:04.8 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. is smarter news. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, hello, hello, everybody. |
| 1:24.6 | Welcome to December, the month of December and our very first scoop, tis the season for presidential pardons. |
| 1:26.2 | Tis the season for so many things, including presidential pardons. And that a season for so many things, including presidential |
| 1:29.7 | pardons. And that's actually where we're going to focus the majority of the time for scoop |
| 1:33.8 | today on presidential pardons because we had that late breaking news on Sunday night about |
| 1:39.4 | President Biden pardoning his son, Hunter. And there's a lot of questions about that decision. Why did it |
| 1:47.5 | happen? Why did it happen now? What are the reasons for it? What are the limitations for a pardon? |
| 1:53.6 | What is within a president's power? What does this mean for the future? Why does the president have the |
| 1:58.3 | power to pardon? There's a lot of different ways that we can unpack this story. And because it just came out again late Sunday, kind of late in the day |
| 2:06.3 | Sunday when many people were watching football and it's really leading the news cycle this week, |
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