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Have it. >> laura: you wanted to testify in public. they brought you behind closed doors. why is that? >> and now the house democrats complain that my testimony is not in public when they wanted it in private. i agree to agree with the house and senate committees. i would like my testimony to be in public. i am going to turn over these documents and they are complete. >> laura: george stephanopoulos had george caputo on. >> he just met with mueller's team this week and came out saying they asked a lot of questions about collusion and he came away concerned about paul manafort, roger stone, gat...

And now holder is saying that more needs to be done following the act of 2010. >> there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced in the old regime, and as a result, that i will have to spend far more time in prison than if they were sentenced today for exactly the same crime. this is simply not right. >> and the new clemency criteria will be announced tomorrow. joining us right now is managing editor for msnbc.com, and we have dafna linder whose book "shades of murder" is all about this, and also ari melbern who is our msnbc's correspondent. and so you are two attached on...

Affect thousands. and ari, what is the number? we don't have the criteria yet, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands? >> probably not that many, but several hundred to the low th thousands and the chart that you put up, richard, it tells the story, and the people in prison, we put in prison more than any other country per capita, and it is not because of the violence or the financial crime, but it is because of a failed war on drugs. so when you look at that area at the d.o.j., and the nonviolent and the private use, and you can go forward to say prosecutors need to rely on mandatory ...