I said I would abide by the jury decision, and I will do that-ish for now.

I'm Scott I with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

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And gentlemen, Steve hosted an episode this week talking about one aspect of the Hunter Biden pardon by his daddy. I'd like to take another

approach to this because I think that this says something about his, about Biden's party

at its core that I haven't heard talked about too much yet. I will agree with Steve in that the president has,

you know, unlimited constitutional power to do what he did. I'm not challenging that. I'm not saying

that he couldn't have done that. And, you know, honestly, if one of my kids were in a jam and I was

given the opportunity to pardon them, yeah, I'd probably do that. I probably also wouldn't stand up in public and I was given the opportunity to pardon them.

Yeah, I'd probably do that.

I probably also wouldn't stand up in public and say I wasn't going to do it.

There you go.

But here's the thing.

Bill Clinton years ago pardoned his half-brother Roger who had been found guilty on cocaine charges. Donald Trump pardoned his daughter's father-in-law,

Charles Kushner on tax evasion and other crimes. But my understanding is Stephen Green,

both of these people had already served time on this. And most presidential pardons in general

are done as kind of a way to wipe the slate from

something that happened in the past, not to get somebody, in most cases, out of punishment

that hasn't been levied yet, or honestly, to prevent them from being charged with other crimes,

as we see in this case, because the president

did not only pardon his son from the gun charges where he was able to acquire a gun by lying

on a federal form about his addiction, but also on the tax charges, where he was taking in money

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