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To the mid-term election on november 6th. in 2017 he averaged 2.9 per day. donald trump made more false claims in the two months leading up to the mid-terms 1,176, than he did in all of the previous year, all of 2017, 1,111. the three most dishonest single days of the donald trump presidency were the three days leading up to the election. 74 on election eve november 5th. 58 on november 3rd, and 54 on november 4th. but the lying didn't work. the democrats won back the house of representatives, which means that special counsel robert mueller has at least the house of representatives supporting h...

Donald trump made more false claims in the two months leading up to the mid-terms 1,176, than he did in all of the previous year, all of 2017, 1,111. the three most dishonest single days of the donald trump presidency were the three days leading up to the election. 74 on election eve november 5th. 58 on november 3rd, and 54 on november 4th. but the lying didn't work. the democrats won back the house of representatives, which means that special counsel robert mueller has at least the house of representatives supporting his investigation, and so of course today donald trump resumed his relentles...

Two quick developments to pass along. i believe i miscalculated the numbers. the 2,000 drug offenders that i referred to are those whose prison sentenced were commuted or reduced. 1,176 going into this. an additional 209. 1,385 prison inmates looking to get out of jail a lot earlier than originally going to be the case. the president adding to that by reducing their prison sentences in some cases to releasing them now. separately, the issue that is getting the ire of some republican senator, tom cotton reacting to reports that president obama commuted chelsea manning's sentence. he said "when ...

>> thank you. >> neil: as we were chatting here, we're getting word that barack obama has shortened the prison sentence of 209 convicts in prison. this announcement, before he leaves office. it's resulted -- this is part of a trend. the release of 1,176 drug offenders that were sentenced over the laws passed in the 80s and 90s as part of the nation's war on drugs. more than 400 of those -- this was the prior batch -- were serving light sentences. this is in addition to those. again, those are mass prison sentence reductions if not outright comutations for 209 convicts.

Pardoned or commuted in one fashion or another. i know he was planning on doing a lot of those in the end. >> a good many today. 209 more today on top of 1,176, whose prison terms were also shortened if not wiped out on this date. 1,385. professor, thank you very much. no doubt to the professor's point that that will come up tomorrow in a press conference. the president's last in his office. what we all want to hear him say in that conference after this.