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Access to voluminous amounts of material, it has raised questions, has it not, within the judiciary, as to the appropriate sentencing in todays circumstances? this was a question that was raised before the sentencing commission, was it not? >> it was, senator. the sentencing commission has written at least one report -- it did when i was there -- looking at the operation of this guideline. as you said, the guideline was based originally on a statutory scheme and on directives -- specific directi...

And this is what we need to hear from her on. shes really going to have to tell us. this is why her hearings are so important. we need to know why did she give these offenders these light sentences. why did she vote to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences, the existing ones, anyway. why did she say way back as early as law school, why was she saying that maybe these sex offender registries and other protective measures were unconstitutional? these are questions that shes going to need to answe...

To help judges figure out where in that range, between 0 and 20 years, a particular defendant should be sentenced. and the guidelines have gradations in them that relate to various aspects of the commission of the crime. >> go ahead. >> sorry. so, the commission does data to -- does data gathering and research to figure out how crimes are committed and what gradations should matter in terms of the range of culpability. because the problem of not doing that or of getting it wrong is that you are ...

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Perch? >> i think those critics are absolutely right. as i explain in my book in 1991-92, the last time i was attorney general under h.w. bush, crime was at it very peak. we decided we are going to use federal government to lean forward and help the states deal with violent crime and also press the states to reform their system so they are no longer revolving doors. that happened and crime fell 22 consecutive years. and it started going up again under president obama. and i think that basic diff...

In the hope that putin falls. i wouldnt hold my breathi woexpecting putins downfall. that is just not the way russian history tends to play out there. absorb punishment. theyre famousment for that and they can take a life from that whole thing that they really can. scorched earth was their retreat while burning everything they had and surviving. niall ferguson, thanks so much. great perspective. straight ahead, one of the most under covered aspects around the hunter biden laptop scandal with the...

Repeat offenders were put in prison, most of the predatory violence, it is committed by people who are repeat offenders with long records, they have to be taken off of the streets and put in prison, when they are caught and pose a threat in society, they should be held in pretrial detention, the result is that crimes were cut in half are in 22 years, it started to go back up under president obama, and under president trump it started going down. but the states systems went back to old practice o...

Unfair to you in their conclusions. in fact, one writer has said they are meritless to the point of unacceptable levels. nationally in 2019, only 30% of non-production child pornography offenders received a sentence within the guidelines range. fewer than 30%. between 2015 and 2020 in the d.c. district court where you served, judges imposed below guideline sentences in non-production cases 80% of the time for the reasons youve just explained. judges in missouri, the home state of the senator who...

And again, this is someone since law school who has been saying that the offender registries may be unconstitutional, that notifying parents about offenders in their neighborhood may be unconstitutional and who voted as a member of the u.s. fentons and commission, she voted to get rid of the mandatory minimum sentences, so this is a long pattern. it stretches over many years and we need to get answers on this. >> sean: senator, when you look at for example, you read about prisons and two things ...

These ideas that in the past were considered fringe ideas are increasingly becoming less fringe within the republican party and these issues are seen as increasingly important for some republican lawmakers in sort of rallying their base, and i think a lot about how president biden had said he wanted to bring civility and respect and bipartisanship back to washington. and he had hoped that these hearings would sort of do that, and i think in some ways we are seeing -- >> hasnt happened. >> has no...