On, dude . Reporter virginia stateur tn who stole an armored personnel carrier. An a woman and her baby trapped in a sdent. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. Ri and liftoff. A trio of astronauts blasted off today for a mission on the International Space station. applause she went through a little litth patch, but shes doing great, and were very proud of ar. People love you. Glor triumphant return for Steve Scalise today, one year after he was shot on a baseball d. T onow, first of all, i want to welcome the whip back. applause glor this is our western edition, good evening. We are going to begin here tonight with the president s latest use of his clemency powers. The constitution gives him that right to pardon or commute. Today he commuted the life ence of a drug convict. That means shell be released from federal prison, though her conviction will stand. She had a highprofile advocate, reality tv star kim kardashian, who made her case directly to the president at the white house. Paula reid
Telling cnn President Trump is preparing a big, bold new wave of pardons, potentially dozens of people. Paperwork is now being assembled. Cnns kaitlan c has the report and shes joining me from the white house. Kaitlan, how many people are we talking abhere. Reporter we are talking dozens of people that the white house is preparing paperwork for the president to pardon. A very large number there comes after the president , of course, had the pardon last week and the very controversial figure dinesh de souza, and this goes to show how much the president is willing to exert his constitional power and what he believes are wronged and people on he believes were imprisoned for too long and were seeing an indication of how much the president is ready to do that with this number of at least 30 people that the president is read to parton. This comes as the president met with Kim Kardashian last week in the oval office. That was unusual, but it was because she was lobbying for President Trump to
jeremy, what mor we learning? t. 30-year-old martese edwards is set to appear in d.c. superior court today for the first time since he was arrested yesterday morning when he came to work here at the white house. he works in the old executive office building which is right, part of the white house complex where we are right now. he was arrested on attempted murder charges is what we were told, stemming from an arrest warrant inrinceeorges county. we are told that martese edwards worked on the national security council not in a national security position, but in an administrative positionre he wasng work for the resources management department, but what s really interesting here is this comes three weeks after the arrest warrant for these attempted murder charges were first entered into a national law enforcement database and during that time, as far as we understand, he was still working here, coming in regularly to work at the executive office building that s part of the white house co