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Been enough. whether the punishment fits the crime, including this one. >> ron allen at the white house. this is big news again. we're just learning about it. a commutation, not a pardon, a commutation from president obama as he leaves office of chelsea manning who leaked all of that sensitive information that appeared on wikileaks a few years ago. also the obama presidency was winding down, it is, but moves like this can certainly have an impact on a president's legacy. you just think of bill clinton and mark, george hw bush, those pardons they offered on their way out. still talked about tod...

He may be handcuffed because the investigation of hillary clinton was not a national security investigation. it was a criminal investigation and they decided there was no crime here, poof, it's gone, then he decided to talk about it. the investigation against donald trump might be what we call a counter intelligence investigation with very sensitive sources and methods. so he may be in a bind, but he still has to be able to talk about that in classified settings. >> there's one person who can classify that and that's the president of the united states. he has how many days now? five, six? so u...

We've seen it all over western europe. we've seen it in the united states you heard the president talk about it in his farewell address. the lack of faith in our very institutions -- and the fbi has had its problems in the past. ask the king family. they have done dpirtdy things in the past but recovered a certain respect among american people. partly because of jim comey. we know mark rich, he had dealing in whitewater he was sort of seen as partisan but when bush was in he went to the bedside of john ashcroft and said no sir alberto gonzalez you cannot make an ill man sign away the rights of...

Place. >> you are a critic of what the administration has done here with the united nations when it comes to israel. as someone who does not like that, do you feel that they have put something permanent in place? something permanent on the record by getting that u.n. security council resolution that donald trump will not be able to undo when he becomes president? or do you feel, hey, i'll get someone in there and it is a momentary thing. >> it may lead to the defunding of the u.n. it is a big deal. up until now, the only thing of consequence i can ever remember happening was bill clinton's par...

Place. >> you are a critic of what the administration has done here with the united nations when it comes to israel. as someone who does not like that, do you feel that they have put something permanent in place? something permanent on the record by getting that u.n. security council resolution that donald trump will not be able to undo when he becomes president? or do you feel, hey, i'll get someone in there and it is a momentary thing. >> it may lead to the defunding of the u.n. it is a big deal. up until now, the only thing of consequence i can ever remember happening was bill clinton's par...