once again the president s tweets seem to be undercutting those efforts from attorneys. a federal contractor with top secret clearance is now the first person for facing charges for leaking classified charges under the trump administration. the justice department charging, reality winner leaking information to an online outlet. they say the document that weir leaked was published by the intep september. that includes details of a 2015 russian military attack on a software supplier. winners do report on thursday. national correspondent judgment scuitto has the latest for us from walk. let s talk about this nsa document first. we know it was classified, prepared in may. some of the latest intelligence regarding russian interfeerps in the election t. focus was on russian attacks, traced back to russia on voting systems. probing attacks. this does not change the
threatening tweet at mr. comey, and now you have apparently a written contemporaneous record of a conversation which, as one former prosecutor put it to me, looks like the president himself suggesting he had improper intent in terms of wanting to interfere with that investigation. of course all of this may just be theoretical. it s hard to envision the trump justice department charging the sitting president. let me go to u.s. senator angus king of maine, an independent in the united states senate. he s on the intelligence committee. senator, look at this. if this were a perry mason case or some sort of television drama where the person was going to rat out the boss man, if you will, in some sort of conspiracy, that guy was talking about getting immunity because he had something to say and he wanted to protect himself from prosecution himself, get a lighter sentence or no sentence at all. all of a sudden you find out that the boss man goes to the prosecutor and says, you know what? i
behind bars. had a jury of eight men, four women found him guilty on 31 of 32 counts, 11 involving homicide. this was a guy on the lam for 16 years. justice delayed, not justice denied. very good. dana? there s a lot of things i would do for the dog. one thing i won t do, teach jasper how to use an ipad. on the front page of the wall street journal, he got a dot matrix, i have been dying to get that, they talk about a young woman, her job is to train dogs. she trains them to use an ipad so they can play while they aren t home. i think it has gotten a little overboard. you are accusing a woman of going overboard on her dog? i am. and you and i will have a chance to talk about it later on red eye. turned it into a plug, shut me out. you re up. you know what we have on?
san francisco earlier today. we need to ensure incarceration is used to punish, deter, and rehabilitate, but not merely to warehouse and forget. this is why i have today mandated a modification of the justice department charging policies so that certain low level, nonviolate drug offenders with no ties to gangs or cartels will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. okay. we could talk about this for the whole hour, only have one block. i am going to make it quick as possible. so let me start with eric because people might be surprised that you and the attorney general agree about this. we do. i love the idea of letting taking it out of the fed, don t make it a federal issue, bring it to the states, let the judges at the state level make the decisions. i don t like the mandatory think what would happen if bill clinton, george bush or barack obama were caught any of these
san francisco earlier today. we need to ensure incarceration is used to punish, deter, and rehabilitate, but not merely to warehouse and forget. this is why i have today mandated a modification of the justice department charging policies so that certain low level, nonviolate drug offenders with no ties to gangs or cartels will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. okay. we could talk about this for the whole hour, only have one block. i am going to make it quick as possible. so let me start with eric because people might be surprised that you and the attorney general agree about this. we do. i love the idea of letting tang it out of the fed, don t make it a federal issue, bring it to the states, let the judges at the state level make the decisions. i don t like the mandatory think what would happen if bill clinton, george bush or barack obama were caught any of these