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Your house is never the sail. everybody across the country does a little bit. it will be appreciate in the texas. thats what we have to do. >> sadly, not only will those houses never be the same, some of them will have to be condemned. let me jump into what happened on friday didnt involve a hurricane. the former vice president joe biden wrote this today in the atlantic, reboth to arpaio and charlottesville and im curious of your reaction. we have an american president who has emboldened white s...

Left-wing judge that ignored every witness in the trial who contradicted the conviction. there is a large portion,ly a, of th --lisa, of the radical let hold law enforcement and the military in contempt because they see them as defenders of an american constitutional philosophy and way of life that the left despises. the real injustice is that the sheriff was prosecuted at all. hes 85 years old. and his wife eva is desperately ill. if she would have had to watch them go to jail she probably woul...

Joe arpaio of arizona. lets remind our viewers that he was convicted of contempt for ignoring a court on order to stop racial profiling. he and his department had been stopping latinos on suspicion that they might be undocumented. the sheriff was ordered to stop doing that and he continued to do so for more than a year longer and was convicted just at the end of july. he was set to be sentenced in october and could have faced up to six months in prison. but the president has stepped into pardon ...

Well, how about tomorrow? ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. more on the developments out of texas but first to politics now. fallout from presidential pardon and a controversial departure from the white house. president trump facing backlash this morning for pardoning former arizona sheriff joe arpaio convicted of contempt last month for ignoring an 11 court order to stop profiling latino drivers and immigration detentions. a former counterterrorism advisor says t...

Shown contempt for law and order. what he did was try to obstruct justice in this investigation by going to jeff sessions, same play book he used with the russian investigation. when that doesnt work, follows through with a pardon. and i fully expect he may try the same with the russian investigation. so this is about a lot more than the trial of sheriff joe in arizona. this is a national phenomena, disrespect for the judiciary, disrespect for rule of law and order and very dangerous for our cou...

Claim for respect for the rule of law. we have also got and statement from former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired by president trump shortly after he came into office. she tweeted, with his pardon pen, potus reveals his own contempt for our constitution, courts and principles of justice. it is red meat for the types of people who came out to that rally in phoenix, but on a more macro level, on a political level, it is being criticized with growing force, don. >> basically at th...

Defying a federal judge, but president trump said, look, hes not going to hesitate to use his power that he clearly has. >> this looks political. several quells here, is there a precedent on this? you started touching on this. and what does that tell us about donald trumps relation to and respect for the rule of law? >> well, again, he does have this constitutional power to pardon. that being said, you know, this was a situation where the justice department had signaled to sheriff arpaio that wh...

And theres been no contrition, and theres still in the press statements today, no contrition said he was railroaded in a witch hunt by legacy obama people, not further from the truth. >> claiming hes the victim here. american civil liberties union calls this pardon a presidential endorsement of racism. what message do you pick up from this pardon? >> well, so, i think in pure legal terms, it is sort of a denigration of the rule of law. that is, two judges found this fellow in contempt of the fou...

Joe arpaio. we just got this piece of paper. ill reed it aloud to you. sno one is above the law and the individuals entrusted with the privilege of being sworn law officers should always seek to be beyond reproach in their commitment to fairly enforcing the laws presidethey swore to u. mr. arpaio was found guilty of contempt for profiling latinos living in arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judges orders. the president has the authority to make this pardon, but...

Likes. president can pardon people at any point. after theyve been charged with a crime. while the trials going on, after theyve been convicted. the normal pattern though is for presidents to pardon people after the justice department makes a recommendation to a president typically the justice department wont recommend anyone for a pardon unless theyve served at least five years of a sentence and have perhaps more significantly, expressed some remorse and of course, theres none of that here. he ...