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Sentences to 209 individuals and other pardons. now, one is -- involves chelsea manning. you might remember chelsea manning, the army private who provided sensitive documents to wikileaks. chelsea mannings sentence has been commuted by president obama. lets bring in cnn justice correspondent evan perez. evan, tell us about this. >> this is a bit of a surprise, jake. chelsea manning served about seven years of a 35-year sentence, and president obama has decided to commute that sentence. she will ...

Two quick developments to pass along. i believe i miscalculated the numbers. the 2,000 drug offenders that i referred to are those whose prison sentenced were commuted or reduced. 1,176 going into this. an additional 209. 1,385 prison inmates looking to get out of jail a lot earlier than originally going to be the case. the president adding to that by reducing their prison sentences in some cases to releasing them now. separately, the issue that is getting the ire of some republican senator, tom...

>> thank you. >> neil: as we were chatting here, were getting word that barack obama has shortened the prison sentence of 209 convicts in prison. this announcement, before he leaves office. its resulted -- this is part of a trend. the release of 1,176 drug offenders that were sentenced over the laws passed in the 80s and 90s as part of the nations war on drugs. more than 400 of those -- this was the prior batch -- were serving light sentences. this is in addition to those. again, those are mass ...

Pardoned or commuted in one fashion or another. i know he was planning on doing a lot of those in the end. >> a good many today. 209 more today on top of 1,176, whose prison terms were also shortened if not wiped out on this date. 1,385. professor, thank you very much. no doubt to the professors point that that will come up tomorrow in a press conference. the presidents last in his office. what we all want to hear him say in that conference after this.

Hans, this is one of this chelsea manning -- this is one of 209 individuals. the president is offering a commutation to today. also 64 granting pardons too i understand there is another pardon, not a commutation, a pardon being offered that is raising some eyebrows as well. can you tell us about that? >> the full pardon is for james cartwright, he was convicted for providing false statements to the fbi. this sprung out of a leak investigation. did cartwrooikt cue journalists, dad the "nework tim...

Inmates out, bring them out of the cell and complete our cell searches. get to the door, go ahead and pop them. >> pretty much looking for any kind of contraband, weapons, drugs -- >> turn around. >> you smell -- im telling you right now -- you will be -- did you swallow something? >> what would i swallow? >> you tell me, im asking you. >> some chips. >> thats your story, right? >> this is crazy. >> 209. >> when we first came up on the

Go up to the cell, strip the inmates out, bring them out of the cell and complete our cell searches. get to the door, go ahead and pop them. >> pretty much looking for any kind of contraband, weapons, drugs -- >> turn around. >> you smell -- im telling you right now -- you will be -- did you swallow something? >> what would i swallow? >> you tell me, im asking you. >> some chips. >> thats your story, right? >> this is crazy. >> 209. >> when we first came up on the cell, the individual on the top...

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Trying to make money by shorting stocks immediately after trump criticizes a public company. one other thing, vanity fair is owned by the same company as the new yorker. graydon carter has been at vanity fair since 1992, so trumps tweet about how hes likely not be the editor, i think hes pretty safe in that p job. >> when do we, and i mean we the american public public, stop talking about the president-elects tweeting? this is just how its going to be, isnt it? >> its a good question. he will be...

>> theres absolutely a fun side to me but i never really tried to show that, because growing up, i thought i had to be very tightly wrapped and not very frivolous because people would judge all black americans by my conduct. >> he could be aloof or seemingly aloof until you approach him and you engage him in a conversation. >> kareems fun side was first revealed in the public in 1980, when he appeared in the legendary spoof movie "airplane" as roger the pilot. >> roger. request vector, over. >> ...