think to say it s strange credulity is an understatement. just in the last hour we had jim baker, who is a former u.s. attorney who said if the president is going to pardon roger stone, just get it over with already. his argument being that the pardon power is already politicized and has already been abused by previous presidents, so go ahead and continue sully that, but like this is sentencing. keep this sacrosanct. what do you think? well, he s demeaning the justice department. he s not just demeaning himself by forcing the justice department, at least it seems to me, to lower this sentence recommendation on in response to his tweet. if he exercises the pardon power, it certainly looks like he certainly could do it and that would be a cleaner resolution. and if you look at what the president has said about michael flynn, about paul manafort and
thing was ridiculous, and the whole prosecution was ridiculous, and there were others and i don t know where that is now, but it is an insult to the country and it should not happen. so the president there saying that he stays out of things like you would not believe, but it is really hard, wolf, for the president to make that case given that he has tweeted about it multiple times and tweeted other people and privately the president has been fuming about the sentence recommendation of roger stone who is his long time friend for three decades and first to encourage him to run for president. there are questions going forward about whether or not the president s tweets had an influence over it, and he is denying being directly involved and a lot of people are following him on twitter and the justice department can read them. he said that the whole prosecution was ridiculous, and the president saying that publicly and we heard him say that and now all four federal prosecutors have resi
sentencing recommendation following public criticism by the president. we go to the white house correspondent kaitlan collins who is watching this for us. and it is an extraordinary development. it is hard to explain just how remarkable what we are seeing and how laying this out is. and these are the four prosecutors who signed their name on to sentence recommendation monday night saying that roger stone should get 7 to 9 years in prison for the crimes he committed and the crimes that he has been indicted on and charged with of course. four of them have resigned from the case. this is significant and they are withdrawing the names from this and this is copping the day after they recommended that, and the president was lashing out calling it disgraceful, and then of course, we saw something really stunning, the justice department saying that they were going to overrule the prosecutors, and that sentence recommendation that they had about the 7 to 9 years. of course, wolf, these are th
wednesday? she ll do what good judges do. will he give him the maximum? if i were betting i would say. she has to consider all the factors. and she has to it s a relevant factor for whether to run this in consecutive versus concurrent, only got the 47 months in virginia, but there are a lot of factors to consider. she ll be a conscientious judge. judge ellis got a lot of flak in northern virginia, of course, just last week for the sentencing of manafort to just 47 months or about three years actually in the end in prison despite a sentence recommendation of 24 years. along the same lines, will that kind of impact amy bertman jackson s sentence? that s a great question. she is probably the only one that knows the answer to that but certainly the fact that there has been all of this discussion about whether in this case with judge ellis he received some type of benefit as being kind of a privileged,
the one thing he s famous for doing the first time he was a.g. in the administration of george h.w. bush is that he was the driving force behind the infamous christmas eve 1992 pardons for six senior administration officials who were caught up in the iran-contra scandal, including the secretary of defense. six iran-contra figures pardoned on christmas eve by president bush after bush had already been voted out of office but before next president could be sworn in. william barr is the one who recommended those pardons in iran-contra. the day he started as attorney general, this president s campaign chairman received a sentence recommendation from prosecutors of 19 to 24 years in prison, plus tens of millions of dollars to pay. like i said, it s all happening at once now. news around here. sources say liberty mutual customizes