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To ten years. anybody who spent five minutes in a federal prison knows this is not a picnic. it is soul crushing. expensive. demeaning. wasteful. for him to say look let's take this person who under sentencing would have gotten a quart let quarter, let's stop destroying families let the guy get off with 20 years instead of 30 years. that's why they have executive power to bring sanity when for a lot of reasons the system has gone insane. >> this is in line with a policy prescription. this is the president take acview of onerous of minimum mandatory sentences particularly for drug crimes saying...

John and kristine, the finish more interesting than we thought it might be. >> the everything of this election is more interesting. the fbi is facing brand-new question bisexual the timing of some of its actions. the bureau released a new set of files related to the clinton's past, a release that critics are calling inexplicable. joining us cnn politics reporter eugene scott in washington this morning. nice to see you up bright and early. walk us through this. what is in these documents, eugene and why were they released now? >> these documents are about 130 pages of the investigation into mar...

>> we're compromised here because always seeking out leaks to get the information. but problem is when you have this partial disclosures coming out through leaks some of which may be inaccurate. >> people leak for certain reasons. >> that's right. so you have information continuing to come out of the fbi and that's yet another reason why i think it was improper to disclose. >> there's a lot of dissatisfaction and grumblings and animus towards the clintons within the investigative staff of fbi. mark rich, i was waiting for the inauguration on that morning when president clinton pardoned him on ...

Lynch, i think also you know sort of adds to it. it's a very bad situation. we can't deny that. >> what do you think of the files being released today 15 years after the investigation though? of mark rich? >> so the fbi says that they were responding to a foia request and there's no hanky-panky going on. it's very bad timing, i think we can agree -- >> you can understand why democrats are going, what? why didn't they wait. >> doesn't look good. >> why didn't they wait six, seven days. >> go ahead, paige pate. >> it's not discretionary. it's not like comey decided i'm going to put these documen...

Another filing in the foya case when in last night or will go in this a.m. indicates it will be a while, 2016, before the state department posts the e-mails. the question, was this a conflict of interest? meanwhile, comey continues to come under fire from democrats and some republicans from releasing investigation details so close to election day. growing on tuesday as the fbi released documents related to a 15-year-old investigation of mark rich, a friend of bill clinton pardoned by the former president when he left office. the fbi insists the documents were released automatically to comply w...