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Russo-ellings unit. we're joined by the president of the fdny association. thank you vincent for joining us this morning. you knew allison. tell us a bit about her. >> good morning. yes, thank you. what can i say? she was a wonderful person, caring, loved her family, loved the members she worked with at her station. she was considered the mother of that station. she did an outstanding job, always serving the public, saving lives and right to her last moment of her life. that's exactly what she was doing, she was a 24-year veteran, received numerous comations and responded to the world -- accom...

And we don't know the priorities of this secretary. >> you've seen this across the trump government, a lot of changes being made, but not explained all that well. people say well why do you have to request ask questions at a photo opportunity? because that's our opportunity. we're not getting lots of other access to the folks. i'll add sean spicer the white house press secretary is going to do his first press briefing on camera in a week later today. so this is a change with the way things have been done in the past. it's absolutely worth noting. >> and karen, particularly at the state departm...

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Law helped create a racial disparity that left a number of african-americans serving terms in. federal prison for low level drug crimes. so the president's 2010 legislation was intended to decrease that disparity by narrowing the sentence gap from 100 to 1 to 18 to 1. but it didn't apply to the 30,000 people already in. federal prisons who, according to the sentencing commission would have been eligible for a reduced sentence. last year the justice department offered a second chance to those offenders when it announced new rules expanding president obama's discretion to pardon or reduce their ...

Abetting a nonviolent drug deal. thanks to the anti-drug abuse act of 1988, you didn't need to get caught with drugs to get a life sentence. meaning mandatory sentences intended for so-called drug kingpins could be applied to a drug conspiracy charge. according to the federal bureau of prison, within six years of that happening, the number of drug cases in federal prisons jumped by 300%. remember, clarence aaron was serving life for a nonviolent offense. the aclu estimates there are more than 3,200 others just like aaron serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses. well, today, clarenc...