- Can I just ask a question?
What if Donald Trump were elected president?
Then what happens?
- This is gone because, first of all,
he would control the Justice Department.
So if you're talking about this case,
he controls the Justice Department.
He just dismisses the--
if it's still pending, he dismisses the case.
It's gone.
- Couldn't he pardon himself?
- Well, there's a debate about that.
But if it's a pending case, he just
basically withdraws the authority of the United States
behind the prosecution.
And he has the absolute right to do that.
VAN JONES: The conversation we just
heard is a conversation that lawyers had
with Donald Trump months ago.
- Oh, I'm sure that's right.
VAN JONES: This explains why he threw his hat in the ring.
This explains the whole deal.
He has gamed this thing out.
And he thinks he's going to get away with it.