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Hes the former kentucky governor who also seems to have gone about his mass pardons and commutations in a way designed to produce the worst kind of discrediting of it project. after losing his re-election last month bevan spent his lame duck week pardoning more than 600 people. it made it controversial the lack of publicly stated rationale from the outgoing governor and one of the convicted murderers pardoned was the brother of a man who had helped a campaign fund-raiser for bevan. something tha...

The president rallied for him. there was a lot of questions about how governor bevin came to these decisions around some of the more controversial pardons. he had given about 650, more than 650 pardons, mostly to low-level drug offenders most didnt have a problem with with, but some of the more high-profile cases, convicted of murder or raping minors, there was a number of questions about how the governor came to this decision in the final weeks when he didnt really consult with his top staff or...

In a statement, jack merritts family described him as a beautiful, talented boy who believed in redemption, not revenge. and they urged johnson not to politicize his passing. we know jack would not want this terrible isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences, they said. a legacy captured in jacks own words, describing his work in this radio interview earlier this year. >> our students in prison often have a very firsthand, very real...

Words describing his work in this radio interview earlier this year. >> our students in prison often have a very firsthand, very real but also very nuanced idea of how the law works. we essentially start talking to our students about ideas of justice and access to justice. >> reporter: khans lawyer says longer sentences arent the answer. the focus instead should be on rehabilitation before release. >> the point to learn from this is that the system could benefit by reviewing its position on some...

Revenge, and they urge johnson not to politicize his passing. we know jack would not want this terrible isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences, they said. a legacy captured in jacks own words describing his work in this radio interview earlier this year. >> our students in prison often have a very firsthand, very real but also very nuanced idea of how the law works. >> kahns lawyer says longer sentences arent the answer. the focu...

Development even with the president in the last few hours so were getting this new radio interview that he did and a new line from the president about rudy guiliani. take a listen. >> well, you have to ask that to rudy, rudy, i dont even know, i know he was going to go to ukraine. i think he cancelled the trip. but you know rudy has other clients other than me. but she a warrior. rude city a warrior. rudy went. he possibly saw something. but you have to understand, rudy has other people that he ...

Particularly if that client is engaged in misconduct or embarrassing behavior, the person that tends to know that information thats embarrassing is this lawyer. personal lawyers to principals everywhere have quote unquote insurance about their clients. its an extraordinary thing, a, to make a reference to it and then to do anything about it. you see the riff developing and in the broadcast parallel made between rudy guilliani and prior personal lawyer, michael cohen, guiliani said over and over ...

Hold up military aid to get investigations into this craziy conspiracy theory that ukraine intervened in the 2016 election and to investigate the bidens. we know that president trump in a phone call with president zelensky raised this need for investigations. so really, as usual, what we see, andrea, is theres not really a fact case that republicans can make to defend this indefensible leveraging of u.s. foreign assistance to a country that desperately needed it. they just try and obscure and mu...

Hearings e the house members may soon have to decide if president trump should be imeesmed. today a michigan congresswoman brenda lawrence is walking back some comments she made regarding impeachment. this is what she said in a recent radio interview. >> we are so close to an election. i will tell you sitting here knowing how divided this country is, i dont see the value of taking him out of office but i do see the value of putting down a marker, saying his behavior is not acceptable. >> trace: ...

Meredith. >> house democrats launch the impeachment inquiry without a single republican vote of support. now political experts say its democrats, especially those from swing districts who are fighting themselves in a tough spot when finding how to vote on impeachment. >> theres going to be tremendous pressure on them. they had to be very careful not to cross the line. >> no vote has been scheduled yet, some numbers appear to be under pressure to decide now. michigan democratic harassment brenda ...