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Approach designed to reduce prison population. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws, our mandatory minimum sentencing around drug laws. >> one of obamas attorney generals eric holder now says quote the policy announced today is not tough on crime. it is dumb on crime. but, the trump white house says the change was carefully crafted. >> this policy was form lathed after extensive consultation with the prosecutors that handled these cases, each and every day a...

Particularly for drug crimes that they never used to do prison time for. and for violent offenses, people are serving much longer than they used to. its all driven by changes in criminal justice policy. >> lets listen to the way the president put that in his riz visit to the prison. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws are mandatory minimum sentencing around drug laws. and we have to consider whether this is the smartest way for us to both control crime and ...

>> modern presidential politics is not a field that is usually defined by appeals for a measured approach to crime. since richard nixons law and order campaign in 1968 candidates have jockeyed over who could be tougher on crime. but that is changing. there are more calls to rethink a broken criminal justice system and not just in position papers or quiet discussions. candidates are pushing the issue, bringing it up themselves and drawing huge applause. and its not just antiestablishment candidat...

Our justice system works here. one, that it targets minorities unfairly and, two, that an aggressive war on drugs has caused a quadrupling of our prison population over a generation. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws, our mandatory minimum sentencing. the statistics on who gets incarcerated shows that by a wide margin it disproportionately impacts those of color. >> it incarcerated african-americans and latinos. something has to change. the war on drugs h...

In a aids compassionate care. >> bill: catholic charities biggest organized charity in the world they could but they dont. i think this is all abortion-driven. i think thats why in america, by the way, maybe not in other countries, but the american media in general worshipped at the altar of reproductive rights. >> well, yeah. >> bill: primary driver against abortion is the catholic church. >> right. >> bill: thats what this is all about. >> that issue and a lot of other issues. >> bill: thats t...

Is terrified that they are going to lose control of the senate because they have such weak candidates and may be piping money into the akin race. i will read you an excerpt from "the hill." they saw their guy getting his teeth knocked over nothing and he may be a son of a b but hes our son of a b. what do you make of that? >> its a good way of putting it is it was his to lose because he went out and actually did lose it. and the same thing is true with mourdock. that was his race to lose. that w...

That was his race to lose. that was in the "r" column. that was his to lose, and bam, he went out and he lost it. but we talked about this before. national republicans and national democrats are amoral when it comes to who theyre going to support. their primary driver is they that was in the "r" column. that was his to lose, and bam, he went out and he lost it. but we talked about this before. national republicans and national democrats are amoral when it comes to who theyre going to support. th...

National democrats are amoral when it comes to who theyre going to support. their primary driver is they want somebody who can win. so with just a couple days left, the inclination is to get behind them and it looks like national republicans did put some money into the akin race. >> joy, we find 2010 in the midterms, the republicans were running these extremist candidates, people that did not have a chance on the national stage, yet they seem to have not learned their lesson. these are two examp...