If I were on trial for my life, I'd want a dozen mitigation specialists to figure out ways to frame this trial in ways that would save my life.

Things haven't changed all that much.

It certainly could be a mess.

What Clinton did reinforced the perception that there's a lot of harm and not a lot of good to be done with the use of this power. There's a lot of political harm that you risk by pardoning the wrong person. ... Bush's pardons are extraordinarily safe.

She's served the most onerous part of her sentence. Home confinement isn't great, but at least she's out of prison.

A judge would say 'He's a good citizen and unlikely to do this again'.