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Overwhelmingly nonviolent, 47.5% of the federal prison population are incarcerated for drug offenses and i guess hearing your arguments then and hearing your arguments against the bipartisan legislation that we brought out of the committee in 2016 -- >> senator i think that's wrong what you just said, okay? i think -- when you have violent gangs in the city killing people, murder and so forth and so on, sometimes the most readily provable charge is their drug trafficking offenses rather than proving cullability of the whole gang for murder. so you can take out a gang on drug offenses and you c...