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Deterrent, right now you get caught, they take you down to the border come have a nice day, dont come back. the next day, people come back because there is no penalty. this would be an automatic five year mandatory minimum in federal hard lock up. that is a serious deterrent. >> jon: but those who do not like this law suggest you dont have enough prison space for that many people. >> the is one of the arguments. according to the u.s. sentencing commission, it would add 57,000 people do federal p...

>> the difference of sentencing if you had 12 pounds of crack cocaine or powder cocaine, the sentences are different: skbl you have a number of republican leaders. theyve all taken the same stand. it just turns out it doesnt work. if you want to get people off of drugs, which i think everybody does, sticking somebody in jail for 25 years, 30 years, you can get 25 years for shooting a cop. you can also get 30 years for a nonvie lent drug possession charge. so im proud of this president. i am glad...

Necessarily what this is intended to be. can i also just mention, there might be a lot of people with open mouthing gaping saying the republicans will be -- this will be red meat for them. not really because there are a lot of states that have been doing things just like this, red and blue, and theres support, bipartisan support, for this kind of thing. we have a problem. we have way too many prisoners and not enough prison space and its a lot of money. >> its bigger than that. the war on drugs ...

Guards. mike carpenter was one of the prison guards interviewed. lets look at this clip. >> we made drugs into this huge thing, and weve made it so illegal and weve made it such a marshall issue with that tough on crime stance, you cant electriced if you dont do things to be tough on crime. >> toughen sentences, beef up law enforcement, and build new prison space for 24,000 inmates. >> you know, nobody can apoured to be the first guy to say, wait a minute, we cant afford what were doing. lets do...

Now doug, likely, he will have a few weeks, he will not be taken into custody immediately, correct? >> there are two issues there. one is, in this type of case, they almost never make the person surrender right away, he can get 30 days, 60 days. but theres a second issue, whether he would conceivably remain free pending an appeal that he takes. if i had to guess, hell probably be given a sur ander date, something like 30, 40 days. martha: its fascinating. im looking at where he will probably go....

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Over that story. >> how did i miss that? >> are you questioning my confidence right now. >> you cant tan, apparently if you are under the age of 18. >> most of the people in l.a. dont need to tan. catch my meaning, it is a new mexico, am i right, guys? >> thanks, sheriff. >> we should dress them all in pink. >> this is a state releasing criminals for lack of prison space. they are paying the prison guards $300,000 a year and medical and dental. and they cant afford it any mar. gins they dont liv...

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>> im prepared to support, if we need additional prison space, but im absolutely opposed to moving people from gitmo to the united states. we spent a lot of money down there. >> where do they go? >> we ought to finish the job there. we ought to have the commissions down there and i think its wrong to give terrorists a platform for their propaganda which they would either get out of our court system or a platform at any prison in the united states they were in. we shouldnt do that. of the obvious...