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Johnson'sson sentence has been commuted. >> jeremy diamond, thank you very much. let's expand this conversation wi now. cnn legal analyst michael zeldon and dana bash. i want a big picture and then i want to go specifically to alice johnson's case. we don't know about the dozens of others that the president is considering, but between the one last we, considering a few others and now this today. what's hedoing? >> h using the power that he believes he has and most people who are legal experts, constitutional experts believe he has pretty much unfett po to pardon and commute sentenc sentences. ...

>> the fact is that many immigrants are educated and have skills. all this talk about assimilation just echos the arguments that have been used against generations of people for their race, for their religion or their ethnic background. the american dream is all about people starting with nothing, coming here working hard and making life better for themselves and their children. remember the words on the base of the statue of liberty? there she is in the harbor. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. it doesn't say give me your english speakers, people who can easily assimilate in...

The president cited a couple of things that seemed quite unrelated to the issue, including an alleged dispute between bob mueller and trump international golf course in virginia, the fact that mueller worked for a law firm that represented his son-in-law, jared kushner and also that the president had actually considered appointing robert mueller as the fbi director when he fired james comey. all of these are the reasons that were apparently percolating in the president's head. don mcgahn felt those were not sufficient in order to fire bob mueller, a move that republicans and democrats believed...

Them were after june. so one could say that he no longer entertained the belief that he could fire mueller. so all those statements thereafter may actually have been truthful statements. we just don't know that yet. and that's something for mueller to determine as well. >> last question, gentlemen. how does mueller and his team sit in front of the president and say did you try to fire me? isn't that part of his questioning now? >> i think that would be a question that he would ask mcgahn, in mcgahn's interview and rosenstein in rosenstein's interview. >> okay. gentlemen, thank you. we will spe...