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Wes Moore: “Only 51 people [in the world] have [the] power [to pardon an…”

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Gov. Wes Moore served in combat. Here's what he thinks about the Iran war | Newsmakers

Published March 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 35:13

It is disgusting and it's a grift. And as thankful as I am to be one of only 51 people in the world who can pardon an American for something, right, Only 51 people [in the world] have [the] power [to pardon an American]. And I'm grateful to be one of them. If that's how it's going to be used, I would take it from all of us. And that's one example. Wow. Okay. (35:13–35:15)

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“I did the largest mass pardon in the history of the United States of America, where I pardoned over 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis…”
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“We are a nation at war.”
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“There is no one who could argue that military action was the last resort on this mission.”
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“There's nobody that can argue that we understand what the mission is or mission accomplishment is or the end game.”
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“There is not an international coalescing around this that's going to help us to accomplish the mission.”
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“We are just simply asking a very small portion of our population to go on and take on this weight.”
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“Gas prices [have] driven up over a dollar since this conflict began all across the United States of America.”
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“We're not on pace for a regime change.”
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“We're not on pace for a complete seizing of all the enriched uranium.”
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“Iran should not have a nuclear weapon and there needed to be not just a bipartisan consensus, but there was an international consensus about…”
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“The President of the United States has not just the moral but the legal authority to protect the homeland.”
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“Maryland has put on a case study on how to respond in moments of crisis.”
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“This is the fastest moving large project in America right now in Maryland.”
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“I've quadrupled the number of apprenticeships and trade slots that we have within our state.”
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“I've now passed four budgets, balanced budgets that have actually where the general fund is smaller than the year before.”
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“We have the fastest drops in violent crime anywhere in the United States of America here in the state of Maryland.”
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“We have one of the fastest job growth rates in the entire country in the state of Maryland.”
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“We've gone from 43rd in the country in unemployment to now having an unemployment rate that is systemically lower than the national average.”
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“We've added nearly 100,000 new jobs since I've been the governor and 35,000 new businesses have been added to the state of Maryland since…”
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“We started focusing our time on things like the child tax credit and making enhancements in the earned income tax credit.”
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“The federal government does not run elections.”
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“Every high school graduate now has a chance to have a paid year service to the state of Maryland.”
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“In the state of Maryland, we have now seen how we've been able to give the middle class a tax cut.”
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