Black members of the jury. We want to talk about your confidence level in the criminal Justice System. If you are in the mountain , andic, 202 7488001 experience with criminal justice, we want to hear your story this morning, 202 join us onu can also twitter or facebook. We will get your calls in just a minute but lets kick off the conversation with president recent weekly address he made about the criminal Justice System. Some 2. 2 Million Peoples behind bars in america and millions more are on parole or probation. Papernd 80 billion tax doll taxpayer dollars every year to keep people locked up. Many are serving excessively long sentences for nonviolent crimes. 60 have Mental Health issues and 70 were drug users. The population is disproportionately black and latino. Plenty of people should be behind bars but the reason we have more people behind bars than any other country, it is because we have criminal justice laws that need to be reformed. Simply locking people up does not make Co
Creates to report how trump tweets women in private. One woman says the newspaper took her words and twisted them. What was your reaction when you read this article yesterday . Actually, it was very upsetting. I was not happy to read it why . Well, because the New York Times told us several times that they would make sure that the story i was telling came across. They promised several times they would do it accurately. They told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that i was telling it and honestly. And it absolutely was not. What did they get wrong . Well, they did take quotes from what i said and they put negative connotation and spun it to where it appeared negative. Did i not have a negative experience with donald trump. And i dont appreciate them making it look like saying that it was a negative experience because it was not. You knew him well, right . You dated him for several months . Thats co
Today, the Supreme Court validated that very core essential fundamental principle. The president vowed to make it an Election Year issue. Were going to have to decide whether were people who accept the cruelty of ripping children fracture their parents arms or whether we actually value families and keep them together for the sake of all of our communities. While his executive order has been defeated, the president will still try to offer his protection. What the president reaffirmed is theres still prioritization. They said their priority was terrorists, people with criminal convictions, people who just crossed the border, but not law abiding americans who work hard, who have family members who they support. Addressing the American People today, the president reiterated the only reason the Supreme Court was deadlocked was because the senate refuses to consider his nominee, merrick garland. Reporting outside of the Supreme Court, abc news. As we mentioned, an estimated 5 million undocum
Saying, this is war. The outrage in baltimore tonight, all charges dropped. The remains officers will not stand trial in the freddie gray case. And the urgent search. The family that went missing while snorkeling. And late word now coming in. Good evening from philadelphia tonight, where breaking as we come on the air. Just as the Democratic Convention plays out here in ph philly, it was donald trump today who walked in front of the cameras and ignited a firestorm with what he said. Inviting russia to spy on Hillary Clinton. It all comes as you look live tonight at the convention hall. This crowd, awaiting president obama a short time from now. And youll remember, it was eight years ago, Hillary Clinton who lost to him, came out at obama was her candidate. Tonight, he will do that for her, in fact, we have just learned some of what the president plans to do on this stage behind me. But it was what donald trump said today that caused an uproar. Did he encourage espionage . Abcs tom llam
So leaving the broken system the way it is, thats not a solution. In fact, thats the real amnesty, pretending we can deport 11 Million People or build a wall without spending tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money is abetting what is really just factually incorrect. Its not going to work. Its not good for this country. Its a fantasy that offers nothing to help the middle class and demeans our tradition of being both a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. In the end, it is my firm belief that immigration is not something to fear. We dont have to wall ourselves off to most who may not look like us right now or pray like we do or have a different last name because being an american is about something more than that. What makes us americans is our shared commitment to an ideal that all of us are created equal. All of us have a chance to make of our lives what we will. And every study shows that, whether it was the irish or the poles or the germans or the italians or the chines