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Particularly the case in northern kentucky, he says the jury's wrong and there's no way this person committed this crime against a 9-year-old girl. >> it seems bevin doesn't have a lot of defenders on this. republicans in kentucky, including mitch mcconnell, have come out against some of these pardons. talk to me about what that means politically. >> well, it was really mitch mcconnell that kind of broke the tide and all of the republicans started coming out against it after he said -- he called the pardons completely inappropriate. it was a few hours later, maybe less than an hour later that ...

And just plain weirdness to the office. the first thing bevan did upon taking office was to shut down kentucky's 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 virus instead. and he spent much of his term making sworn enemies out of kentucky's teachers when they ...

Her daughter's 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 commonwealth's attorney's 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 convicted of raping a 9-year-old bevan said he had a very different reason for that one. and i have to w...

Jury's wrong and there's no way this person committed this crime against a 9-year-old girl. >> it seems bevin doesn't have a lot of defenders on this. republicans in kentucky, including mitch mcconnell, the state senior senator have come out against some of these pardons. talk to me about what that means politically? >> well, it was really mitch mcconnell that kind of broke the tide and all of the republicans started coming out against it after he said -- he called the pardons completely inappropriate. it was a few hours later, maybe less than an hour later that the republican presidents of th...

And asked for federal and state investigation. we don't know if they started an official investigation or they're just calling around asking questions, but we do know that there is interest from at least one state legislature who says he was contacted. >> this pardon of the rapist, put it in context for us. is this matt bevan being matt bevan or is this nuts even for matt bevan? >> well, there are about a dozen or so controversial pardons from the six dozen or so pardons he issued from the time he lost the election to the time he left office. for this one and a few others, he say that is the p...