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Probably a fair summary. Disagree with it. I think that is| probably a fair summary. What disagree with it. I think that is probably a fair summary. What the Justice Secretary is going to announce in the next few minutes, it has been trailed overnight, is that people who kill their partners will lose their parental rights on arrest. The idea being that too often when there is a situation of Domestic Violence or domestic killing that you still have access to children despite the pain and sufferin...

Coverage today blake burman on how responding to the today meeting and ashley when it comes to irans oil the u. S. May already be winning. We begin with blake. Hi there, maria. As you know the Trump Administration is trying to carve out a deal as it relates to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula with north korea. As that is happening, iran is warning north korea that the United States, in their words, cannot be trusted. The iranian leader Hasan Rouhani meeting earlier this week with a top d...

With being soft on crime. you know, i sign more execution orders than probably any governor in the history of this country. and thats a sad thing. but its a fact. so im not soft on crime. but i like to say we were smart on crime in texas because we put these programs in to place and young people, whose lives would be destroyed if we sent them on to prison and thats where they really become professional criminals. and we never allowed that to happen. weigh gave them a second chance. and so texans...

True in friendships and its true in countries, too. you already knew that because its obvious. our leaders spend most of their time denying it they are lying to us. >> tucker: a phoenix city council member running for mayor in that city and she supports the continuation of daca. she joins us tonight. thanks for joining us. i appreciate it? >> thank you so much for having me. >> tucker: so trying to think through how legalizing people who are here illegally helps american citizens and in arizona ...

Reform something championed by jared kushner who help prisoners bet back into society. but attorney general jeff sessions, hell be at the meeting and heres some of the stuff hes done as attorney general. last year eased penalties for certain nonviolent drug offenders. scrapped plans for program that would helped inmates get birth certificate and state id card and new standards for hoff way houses. and heres what happened before president trump won the white house. criminal justice reform bill, a...

Senator dick durbin who says it will send already skyrocketing costs even higher undermining other public safety priorities. judge, im going to you first. what do you make of all this? >> alex: i think everybody is partially right. yes, prison costs will go up because youll be incarcerating more criminals, but there are two extremes here. one side likes to paint every drug offender is a nonviolent offender and thats just not true. all of the drug sellers are the ones to get the prison terms for ...

>> as a nation were living on our past glory days, as you said. so many other countries are out-educating, out-innovate, out-invests. i literally just left two weeks ago an international conference we partner every year, 20 nations rapidly improving nations high-performing nations and the questions particularly on the early childhood were brutal. we ranked between 25th and 30th amongst industrialized nations. i had folks from other countries come to me say, how many your citizens dont care about...

Act. >> bret, mandatory minimum sentences were enacted as part of the war on drugs in the 80s. someone busted with a large amount of narcotics could face, 5, 10, 20 years behind bars. as a result, prosecutors say, crime has gone down. now the mandatory minimums are under fire, and leading is charge is the nations top cop. amid exploding incarceration rates and allegations that long prison sentences have unfairly hurt low-income community, eric holder is calling on congress to pass the so-called ...

As a result prosecutors say drug crimes have gone down. now mandatory minimums under fire and leading the charge is the nations top cop. amid exploding incarceration rates and allegations that long prison sentences have unfairly hurt low income and minority commune calling on eric holder to pass so-called sentencing act. cut sentences in half for many drug crimes and giving judges more leeway sentencing offenders. >> could save billions in prison costs while keeping us safe. >> many federal pros...

That? >> thats a tough call. at least i would say you are not in a recession, you feed low wages to suck up the labor force. we already know the government regulates safety and environmental roles because a company might still garbage if a river if there wasnt a rule against it. the government taught them how to run the business, that would be a mistake t. question is, do wages fall into this area? is there elements of greater good? does it cost the society when target or somebody pays a lower w...