Tony Dokoupil wants to know what’s happening with Tina Peters.
CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil has grilled Colorado Governor Jared Polis on the issue of freeing one of Donald Trump’s key pardon targets. Trump, 79, is insistent that former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, 70, should be pardoned for health reasons.
The election denier was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2024 after being Trump has been vocal on the issue in recent weeks. Last month, the president granted her a “full pardon” in aagain. “God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison,” he wrote in a screed which also incorrectly identified her as a 73-year-old .Polis in a separate Truth Social post last month, calling him a “SLEAZEBAG” who was refusing to allow an “elderly woman” out of jail. Peters is nine years younger than Trump.on Truth Social on New Year’s Eve, the MAGA-curious host also added an extra three years to Peters’ age. “She’s in jail right now, 73-years-old,” Dokoupil said to Polis, adding, “President Trump wants this woman out of prison.” Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado.that Peters’ age was a factor in a possible pardon, stating, “When you have people that are in their 70s and 80s in our system — how much of a threat to society are they? And we balance that in a way that makes sure that they can spend their last few years at home.”“You look at every case on clemency on the merits,” he said. “You have somebody who is non-violent, first time offender, elderly. On other hand, does she take full accountability for her crime? We don’t look at this in isolation. I have dozens of these requests that we look at regularly. And I want to make sure we don’t look at this one in any different way.” Gov. Jared Polis announced a balanced budget proposal for 2026-27 to protect important investments on the issues Coloradans care about most like education and public safety at Boettcher Mansion in Denver, Colorado on Friday, October 31, 2025.Dokoupil pressed the governor, saying, “So you’re thinking about it?” Polis replied “We’re thinking about all of them,” and added “mercy and giving people a second chance is a core value of mine.”in 2024, Colorado trial court Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters, “I’m convinced you’d do it all over again if you could.”with Polis for social media only, where he pushed the issue again, claiming that “one of your voters over there was not happy with your Tina Peters answer on whether she should come out of jail or not.” The governor responded, “There’s not an answer until there’s an answer, right? So people are waiting to hear what I’m looking at.”“Frankly, the harder cases for me on clemency are people that have committed assault or felony murder,” Polis said. “I’ve done some of those over the years, and to let somebody out at some point, have they made restitution, is a tough decision, but it’s one that I’m never afraid to shy away from.” Dokoupil has been traveling across the U.S. to broadcast in different states to win over viewers. Installed by new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, the host said he was“On too many stories, the press has missed the story,” Dokoupil said. “Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.”with billionaire Cowboys owner Jerry Jones last week. He also shares a renovated four-floor townhouse with wife and MS Now anchor Katy Tur in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood.was funded in part by his father’s drug-dealing connections. After that, he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in Manhattan for a PhD program.
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