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Quote, mr. da souza was in the preside presidents opinion a victim of selective prosecution for violations of campaign finance laws. former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york preet bharara, who oversaw da souzas case, wrote this on twitter today, quote, the president has the right to pardon, but the facts are these. da souza intentionally broke the law, voluntarily pled guilty, apologized for his conduct, and the judge found no unfairness. the career prosecutors and agents did t...

Prison term of five years. xxxx president trump flew to texas to meet with families affected by the shooting in santa fe, and during the flight, the president returned to the subject of pardons. he told reporters onboard air force one that hes considering clemency for martha stewart and rod blagojevich. martha stewart was convicted in 04, and former democratic governor rod blagojevich is serving a 14-year prison sentence on corruption charges including trying to sell president obamas senate seat...

Dsouza responded, quote, they bludgeoned me into the plea to add a second charge carrying a prison term of five years. karma is a bitch. wanted to destroy a fellow indian-american to advance his career, then he got fired and i got pardoned. does it strike you as unusual to see an exchange like this following a presidential pardon? >> its astonishing. what we are seeing is a stand-up for the rule of law, the integrity of his institution. he acknowledges the president has the right to nullify that...

>> what they wanted to hear from you for a long, long time also is "im sorry." can you tell them that? >> im sorry for your loss. but i cannot -- i dont know what youre meaning by, you want me to say that im sorry. >> and so the hammer came down. >> its the order of the court. the defendant is committed for a period of 30 years, with 15 years suspended. >> 15 years in prison. justine will have to serve seven and a half before she has any chance at parole at all. and her father, back on his feet ...

You do in life. so if you do something good, something positive, expect to be good rewards from it. but if youre doing negative, bad things in life, expect that reward also which will be bad things. the bible tell us, do unto others as you would have them do unto you and youre going to reap what you sow. >> now serving his fourth prison term, alvin mchellon understands the meaning of reap what you sow as well as anyone. he currently has a 12-year sentence for drug possession. even though on most...

Courtroom. >> what they wanted to hear from you for a long, long time also is "im sorry." can you tell them that? >> im sorry for your loss. but i cannot -- i dont know what youre meaning by, you want me to say that im sorry. >> and so the hammer came down. >> its the order of the court. the defendant is committed for a period of 30 years, with 15 years suspended. >> 15 years in prison. justine will have to serve seven and a half before she has any chance at parole at all. and her father, back o...

He just finished serving a one-year prison term for his role in a mining explosion that killed 29 people. despite that, hes gaining in the polls against his two republican rivals ahead of the election tomorrow. hes doing it with ads like these. >> mitch mcconnell created millions of jobs for china people. while doing so, mitch has gotten rich. in fact, the china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. one of my goals as u.s. senator will be to ditch cocaine mitch. >> you heard that cor...

Remember how she felt about the lawyers who began zeroing in on her ex-husband just before he fled? >> i think its a bit opportunistic but thats the state of our legal system in this country. >> shes changed her mind about that. >> i thought the lawyers were targeting him and he was just too cowardly to stand up and thats why he left. but i didnt think he actually did any of these things. >> but now you do. >> i do. >> you think the lawyers had a right to go after him. >> oh, yeah. im very glad ...

Now vacating the decade old murder conviction of michael stay cold, he is a rent relative of the kennedy family. he is ordering a new trial in connection with the 1975 killing of young martha moxley in their wealthy greenwich neighborhood. ed henry, chief national correspondent joins us now with the back story tonight. >> it is really the case that will not end, reinstating the kennedy cousins murder conviction in that 1975 case. the ruling that a new trial has to be held for kennedy cousin mich...

We have to win the midterms. >> that is actually a speech ive heard from other presidents before. time for "the lid." panel saheel, we have three interesting primaries on tuesday, i think its the first important big multi-state primary day of the campaign season, indiana, the senate race, the republican primary there nasty. who is going to get out of there? west virginia senate we saw blankenship thats a whole level of crazy. then you would think the lesser -- the lesser focused on ohio primarie...