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Public policy foundation. we passed legislation similar to what congress is now looking at that has had a dramatic impact on our ability to take people from prison into productive lives. i can site many statistics but we were facing spending $2 billion and we didnt spend the money we put 240 million into treatment and into helping people find jobs. we have expanded that since. but its made a tremendous difference. we have not built any more new brifns since then. we have actually closed 8 prison...

Of the strategy heading into elections this november. lets bring in the roundtable. michael steele, former rnc chairman, adrian he will rod former senior aide with hillary for america and yamiche alcindor, pbs "newshour" correspondent. if you have a party message, do you have to announce it? dont people always know where -- usually you sort of know where reagan stood. you didnt have to have a message. you knew where bernie stands. he doesnt have to put a message board up. is it smart for a party...

Think he did cocaine, he thought he was going to use it to set up a city official trying to bring him down. yes, narcissistic, ego driven, and doesnt want anyone to know about everything hes now accused postmortem of doing, the embezzlement and his son may have been involved and a marriage scam for benefits. theres a lot of darkness thats coming out that he didnt want anybody to know. >> i want you to listen to this, because now his wife and their son are also under investigation for any possibl...

But the roving wire tap authority and the lone wolf provisions those involve active immediate investigations ongoing right now. those are critical. they should be extended, argued later whether you want them or not. that roving wire tap authority, when i ran the fbis crime program, we had that authority in the era of cloning phones and throwing them away. the drug program could use roving wire tap. but in a terrorist investigation, you couldnt. and so all that did was bring that in line bring te...