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well leave that at that. before announcing sentence on these cases with regard to all of the other pending cases, are any of them here in kco collite? >> i believe some of them are, and have been in buford and other places. >> we may have worn out our welcome here. and i will thank all of the sheriffs office, and i know that mr. harpootlian has sacrificed many, many things, and to have the attorney general here, mr. alan wilson, to be here along with everyone else, it has been quite a ...

The individual who was so strung up on these pills that it happened. big picture, erica, looking at the sentencing issues, they are about punishment, rehabilitation and deterrence, and the judges look for them, and this is clearly a person who could not be rehabilitated, and the judge has to look at what is the appropriate punishment under these circumstances, and is there anything that anyone would believe other than life sentence, and the deterrent fact, that anyone should be able to get away ...

Exposed any significant weakness there when it comes to sentencing criminals? >> it seems like the republicans who are most pushing it, holly, ted cruz, were looking for their comment runs for president looking to make themselves look tough on crime, tom cotton as well. there couldve been something there about her broader again philosophy about criminal justice, about sentencing all the sentencing issues dont really come before the supreme court in that manner. she is not really an outlier in th...

Whether or not they want to put these reports into the public and then whether or not president trump actually allows that. because he could invoke executive privilege on these. he could keep the reports out of the public view. >> the article says that after mueller turns over his report, the doj will decide whether to make it public. it goes on to say after crafting the report that mueller has significant leeway. he can theoretically be as expansive as he wants. likely, mueller will publicly ad...

The turn of 209th century there were 20zs of crimes. now we dont know for sure because nobody can tabulate 4,500 criminal crimes and hundreds of thousands of regulations. theyre really regulating and making criminal those type of activities that shouldnt be criminal. fix the laws. make them more common sense with intense standards. theres the sentencing issues. mandatory minimums disparities, fix that. and lastly is the reentry issues. people who have served their time. particularly nonviolent o...

Elements that have caused disparity gaps, everything from education, everything from sentencing issues, et cetera. the president has tried to put together policies. even though people understand the realities and the complexities of with this multi-cam rahal system of government, if youre listening to mitt romney talk about economic disparities are caused by culture, you know you dont necessarily have a champion thats going to fight to address a lot of these issues. >> well, culture -- i mean, c...