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Would like to do here? >> well, look. this is a significant in a system that in new york which is had under the rockefeller laws some of the strictest approaches here, no matter what your age, what he is trying to do is basically say if you have paid your debt and its over a decade later with no reoffense, this is not held against you and using that executive communation power and using it as a policy to change the punishment for these people that shouldnt last their whole lives they said. >> 10...

Drug laws being too severe, people going to jail for drug crimes. >> a lot of celebrities have been arguing about -- >> should have diminished sentences now. under new york laws now not the rockefeller laws, all of the drug dealers can get probation under the new laws. >> probation? >> absolutely, yeah. >> thats interesting. makes you think twice about the recent debate. thanks to paul. the death of philip seymour hoffman has raised new awareness to the growing heroin problem. for weeks, we be...

I think thats a big part of it. >> yeah. but dylan, theres another problem here, yall, and that is that you have these mandatory sentencing -- >> bingo. >> -- procedures. and im sorry, i get -- so you get smoke -- get caught smoking pot three times and you two to jail 20 years, but you murder somebody and you get out on good behavior in 16? i mean, who in the hell is coming up with these crap? >> those are the rockefeller laws in new york working for you. >> well, they dont work! and by the way,...