Jonathan Martin on Biden Deliberating Pardoning Cheney, Fauci: That’s a Tough Call

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MARTIN: “That goes to the heart of this deliberation, Willie, and why this is so delicate, because the White House counsel and a handful of senior White House aides, including Jeff Zients, the chief of staff, are having this debate right now in the West Wing, which is, do we leave these folks out in the cold and potentially expose them to Kash Patel's FBI and Donald Trump's White House for any number of charges or some kind of, you know, show trial to get a measure of revenge and, at the very least, make them pay six figures in legal bills to avoid such a case, or do we -- do we offer preemptively pardons to people who there's no proof they've done anything wrong whatsoever, and Willie may not want a pardon in the first place. That's a real tough call.”