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>> cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been in prison going on 11 years. a decade-plus to go. unless -- there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn't clear what, if anything, was happening. >> what's disturbing about the clemency process is that it's secretive. >> what rosenfield didn't know is that this time it was different. the governor in fact ordered a new investigation. just before christmas 2...

>> cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been in prison going on 11 years. a decade-plus to go. unless -- there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn't clear what, if anything, was happening. >> what's disturbing about the clemency process is that it's secretive. >> what rosenfield didn't know is that this time it was different. the governor in fact ordered a new investigation. just before christmas 2...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." kim kardashian west returned to the white house this week. the reality star discussed prison reform with a group that included presidential advisers ivanka trump and jared kushner. >> the meeting took place just months after she last met with the president in the oval office and lobbied to get alice johnson a commutation. she had gotten a life sentence for drug related charges. >> joining us now was someone who was in that meeting with kim kardashian. what was that meeting for, to achieve? >> they billed it as a listening session. it was about clemency reform....

Those kinds of things would be clearly not done today. >> cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been in prison going on 11 years. a decade-plus to go. unless -- there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn't clear what, if anything, was happening. >> what's disturbing about the clemency process is that it's secretive. >> what rosenfield didn't know is that this time it was different. the governor in fa...

Those kinds of things would be clearly not done today. >> cold comfort for robert davis, who by 2014, had been in prison going on 11 years. a decade-plus to go. unless -- there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn't clear what, if anything, was happening. >> what's disturbing about the clemency process is that it's secretive. >> what rosenfield didn't know is that this time it was different. the governor in fa...