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dr. kaitlin bernard. an indianapolis obstetrician gynecologist took a call from a colleague. a child abuse doctor in ohio. hours after the supreme court action the buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. now, this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant. could bernard help? this is a heinous story. 10-year-old girl was raped and is pregnant with the rapists baby? there is nothing more despicable than that. and she was no...

With german chancellor shultz. >> president biden: there will no longer be nord stream 2, we will bring an end to it. >> how will you do that since the project is within germanys control? >> president biden: we will, i promise you we will be able to do that. >> todd: chancellor schultz did not comment, he says the u.s. and germany are united against russian aggression. health and human services 79 wants to make sure crack users have clean crack pipes and you are paying for it. plus -- >> moral o...

Urging congress to pass the eliminating, quantifiably unjust application of the law act, or equal act, which seeks to raise the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, but will enough republicans support it? joining me now to discuss is holly harris, the president and executive director of the justice action network. holly, great to see you. thank you for coming to the saturday show. >> thanks so much for having me, jonathan. i hope ive got some good news for you this morning. >> ...

Be tough on crime, lock them up and throw away the keys. they said, look, we try to do the best we can by these people. but the laws are so tough out there and congress people are profiting politically by sounding tough on crime so much that all they do is flood us with human beings by having tougher laws. we lived for a very long time with the idea crack is a black drug and powder is a white drug. the facts i discovered when i made the film is crack was never a black drug. the majority of crack...

The same is true when we talk about crack cocaine and methamphetamines. not as many people use those drugs so these incredible stories can be made up about these drugs. i have given thousands of doses in these drugs in my studies i am here to tell you that the public has been misled. >> in your laboratory you get these drugs legally the dea lets you have them and you add ties and bring users in and then you recruit? >> absolutely. we jump through all of these levels of approval and recruit parti...

Money being spent wisely? joining me now, naacp president ben jealous and national action network president al sharpton. gentlemen, good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> ben, im going to show our viewers some of the kindings of your report but the big takeaway i saw is that overincarceration disproportionately affects minority communities and actually destabilizes communities creating a kind of vicious downward cycle. so, if thats true, then whats the solution? >> well, a few thing ...

Rockefeller drug laws, most dems are a real problem on this issue, as far as the governors are concerned, we go to the republicans and they look at the bottom line, youre absolutely right, this costs too much, it doesnt work, something works better. you know what, im not afraid of being perceived as soft on crime, so i will do it. >> how do you deal with the flip side of the debate? the numbers are clear, disproportionate number of black men in prisons become old black men in prisons. the flip s...

Ginz for selling the drugs. both substances were highly addicted and -- but one was cheap. african-americans made up 80% of those put in jail for crack offenses despite being 30% of crack users. added to that the insane punishment and you have a disparity at the punishment of black and white offenders. president obama sought to eliminate that discrepancy despite opposition from the usual suspects. >> reducing the penalties from crack cocaine could expose our neighborhoods to the same violence th...

Both substances were highly addictive. both were equally harmful. both were cocaine. but crack was cheap and cocaine was not. crack was primarily afflicting urban neighborhoods and cocaine was viewed as the party drug of well-off whites. african-americans made up 80% of those put in jill for crack offenses. despite being only 30% of crack users. add to that the insane difference in punishment, and you had a yawning discrepancy in how the legal system punished white and blk offenders. when you to...