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Ryan Bridge: Nobody is above the law, until they are · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This is the American well would be American presidents now
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  Speaker 1: outgoing and the one elect. No one will be above
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  Speaker 1: the law. American principle that no one is above the law.
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  Speaker 1: Why do Americans keep saying nobody is above the law
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  Speaker 1: and then repeatedly showing us that some blatantly are. Biden
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this during the campaign. Nobody is above the law.
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  Speaker 1: He said it one hundred times. He was talking about
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  Speaker 1: charges against Trump, of course, but on principle, he said,
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  Speaker 1: the same applies to him and his family, including his
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  Speaker 1: son Hunter. Then here we are. He's lost the election,
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  Speaker 1: and quicker than you can say, get out of jail free,
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  Speaker 1: he has flip flopped on that. Convictions wiped clean. Hunter
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  Speaker 1: now won't face any jail time or have a criminal
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  Speaker 1: record for two separate court cases, some of them involving
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  Speaker 1: gun charges. By the way, their constitution allows this, It
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  Speaker 1: allows presidents to pardon pretty much anyone for federal crimes
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  Speaker 1: except them, so for impeachment. Trump did it on the
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  Speaker 1: way out too when he was in last time. Obama
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  Speaker 1: both bush'es FDR apparently hit the record with more than
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  Speaker 1: two thousand pardons when he left office. At the same
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  Speaker 1: time that Biden proves his son is in fact above
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  Speaker 1: the law. You've got the Department of Justice dropping cases
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  Speaker 1: against Trump, left, right and center. Why well, they have
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  Speaker 1: a policy of not going after sitting presidents. So we
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  Speaker 1: have a Department of Justice policy. We have that pesky
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  Speaker 1: written constitution to blame, and that's fine. It's their country,
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  Speaker 1: it's not mine. But aren't you kind of glad that
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  Speaker 1: we don't mix politics with justice here like they do
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  Speaker 1: in the States. When we say nobody's above them law,
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  Speaker 1: we pretty much mean it, don't we. I know some
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  Speaker 1: will argue that we apply the law unevenly, and there
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  Speaker 1: are cases to be made for that, but on political grounds, nah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really do that. This is the Department going
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  Speaker 1: after person a because they vote for labor or they
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  Speaker 1: vote for act or whatever. It just doesn't work like
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  Speaker 1: that here. The Americans do many things well, but separation
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  Speaker 1: of powers, particularly when it comes to these types of issues,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't appear to be one of them. For more from
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