The AM Joy panel discussed the history of the presidential pardon, starting with Richard Nixon's pardon by President Gerald Ford.
"There's really no evidence that they had an agreement," Paul Butler said. "Of course President Ford suffered in the election. He was not re-elected in large part because he had pardoned the president. "
"Absolutely. Same question similar to you, Joe Conason," Reid said. "You're a scholar of the Clinton era. Was there ever a consideration in the Clinton White House of using pardons to extricate himself from the sort of Whitewater-to-Monica Lewinsky situation?"
"I don't believe there is any evidence that he thought of misusing pardons that way," Conason said.
"It's important to remember Clinton was pursued for years after he left the White House by the Justice Department under President Bush for the pardons he issued to Mark Rich and Pincus Green, which were suspected of being corrupt. There was never any proof they were.
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