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About the last minute pardons. joining us now is joe csonka, politics reporter with the louisville courier journal. what do we know about this last part, the fbi investigation into these pardons that matt bevan handed out? >> we do know the fbi contacted a state legislator who asked questions about bevans pardons. we dont know if they started an official investigation or theyre just calling around asking questions, but we do know there is interest from at least one state legislator who said he w...

And i have to warn you what the governor said is a little graphic but this is really what he said. >> he was accused of sexually assaulting repeatedly for over the course of almost two years, well over a year every single wednesday i believe it was, repeatedly sexually assaulting her and her sister. this girl claimed. these girls both were examined medically, they were examined physically, there was zero evidence, zero, both their hymens were intact, this is perhaps more specific than people wou...

Kentuckys teachers when they went on strike to demand better pay and resources, bevan accused them of being responsible for children being sexually assaulted and shot. that will get them back to the negotiating table. so when matt bevan lost his negotiating bid last month a lot of kentuckians breathed a sigh of relief but it turns out he wasnt quite finished. the day after he left office a reporter at the louisville courier journal were first to report that bevan had issued hundreds of pardons o...

And just plain weirdness to the office. the first thing bevan did upon taking office was to shut down kentuckys well-functioning popular obamacare health insurance marketplace. then he set about trying to kick thousands of kentuckians off medicaid, going so far as to sue individual medicaid recipients by name. he accused his local paper of being part of an america hating global conspiracy. he opposed mandatory vaccines saying he had taken his kids to a chickenpox party to expose them to the viru...

Her daughters convicted rapist was being set free. quote, she had been at home making dinner and a milk shake when she got a call from the commonwealths attorneys office. i just picked up the blender and threw it against the wall she said in a phone interview. i still have to scrub the ice cream off my walls. she said her family had only begun to recover from the trial which wrapped up last year. matt bevan justified his pardons as acts of christian forgiveness. but the pardon of the man convict...

Its been less than three weeks since the state of kentucky inaugurated its new governor. but the republican governor has not gone quietly. former governor matt bevan never did anything quietly. the first thing bevan did upon taking office was to shutdown kentuckys well functioning popular obamacare health insurance marketplace, then he set about trying to kick thousands of kentuckians off medicaid, going so far as to sue individual medicaid recipients by name. he accused his local paper of being...

Medically. they were examined physically. there was zero evidence, zero, both their hiymens were intact - this is perhaps more specific than people would want. but trust me if you had been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically. there was zero evidence of that. >> bevans theory of the case has been roundly rejected by experts as flatly incorrect, legally, medically and anatomically. and bevan may no longer be...

Reporter at the "louisville courier journal" were first to report that bevan had issued hundreds of pardons on his way out of the door including several that appear highly questionable to put it mildly. "the courier journal" noted that one pardon went to a man who had served two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide and other charges in a home invasion. and that convicts family had raised tens of thousands of dollars for matt bevans campaign. two other men convicted in that home inva...

And theyre still in prison. the heinous nature of some of the crimes themselves sparked national outrage over several of the pardons. but the pardon that has generated the most shock and disgust is the pardon of a man who had just started a 23-year sentence for repeated rape of a 9-year-old girl. "the new york times" contacted the victims mother who described how she learned that her daughters convicted rapist was being set free. quote, she had been at home making dinner and a milk shake when sh...