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Message, the senator had this to say talking about the democrats and their rejections to the wall. heres what he said. >> now the position is that border walls represent a human right abuse, that they are immoral. it wouldnt surprise me to see her next step be, lets tear down the border wall working in san diego, and yuma, and el paso. >> shannon: why not? >> i wouldnt go that far. [laughs] heres what we know, donald trump had the opportunity tonight, he had every major network watching, he coul...

Of conversation of mr. boehner. you just, you know, im a political scientist. we say congressmen are single minded seekers of re-election. you said congresss primary job is to fill prison beds for the purpose of generating profits that then come back to their campaigns nrd to be the single minded seeker of re-election. i want to listen for a whole minute to mr. boehner talking about immigration reform and see if your frame changes how we hear this. >> so speaker, we came here to ask you why are ...

Set of problems about sort of parentless children because of ins are course ration. >> and the enemy is the same. and the enemy is the way that our congressional system relies on toxic money in the system. a so a congresspersons job with respect to the drug laws, its to fill prison beds. thats how the congressperson gets money. that means they have to pass laws to make certain things into crimes that didnt yumsed to be. or they give you longer and longer sentences so the profit can be sucked out...

It creates optimism for next year. >> collectively, we got it wrong four years ago? >> i dont know, i think to your point, anybody that lived through the 1988 presidential campaign could never know this moment. i dont know if we run out of prison beds. computing the eight sentences president obama did or jerry browns 120 or whatever it is and said they served tear time. we arent seeing federal law changing i think quite yet. >> thats the question. we will get into more in the next segment. we ha...

Yes, they all have to be involved and it doesnt just affect blacks. the grefance industry spent a lot of time in the argument and in the fight and they can rally and actions that provide solutions. >> and the problem is, shannon, that david web is only making an industry for himself. and lets start talking about head start funding is decimated and when states are deciding on how many prison beds and looking at third and fourth grade reading rates we need to refund reading. if they are baby sat b...

Criminal justice system by passing bills and reduction of prison beds. reduction of prison sentences and so on and to me its ludicrous. >> bill: happens happening all across the country. we dont have enough money there are certain people that you red flag them for the rest of their life. >> i agree. >> bill: you rape a child or sexually assault anybody, big red flag. okay? rest of your life. >> this is a big societal change. i have been in this business almost 30 years. this is a big societal ch...

Budget agreement, these are the kind of things that can happen, if any of these folks hurt somebody, its going to be a hajj story. >> it is. martha: and the calculation, that you know, that will reflect poorly on republicans, thats a pretty risky bet, isnt it? >> it is indeed. and i think the next question that youre going to see all people in congress asking is, well, what did the other departments do about the necessity of cutting back on their spending? remember the definition of sequestratio...

With regard to illegal immigrants. >>brian: more are getting out. they said were going to look at those who dont look dangerous and let them out because we have no choice. at $164 a night to keep an illegal housed up, we cant afford to leave them there. remember the few hundred let out leading up to sequester, now we have hundreds more and maybe thousands more are going to be leaving their prison beds. well monitor, ask them to come in once or twice a week and say hi, im illegal and then go back...

Agenda that was preexisting. >> rahm emanuel has had a tough tenure there. since newtown we know they have some of the toughest gun laws in the country. now that they moved to this sentencing strategy and truth in sentencing is the feeling is that that is going to work? >> reporter: you really hit the nail right on the head because the prisons are down state in illinois. the prisons are already overcrowded. so you may get some pushback, if you make the sentences stiffer, ultimately you will have...

Legislatures. advocated and lobbying for more immigrant attention. we have 2.3 million prison beds that they want full. for the first time in history, you have people profiting from the excesses and you dont have an effective counter to the infusion of money. never the case that people lobbied for people to punish. you never had to do that. huh this set of interest that is pushing for lots of dollars. and they have no economic ability to counter. >> part comes back to this phenomenon called. >> ...