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Coming on the heels of all of this caterwauling about leaking and sensitive information in the public domain and russia and our enemy is using this information against us. on the heels of all that, president obama comes out in the waning days of his administration and gives a commutation to this individual who the prosecutors wanted to nail him on treason and aiding and abetting the enemy. he played down in the case. it was a shorter sentence. could have gone for a capital case. prosecutors decided not to. this was punishable by death, and now he's going to walk in may. are we really concerned...

Coming on the heels of all of this caterwauling about leaking and sensitive information in the public domain and russia and our enemy is using this information against us. on the heels of all that, president obama comes out in the waning days of his administration and gives a commutation to this individual who the prosecutors wanted to nail him on treason and aiding and abetting the enemy. he played down in the case. it was a shorter sentence. could have gone for a capital case. prosecutors decided not to. this was punishable by death, and now he's going to walk in may. are we really concerned...

And i think the fact that what we saw in charleston was probably one of the most compelling punishment sentencing hearings that anyone will ever likely see in any capitol case. probably one of the most unfrergtable, unforgiving, victim impact presentations put on by the united states attorneys office to ensure that dylan roof received the ultimate punishment. >> and what happens now, brian? there's in terms of any kind of appeal, is there anything -- is there any requirement here that dylan roof has to, you know, meet with counsel or have, you know, any kind of other procedural activity or doe...

Cory booker is testifying against senator sessions, which is unprecedented in the senate. >> i think they are going to play the race card here. democrats are calling sessions a racist. it is hearsay. it's an old charge. they play the race card so often. they cry wolf on race so often. we need more than hearsay when sessions was attorney general or u.s. attorney, i should say, he prosecuted a capital case against the ku klux klan. i think they need to bring more to the table than that. by the way, bret, attorney general eric holder under president obama spent years trying to shut down school vo...

Under our law, the standard for competency to go to trial or even to represent one self, at least in the noncapital cases, if you know what the judge does, the prosecution does, if you know what the defense does, you can have a serious mental illness but you can still be found competent to represent yourself and stand trial. >> george, this idea that he is standing there in that courtroom representing himself in the death penalty phase of this federal hate crimes trial, how unprecedented is that? >> this is a very rare event. i've been doing this work for almost four decades now and i think i'...