president any political capital, it won't boost his sagging approval ratings or help the democrats in the midterms. in other words, there's really no political margin in it for this president. but this is one of those case where is we get to see the progressive president barack obama shining through. joining me this morning daf that linser, managing editor for msn msnbc.com and the reporter who broke this story about aaron's botched commutation case in 2012. with her are anthea butler from the university of pennsylvania, ovik roy, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, and lisa cook, economic professor at michigan state university. thanks for coming in. you really did break this story and have been all over this story. walk us through how clarence aaron's case came up again and how this happened. >> sure. i love the way you introduced him because he was a wonderful case regardless. his sentence was so shocking to so many people when it happened, and this was at the height of the drug war when prosecutors