Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen appeared on Fox News' "Saturday in America" with host Kayleigh McEnany this weekend, where the two discussed a September report from Axios alleging that top Biden administration officials questioned and criticized the way the former president’s team handled pardons and made use of an autopen in the waning days of his White House term.

The Sept. 6 report has resurfaced after President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will be terminating all documents allegedly signed by former President Joe Biden via autopen.

While McEnany acknowledged that autopen use is "par for the course" in the White House and that "every president does it," she argued that the Biden administration’s use of the tool was unusual, pointing to the Axios report as evidence.

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McEnany, who formerly served as press secretary during Trump's first administration, noted that the report claimed the staff secretary responsible for managing Biden's "paper flow" repeatedly requested additional details to confirm the president's intentions with the autopen.

"It wasn't ordinary for me to question whether Trump approved something or not," she added before asking Thiessen if he had the same experience while serving as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter.

Thiessen pointed out that there was a ruling by the Office of Legal Counsel which deemed the use of autopen to be legal as long as the president intended to use it, and shared a story that revealed the great lengths Bush went to in order to avoid using the tool.

"Bush didn't want to have any doubts about things. So I remember once there was a continuing resolution to keep the government open, and he was at the APEC summit out in Asia, and they actually took an aide and flew the bill out to Asia so that he could physically sign the bill," he recalled. "So, you know, that's how seriously [Bush] took this."

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The former Bush staffer argued that the problem for Biden is that "everybody now knows he was non compos mentis" — meaning not of sound mind — and that there were "people making decisions for him all the time."

"The staff secretary clearly had concerns about this and was aware of it and wasn't sure that Biden was actually issuing these orders," he continued. "And so, you know, the pardon is a power of the president himself. And to have pardons signed by autopen when the people running the autopen weren't even sure the president had agreed to pardon somebody, that's pretty bad stuff."

Closing out the segment, McEnany added that the Department of Justice (DOJ) also questioned the clemency process under the Biden administration, which set a presidential record for the largest number of pardons and commutations granted to individuals.

A person familiar with the clemency process told Axios that after Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Dec. 1, 2024, "there was a mad dash to find groups of people that he could then pardon — and then they largely didn't run it by the Justice Department to vet them." 

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In September, the outlet reported that several senior Justice Department officials raised concerns with the White House counsel's office regarding the process to pardon individuals.

Additionally, senior Biden White House officials pushed back internally on requests to use the autopen, according to Axios, which cited emails it obtained.

It said Biden White House staff secretary Stef Feldman repeatedly asked for more information and confirmation of Biden’s intentions with the autopen. 

"When did we get [Biden's] approval of this?" Feldman reportedly wrote in a Jan. 7 email regarding the use of autopen to sign an executive order.

"I'm going to need email from ... original chain confirming [Biden] signs off on the specific documents when they are ready," she was cited by Axios as writing in a Jan. 16 email about using autopen to commute sentences linked to crack cocaine cases.

Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.

Kim Kardashian is publicly sharing her struggles with her brain health.

The reality star, 45, made the decision to get a brain scan after learning that she may have an aneurysm, and when her doctor was reviewing the results, he found that she has "holes" in her brain.

She visited the doctor with Scott Disick, as seen in the latest episode of the family's reality show, "The Kardashians," to "see what my brain looks like." The two underwent the scans, then psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen met with them to go over their results.

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He started by telling Kardashian that she has a "beautiful brain," and that it's "not a brain that gets Alzheimer's."

"You are extraordinary in being positive," Dr. Amen continued, "which is why you're not terribly stressed, anxious or depressed."

He showed her another view from the scan, and she asked, "What are those holes?"

"Yeah, I don't like that," he admitted. "So what the holes mean is low activity … the front part of your brain is less active than it should be. With your frontal lobes as they work now, it would be harder to manage stress. That's not good for you, especially as you're studying and getting ready to take the boards."

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At the time of filming, Kardashian was gearing up to take the California bar exam – she later revealed that she failed.

When discussing the results of the scan later, she told the camera, "That just can't be. It just can't. Not accepting."

"It could be the chronic stress that you've been under, trying to think about taking the boards in a couple months and studying 10 hours a day, not to mention all the other things that go on in your life," Dr. Amen explained. "But we have to make it better."

Kardashian took the bar exam in July, and earlier this month, she opened up about her results.

"Well...I'm not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV," she wrote. "Six years into this law journey, and I'm still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up - just more studying and even more determination."

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"Thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me along the way so far," she added. "Falling short isn't failure — it's fuel. I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let's go!"

Kardashian began her journey toward becoming a lawyer in 2018, when she entered California’s Law Office Study Program, which allows aspiring lawyers to apprentice under licensed attorneys instead of attending law school.

In 2021, the former "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star announced she had passed California's "baby bar" exam in 2021 after three failed attempts. Kardashian completed her six-year program in May.

Fox News Digital's Lori Bashian contributed to this report.