pardon arpaio? i m not aware of the details of it to the extent to which i can provide you in writing. i would be pleased to do so. but the president has the power to issue pardons with or without the department of justice involved and that has been done in the past in some very dramatic type pardons. this pardon i think was well within the power of the president to do. well, my understanding is that pardon requests usually go through the office of the pardon attorney in the department of justice. and decisions are made according to certain standards set out in that office s rules governing petitions for executive clemency. it has been reported that the process was not followed here, as you so indicate. so what you are saying, in
what was the process, then, by which the decision was made to pardon arpaio? i m not aware of the details of it to the extent of which i can provide you in writing. i would be pleased to do so. but the president has the power to issue pardons with or without the department of justice involved. and that has been done in the past in some dramatic type pardons. this pardon i think was well within the power of the president to do. well, my understanding is that pardon requests usually go through the office of pardon attorney in the department of justice. and decisions are made according to certain standards set out in that office s rules governing petitions for executive clemency. it s been reported that the process was not followed here as
them and they ll get a lot of talk tomorrow on the sunday morning programs an i think we ll talk about them all throughout next week. so i think it was the attempt to bury the stories as katherine mentioned, yes, but i think these are going to be another few stories that are going to hurt the trump administration and his agenda going forward. one of the things that i ve just mentioned of that tri fecta, ronaldo, is the president moved forward in a pardon process and short circuited it. what does that mean going forward for pardons that the president might be doing? well, what it suggests is that the president is going to be aggressive about the use of the pardon power. i mean typically there is an office of the pardon attorney in the justice department, who is atypical matter would carefully review pardon requests and usually somebody has to be incarcerated for years and they consider many factors. here the president just went and spoke off the cuff at an arizona rally and then a d
listen to the roar of the tornado. this is in arkansas. severe weather is now tearing across the southeast today. at least two people have already been killed near birmingham, alabama. dozens of homes are destroyed. another 100 people now injured. we made it just in the nick of time. the good lord just blessed us and we re just glad we re here. we ve lost our house but at least we have i m sorry. we got our family, and that s all that matters right now. wow. that is tragic. chad myers here to tell us about where the storms are right now and what caused this outbreak. chad? well, it was just a big storm in the upper atmosphere. it was cold. temperatures were only in the 50s and 60s. in alabama and mississippi, around 70. sometimes in the spring you can get to be 80 degrees and then you really get the juice going. storms went across parts of birmingham, south of birmingham as well. the biggest storm headed into columbus, georgia. not rotating enough to put a tornado war
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the dead wi