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Representing detainees at guatemala bay and provided them with legal representation. the right to counsel is a fundamental part of our constitutional sentencing system even for the most unpopular defendants. i want to thank senator graham for offering his perspective yesterday. he said and i quote, the fact that you are representing gitmo detainees is not a problem with me, senator graham said. everyone deserves a lawyer, you are doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopul...

Jackson and senator graham today. senator graham an interesting case here. he voted to confirm her to her current role on the d.c. circuit court of appeals last summer. here is a bit of exchange in the second round of questioning. >> with one click, you can receive -- you can distribute tens of thousands. you can be doing this for 15 minutes and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison. >> good. >> good. >> i understand. >> absolutely, good. i hope you are. good. >> allow he...

We are going to treat a person who has distributed a thousand allowed oars, because that shows that this person is really engaged and is really horrible behavior. incomes the internet. on the internet with one click you can receive, you can distribute tens of thousands. you can be doing this for 15 minutes. all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison -- >> good, absolutely good. >> allow her to finish, please. >> i hope you go out to jail for 50 years if youre on the internet t...

0 misleading the public but taking the court out of context. she repeated testimony from someone else and he says it is her quote. hawley praised her experience and said he looks forward to questioning her today. also important to note many questions about her time as a public defender and for her to get on the bench this time where she was now at the court of appeals three republicans, murcowski, collins and graham all voted in favor. well see what they do this time. >> trace: david spunt live ...

Complete ab brigation. i will throw that to you. >> you are completely right and it does show the inequities in our sentencing system. i mean just using the two of them, the amount of money that was hidden, deliberately by manafort the foreign accounts set up, the lies that he told, all of that is much larger than what anything michael cohen did. both are wrong. both are guilty. but the dimensions are much more for manafort and saying he got 47 months is not enough more to show a justice. if you...

The first step back i months ago takes some steps, towards correcting that. but if there could be a silver lining sthat could draw attention to some of the inherent inequities that exist in the federal sentencing system. >> can the next judge in the d.c. case which is a separate case factor this sentencing decision in? legally? and say well, sounds like that was below the bar. i therefore have cause to impose a sentence that is at least in line with the guidelines. >> technically shes not suppos...

To whethbuild his border wall a promising this last week. >> i will shut down the border. >> we disagree. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security. >> aides say he had little choice but to extend government funding for two more months, averting a christmas shutdown. conservative commentators like ann coulter blasting the president for blinking. >> it will just have been a joke presidency that scammed the american people. amused the populus for a while. but hell have no legac...

Another are affected by our federal criminal justice system. >> you got lindsay graham. >> what were talking about is creating a new sentencing system that will give african-american male and hispanic male detainees a chance to get out of jail. its the most important bipartisan piece of legislation in the congress today. >> you got democrats, including dick durbin and cory booker, youve even got van jones of all people. check out his praise to president trump. >> on this one, ill give him an abs...

Americans who in one way or another are affected by our federal criminal justice system. >> you got lindsay graham. >> what were talking about is creating a new sentencing system that will give african-american male and hispanic male detainees a chance to get out of jail. its the most important bipartisan piece of legislation in the congress today. >> you got democrats, including dick durbin and cory booker, youve even got van jones of all people. check out his praise to president trump. >> on t...

At the text, hopefully we can agree on the facts." youre to respond tonight, utah senator mike lee. good to have you with us this evening. your response to him? >> my response is that this is something that will make the american people safer. president donald trump has a strong track record of making the american people safe. and president donald trump is the leader of the republican party looking at this bill and understanding that we have to be smart in the way that we fight crime. in order t...