Transcripts for CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper 2015

CNN State of the Union With Jake Tapper July 26, 2015 16:54:00

ted cruz, look it up. >> he's on the bill. >> he's sort of washed out from trump, i suppose. but there are people on the right talking about criminal justice reform. but it's got to be -- in my state in virginia, the aclu is, their goal is get 25% of people out of prison. wait a minute. that's not a proper criminal justice goal. a proper criminal justice reform goal is look at the system, who doesn't belong there and then hit the policies that do that. the numerical reality is that most of the time that is going to have a disproportionate impact, in this case favorably, on african-americans, virginia with 20% of our state, and that's the way i think it should be talked about. it's the way rand paul sometimes talks about it, and that would be a lot more constructive, a lot more unifying and would be frankly lead to good policy. >> we've got to go. thank you so much. it was really great. we do plan on doing a show on criminal justice reform later this year.

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