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welcome to the show im mehdi hassan. you know you can tell the case of the classified documents at mar-a-lago its serious. donald trump isnt doing interviews. not lucky used to. and its absent, one trump boxes all over right-wing media. showing he can explain this calmly. should he can explain take down the heat about the face trump using his message to the dartmouth. >> it starts and hence with russia. ukraine impeachment. one karat at the hillary clinton email investigation scandal. ...

Criminalized. that waiting list is where we have a tremendous impact. the day-to-day swings in crime numbers going up and down. when you are right wing or moderate or a progressive prosecutor, quite frankly you are going to have very little impact on a daily basis. weve seen across the board. >> i want to play you a clip from fox. how about we listen to some of the rhetoric. >> the fact we have the highest increase in the murder rate on history, that is a direct result of democratic policies, wh...

Socialist and she does say its a tragedy, shes calling for the abolition of new york city will bes department and abolish the police department and says that doesnt mean the best of police officers -- let me read some tweets of hers during the campaign, she said that always remember police and prison systems are creating to preserve slavery to break the chains must must provide total abolition. she tweeted we cannot reform a system of policing has so rooted in racist from the front and abolish n...

Oakland 86%. l.a. county 126%. portland -- i dont even know how to do that math. >> there is a combination of problems going on. i started a report on the cities in is about two years ago. it started with this wave of criminal justice reform. the initial thing started with equal justice under the law. even have the former president introduced the first step act. the problem is some of these policies have gone so far last that it is not a matter of equal justice and making sure there is accountab...

Rikers island, but the bail system that really forces a lot of people into plea bargaining, saying that they did things they really didnt do, but they cant get around these enormous bales that are put on them and its this or you end up losing years of your life and altering your future. >> thats exactly right. 77% of the people on rikers island have not yet been convicted of anything, and many of them are there because they cant afford bail. and it doesnt really matter if the bail is $100,000 or...

Cages unjustly. none of these women have told their stories, been tried or convicted, but have to sit in cage and the collateral damage is killing our people. one in three experience sexual violence, one out of nine black children without a parent at home, because they cannot afford bail is unacceptable. and as black people, we have a mandate to avenge the suffering of our ancestors and to earn the respect of future generations and be willing to be transformed into the service of the work. so to...