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President any political capital, it won't boost his sagging approval ratings or help the democrats in the midterms. in other words, there's really no political margin in it for this president. but this is one of those case where is we get to see the progressive president barack obama shining through. joining me this morning daf that linser, managing editor for msn msnbc.com and the reporter who broke this story about aaron's botched commutation case in 2012. with her are anthea butler from the university of pennsylvania, ovik roy, senior fellow at the manhattan institute, and lisa cook, econom...

Year, aaron's case was mishandled by rodgers who failed to accurately convey the views of the u.s. attorney and the judge. it drew national attention including on this program to aaron's case. it also earned the attention of president obama, who in july of 2012 called for aaron's case to be reviewed again. then this thursday, just over a week after the 20th anniversary of aaron's conviction, the white house announced that he was one of eight nonviolent drug offenders, seven black and one latino, whose sentences would be commuted. aaron can go home in april. in his official statement, the presi...

His nonviolent role in a drug deal involving nine kilograms of cocaine and one kilogram of crack. it was his first offense and he was neither the dealer, the supplier, nor the buyer of the drugs. but he received three life sentences without parole from the judge. >> i think to myself, what in the world was i supposed to doing three life sentences about? i just couldn't believe that this was occurring to me. >> aaron first applied for commutation two years after that interview. it was a good case, but it grew even better in 2008 when both the new u.s. attorney for southern alabama and even the ...