surrounding that public absence, her decision to not accompany the president on a family trip to camp david this weekend. the president was joined by three of his children and son-in-law jared kushner. the white house says melania trump wa treated for a benign kidney condition in may and has been recovering at the white house. a few days ago, she tweeted, i see the media is working overtime speculating where i am and what i m doing. rest assured, i m here at the white house with my family, feeling great and working hard on behalf of children and the american people. back with me is cnn political analyst amy parnes and julian selzer. amy, did that tweet from the first lady put an end to the mystery or did it spark more speculation? no, it sparked a lot more speculation because if she s feeling great, a lot of people are saying why don t you accompany your husband to camp david. i think what the white house did, it s a messaging problem. they should just admit she s not
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jared kushner is doing, trying to bring attention to cases where people are locked up, for example, for routine drug offenses for long periods of time. president trump seems to have no interest in looking at using his pardon power for people who don t have recognizable names, but he is going after people who have been, according to their supporters, the victims of political persecution or at least whose cases have been highly politicized. that s where his interests seem to lie and raises a question whether he s trying to raise the groundwork for people caught up in the russia investigation. as you point out, people he has pardoned have pretty high profiles. some of them are celebrities themselves. mark warner hit on that last point, vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. he thinks there s a method to trump s pardons. the president s ad hoc use of the pardon power is concerning enough, but the possibility he s sending messages to witnesses in
regulators tell cnn that is not enough and that government-run background checks that include fingerprinting potential drivers would go further in discovering histories of violence, but uber says fingerprints don t offer a complete picture of arrests and convictions. and uber has gone to great lengths to fight any government-run background checks. that s their game plan every single city, every single state, we re going to get a law passed that s just for us. it s their own special law for uber and lyft. a cnn investigation tallied more than 400 lobbyists across the country hired by uber, mostly to fight stricter oversight in many states even writing the laws. cnn s investigation reviewed all 43 states that have laws or rules on driver background checks, and they are strikingly similar. all but massachusetts leave background checks up to uber, and in 31 states the laws passed reflect uber s recommended wording on driver screening in
how they screen drivers. if they really want to put themselves out there as the safe ride home, they should really make sure that they are putting these people out there that are going to get you home safely. reporter: uber s response to the problems and its background checks is the company has made significant investments in improvements and will continue to work with state and local governments to get it right in the future. to conduct its background checks, uber and lift both use a company called checker which uses a potential driver s name and social security number to search federal, state and local courts and other databases for disqualifying records. regulators tell cnn that is not enough. and that government-run background checks that include fingerprinting, potential drivers, would go further in discovering histories of violence. but uber says fingerprints don t offer a complete picture of arrests and convictions, and uber has gone to great lengths to fight any government-