Trump could test Nixonian standard of abuse of pardon power
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Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about Nixon era lessons about how much a president can abuse the pardon power, and whether norms, once broken, are gone forever.June 1, 2018
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