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Joe biden unveiling a detailed criminal justice plan today, hoping a new approach helps him deflect sharp criticism of his past. thats not likely, with debates looming next week. bidens new plan walks away from many of the approaches he championed a generation ago in helping to pass the 1994 crime bill. the mandatory minimum sentences in that package are now blamed for mass incarceration. bidens hope, when rivals criticize his past, he can steer the conversation to the future. >> no mandatory mi...

Of things that people think are important in terms of reform. now, that said, many of these steps in bidens plan would undo things that joe biden did. joe biden wants to get rid of his mandatory minimums and his crack and powder cocaine distinction. he says im going to background call, one often his advisers was saying that he wants to get back to the police investigations that were spearheaded by legislation that joe biden pushed. that was the crime bill. and so joe biden does have a really dif...

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It also has an earned credit program it wants the states to implement that would incentivize inmates for completing programs. the plan also ways to address systemic police misconduct by going back to an obama-era practice of using pattern or practice investigations when it comes to police investigations. you also have this commitment or setting a goal that 100% of formerly incarcerated individuals would have access to housing once they have left prison. it also calls for decriminalized marijuana...

There are a few elements in this bill which are kind of reversals from what joe biden supported back when he was in the senate. it ends mandatory minimums. it also eliminates the sentencing disparity for crack and powder campaign. those were in bills that joe biden worked on while he was a senator, and it also calls for legislation to end to the death penalty on the federal level. joe biden for many years was a long-time supporter of the death penalty, so that is a shift and change. biden is goi...

Kamala harris. both of these candidates have criticized bidens support of the 1994 crime bill, which many believe led to mass incarceratio incarcerations, especially of african-american men. cnns jessica dean is in new orleans ahead of bidens campaign stop. give us an overview, jess, of bidens plan. >> well, good afternoon to you, brianna. youre exactly right. this is a comprehensive plan. hes been teasing out bits and pieces of this along the campaign trail but this is the first time were seein...

Would like to believe he never served as vice president to president obama but hes proud of his record and as he noted he didnt always get everything right. i thought that was interesting. >> it is his record. what hes running on. his service not just under president obama but in congress. so i want to hear what former vice president biden will have to say about how he got to this point. so you were the architect of a bill that did include mandatory minimums and he said there were things that he...

And releasing it before next weeks presidential debates, although, clearly, from what were seeing today, its not going to ward off criticism from some of his fellow democrats. joining me now, leah wright and the president and ceo of the center for american progress, nira. so what do you think? can biden pull off an about-face on this? >> i think the issue really is that he has a variety of proposals. those proposals to actually address a lot of the criticism of the 94 crime bill. the crack to co...

Credit for good behavior as well as shortening sentences for those cop victimed of crack cocaine offenses. joining me to discuss the policies against mandatory minimums. is this a good deal in the first step act? >> yes, it is, its continuing what we have been seeing for the last five-to-ten years in the federal prison system, which is a downward decline in its prison population, which is a good thing for taxpayers and a good thing for the people coming home and for the communities and families ...

Aircraft. >> 14 over there. >> reporter: tonight, a highly unusual recording inside the cockpit. >> approaching minimums. >> reporter: as the jet was trying to land in bad weather near guam -- >> minimums. >> reporter: that is the computer warning the two pilots that theyre too low. >> sink rate, sink rate. >> reporter: and their flight path means they will not make the runway. investigators say the pilots ignored the warnings and had done so in the past. but on this day, the weather meant they ...