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To do so? of course already hearing from intelligence community they broke into the democratic national committee. >> white house official is saying concerns about wikileaks and concerns about interference in the election are separate from the manning decision. can you separate the two? >> i dont think separate in the public mind. all smooshed together and most unt fortunate chapter to the u.s. intelligence community at all. and going to be a blow to people who feel that people should pay a pric...

>> the approval number on these final days on the cnn poll is 60%. the poll was taken before the manning decision. >> think about what that says, what a remarkable example of the confusing and conflicted political times we live in. he is clearly highly popular, the american people have rallied to his side and ten weeks ago these same american people elected the anti-obama. if hes so well-liked why did they choose, but donald trump is about to become president. why did they choose somebody so dif...

>> this is as you say his final chance to say what he wants to say, say his peace, hopefully thank the fourth estate for doing their due diligence but given the fact that he made such a controversial decision yesterday in chelsea mannings sentence clearly he wants the ability to come out and explain why. he might do it without even getting a question given the current controversy but for the history books. and david axelrod can talk about this more than i, mark rich was a completely different th...

Think its -- everyone is worried but theyre hoping that this procedure will stabilize him and get him through it. >> old age is not for sissies. >> as my grandmother used to say it. >> we wish them only the best. you will keep us updated on the medical conditions. >> were about to hear from the president of the united states his final news conference as president of the united states. you see reporters standing over in the west wing of the white house. dana the stakes for this news conference he...

We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr. in addition to manning, president obama also issued a pardon for a former key member of his national security team, retired marine corps general james cartwright who is also a former vice chairman of joint chiefs of staff was due to be sentenced this month for talking to "the new york times" about a top secret program that infected irans nuclear program with a computer virus. "the times" argued the former general was trying to talk the paper out of pub...

General cartwright we have just learned has been pardoned. >> neil: and bergdahl and others have not been pardoned in this way, doesnt mean in the next couple days they still could be. >> well, its not clear at this point whether there are more pardoned or commutations coming. this was a large batch just announced. expect a lot of blow-back from this manning decision. >> neil: okay. thank you very much. weve got former army intelligence lieutenant colonel tony schaffer with us. what do you think...