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Low-level crimes. for restorative justice programs to work, they can work in certain circumstances you have to understand who the person is, what is their background? how many times have they committed these crimes? can you get them on the right path? for many of them the answer is clearly no. look at what has been done in the past and look at their trajectory. thats the problem here. >> harris: there are so many of them now. do we have time in our justice department? most of it in our justice s...

Instantly $150 billion. is that correct? >> thats true, because the v.a. has the ability to negotiate prices with the drugmakers. and the medicare part "d" program, prescription "d" program doesnt have that because of the way the law was passed and republicans wouldnt go along with that. so we have a lot of ability here to reduce unnecessary spending by doing some things that would make a lot of sense just like the v.a. does it. >> so what do you make of the republicans saying they dont see the ...

On capitol hill that if you were to run the veterans administration the way they do their drug system, as opposed to medicare, that you would find instantly $150 billion. is that correct? >> thats true, because the v.a. has the ability to negotiate prices with the drugmakers. and the medicare part "d" program, prescription "d" program doesnt have that because of the way the law was passed and republicans wouldnt go along with that. so we have a lot of ability here to reduce unnecessary spending ...

Because of obama care and oathe measures. whats your assessment of that? >> i dont think thats the case at all. in fact, this doesnt actually increase the number of medicare beneficiaries and it doesnt reduce payments to doctors. so that shouldnt occur at all. and what we will see is that the medicaid program will be broadened and that will be one of the ways that more americans will be coming into coverage. thats separate from what were talking about here now. >> yeah. >> but thats a good way t...

Cities and town governments have put forward $90 billion in projects that they say, from the ground level, they say theyre ready to go, that could be funded this way. $90 billion in requests from the ground level for concrete that needs pouring, for asphalt that needs laying down, bridges that need repaired, tracks that need to be installed and people who need to be hired to do all that needed work. the t.i.g.e.r. program doesnt have $90 billion to spend. the t.i.g.e.r. program has less than 1/3...

Projects that they say, from the ground level, they say theyre ready to go, that could be funded this way. $90 billion in requests from the ground level for concrete that needs pouring, for asphalt that needs laying down, bridges that need repaired, tracks that need to be installed and people who need to be hired to do all that needed work. the t.i.g.e.r. program doesnt have $90 billion to spend. the t.i.g.e.r. program has less than 1/30th of that to spend. the t.i.g.e.r. program has only had $2...

Funded this way. $90 billion in requests from the ground level for concrete that needs pouring, for asphalt that needs laying down, bridges that need repaired, tracks that need to be installed and people who need to be hired to do all that needed work. the t.i.g.e.r. program doesnt have $90 billion to spend. the t.i.g.e.r. program has less than 1/30th of that to spend. the t.i.g.e.r. program has only had $2.5 billion to spend over 3 years. theres a ton that could be done if congress could expand...