Clemency Campaign News Today

Here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, we start with the separation of children from their families on the u. S. Border with mexico. It is happening. Critics call it inhumane and unconscionable. But the white house says its not their fault, but the facts show 2,000 children have been separated from their parents. That is just from midapril through may. This according to the department of Homeland...

And he didnt file an application and he wasnt eligible to apply for five years. what was the process for you that led to that pardon? >> oh, wow, thats a loaded question because there were several people involved and organizations and individuals who wrote letters and signed petitions and the naacp legal defense fund had been fighting on my behalf, but there was actually a person that became involved. he was a strong supporter of tough, mandatory minimum sentencing and drug sentencing and his wi...

Agree disagree with the president of the united states. i think the whole concept of recusal is not even an issue. i think rudy giuliani, chris christie, jeff sessions, anybody associated with the campaign would have had to recuse themselves before grassleys committee voted them out to go to the floor for a vote. >> just listen to that, carrie, i wonder how loud this is, how many people are talking an the recruusal issue. we see it in the presidents twitter feed. hear people talking about it, tr...

The other thing we should say is that its no secret that paul manafort made his fortune as a political consultant to dictators overseas, and had been missing from the republican, you know, party political consultancy for about two decades before president trump tapped him to join his campaign. the oather thing, as nbc news hs reported, the fbi did warn the trump campaign and the clinton campaign after those two became the respective nominees of their parties that foreign adversaries including ru...