President Donald Trump issues 15 pardons, including two Russia figures and Blackwater guards

Kayla Tausche reports President Trump has pardoned former campaign aide George Papadopoulos and ex-lawmakers Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter. She joins Shepard Smith to discuss. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued pardons to 15 people, including two men convicted as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and four former Blackwater USA guards who were convicted in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Others who received pardons included two former Republican congressmen who admitted committing financial-related crimes. Trump also commuted all or some of the criminal sentences of five other people, as the president faces his last month in office. One of those people, south Florida health-care facility owner Philip Esformes, was sentenced in September 2019 to 20 years in prison for what prosecutors said was “the largest health care fraud ever