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Reduce the sentences in the vast majority, vast majority of cases if sentencing guidelines for drug trafficking were reduced. i think you missed that one, judge. since 2014 retroactive reduction took effect, approximately two-thirds of all convicted drug traffickers who asked for early release got it. that's 31,614 drug traffickers back on the streets and 7,500 of those use weapons in their crimes. so that means that only one-third of these drug traffickers who sought to have retroactive reduction of their sentence were denied one-third a vast majority? >> senator, it's hard for me to answer q...

0 recommendations, whether they're in congress, they're not the kinds of things that i can opine about. >> so you don't want to opine whether 17 years is too long or too short a sentence for murder? >> senator cotton, the congress has prescribed a number of factors that judges look at when they sentence. it may in many cases not be. i can't answer in the abstract in the way that you -- >> these are very concrete. let's turn to rape. do you know how long the average inmate convicted of rape serves in prison in america? >> well, senator rape is not a crime in the federal system that i'm familiar...