so basically kim kardashian said k you pardon a black grandmother?resident trump said, no, but i can pardon a brown grand wizard. is that good enough? i'm saying maybe trump pardoned disouza because he's an asshole because trump doesn't care about government overreach, all he cares about is doing favors for people he likes. so kim kardashian, if you really want to get a pardon for your cocaine grandma, forget the meetings and tell her to start sending out racist obama tweets and she'll be out in a week. we'll be right back. ( applause ) yeah! oh, i'm ready! i'm ready! ♪ give your head a mtn dew kickstart ♪ it's dead again. i need a new phone. and you deserve that new phone on the best network. verizon. oh, we're going? sure-- ehh, not my thing. (vo) now get up to 50% off our best phones. like the samsung galaxy s9 and google pixel 2. only on verizon. your plaques are always there at the worst times. constantly interrupting you with itching, burning and stinging. being this uncomfortable is unacceptable. i'm ready. tremfya® works differently for adult

so basically kim kardashian said k you pardon a black grandmother?resident trump said, no, but i can pardon a brown grand wizard. is that good enough? i'm saying maybe trump pardoned disouza because he's an asshole because trump doesn't care about government overreach, all he cares about is doing favors for people he likes. so kim kardashian, if you really want to get a pardon for your cocaine grandma, forget the meetings and tell her to start sending out racist obama tweets and she'll be out in a week. we'll be right back. ( applause ) no bars. oh no! when i got unlimited, they told me they were all the same. well, verizon has the largest, most-reliable 4g lte network in america. honey, what if it was just us out here? yeah well, i guess, uh, didn't think about that. verizon did. (vo) go with the best. starting at $40 for four lines. oh, i'm ready! i'm ready! ♪ give your head a mtn dew kickstart mr. elliot, what's your wifiwifi?word? wifi's ordinary. basic. do i look basic? nope! which is why i have xfinity xfi. it's super fast and you can control e

kim kardashian is a pawn now? your reaction. >> i'm confused by this one, van jones himself was at the white house participating in a prison reform event that led to the passage of a piece of legislation in the house of representatives two weeks before kim kardashian's visit. of course she's going to come and make her case to the president and the president executed masterfully. this is only the logic on planet cnn that could come forth. van jones must assume that a legitimate president is only legitimate if he's working on issues important to you, which would speak volumes about president obama. liz: to your point, katrina, could someone say to van jones president trump is using you, van jones as a political pawn and you are giving legitimacy to the president? >> yeah, i mean that's what's so confusing here. cnn can't have it both ways and to go to show you how chaotic it is at cnn. the day of kim kardashian's visit, cnn's white house correspondent was reporting that the meeting was -- didn't lack any sense and i

you have to give kim kardashian some credit. when you have that kind of a platform, she's got 120 million enstra gram followers. she's got more instagram followers than some countries got people. if she decides to make this a part of her life now, fighting for positive causes, i think you have to give her the credit. >> as you were saying that, it's interesting you said she's been tough on the president. i mean, you know, just because you're tough on someone, it doesn't mean you don't want them to succeed. i'm wondering if there's a bl s lesson in here for the president of the united states to work with people who don't agree with him to do good things. it seems like there should be some sort of lesson for him here. >> i think there should be and there could be. for whatever reason, this issue of criminal justice reform, prison reform, and partds seems to have become a common ground issue, a bipartisan issue. it used to be a marginali issue. now it seems the only issue that even a pelosi and a trump can sometimes agree on. and y

apologies to kim kardashian recognize your work. salute. and in that one tweet, raymond was more generous than trump was. when the five were exonerated, he refused to accept it. and when the city agreed to a $41 million settlement with them, he wrote an opinion piece calling it a disgrace. he has to this day never apologized to raymond santana, who joins us, or any member of the central park five. raymond, i want to ask you the same question that i just asked van jones. how do you make sense of the president who can show mercy to someone like alice marie johnson, but still to this day hasn't apologized to you or the other four of the central park five? >> you know, anderson, it's -- when i first heard about it, you know, i really thought that it was a good thing. i thought it was a great thing, that somebody was finally pardoned, that he had taken a step to do something for alice johnson. but, there's a part of me that, because of this mass track record, because we know that he's deceitful, he has lied several times, he has fabricated thing

because of kim kardashian's star power reaction came swiftly.again but guns or tweets for saturday when celebrities get to decide who belongs in prison and who not. ralph chimes in saying our president will probably be criticized by the press but the whole story will prove he did what was compassionate and right. she did serve 21 years of her life sentence for nonviolent drug offense. there was a clear case kim kardashian made. heather: 22 years and got turned down 28 times. and discovered twitter. what is she going to do? >> maybe she should stay away from that. elizabeth: the the cmt awards. >> about country music award shows but this one is known to be the most relaxed, lighthearted fun. the host, little big town, kicks things off with a royal wedding spoof. take a listen. >> look who has appeared in the procession. is that the queen? >> is that the royal carriage? >> i feel a little bit -- >> spending as i like it. >> the florida georgia line, lots of folks watching in tweeting about the show. carly pierce, the guy that broke my heart, talk

kim kardashian asked for a white house meeting. we know the president's interest in celebrities and he follows reality television. here's another one. the wife of george papadopoulos. she's on television. he's cooperating with the special counsel. if you're the president of the united states, you don't like that. but his wife says, let's have a pardon. >> honestly, i know how committed he was to the trump campaign. i know he did an excellent job. and because of this incident, his freedom is challenged. so i trust and hope and ask president trump to pardon him. i hope he will. >> i mean, this is going to sound very flip. i don't mean it this way. but the traditional process, is you apply to the justice department, you go through a long process where they reach out to any supporting or aggrieved parties, what's the history, how does this fit in the context of past pardons. is the new process get on fox news or get jared kushner to get you into the oval office? >> i don't think process has been a strength of the trump white house. joh

i want to thank kim kardashian west. thank you. kim, thank you. thank you. this is a miracle day. this has been one of the greatest days of my life. the most unexpected thing happened to me in my life. when they all came on, then i oiced kim kardashian's v and she's the one who told me that i was free. that i was going to rejoin my family. amy: kim kardashian west met with trump at the white house last week to advocate for a dust for johnson's freedom. kardashian west became an advocate for johnson after seeing this video o produced by mic.com >> after my jury trial am a i was sentenced to life in prison. life. i st my jo i struled financially. i nnot fina job ttake car of mfamily. amy: while alice buried johnson has been released, thousands are still serving life without parole for nonviolent drug offenses. well, for more, we're joined by jennifer turner, who was part of the legal team representing johnson in her application for clemency. she is a human rights researcher with the american civil liberties union and author of the aclu report titled "a living death: life without par

he had been sort of the contact person for kim kardashian. but here's the last line in the official white house statement. while this administration will always be very tough on crime, it believes those that have paid their debt to society and worked hard to better themselves while in prison deserve a second chance. that really boils down the theory behind this. again, as danny explained, the conviction stands but the life sentence will be no more. i contacted the department of justice and bureau of prisons and they had not yet been alerted about this. there is a certain mechanics that will need to take place but the celebration can certainly begin for her family. the president has used this power. it is one unique to the presidency, and on the state level governors have the power to commute offenses on the state level and this is something we've seen the president have, at times, an introduction to the person he pardons through people that he knows. celebrities, in fact. so kim kardashian's work at the white house may have been pivotal. earl

you spoke with kim kardashian west, what did she have to say? >> she was super happy about getting this woman her freedom. she was passionate about the cause. she made a little bit of news. she said donald trump called her directly, personally, on her cell phone. and then she then got a chance to call alice johnson in prison and let her know that she was going to be coming home. and she also responded to a lot of the criticisms and skepticism, no good deed goes unpunished, but she had some good stuff to say for herself. >> the meeting with president trump, now, that's a whole other level. >> yeah. >> how did that happen? >> well, when i initially called ivanka, i said, i would love a meeting with your dad. i said that from the start. and then that took about six or seven months to get. and so once we got our -- you know, the file really strong, we were able to plan a meeting. and there was the prison reform summit that i know you were at. so i was going to go to that, and my meeting was scheduled the day before that. and then things were changin

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do thinke're going to see a side of kim kardashian we haven't seen before? i encourage people to watch the full interview. she says stuff that i was stunned to hear her talk about. i asked her point-blank, are you going to run for office? you got to see the interview to see what she says. i think she's found a passion. >> make sure you watch van's full interview with kim kardashian west tonight at 7:00 here on cnn. we'll be rk. i have type 2 diabetes. i'm trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? i asked my doctor. she told me about non-insulin victoza®. victoza® is not only proven to lower a1c and blood sugar, but for people with type 2 diabetes treating their cardiovascular disease, victoza® is also approved to lower the risk of major cv events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. while not for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. (announcer) victoza® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic keto

a validation of the amount of work kim kardashian west had done. >> reporter: kardashian after her meetingi really strongly believe that she is someone that has completely rehabilitated herself. >> reporter: and then on wednesday, the announcement comes. >> i mean, it came as a surprise to all of us. >> reporter: kardashian herself delivering the news to johnson, describing the moment to cnn's van jones. >> we cried maybe on the phone for like three minutes straight. like everyone was just crying. >> reporter: the president chiming in this morning. good luck to alice johnson, have a wonderful life. but even in the worlds of hollywood and politics, the response time to alice's case is an enigma. >> normally pardons take years to work through the system. for president trump to take the meeting, die jest the information, issue the pardon, for her to be released within a couple of weeks, it has no precedent in modern times. >> reporter: it's not the first time president trump has flexed his presidential clemency muscle. last year trump pardoned controversial sheriff joe arpaio, convicted of cr

amy: kim kardashian west met with trump at the white house last week to advocate for a dust for johnson's freedom. kardashian west became an advocate for johnson after seeing this video o produced by mic.com >> after my jury trial am a i was sentenced to life in prison. life. i st my jo i struled financially. i nnot fina job ttake car of mfamily. amy: while alice buried johnson has been released, thousands are still serving life without parole for nonviolent drug offenses. well, for more, we're joined by jennifer turner, who was part of the legal team representing johnson in her application for clemency. shht th themerican civil liberties union and author of the aclu report titled "a living death: life without parole for nonviolent offenses." welcome to democracy now! so talk about alice's case. talked about how she ended up in jail and now what has happened. great grandmother, mother of five. because of circumstances, a -- she had lost her into foreclosure, got laid off from her job, was takcare of her five kids. lost heres in scooter accident. she became involved in a drug conspiracy ba

it just caught fire and kim kardashian-west shared the story on social media. she got very moved to act and very involved behind the scenes since november and it been months now to get this woman released and it's been incredible. >> let me play this quick clip from kim after she learned about alice. >>i lost my job, i struggled financially, i couldn't find a job to take care of my family. failure. i went into a complete panic and out of desperation, i made one of the worst decisions of my life to make quick money. i became involved in a drug conspiracy. >> i just really strongly believe that she is someone that has completely rehabilitated herself and will continue to do so outside of prison. you know, she's done her time. i mean, she's done almost 22 years. you know, i think in life everyone makes mistakes and she really deserves a second chance. >> tell me about what she shared with you. because we saw the pictures from the oval office ofim kardashian-west and the president and he really listened obviously. >> yeah. i think what she shared is that she felt l

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singleton. >> uh-huh. >> kim kardashian goes in, headlines everywhere. he's talking with kim kardashian about criminal justice reform. she wants pardons for two blacks. she got nothing. in fact, d'souza, who called president obama a boy and a grown-up trevant is given a pardon for what he himself was guilty of doing. criminal justice of trump, or is that an overstatement, in your opinion? >> as it specifically relates to article 2, section 2 of the constitution which grants the president power, the president has, for the most part, freedom to dictate who he's going to pardon. >> that's not the question. i don't want to go into the history of constitutional power, the question i'm raising is, under this administration, an appeal from someone he promoted as a big star to have a conversation, makes the direct appeal, and he answers it by giving them nothing and giving someone the opposite. >> according to the constitution, your question within itself is flawed, and i'll tell you why. the president, again, has the right to pardon whomever he wants, whether i

and kim kardashian tweeted, "best news ever." this comes amid a flurry of pardon activity by the president. last week, he pardoned controversial conservativedy nesh d'souza. he's also floated the idea of pardoning martha stewart. and former illinois governor rod blagojevich, who was also on "celebrity apprentice." >> i'll do anything legal and ethical and honest. >> reporter: all of this raises the question of whether the president is sending a message to those caught up in the russia investigation. michael flynn, michael cohen, or even paul manafort, now facing possible immediate jail time for alleged witness tampering. this week, the wife of george papadopoulos, a trump campaign adviser who has taken a plea deal, made a direct appeal to the president on fox news. >> i know he is serious, because of this incident, his freedom is challenged. so, i trust and hope and ask president trump to pardon him. i nope he will. >> the requests now for pardons. jon karl live from the white house. and jon, another headline i know you are follo

also for the first time, we're going to air my full exclusive interview with kim kardashian west. tonight. on the van jones show. this week, kim got a chance to meet face-to-face for the very first time with the newly freed alic alic alice johnson. a great grandmother who was serving a life sentence for a first time drug offense. life sentence, first time offense. now, kim appealed personally to president trump and he commuted her sentence, to hats off to donald trump for doing that. now after 21 years, miss johnson is finally free. and such an important story about redenlgs, embracing second chances. both for alice johnson and kim kardashian west. to be fair, miss johnson did mess up pretty bad in '93. she lost herb job, her husband through a divorce then her son in a motorcycle accident. she fell in with the wrong crowd. got involved with drugs. no excuses, just facts. but behind bars, she was a model of good behavior. never got in trouble. which is almost impossible in prison not to get in any trouble in prison. took places, became an or daned minister, hospice worker, personal

listen to what he said about kim kardashian on prison reform. >> forget about the fact that kim kardashian is here from the white house and what planet is that anything resembling normam. she shouldn't be here talking about prison reform. it is it nice that she is here, but nopt a serious thing to happen in the white house. >> sean: actually if you read the case it is a different manner. acosta singing a different tune with the ledge end when obama was president. >> i will push the president to get more victim offed in the criminal justice reform and suggest ideas that we think could help improvement situation. >> if you change your mind about running for office, give cnn the scoop. >> i will. >> thank you and great talking with you. >> thank you. >> sean: sean spicer author of the geraldo she. geraldo rivera and south carolina governor henry mcmaster is with us. and let me start with you. this is interesting, if you look in the case in particular, it was a first offense, and lifetime sentence for a woman who had a lot of permanent problem and needed money and got involved in drugs and i t

kim kardashian says she is not taking selfies that much. do you think she can get through the day without taking pictures of herself. >> so many other people are taking pictures of her she doesn't need to do it herself. judge jeanine: do you take selfies? >> no. judge jeanine: do you know what a selfie is? >> yes. judge jeanine: it's on video. watch it. kim kardashian says she is not taking selfies anymore. >> oh, please, never. i would never believe that. i can't imagine her staying out of the limelight. judge jeanine: what makes a good selfie? >> going higher than yourself. judge jeanine: like this? >> it projects amazing light. judge jeanine: why wouldn't you want to look better than you look in person, then when people meet you they are disappointed. >> you hide in your room and make everyone think you are beautiful. judge jeanine: should you smile? >> a lot of girls go for the duck face. judge jeanine: how many selfies does it take to get the perfect selfie? >> at least 100. judge jeanine: do you know how many selfies it takes to get a

president trump for johnson's clemency. >> never in my wildest dreams did i think it would be kim kardashian would take my cause on. >> reporter: in prison she got a call. it was kardashian-west. >> when she said home, i could go home now, i started screaming and jumping and crying. >> reporter: the president had commuted her sentence. what do you say to people who say you committed a crime and you should serve the sentence? >> i don't believe there should be a nonviolent offender like myself sentenced to life. >> reporter: she's thankful to the man who gave her a second chance. >> i just knew him from "the apprentice" and he was always funny to me. i love hearing him say you're fired. he just told me, you're free. >> reporter: going forward she has to have regular check-ins with her parole officer and is making plans to meet with kim kardashian-west soon. >> johnson was released days after kim kardashian-west pleaded her case to mr. trump. kardashian-west says the call she made to johnson telling her about the commutation will be one of her best memories. >> to me it wasn't about policies.

but kim kardashian-west needs to be given credit. she was vilified in the press and may made fun of her, but she had a victory in the age of trump and she needs to be acknowledged. >> what you're hearing, van, john kelly opposed this decision? >> well, my understanding is that this was strong opposition inside the building from all quarters, and that jared kushner was willing to stand his ground to get this thing done and to get it pushed all the way through. and you have seen reporting out there that kelly was not a fan of this, didn't like this. and i think that, again, jared kushner's father went to prison, and he has been an advocate. this prison reform bill has made it through the house with 360 votes to 56, a big bipartisan prison reform bill. kushner was pushing that. we have to acknowledge jared kushner on 99 issues, liberals and progressives disagree with him. but on prison reform, he's opinion an effective advocate, and we need to keep pushing. this is a particular case that was outrageous. but there ather outrageous cases

>> after being incarcerated for 22 years, how well did you the name kim kardashian? the i didn't kno name. i didn't know kim. as soon as i found out who she was, i started reading everything i could about her, and everybody was was amazed. i >> you retweeted and some people would have said that was eat, some 60 million people now know, way to go, kim. but you were not done after that retweet. why did you take it a step further? >> it became a mission i didn't want to give up. to some people it would be, like, okay, kim made a phone call to the president and showed up, and we had been in talks and working on this for seven months and it was not an instant thing? >> kim, you will go all the way to the white house. first call you make, who do you call first? >> ialled ivanka, and we had a really great conversation about women and wanting to help each other, and i knew that she would have understd aalice,nd she immediately was so reseptiveso d great. >> that chat led to an oval office meeting on alice's birthday? >> it's like, i can't believe we are in the oval office. th

. >>> a woman is free, she has kim kardashian and president trump to thank. betty yu on the latest presidential pardon. >> reporter: her freedom comes days after kim kardashian made her case to the president. she had been lo up since 1986 related to cocaine distribution and money laundering. alice johnson left a federal in alabama she served more tha for a first-time non-violent drug offense. >> i'm free to hug my family. >>yes. >>i'free to live life. i'm free to start over. >> reporter: president trump commuted her life sentence, a white house statement said in part, while this administration will always be very tough on crime, it believes knows that paid their debt to deserve a second chance. >> i wa star kim kardashian visited the oval office to lobby for her release. after the decision, kardashian wrote on twitter, best news ever. >> it shouldn't take kim going to the white house to do that. >> reporter: it is the 6th clem president. after an appeal from actor sylvester to loan, he recently pardoned another. the president said the government treated both

listen to what he said about kim kardashian on prison reform. >> forget about the fact that kim kardashians here from the white house and what planet is that anything resembling normam. she shouldn't be here talking about prison reform. it is it nice that she is here, but nopt a serious thing to happen in the white house. >> sean: actually if you read the case it is a different manner. acosta singing a different tune with the ledge end when obama was president. >> i will push the president to get more victim offed in the criminal justice reform and suggest ideas that we think could help improvement situation. >> if you change your mind about running for office, give cnn the scoop. >> i will. >> thank you and great talking with you. >> thank you. >> sean: sean spicer author of the geraldo she. geraldo rivera and south carolina governor henry mcmaster is with us. and let me start with you. this is interesting, if you look in the case in particular, it was a first offense, and lifetime sentence for a woman who had a lot of permanent problem and needed money and got involved in drugs and i thi

i'm not going to do it because kim kardashian says so.ing, the president as some of his critics are saying, sending a message to others right now? >> i think that this type of move objectively sends lots of messag messages. tough take the johnson parton and put it to one side. you have to put the pardons of known liars on the other side then you have a third side here, which is the self-pardon talk. which has an absurdist notion to it. politically and legally. this main swath, why would you let a martha stuart, scooter libby, why would you have those kinds of people get off the hook? the argument that does send a message joe arpio, that he will be the ash tor. >> you had an amazing interview with rudy giuliani monday night. all of a sudden now, he's alleging that 13 angry democrats that worked for mueller, they are seeking to frame the president for something he didn't do. >> so, rudy giuliani seems to have a point of conflict here. which is he would say i'm zealous lly representing the rights of my client. but he's not just a lawyer. he'

what is her connection to kim kardashian?have lots of questions for her and her family. >> tonight we can get the other side of that. van jones seutits down with kim kardashian west. >>> samantha bee apologizing for the crude comment about ivanka trump. what is she saying and what's her plan moving forward? the best way to hit the beach? with neutrogena® beach defense® sunscreen. helioplex™ powered, uva uvb strong. beach strength protection for the whole family. for the best day in the sun. neutrogena®. what if you had fewer headaches and... migraines a month? botox® prevents headaches and migraines before they even star. botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month,... each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® injections take about 15 minutes in your doctor's office and are covered by most insurance. effects of botox® may spread... hours to weeks after injection... causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing,... eye problems, or muscle weakn

is kim kardashian ready to take over politics? e new interview that this . >>> smoke andes fl everybody safely got off a bus when it caught fire in the district today. this all happened about noon on 95 northbound near the suitland parkwayexit. the fire shut down traffic on ce northbound side. the bus wasrying a tour group from georgia. >>> could another rlity star follow president trump in the oval office? kim kardashian is not ruling out a presidential run. kardashian tald politics on n cnn's the van jones show. many when jones asked her about a white house bid, she told him, quote, never say never. kardashian helped secure a presidential pardon for alice johnson a first time nonviolent drug offender. she wants to help other incarcerated women. >>> the six leading c for maryland governor go toe to toe tomorrow morning. we host the forum. you can see that after "meet the press" at 11:30 right here on nbc 4. >>> a doctor's bedside manner under sccatiny tonight. ras catch the physician curse, grab, mock a patient suffering from a p

deserve a second chance. >> i want to thank president trump. >> reporter: last week, reality star kim kardashianed the oval office to lobby for her release. after the desion, kardashi wrote on twitter, best news ever. >> it shouldn't take kim going to the white house to do that. >> reporter: it is the 6th clemency act for the president. after an appeal from actor sylvester to loan, he recently pardoned another. the president said the government treated both men unfairly. mr. trump is also believed to be considering a pardon for martha stewart, who was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock trade. this means that johnson gets out of jail, but will still have a criminal record. after top white house officials questioned whether it was appropriate to grant her a full pardon. betty yu, kpix5. >> big business, big tax. silicon valley city may tell companies pay up play here. we are in nnwith more on the proposed tech tax. >> we have to address it. >> reporter: from google to apple, facebook, and amazon -- >> this is a regional issue. >> reporter: tech giants with giant staff are being blam

here's what he said on kim kardashian. >> forget the fact that kim kardashian is here in the white houseis anything resembling normal. it is not. she shouldn't be here talking about prison reform. it is nice that she is here but not a serious thing to happen in the white house. >> sean: if you read the case it is a serious matter. he is singing a different tune while covering the prison reform when obama was president. >> i will push the president to get more victim offed in criminal justice reform and suggest idea that we think could help improve. >> if you change your mind about running for office give cnn the scoop. >> thank you. >> sean: this is sean spicer, author of the best seller and geraldo rivera and south carolina governor henry mcmaster is here with us. if you look at the case in particular. it was a first offense life- time sentence for a woman who had a lot of the personal problems and needed money and got involved in drugs. i think the case that kim kardashian was pushing was a powerful 1 and 1 we need to pay attention to? >> there is no doubt that kim kardashian's appeara

and that big story happens. >> exactly. >> we're going to get to our exclusive interview with kim kardashianhnson. they met face-to-face for the first time yesterday. it was one week after president trump commuted alice's life sentence. thanks, in part, to kim's effort to set alice free. ♪ >> i'm home. >> reporter: alice marie johnson is home. sharing one of her favorite gospel songs with me. special moments like these with her family, nearly 22 years in the making. you never gave up. >> never. >> reporter: not a day. >> not on the worst day. >> reporter: alice was sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in a drug trafficking operation in the memphis area. it was a first time, non-violent offense. that came after alice faced tough moments in her life, including divorce, job loss, and the death of her youngest son. >> it's a darkness of the soul. it's something unimaginable. you know, i know that many people experience tragedy, and they don't get involved in illega they don't get involved in illegal activities. myforeclosed on. i had to file for bankruptcy. i couldn't provide

i am so thankful. >> kim kardashian tweeted afterward, best news ever.ump and hopes the move gives hope to others who deserve a second chance. >>> and sonoma county, several tips from the public led to an arrest in an assault case. the suspect, 44-year-old matthew madrid. rohnert park police say he chased a teenager last month and attempted to grab her. authorities released the sketch on the lendthat led authorities to madrid to was arrested after he was recognized by the victim. he has a history of harassing women and making statements about wanting to harm children. >>> scary moments for south bay firefighters when a car slammed right into the back of their engine overnight. this happen your capital expressway and tourist road. the car almost to the firefighter who was working to put out a small brush fire along the road. the driver of that truck was hurt but he is expected to survive his injuries. not your average fight, you are looking at it. police came across these two bowls fighting -- bulls fighting luckily the owner arrived soon afterward. he di

not everyone may have kim kardashian behind them. but it starts with a discussion. he right direction, kennedy. always pleasure. kennedy: kim k. isn't the on celeb making pical w. five-time nba champ dennis rodman will be in singapore for the sum the worm has hmit kingdom five times. he has even taken some credit for improved relations and claims he gave a copy of the of the of the deal to little kim the last time he was in north korea. as of now, it's on. rudy giuliani tossed an insult to north korea. saying kim jong-un got on his hand and knees and begged after the cancellation of the summit. the party panel is kat timpf, joe dehave de -- joo and harlan hill. >> some of the saviors of american democracy and diplomacy are former stars and court tars. -- court stars. kennedy: joe, you have been the sober person in the room with drunk people. president trump does not drink. cub * and dennis rodman when they get together, they empty the distillery. can you manage how annoying it will be for the president sitting there while dennis and kim hold each other's hair back wh

president trump for johnson's clemency. >> never in my wildest dreams do i think it would be kim kardashian who would take my cause on. >> reporter: in prison yesterday, she got a call. it was kardashian west. >> when she said home, just that word, i could go home now, i started screaming and jumping and crying. >> reporter: the president had commuted her sentence. what do you say to people who say you committed a crime and you should serve the sentence? >> i don't believe there should be a nonviolent offender like myself sentenced to life. >> reporter: and she is thankful to the man who gave her a second chance. >> i just knew him from "the apprentice" and other things, and he was always funny to me. i love hearing him say "you're fired." he just told me "you're free." >> reporter: as for johnson's next step, she plans to get a cell phone as early as tonight. she is really excited about y will have to teach her how to use at gosaing hforward,er she'll hav have regular check-ins with her parole officer, and she is making plans to meet with kim kardashian west very soon. jeff? >> adriana dia

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and today is family and friends today. >> tell us what it was like to get that phone call from kim kardashianest that let you know you'd be getting out. >> it was the most incredible day of my life. the most incredible, amazing, overwhelming day, moment of my life. when kim told me i could go home, i started screaming and jumping up. i know people that were looking in the window probably thought i was having some kind of fit. >> what do you want to say to her? >> i wanted to tell my war angel that i thank you for never giving up, that you did it, you never gave up on me, you fought and you fought until i was free, and that was one thing she told me is she would not give up on me. i just like to thank her and hug her. >> alice, in the video that first caught kim kardashian west's attention, you said the real miss alice is a woman who has made a mistake. tell us how you came to that conclusion and how you turned your life around when you were in prison. >> for me, i know that this is something that i can't even imagine that i did what i did in the beginning. but i turn might life all the way ar

and then broke the news. >> i heard kim kardashian's voice, she was the one that told me that i was to join my family. >> reporter: kardashian west tweeted best news ever. >> i think in life, everyone makes mistakes. she really deserves a second cancel. >> reporter: johnson a great grandmother, served stwun years in an alabama prison for a life sentence rung a drug cartel. they said alice worked hard to rehabilitate herself in prison. is there a pattern to the president's pardons? so far most of his choices have rewarded political allies, like arizona controversial sheriff joe arpaio. >> i stand by my partner sheriff joe. >> reporter: or a celebrity friend. >> it's my honor to do it. it's about time. >> reporter: overnight the senate minority leader questioning the president's motives. >> it should be based on the merits, not on who you know. >> reporter: but there may be more pardons on the horizon a white house official tells nbc news, the president is considering dozenss more with mr. trump signaling on the list of possibilities, martha stewart wart and disgraced illinois governo

kim kardashian spoke on behalf of a 63-year-old grandmother in jail for a drug offense.rtha stewart and rod blagojevich, who both have ties to "the apprentice." actor sylvester stall own is making a movie about the first black champion, and his words could caroline kennedy to clemen clemency. let me start by asking to reflect by what we've seen this week. i'll use dinesh d'souza as an example. we seen it happen with scooter libby and jeff johnson. president trump saying again he had no relationship to this person, hadn't talk to him before. i'm talking about dinesh d'souza, it was brought to himself attention over dinner by senator ted cruz. >> it's three things that comes to mind. one, he went around what is the usual, where you have the pardons group in the justice department make recommendations, give a reasoning for it, give justification for it or they give adverse reasons why it should not happen. he totally went around that and doesn't appear to have any of those considerations. so then if that is not the procedure, then what is the motivation? are we now saying t

kim kardashian tweeting. best news ever. we'll watch our twitter accounts to see if she has any more to say as she learns more about this. this does come as we have been reporting throughout the day that president trump is considering dozens of other pardons including, according to the president himself, commuting the sentence of rod blagojevich as well as martha stewart. will that happen? we'll have to wait and see. some critics look at some of these pardons in question, if there's a political purpose to them. that's a nar tifr thrative the house has pushed back against vigorously. the question is president trump with some of these pardons trying to send a message to some of those wrapped up in the russia probe like his pardon of dinesh d'souza. this pardon will likely be less controversial. this is a great grandparemother back in the 1990s was sentenced to life for drug trafficking. >> there are a lot of others, thousands and others who are less entitled, less well represented who are incarcerated. mostly minorities, mostl

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her story caught the eye of kim kardashian west who made a personal plea for the release to presidentweek. johnson shared an emotional reunion with her family after walking out of an alabama prison yesterday. and alice johnson and her daughter join us now. good morning, ladies. >> good morning. >> good morning. > you look happy, alice. >> i'm so happy to be here. >> i bet you are. >> i am so happy. >> how has your life changed overnight? >> this time yesterday i was behind bars. today i'm walking around seeing all the sites and hugging everybody. >> ca teena, did you ever think it would come to pass where you you were sitting next to your mom like that outside of jail? >> i didn't know when it was going to happen but i knew god had a plan for my mama and she was coming home, so i knew it was going to happen one day but i did not know it was yesterday. >> well, that is certainly optimistic. the president, alice, has just tweeted about you. he said good luck to alice johnson. >> okay. >> have a wonderful life! what's your reaction? >> wow. wow. president trump made me have a wonderful l

>>> new reaction this morning from a presidential directive put forth to him by kim kardashian as mr. trump commutes the sentence of a grandmother who was serving life. >> you know, a lot of people were offended and angry that i used an epithet to describe the president's dautder and advisor last week. it is a word i have used on the show many times hoping to reclaim it. this time i used it as an insult. i crossed the line, i regret it and i do apologize for that. >> samantha bee offers a public apology for insulting ivanka trump. that's not all. >> immigration will be front and center even as a mayor dances around the controversy. >> nbc speaks exclusively to a woman who cues woman who accuses harvey weinstein for rape. >> a huge day in game three of the nba finals. "early today" starts right now. >> good to be with you. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. we begin with breaking news overnight on the intensifying van hollen kay volcanic disaster. a 5.6 earthquake striking the island already jolted by 5,000 tremors in the last month. that triggered ash flumz as high as 10,000

. >> the decision coming after kim kardashian's visit to the oval office. this morning, alice marie johnson's new family photo and what she plans to do now that she's free. >>> new overnight, some of the youngest victims of the volcano disaster in guatemala arrive in the u.s. for critical medal care as we get a new, up close view of just how bad the crisis can get with nearly 200 people missing. >>> the shocking case of road rage caught on camera. a man ramming into this suv flooring it and then backing up and doing it again. seconds later, kicking in the windshield. what may have been behind the violence. >>> those stories plus the dramatic rescue to save a baby from a burning building. >> a new crackdown this morning on so-called surge pricing that uber charges. >>> the questionable combo, broccoli coffee. nutritional but would you direct it? >>> it's what's for breakfast on a thursday morning. >> you first. >> i'm pretty sure that grandmother is not tasting that but she is tasting freedom this morning. that great grandmother. for the first time in two de