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Welcome back, the exsheriff of maricopa county in arizona joe arpaio says he wants his old job back. it comes two years after president trump pardoned him after a conviction on a criminal contempt charge for continue to go make immigration arrests after a court ordered him to stop. on twitter, arpaio said the last four years represented lost opportunities for the kind of tough policing the county needs. he also released a statement reading in part quote, watch out world, we are back. arpaio is p...

Clean and nice looking guy. i mean thats a story book man. >> he is letting the big banks write their own rules. unchain wall street. they are going to put you all back in chains. >> of course, obviously that -- a horrible reference to african-american and chain gangs. we -- time has passed since those things said. but its the same person still. so are throes kinds of things a concern now. >> well they should be a concern. a, a lot of us have change. im sure the vice president wouldnt speak that...

Conducted and when the department of justice went public during the trial telling all the voters -- actually we were in the election phase, telling reporters that i could get six months in prison. so the president, and i never asked for the pardon, pardoned me because he knew that this decision was wrong and i appreciate that pardon and well see what happens in the near future. we have some appeals in process. >> sheriff, you said you wont get into the facts, but i will get into the facts here t...

Conducted. and when the department of justice went public during the trial telling all the voters that i -- actually, we were in the election phase telling reporters that i could get six months in prison. so the president -- and i never asked for the pardon, pardoned me because he knew that this decision was wrong. and i appreciate that pardon. and well see what happens in the near future. we have some appeals in process anyway. >> sheriff, you said you wont get into the facts, but i will get in...

24 years ago republican joe arpaio was the top cop in arizonas maricopa county and became famous, some would say infamous, for his harshness. troubling set of facts, he ran out outdoor jail called tent city. arpaio himself described it as a concentration camp. they faced heat in the summer and near freezing chill in the winter. they wore pink underwear, they ate green colored baloney, allegedly. but that was nothing. under arpaio there are also chain gangs for men and women, conditions that righ...

. all right. the man calls himself americas toughest sheriff. will he become americas toughest senator? joe arpaio was the top cop in arizonas maricopa county and became famous, some would say infamous for his hashness. he ran an outdoor jail called tent city, arpaio himself described it as a concentration camp. inmates exposed to the scorching heat of peeks summers and near freezing chill in the winter. they wear pink clothes but that was nothing. they were also chain gangs, conditions that r...

Chain gangs. i want to mention your legal case and give you a chance to respond. ultimately it cost over $48 million to the taxpayers. as you know, the cases involved detaining people without what a judge said were cause as well as accusations of racial profiling. do you stand by all of that or do you think being held in contempt by a judge shows that some of that was over the line? >> first, we run one of the best jail systems in the country according to the u.s. department of justice and other...

Because of the potential for a coordinated riot effort. so things are getting tight. you know. all across the state. >> are some of these cool hand luke kind of prisons, theyre work camps, chain gangs still active there and used add punishment? >> no. we dont have the chain gangs, but we have work, you know, a lot of work camps. boot camps. theres a lot of community release and thats the lower security inmates that are working those and now, theyre moving, theyre sending them back into the priso...

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