you mentioned, the change.org petition to commute his sentence or give him a pardon, he writes, president trump can still make things right. his senior adviser jared kushner is leading efforts to get federal sentencing reforms through congress and trump, himself, recently lauded america as a nation that believes in the power of redemption. trump can render meaning to those words by commuting charles sentence and seeing this redeemed man freed to the new life he can build. interesting to me, kevin, is that president trump is actually going to be in nashville tonight for a rally. as i recall, one of the things we always did for president bush is provide him with local clips before he visited an area so he could get more of a sense of what was going on. if president trump sees anything about this case, i m assuming and hoping that he probably has open ears. i would hope so. republican state senator came out today and also asked for the president to grant clemency. i was at the white
i assume he is represented by a public defender. if this was a mistake on the court side does he have a significant chance for appeal? the problem here is this is a case where a strict application of justice resulted in an injustice. so the obama administration was the one who after the judge said you know, because of the crack changes you should get out nine years earlier. this judge was in error. and the justice department under president obama said, you know, you have to serve your full term. so they started a motion to put him back. now he has been out a year and a half and the new judge looked at the rehabilitation and said to the new justice department attorneys are you sure you want to do this? isn t there a way you can maybe drop charges and let him go? and again, aconsideredding to the technical according to the technical standard the job was to try to send him back so they did. this is one of those cases that cries out for clemency. dana: let me ask about that. tom roga
birtherism and so he asked if they could drop the case and was advised that would be inappropriate with three people with knowledge of the conversation. after talking with sessions, trump decided to let the case go to trial and if arpy woe was convicted, he would grant clemency. now joe arpaio was convicted on july 31st for ignoring a judges to stop arresting migrants because deputies thought this were imgantss. the center for neighborhood leadership in phoenix, it is good to have you with me and i know there is a lot of new information coming out about the background that led up to the eventual pardon last night. but in your own family history, your family faced scrutiny offer joe arpaio watch. arpaio has been doing criminal work for breaking
the reason he has given repeatedly, he feared if i go there to face these allegations, that s really a an attempt for the u.s. to then extradite me from there back to the u.s. for releasing these documents. but five days ago he said, listen, you grant clemency, i will come to the u.s. i will face extradition and, of course, face charges for his involvement in this. the question now is does julian assange keep that promise? of course there s no connection we re not trying to make any connection between that assange demand and the fact the obama administration decided to do this, but the fact is they have done it. five days ago julian assange promised to come here to the u.s. we ll see if he follows through on that promise. and imagine if he does, you will have, i don t know if you want to call it the trial of a century, but you will have quite a legal proceeding here with julian assange, particularly as barbara mentioned, wikileaks involvement in russian hacking and the u.s. electi
with the prosecutor but she did. it was offered and what was offered to her, you don t move forward. as a result of that, you ll spend the rest of your life in jail. she declined that. we can argue that all day and night, but for georgia which provides for the death penalty, 31 states have it, 19 don t, and as a result, she s dead. why didn t she take that plea deal that would have spared her life? her attorney at the time counselled her not to. i think she put a lot of faith in that decision. it s absolutely true there s a process. the other part is board of pardon and paroles has the option to grant clemency. in the cases where they have granted clemency in the last 40 years it was because the sentence was disproportionate to the co-defendant. one other issue is rehabilitation. the system provide says, in all