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Lindsey graham storming out after discussing court packing and her handling of child porn cases and history of handing down lighter sentences than required by law for offenders. >> do you agree with justice beyer and bader ginsburg, it is a bad idea? >> it is question for congress. >> you say this does not signal heinous child pornography offense? help me understand that. >> all of the offenses are egregious, but the guidelines, as you pointed out, are being departed from with respect to the gov...

Summit. he just arrived in brussels for the emergency meeting as the west aims to show vladimir putin it is united against his invasion of ukraine through more military aid and more sanctions on russia. this comes as the war in ukraine reaches the one-month mark, and the ukrainian resistance has surprised many, with the pentagon saying 10% of russias forces have been taken out. and in another blow to putin, a government insider reportedly quit and left russia. thats the highest profile defection...

Porn case, and any time judge jackson had any discretion on the court, she gave these offenders less than the federal sentencing guidelines recommended, less than the prosecutors recommended and a lot of times she went lower than the probation office which is a pretty liberal recommendation, lower than they recommended and every time we find out more about it we find out shes been soft on criminals, soft on child porn offenders. of course the white house leaving out information and trying to mis...

The religious attacks with michael masters, national director and ceo of the secure community network which is also a nonprofit organization serving the jewish community on matters of safety. the alarming rate of which we are seeing the hate crimes is enough to really wonder why. you know, experts say that anti-semitic violence has been rising not just as of late but for years. what do you think is behind it? >> as you said we are seeing the highest rate that we have seen in decades. but the rea...

Standing ovation but i want to move out if i can the supreme court nomination hearings for judge braxton jackson josh hawley said this about thats our time judge jackson has a padded leading child pouring offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes both as a judge in a policy maker white house policy overwhelming majority of jackson cases involve crimes the sentences were consistent with or above the government are u.s. probation recommended, where do you stand on this? >> supreme court ju...

Headquarters. they are to have a meeting. 30 nato members will meet and discuss ukraines war there with russia. of course, russia having invaded ukraine and they are looking to come up with additional military support for ukraine and sanctions as well. the u.s. senate judiciary committee is expected to vote april 4th, as we were saying, on judge ketanji brown jacksons nomination to the court. with republicans lining up in opposition, her confirmation vote will be likely the closest in history....

Murder rate in camden. they could send the their worse offenders to make sure they get stiff sentences and not in a resolving door of parole. trey: if you were attorney general or giving advice to attorney general. i hear garland being outraged. but not heard the outrage about violent crime. what should he be telling the united states attorneys. he does have some control over them? >> a lot of control over them. we report directly to deputy attorney general and the attorney general of the united...

On expert testimony. as well as face to face with the prisoners to. i think we should remember of the 25,000 cases that come across the desk of the staff at the parole board each year they end up interviewing and speaking to only about 5000 of those. and only about half of those are successful in being released. at another 12 or 10% go to open person. so were looking at a relatively small number of offenders who re-offend each year. based on pre-pandemic cystics. were looking at about 60 individ...

Talk about the departures and sentencing guidelines, why they, at times, can be appropriate, the nuances about it but most strong line to me, josh hawleys comments as a mother, as a judge, nothing could be further from the truth that she was lenient on these offenders. its a very powerful talking point that was used against her. i think she undermined it particularly well. >> thats actually one of the moments i wanted to play from early on in the hour that were going to be hearing of this hearin...

Shed been a public defender. and she -- and in the past she said, yes, she has been, and that it was an important part of her history to teach her more about the criminal justice system, to make her a better judge. weve heard others talk about the fact that when she was on sentencing commission, the federal sentencing commission, she worked to slash drug sentences and -- for some offenders. and she did. but she was working with a bipartisan commission, and they were often unanimous. and well als...