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Details. >> everything about me is completely false and inaccurate. whats baud by glen tor, a company founded by mark rich. >> before we get to that, who gave you a heads up to go to moscow? you said you talked to the senior trump staff and made it clear when you were going. >> anderson, i dont like putting my name with someone else in the campaign because i have been public enemy number one and being attacked thanks to this false evidence. if i start telling you names, the people will get it. >...

No. its interesting, going back to the rosneft issue, who bought rosneft? >> we dont know. >> it is known. its public record. glen corps, and who is the founder? a guy named mark rich. so if you want to know that the clintons are better people to ask. >> but let me ask you that, the context for all this -- and i believe people like yourself and others believe there is a witch-hunt going on but the reason for that is because every u.s. intelligence agency has come to the conclusion that it was ru...

Interesting about that, chris, i -- so rosneft -- >> the largest oil company in russia. >> exactly. theres been so many reports about the -- >> wait, before you tell me that. thats a simple yes or no question. did you meet we they are of those individuals. >> not -- no, never. >> never? >> no. >> you never met we they are of them. >> not one on one, no. i may have been in a meeting at a conversation or something so i want to be careful -- but i never shook either of their hands. >> and you were ...

Came out of nowhere. shes seen as one of the master minds of wikileaks and timing with wikileaks in the news so much didnt seem like something he would do but president obama is careful and articulate, looked at case and decided to do i was looking to see if do something more like leonard peltier native american activist everyone in the left wanted pardoned from clinton. but mark rich when bush pardoned him created havoc. >> still time. be more? >> whether a high profile -- this will dominate th...

>> 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...

There, tom? >> the parallel i draw if you recall you turn the clock back to 2001 and the final hours of the clinton administration, he overruled the advice of many of his top advisors in deciding to pardon mark rich and caved to political pressure. it is a parallel here. advisors at the defense department and national security advisors saying dont do this. giving manning the pardon sends a harmful signal to our security communities. dont bend to political pressure. he did. something historians w...

>> well, i would just say this, there are a lot of people to speak on those kinds of issues. and im not going to say -- be critical of what president obama intends to do. im going to say i support how president bush has handled himself. leaving the stage and letting president obama deal with the very serious issues that we confront today as a country. >> all right. former attorney general alberto gonzalez, thanks for the time, appreciate it. >> you bet, thanks for having me. i want to bring in h...

All right. we are back here live in washington, d.c. we are continuing to follow breaking news. the whe house announcing that president obama in one of his final acts as presidency. this is a big one, he is offering a commutation of the sentence that chelsea manning received. chelsea manning had been sentenced to 35 years in prison. the president now offering a commutation, of course this is something any president can do. pretty much as blanket authority when it comes to commuting sentences, wh...

Years, eard snowden was behind a massive leak. is edward snowden out of luck here? >> hes a fugitive, its shyly unlikely that he would be anywhere in the ball park of any kind of legal leniency. commutation or pardon for a trial that hasnt occurred yet. you were mentioning earlier steve how controversial the clinton pardon of mark rich was. that was in part for the same rational. he was a fugitive. you have to come back, abide by the law, start serving your time and then only then considered thi...

>> these soviet union. clemency meaning leniency. you can argue about this back back-and-forth and say but its lenient if you are letting get someone get out in may. is this because president obama is calling julian assanges bluff? is that we are basing this on? inappropriate reason. >> the most egregious thing about president clintons pardoning of mark rich was that, a major donor to the clinton foundation. her husband made a billion dollars selling oil to the armenians. that guy should have be...