so, yes, everything that is barack obama. we know where donald trump s political career started. with the birther movement. his number one cheerleader was joe arpaio. so for me, i am beyond, you know, fed up with donald trump. that happened 19 months ago. where many people like myself find on a night like tonight, i m still troubled by those good people who are still a part of that 39%. i have richard painter on the phone, an ethics lawyer in the bush white house. richard, one of the things you ve been looking at very closely and very concerned about is the russia investigation. look. you know, the president does have the absolute power to pardon. he pardon joe arpaio. sheriff joe arpaio in his first pardon showing a willingness to issue what some people consider to be political pardons. does this send a message for what he might be willing to do down the line to people who may be connected with him that could be in some kind of trouble with the various russian
they voted for jobs. they re going to deliver on the jobs part. the calm part they never promised. it ain t coming. they re not delivering on nothing right now. just one point, president obama did commute the sentence of chelsey manning. you say semantic, it s not just semantics because if you commute the sentence, the person is convicted of crime but gets out of jail. if you issue a pardon, you re saying the person is absolved from she suggested this would follow normal process. it went around the normal course of pardons. alice, you had something on that. the white house is fine with that. the white house all but told us they weren t doing it the normal way. when she was asked, specifically asked have you sought recommendation from the deputy attorney general or salt an fbi
who knows what exact time line was. you said that arpaio s lawyer found out hours ago. it s curious that the president wants to make so much news tonight. the lawyer for sheriff joe arpaio told me that he was told at 3:00 pacific time, which would be 6:00 which would be two full hours before the white house announced it to the people. that s the paperwork. and transgender ban information was coming out around that time. now we ve had multiple other stories. it s only 9:00 p.m. i find myself wondering what else could break tonight. in a serious note, the president is at camp david. he says he is monitoring this storm. we ve not seen a category 4 hurricane hit the coast of texas since 1961. haven t seen aone anywhere in te united states since 2004. they seem to want to make other news. they got a lot done while monitoring the hurricane for sure. brian stelter just read part of
bill is quadrupling the number of visas that president obama wants for foreign workers. we know the jobs in this country are few and far between, just beginning to get traction on the jobs part of the story for the economic growth in this country and yet now you ve got all of these foreigners coming in and probably going to be taking the jobs that americans need right now. well, the provision i think you re referring to those are for nonagricultural right. congressman, good to have you on the program. we appreciate your time this morning. congressman charlie dent there. a short break and hillary clinton taking major heat after saying the u.s. is where we need to be with syria. take a closer look at that assessment with major general bob scales next. hope you ll follow us on twitter @mariabartiromo. stay with us as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. through usaa, i know a fair price.
i ll have one of the lattes if you re running over there, brian. thanks. $30 billion measure that would require backing cleared a vote in senate with a final vote expected later this month. republicans call it a better bailout but it helps create thousands of jobs. stuart varney says this is just like fantasy island but in this case, it s the jobs, the jobs harry reid says. that s my line. it s fantasy island economics. i added the jobs, the jobs part. good. on two fronts. i ll call you tattoo for the rest of the show. thank you. first of all, you have this $30 billion so-called small business aid package, ok? do you know what it actually does, $30 billion will be used, taxpayer money will be used to buy preferred stock in some troubled community banks. we bought stocks in banks before. big banks. this is called mini top 2, ok? it s a bailout of community banks. this, we are told, is going to president obama says help millions of small business owners get loans.