as clemency goes in a long time, and that was an absolutely necessary step to clean up that office and bring in a new pardon attorney who has spent her career dedicated to helping the poor and feeding the hungry and sentencing reform. real fast, glenn. on the issue of parred stisa, it was george bush who talked about this who recognized we had 700,000 people exiting our prison each year and we needed to do something about that and push congress to create the second chance act which has been every year since then. when we come back, he s not a president but he played one on tv. can he persuade congress to side with the real president on sentencing reform? a basic principle of justice is that the punishment should fit the crime. mandatory minimums undermine that principle by forcing judges to ignore individual circumstances. our ford dealer t? they think about tires. and what they ve been through lately. polar vortexes,