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Bennet. Lord, we praise you for his diligence, integrity, intellect, and courage for he has left exemplary footprints for us to follow. Be with his beloved widow, joyce, comforting her and his loved ones and friends in their grief. Lord, we also remember Sergeant Christopher eni, officer jacob chestnut, detective john gibson, and Sergeant Clinton holtz, u. S. Capitol police who gave the last full measure of devotion. Remind us that earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Today give our lawm...

Msnbc he was asked a hypothetical about trump would do, how he would react if abortion were ever made illegal in the united states. Ta here is how donald trump reactep to that question. Do you believe in punishment foray portions as a principle,ns yes or no a. The answer is that there last every has to be some form of punishment. For the woman. T yes, there has to be someome form. Why not. W i dont know. You take positions on everything else. El frankly i do take positions on everything. Its a v...

The federal government is overreaching. Loretta lynch saying it offers protection. What do you think about the law and the lawsuit . And heres your chance to let us know. For democrats, 2027488000. For republicans, 2027488001. And for independents, 2027488002. Also North Carolina residents, 027488003. Host joining us to set up the current cases that were lobbied at each other yesterday is Michael Gordon. Hes with the Charlotte Observer. Mr. Gordon, good morning. Could you give us a brief sketch ...

Crystal wright, your new book, con job, requests whos being conned and whos doing the conning . Guest well, i think democrats are doing the conning particularly of black americans and women. I argue in my book, con job, because theyre kind of like the Democrat Party, in my view, is kind of like a used car salesman. It peddles all these promises and pledges to black americans, were going to make things better since lbj, were going to make you smarter, richer, more educated. Fast forward to today,...

Governments, his willingness to put his country ahead of party and search for Solutions Rather than political expediency. She sent me this piece from the Old Farmhouse in a a had a note on it saying to square pegs into round holes. Some people say im a republican who became a democrat but that often sound like a a republican in a room full of democrats or a democrat in a room full of republicans. Actually i take that as a compliment. More on this country call them political independence than rep...

Progress that our country has made. Thanks a lot everybody. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] Thea Jim Webb today officially withdrew as a candidate for the democratic president ial nomination at a press conference at the National Press club. He did however leave the door open for possible independent run. Accept my views on many issues are not compatible with the power structure of the nominating base of the Democratic Party. That party is filled with millions of dedicated hardworking americ...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by a...

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