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Arpaio was recently convicted of contempt by ignoring a judges order on racial profiling case. both senators from arizona issued critical statements after that pardon. >> first of all, senator john mccain says, quote, the president has the authority to make this pardon but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as mr. arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions. then senator flake says he would have preferred the president honor the judicial process and let it ...

>> thank you. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor. michael, i had a chance to speak with the attorney last hour asking about the criticisms, specifically from speaker paul ryan and other republicans. lets listen to what he said. >> we could have had a hearing from day one. at this point, the appeal, and, in fact, the sheriffs an old man, 85 years old. this witness is money and time wasted all around. go to the jury, get the right verdict, but this is a wrongful ve...

And former acting a.g. sally yates who wrote potus reveals his own contempt for our constitution, our courts and our founding principles of equality and justice. ron, what do you make, a, of this pardon and b, of the timing of it? rarely do we see a pardon for somebody seven or eight months into a presidency. >> yeah. first of all, im obviously thinking about everybody down in texas, including all of my friends and family there. yes. this is an extraordinary moment. for many hispanics and others...

Judge found him in contempt. and thats where we are. >> arpaio tweeted a thank you statement. thank you donald trump for seeing my conviction for seeing what it is. i am humbled and incredibly grateful to president trump. i look forward to putting this chapter behind me and helping to magga. i also thank my supporters -- hes calling it a witch hunt. what do you think of that? >> here you have a quote-unquote sheriff, someone whos supposed to be about law enforcement who fr

Sheriff arpaio broke the law. it was not in the course of protecting and serving that he was held in federal criminal contem contempt. remember, the judiciary committee, its important to note, that the sheriff was racially profiling on the basis of hispanic sir names and brown skin people. he was criminally acting not under the legal application of the law, but he was acting criminally by particularly playing out individuals who had not done anything or broken the law, and thats why he was held ...

Dogged pursuer of bigoted policies directed against latinos, a court finding him criminally in contempt and him being convicted, which is quite rare to get to, and after that, the president of the united states using his first pardon to come in and say this man who a court of the united states found to be in law uless violation of the law of this country, to be, to be pardoned. jill, this is -- you know, the pardon power sort of always lurked over nixon. and when its applied in this way, i think...

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Would read back the record and he would be held in contempt and he would lose his license. think there is another tell in his speech tonight, lawrence. when he talked about his speech last night, praising himself for his speech last night, saying we were truthful. which is an odd way for a president to praise his own remarks. as if it were an extraordinary event that he was truthful. i dont buy the theory that he doesnt know he is lying. i think he is a very conscious liar, he has done it all th...

Enforcing immigration law. >> it was a judge who declared him in contempt. it wasnt democrats in congress. it was a judge that declared him >> well, judges arent perfect either, and judges have a political agenda, too. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee went to the floor about six months ago and gave a little lecture to chief justice roberts that said if youre concerned about our confirmations being political, stop making political decisions with your court. weve got a politicized co...

Minutes past 11:00 here on the west coast. youre watching cnn, that was donald trump with one of the highlights of his speech. he was talking about sheriff joe who is not doing his job right now because he actually is charges of contempt after a judge ordered him to stop racially profiling latinos in arizona. our panel back with us again. john, horrere, the white house said -- in phoenix were concerned, the one thing they said about the violence in phoenix was that donald trump pardonened sherif...