>> CHRISTINA COLEMAN, THANK YOU.

>> THE FBI REPORTEDLY LOOKING

INTO SOME CONTROVERSIAL PARDONS

BY KENTUCKY'S FORMER GOVERNOR.

THAT ACCORDING TO THE LOUISVILL

COURIER NOR NEWSPAPER.

HE IS UNDER FIRE FOR BARGAINING

AND COMMUTING THE SENTENCES OF

MORE THAN 650 PEOPLE THREE WEEK

AGO JUST BEFORE HE LEFT OFFICE

AFTER LOSING A REELECTION BID.

AMONG THOSE HE PARDONED WAS A

MAN CONVICTED OF HOMICIDE WHOSE

BROTHER HELD A CAMPAIGN

FUNDRAISER FOR BEVAN BACK IN

2018.

THAT MAN INSIST THERE IS NO

CONNECTION.

>> I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MR.

BEVAN FOR LOOKING INTO THIS

AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY

DUG INTO THIS AND DID THEIR OWN

INVESTIGATION.

HOPEFULLY YOU ALL COULD MAYBE

LOOK INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT TOO.

I AM INNOCENT.

THE PARDON WAS NEVER PAID FOR B

MY FAMILY.

COMMENTS AND SO KIND TO TELL YO

THAT.

>> LET'S BRING IN TRIAL ATTORNE

BRAD MCGLYNN TO TALK ABOUT THIS.

>> BAKER HAD SERVED TWO OUT OF

19 YEARS SENTENCES, TWO YEARS

SERVED AND HE GETS OFF, WHAT YO

MAKE OF THAT?

>> PARDONS COME UNDER A LOT OF

SCRUTINY BECAUSE REGARDLESS OF

THE POLITICS, THERE'S ALWAYS A

LOT OF PERSONAL GAIN BEHIND THEM

.

YOU LOOK INTO ONE WE SAW BILL

CLINTON PARDON HIS OWN BROTHER.

HERE WE HAVE A GOVERNOR WHO LOS

REELECTION RETURNING ALMOST 700

VIOLENT CRIMINALS TO THE STREET

AND PEOPLE ARE WONDERING IF THA

WAS MORE MOTIVATED BY SPITE AND

POLITICAL GAIN.

>> IN THIS CASE, THEY SAY THAT

THE FAMILY HAD RAISED $21,000

FOR BEVAN'S CAMPAIGN IN 2018.

HE ENDS UP LOSING REELECTION,

BUT YOU'VE GOT THAT YOUNG MAN

WHO WAS ACCUSED IN CONVICTED OF

A PRETTY NASTY CRIME HERE.

RECKLESS HOMICIDE AND ROBBERY O

A MAN IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY.

HE SERVES TO END HE GETS OFF.

IS THERE ANYTHING, CAN

INVESTIGATORS FIND SOMETHING

HERE THAT COULD LEAD TO SOME

KIND OF CRIMINAL CASE?

>> PEOPLE SAY THE BEST PLACE TO

HIDE A NEEDLE IS NOT IN THE

HAYSTACK BUT WITH NEEDLES.

MAYBE HE REALLY 650 PEOPLE TO

HIDE THIS ONE.

EVEN IF HE DID, THE RIGHT TO

PARDON, KENTUCKY FALLS UNDER TH

KENTUCKY STATE CONSTITUTION NOT

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION PART

THERE'S ALMOST NO LIMITATION OF

A GOVERNOR TO DO IT IS DOING.

>> THERE'S NO WAY THAT COULD

FOUND TO BE SOME KIND OF AN

ABUSE OF POWER?

I CAN'T IMAGINE.

IT SEEMS LIKE IF THEY COULD

PROVE IF IT WAS PAID TO PLAY

THERE, THAT WOULD BE SOME KIND

OF ABUSE OF POWER.

>> NOT AGAINST THE GOVERNOR.

THE STATE CONSTITUTION ALLOWS

PROSECUTION FOR BRIBERY.

IF THEY DID GET THEIR SON OR

FAMILY MEMBER RELEASED, THEY

COULD BE PROSECUTED, THE, BUT

THE GOVERNOR IS WELL WITHIN HIS

AUTHORITY TO PARDON.

>> HERE IS A STATEMENT FROM MAT

BEVAN HIMSELF THE FORMER

GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.

THE STATEMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS

THAT THE FINANCIAL OR POLITICAL

CONSIDERATIONS PLAYED A PART IN

THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS ARE

BOTH HIGHLY OFFENSIVE AND

ENTIRELY FAULTS TO REPEAT SUCH

UNCORROBORATED RUMORS AND LIES

IS REPREHENSIBLE.

TELL ME, SIR, WHY LAUNCH AN

INVESTIGATION IF YOU SAY THERE'

NO WAY TO REALLY FIND ANYTHING

AGAINST MATT BEVAN, WHY ARE THE

LOOKING AT IT?

>> POLITICS ARE SO MOTIVATED BY

INVESTIGATIONS.

I DON'T WANT TO TURN THIS INTO

FEDERAL ISSUE, BUT EVERY TIME

THERE'S A QUESTION OF RIGHT OR

WRONG, YOU WANT AN INVESTIGATION

.

THE CONSTITUTION VERY CLEAR WHE

IT COMES TO PARDONS THERE'S

NOTHING WE CAN DO WHETHER WE

LIKE IT OR NOT PRETTY IF A REAC

PERSON KILL SOMEBODY, AND SENDS

$10 MILLION TO THE LEADER OF TH

COUNTRY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

UNITED STATES AND HE PARDONS HIM

, THAT PARDON IS LEGITIMATE?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

BOTH FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS

BRAYED THE INDIVIDUAL CAN BE

PROSECUTED FOR BRIBERY, BUT NOT

THE OFFICIAL WHO IS GRANTING TH

PARDON.