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Decided to ignore. the law allows the president to pardon anyone he wants. this isnt about his ability to do it. its whether he made the right call. what the law says about what sheriff joe was doing police can ask for documentation of immigration status while in the course of enforcing other laws. that last part is key. its also the key to the controversy because arpaio was accused of rounding people up that looked like undocumented immigrants. and this goes back, again, many years. context mat...

Talking about these type of things. >> theres no question. look, it is difficult for me to think that there was a decision -- that there was not a decision rather made not to say white supremacists, not to say kkk, not to say neo nazis. to me it is the easiest thing in the world. clearly when you are holding a nazi flag, i dont need to interview you about your views. it seems pretty clear what they are. so he didnt do that, and i think it was purposeful. the fact that you play that statement, he...

Review. theyre not suspended. the charges were dropped. the city attorneys office does have questions about this. they also said this. before we characterize their behavior as deceptive, we referred the matter to the interm affai internal affairs division. context matters. this is the second time in weeks that we have heard allegations like this. video from january was recently released that showed an officer putting a baggy full of drugs into a can, buried it with debris and walking away, appea...

Talk to his son about how to work on russia money matters. thats relevant, its not sick. >> why dont we know what his business or financial ties are to russia, chris? the reason is hes the first candidate in modern presidential history not to release his tax returns. its the longest audit ive heard of in a very long time which is his reason for not releasing them. and it gets to the broader point youre making. context matters. david points this out exactly. whats past is prologue. you dont get t...

Around this june 9, 2016 meeting between don trump jr. and the seven other people that we know were there, including two other of the top campaign officials in the trump campaign. when you have the mike flynn story, when you have the manafort stuff, there is just -- this is not an isolated incident. donald trump knows this is a bad story for him. he is trying to make this about the media. as anna points out, it has nothing to do with the media. we at cnn, no credible media outlet has said, oh, t...

As they have the upper hand, chris, with that interaction whereas the president of the us was getting slapped on the hand if not more. >> two things. context matters, ana. context matters in that image ha you show. remember, that was the same meeting in which donald trump said he sort of had a great burden lifted with the firing of jim comey. he referred to jim comey as a nut job in that meeting as well. but also the fact that, you know, we dont really know what donald trump looks like on the wo...

We are reacting to the content of what he said. all of under the circumstances th -- us -- >> who attacks women based on their looks and duacalls them crazy. >> so theres -- >> so we are not reacting to -- >> ryan. are you telling me theres a difference between calling a woman crazy and calling a man crazy? >> yeah. >> thats sexist, dont you think? >> i dont think its sexist. i dont think its sexist. just as raising certain stereo types some times when you say them about one group it actually is...

Stereotypes. thats what were reacting to. were not reacting to jealousy -- >> ryan, are you telling me difference between calling a woman crazy and calling a man crazy, seriously? >> yeah. >> wow. wow. thats sexist, dont you think, ryan? >> i dont think its sexist, jeffrey. just as raising certain stereotypes about italians or irish or jews, sometime when you say them about one group, it actually is more offensive than saying about another group. context matters, jeffrey. >> women are held to a ...

Does that sound strange to you? >> well get the answers to that. >> but that doesnt pique your -- as a man who has overseen investigations, who sat on the benghazi committee, who looked at fact patterns and said something doesnt add up here when barack obama was president, you see that and you say to yourself, i dont know. >> i want to get the answers. i think the american people want to get the answers, but we want the full truth. we want the full story. we werent getting that. we started to ge...

Looked at fact patterns and said something doesnt add up here when barack obama was president, ub see that and you say to yourself, i dont know. >> i want to get the answers. i think the american people want to get the answers, but we want the full truth. we want the full story. we werent getting that. we started to get some of that last week when we learned about the secret memo -- excuse me -- about the conversations that were only memorialized relative to president trump. none of those import...