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And comparing the pardons to past presidents have granted. >> president clinton pardoned mark rich, charged with crimes going back decades. president obama commuted the sptens of chelsea manning, who leaked capitalist sensitive and classified documents to wikileaks, perhaps and others. but horrible, horrible thing that he did. commuted the sentence. sheriff joe is a patriot. sheriff joe loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders. and sheriff joe was very unfairly treated by the obama administration. >> joined now by richard, reporter for the arizona republic, knows all about the stor...

But i wanted to look at some of the other people that were pardoned over the yeears, and i you look at, as an example, president clinton pardoned mark rich who was charged with crimes going back decades, including illegally buying oil from iran while it held 53 american hostages. wasn't allowed to do that. selling to the enemies of the united states. he was pardoned after his wife donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the clintons. then you have dangerous criminals. president clinton pardoned susan rosenberg, a member of the weathered underground. the charge as part of a bank robbery tha...

People realize here's an older man in the sunset of his life. why send him to jail after his service as a sheriff and the war and so forth. i don't think this speech was unhinged. i know the d.c. crowd likes to say that. i think it was a great speech. i think he fired up his base. it was a campaign speech, and if i listened to some of the obama campaign speeches, i wouldn't have liked that. speaking of obama, i just want to remind everybody, 1700 commuted sentences. i think it says that our president can pardon a commute whenever he wants. that's what he was saying when he talked about the peo...

Be suffering any longer. it's been unfair for too long. so we will build the wall and we will stop a lot of things, including the drugs that are pouring in at levels like nobody has ever seen. we'll be able to stop them once the wall is up. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> thank you. that was president donald j. trump at a press conference with the finish president on the table questions and related to black cash ons, the balk ins, sheriff joe arpaio, fema and the border wall. covered a lot of ground in a relatively short period of time. i know you have re...

Did this on friday to avoid attention, because there was so much attention on the storm in texas. he said actually he thought ratings were higher then. so the point he was making, he wasn't actually trying to avoid the limelight, he was trying to bring attention, is what seemed to be the indication there, bill crystal, as our panel joins us to discuss this. he wasn't trying to avoid scrutiny, right? that's what he said. and then he also had a laundry list of other very controversial pardons by other presidents. >> he came with a piece of airplane with pardons of recent times. everyone was very...