Karine Jean-Pierre suggests Biden is seriously considering “preemptive pardons” for certain Democrats:
“Certainly the president is looking at, you know, reviewing next steps, and there’ll be more to come…”

CNN’s Lee: “So that statement, he said in part, ‘I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.’ Just to understand that sentence, I think it’s important —”

KJP: “Yeah, for sure.”

Lee: “— is that the President believes in the justice system except in some cases?”

KJP: “He believes in the justice system. He believes the facts are — the facts are — obviously, I talked about the gun charges, what legal experts have said, former prosecutors have all agreed virtually no one would be criminally prosecuted — uh — for underlying factors of Hunter’s case. I talked about the gun charges. I talked about the taxes — um — the — the tax cases and there are other factors here — what Republicans have said as they weren’t going to let up. I talked about the upcoming — uh — sentencing and what Hunter and his family have been through. I talked about the appoint by the incoming President on law enforcement positions, and he wrestled with it. He did and I also talked about what Jim Clyburn said. So you’re asking me — uh — about an apology, but Jim Clyburn said himself in a conversation that he had with the President just two weeks ago, the President said — he said the President was reticent when he encouraged the President when he, himself, Jim Clyburn, encouraged the President to move forward with it, Congressman Clyburn — the President responded to him by saying he was — he was reticent — uh — and so, this was not an easy decision. It wasn’t. It wasn’t an easy decision — uh — and — um — you know, it was a lot of circumstances here — uh — and — um — and we can’t — we can’t pass over what legal experts and former U.S. attorneys have said on this — uh — you know — and across the country they’ve all basically agreed virtually — virtually no one would be criminally prosecuted — prosecuted with family offenses with these facts, and I have gone through the under two — two important underlying facts of the cases and, you know, I just don’t have anything beyond that to add or to say — uh — you know, I’ve laid out our thought process. The President has laid out his thought process, and we’ve talked about the case, we’ve talked about his thinking — um — and I just don’t have anything beyond that.”

CNN’s Lee: “Do you consider it upholding norms for the President to basically not engage the press in at least two back to back foreign trips?”

KJP: “What I would say is up upholding norms is what we have been able to do — uh — in the last four years and I would encourage — uh — folks to look at the four years more broadly — um — and what the President has been able to do and what the President ha — has engaged with all of you — um — and again, we — I would say, especially from here — uh — we have always respected and want to continue to respect the freedom of the press and have a healthy back and forth, and that is the norm that I think, yes, we brought back — we brought back into this — from this administration.”

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KJP: Biden “preemptive pardons”; Lee: President believes in justice system except in some cases?