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Criminal action, not the pendency, but theyre true believers, shep. the woman has been on social media the past couple years. shes in holistic medicine, anti-establishment. they did try the chemo on two separate occasions. these parents, for whatever its worth, they do love their son. so you know, the defense of them is look, it might be crazy to us, but in their warped minds, it was a reasonable way to deal with his illness. >> from the states perspective, does it make sense that you defends th...

Addiction and drug dependency is a health problem. >> is that why are jails are so full? >> yes. >> but things have been changing. you may have heard of the first step act signed into law late last year by president trump, which is projected to reduce the sentences of thousands of nonviolent offenders in federal prisons. but that doesnt affect more than 90% of the u.s. prison population, which is locked up in state and local facilities. some states had already been relaxing sentencing guidelines...

Drugs. so she spent some time in the local jail. she wasnt incarcerated for a long time. but i have plenty of family members who have been through the system. and weve seen both as re19ing family members who are still in the community, and weve seen with the individuals themselves the need for a smarter system that actually helps people get better. my mother didnt need to be looked up during that time, she needed help. she needed help with her dependency issues and the trauma she went through, h...

Violent criminals brought as teenagers, do they belong in a maximum security adult prison? >> i dont -- i actually dont think we should put any children in adult jails and prisons. we recognize in this society that theres a difference between children and adults. we dont let 17-year-olds vote for a reason. we dont let them drink, we dont let them smoke. we recognize that your opportunity to develop isnt complete. so we say were going to actually protect you from things that might hurt you. but i...

And we didnt have to say that. we could have said their drug addiction and drug dependency is a health problem. >> is that why are jails are so full? >> yes. >> but things have been changing. you may have heard of the first step act signed into law late last year by president trump, which is projected to reduce the sentences of thousands of nonviolent offenders in federal prisons. but that doesnt affect more than 90% of the u.s. prison population, which is locked up in state and local facilities...

Criminals brought as teeteens, they belong in an adult prison? >> i dont think we should put any children in adult jails and priso prisons. we recognize in this society theres a difference between children and adults. we dont let 17-year-olds vote for a reason. we dont let them drink or smoke. we recognize that your opportunity to develop isnt complete. so we say were going to protect you from things that might hurt you. but in this era of fear and a anger, we threw that out the room. >> you mak...

The loss of her mother by getting depressed and self-medicating with ul legal drugs. so she spent sol time in a local jail. she wasnt incarcerated for long time, but i have plenty of family members who have been through the system. we have boseen both as remainin family members still in the community and we have seen with the individuals themselves the need for a smarter system that helps people get better. my mother didnt need to be locked up. she needed help with her dependency issues and the ...

Republican voters and, ari, if trumps not -- >> why? >> go ahead. >> why do you think they are literally, as you said, canceling primary elections for a sitting incumbent president, why are they doing that? >> because i think, again, ari, maybe its not me. i think theyre scared to death of this president having any other name on a primary ballot against him because hes imploding day by day. i think theyre afraid. >> yeah. >> thats not a sign of strength. you want to eliminate elections? you want...

The crime or not. >> that is correct. >> reporter: vero powell is her attorney saying those who cant afford to pay bond get a raw deal. >> they are forced between three impossible choices. one, they could remain in jail during the pendency of the criminal case which could take months or even years. two, they could plead guilty. or three, they could go to a bail bondsman but the third option is not as simple as it sounds. >> is this ruining peoples lives? >> absolutely. the scale of this bail ind...

For the country, he backs away from but revisits, like hes doing with great britain, like with japan and then i think ultimately, china we will be better off by what hes doing but and south carolina relies on it. again, $5.6 billion in trade, seaport is the eighth busiest in the country so we have a lot at stake but i think the idea to build in this country get off dependency of china is a good thing. >> gillian: a lot of folks say the problem in all of this in the trade spat is that so far thes...