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Hurting girls, disruptive and disrespectful to the teacher. they dont do anything to you. what we -- we have one teacher in south carolina who said you have a kid who finds out you can say f you to the teacher, flip over the table, run out of the classroom, you cant suspend them. once the kid knows you can do that, they will do anything. all they are saying is instead of putting them into these diversion programs like they did with this guy and broward county, maybe if he does something terribly...

The problems that i understand is that people start using again because they cant get jobs because they now have a criminal record, so is there anything that can be done in this national emergency need to come back to about back to that? >> speaking with jeff sessions. we have a diversion programs for people who are basically in the criminal justice system because they have an addiction problem, they are not violent, they are not big drug traffickers. the federal government actually does a prett...

That theyre used properly, to having independent inquiries when there is a shooting, things that we should be able to agree on because it will be better for the police, and make their lives better and safer, but will also ensure communities feel theyre being treated fairly. a lot of that work requires us to continue to partner with state and local officials and so we need a president in there who keeps that momentum going because it is not as if that problem is going to go away anytime soon. ult...

Program. its their way of getting out of jail. >> back on the streets selling drugs to others. we have a stat were going to throw u. americans up five -- prison population is substantial in the united states. 5% of the worlds population in america, 25% of the worlds prisoners, i mean, locking up in the united states. do you think some reforms in washington would let out the non-violent criminals is just going to make the problem worse? >> i dont know if its going to make it worse, but i mean obv...

Long that consisted of drug arrests, assault charges, domestic violence, i think, criminal trespass. its what the left calls low level crimes. nonviolent crimes. but what they dont understand or what they cant understand, bill, is that these thugs dont wake up one day and start committing felonies. they start at the lower level and then they escalate to committing felonies. and unless you punish them early on you are going to get bad things happening like that. >> do you believe selling heroin, ...

Long that consisted of drug arrests, assault charges, domestic violence, i think, criminal trespass. its what the left calls low level crimes. nonviolent crimes. but what they dont understand or what they cant understand, bill, is that these thugs dont wake up one day and start committing felonies. they start at the lower level and then they escalate to committing felonies. and unless you punish them early on you are going to get bad things happening like that. >> do you believe selling heroin, ...

Offers. a prosecutor has the ability to use diversion programs beings even on these types of charges. but generally that happens before trial. this defendant had a constitutional right to go to trial, and i think he went to trial because of the aggravated sexual assault counts. and i dont know what the plea offers were extended to him, but he had to make a decision. >> it would be 30 seconds, tom, that we have had a lot of talk about sexual assaults on campuses. >> absolutely. this is a tragedy....

And so i am very appreciative of folks like dick durbin and corey booker alongside mike lee and rand paul and, you know other folks in the house who are working together to see if we can both reduce some of these mandatory minimums around non-violent drug offenses. again, i tend not to have a lot of sympathy when it comes to violent crime. when it comes to non-violent drug offenses is there work that we can do to reduce mandatory minimums create more diversion programs like drug courts then can ...

Rate go down at the same time. which indicates the degree to which its possible for us to think smarter about who were incarcerating, how long were incarcerating, how were dealing with nonviolent offenders, how were dealing with drug offenses, diversion programs, drug courts. we can do a better job of -- and save money in the process by initiating some of these reforms. and ive been really pleased to see that weve had republicans and democrats in congress who are interested in these issues as we...

Rate go down at the same time, which indicates the degree to which its possible to think smarter about who were incarcerating and how long were incarcerating and now are we dealing with nonviolent offenders and how are we dealing with drug offenses, diversion programs, drug courts. we can do a better job and save money in the process by initiating some of these reforms and ive been pleased to see that weve had republicans and democrats in congress who are interested in these issues as well. the ...