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Jill, ending the death penalty. >> all joe biden cared about protecting america and a lot of different ways, including from dangerous drugs and the people who sold them. drugs kill a lot of people in this country. new joe biden doesnt care at all, even though america is now in the worst drug academic it has ever seen. >> drug users and traffickers should be how the countable for their crimes. we can send federal and state drug offenders serving short sentences for relatively minor drug offensive...

Attempts by the trump administration are now tied up in court. >> sandra: what do you think ultimately happens here? >> i think we have to have a compromise. if the law stands, we have to have ways to fill in the gaps. why wouldnt you have medicaid with work programs, states that say hey, we want people to have the opportunity to participate in community service, to get education -- >> sandra: i know you reference kentucky and arkansas. >> exactly. those two waivers that were requested were basi...

Take a listen to what he had to say. >> when i wrote the crime bill, which you have been conditioned to say is a bad bill, theres only one bill, only one provision in it that had to do with mandatory sentences that i opposed and that was a thing called the three strikes and youre out, which i thought was a mistake. rational way to go about it is to make sure youre not putting people in jail who, in fact, have not committed violent crimes. you should put them in work programs and positions where ...

In line as they do twice a day, and some of them may be eligible for asylum in the united states, but, andrea, they are the minority of the caravan, and instead, most of the members of the caravan, and this is a line for single men that you can see, and it is stretching much longer as it does every single morning. many of the men tell us that they heard in honduras it would be easy to cross in the united states, and they heard that there were work programs that they would be eligible for, and no...

>> its very simple. >> jason: david. >> i am one who believes in work programs. i believe in incentives for job training. minority business and the like. but if you do not allow younger people to get below minimum wage jobs as a first opportunity to get in the workforce, all you do is hurt poor people. i dont want to sound or conan or tough or harsh but thats just a statistical fact of life. >> you are my hero of the moment. i think youre absolutely right. one of the good things i thought happen...

>> i am one who believes in work programs. i believe in incentives for job training. minority business and the like. but if you do not allow younger people to get below minimum wage jobs as a first opportunity to get in the workforce, all you do is hurt poor people. i dont want to sound draconian or tough or harsh, but thats just a statistical fact of life. >> you are my hero of the moment. i think youre absolutely right. one of the good things i thought happened with bill clintons years, along ...

Case under certain conditions, i havent seen the bill in its details that one way that you can earn some time off of your sentence is by participating in work programs. and what we do know is that prison systems in at least at the state level in mississippi, i know this is a federal, in mississippi, louisiana, that they are exploiting prison labor throughout the country. folks are making next to nothing and building all throughout the country. and i want to be very, very -- i want to be very, ve...

Prisoners, we spent $137,000 a year in new york city, we have a problem with programs like this when in actuality programs like this show recidivism rates, that is what we want to begin with, people who come out of prison not to go back and fund a program with proven results. >> there are several of these programs that already exist and do we need another one taxpayers pay for? >> we have a lot of government programs in many areas that serve different people, you have to have programs to meet th...

>> this could be implemented. sheriffs across this country do work programs in their communities to build infrastructure and support government agencies. the save taxpayers money, a chance to learn a skill and work on rehabilitation and start working the community and reintegrating at that point. steve: have you talked to trump about it? >> we have not talked information has been sent to his team. this is something sheriffs across the country are interested in. it makes sense. whether it is the ...

Enterprise and was trying to find the black suv that police were searching for. he says he was on san bernardino avenue when, quote, i thought oh, my god, that could be gunshots. and then he pulled over, and he continued, quote, then i see cops running in that direction just arriving, maybe six of them. and i hear more gunshots, and i grab my camera and im taking pictures, taking pictures of cops running with guns and then all of a sudden, a bunch more gunshots, and then i ran. yesterdays attack...