COLLINS: “Just on the pardoning within nine minutes— is that even possible?”

COLLINS: “Just on the pardoning within nine minutes— is that even possible?”

EVAN PEREZ: “It is possible. I mean, what they can do is they can have his lawyers, the incoming White House lawyers, draft the pardons, the proclamation essentially, and have it take effect when he takes the oath of office. So it can happen within minutes.”

“I mean, we’ve had it happen before. You know, where Jimmy Carter, for instance, on his first full day of office on the 21st, he pardoned the thousands of people who had evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. So there is precedent for doing something like that.”