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Ranchers forced into poverty of the new restrictions on the use of sprawl lands and so indeed they don't speak for the hammonds. the hammonds are reporting to prison. they're not in federal custody yet but a statement out from the attorney they plan to report today but they're still continuing to fight their legal battle which is to continue to have grazing rights on the federal lands, this is part of the statement. the hammonds continue the legal efforts and also pursue executive clemency. we hope that president obama will agree with us and with the -- and with the veteran judge that presided...

Reporter: it is an executive clemency offer. the justice department is offerg the rules and guidelines in which nonviolent criminals can have the remaining sentences reduced and even eliminated based on the nature of their crime and particular circumstances. you see him on the side of the screen. president obama poised to exercise his authority to grant the executive clemency on a wide scale. hundreds, perhaps thousands of inmates could be released by the end of the presidency. it's controversial and congress has been delaying sentencing reform for quite some time. there's clearly a problem, 2...

Brother, the president, that the parrot smuggler's sentence should be cut way down. and his sentence was cut way down and he got sprung. bobby kennedy used the parrot-smuggler example as a tale for explaining that sentencing sometimes goes wrong. and he explained that we ought to then use executive clemency. we ought to use the executive power of the presidency to right the wrongs when the justice system cannot. in his time as president, john f. kennedy pardoned 472 people. when lyndon johnson became president he more than doubled the pardons, in 1974, president gerald ford commuted the senten...

To then use executive clemency. we ought to use the executive power of the presidency to right the wrongs when the justice system cannot. in his time as president, john f. kennedy pardoned 472 people. when lyndon johnson became president he more than doubled the pardons, in 1974, president gerald ford commuted the sentences of everyone who had dodged the vietnam war draft. carter did one better and issued a blanket pardon for anyone who had dodged the draft. so it was not just making the sentences disappear. it made dodging the draft disappear as a crime, as well. the presidential power to spr...

Jail for a number of years isn't the right choice here. >> interestingly, his victim says, give the guy some slack here. he screwed up when he was younger, he says, but the fact is, he seems to have gotten his life together. what about the river front times in st. louis? the executive clemency is the clearest path to going home. it may be the longest shot. nixon has only used this power once, by contrast other governors commute sentences by the hundreds. he has petitioned the governor. >> i think it's an uphill battle here. he doesn't have the law on his side, but he has mercy on his side and ...