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Been enough. whether the punishment fits the crime, including this one. >> ron allen at the white house. this is big news again. were just learning about it. a commutation, not a pardon, a commutation from president obama as he leaves office of chelsea manning who leaked all of that sensitive information that appeared on wikileaks a few years ago. also the obama presidency was winding down, it is, but moves like this can certainly have an impact on a presidents legacy. you just think of bill cli...

He may be handcuffed because the investigation of hillary clinton was not a national security investigation. it was a criminal investigation and they decided there was no crime here, poof, its gone, then he decided to talk about it. the investigation against donald trump might be what we call a counter intelligence investigation with very sensitive sources and methods. so he may be in a bind, but he still has to be able to talk about that in classified settings. >> theres one person who can clas...

Weve seen it all over western europe. weve seen it in the united states you heard the president talk about it in his farewell address. the lack of faith in our very institutions -- and the fbi has had its problems in the past. ask the king family. they have done dpirtdy things in the past but recovered a certain respect among american people. partly because of jim comey. we know mark rich, he had dealing in whitewater he was sort of seen as partisan but when bush was in he went to the bedside of...

Place. >> you are a critic of what the administration has done here with the united nations when it comes to israel. as someone who does not like that, do you feel that they have put something permanent in place? something permanent on the record by getting that u.n. security council resolution that donald trump will not be able to undo when he becomes president? or do you feel, hey, ill get someone in there and it is a momentary thing. >> it may lead to the defunding of the u.n. it is a big dea...

Place. >> you are a critic of what the administration has done here with the united nations when it comes to israel. as someone who does not like that, do you feel that they have put something permanent in place? something permanent on the record by getting that u.n. security council resolution that donald trump will not be able to undo when he becomes president? or do you feel, hey, ill get someone in there and it is a momentary thing. >> it may lead to the defunding of the u.n. it is a big dea...

To ten years. anybody who spent five minutes in a federal prison knows this is not a picnic. it is soul crushing. expensive. demeaning. wasteful. for him to say look lets take this person who under sentencing would have gotten a quart let quarter, lets stop destroying families let the guy get off with 20 years instead of 30 years. thats why they have executive power to bring sanity when for a lot of reasons the system has gone insane. >> this is in line with a policy prescription. this is the pr...

John and kristine, the finish more interesting than we thought it might be. >> the everything of this election is more interesting. the fbi is facing brand-new question bisexual the timing of some of its actions. the bureau released a new set of files related to the clintons past, a release that critics are calling inexplicable. joining us cnn politics reporter eugene scott in washington this morning. nice to see you up bright and early. walk us through this. what is in these documents, eugene a...

>> were compromised here because always seeking out leaks to get the information. but problem is when you have this partial disclosures coming out through leaks some of which may be inaccurate. >> people leak for certain reasons. >> thats right. so you have information continuing to come out of the fbi and thats yet another reason why i think it was improper to disclose. >> theres a lot of dissatisfaction and grumblings and animus towards the clintons within the investigative staff of fbi. mark ...

Lynch, i think also you know sort of adds to it. its a very bad situation. we cant deny that. >> what do you think of the files being released today 15 years after the investigation though? of mark rich? >> so the fbi says that they were responding to a foia request and theres no hanky-panky going on. its very bad timing, i think we can agree -- >> you can understand why democrats are going, what? why didnt they wait. >> doesnt look good. >> why didnt they wait six, seven days. >> go ahead, paig...

Another filing in the foya case when in last night or will go in this a.m. indicates it will be a while, 2016, before the state department posts the e-mails. the question, was this a conflict of interest? meanwhile, comey continues to come under fire from democrats and some republicans from releasing investigation details so close to election day. growing on tuesday as the fbi released documents related to a 15-year-old investigation of mark rich, a friend of bill clinton pardoned by the former ...