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Little boy. jackson sparks was marching with his little league team. members of the community remembering him as a sweet and talented boy with a contagious smile. bail set at $5 million for the suspect, leaving many furious about why he is offered it at all. now the bail policies are back in the spotlight, kamala harris' track record coming under scrutiny. harris has defended the cash bail system as a prosecutor in florida. dagen, i want to start with you on the bail issue. a lot of money. there is no expectation that darrell brooks, the suspect, will be able to raise it. do you object that th...

First place where there could be other ways of dealing with these situation that is allow them to be with their families. >> robin, you're addressing this on the bail issue. tell me what your group is doing. >> so we're a national not for profit. what we're attempting to do is stop mass incarceration before it begins. you can't talk about mass incarceration or ending it without stopping the mass bail system. as a result of unaffordable cash bail being set on people's cases that they don't have enough money to pay. we're talking about $100, $500, $1,000. it may as well be $1 million for most pe...

We're in a men's prison now, but in terms of women in the system, is the bail issue disproportionately affect them? >> the bail issue impacts low income people, people of color and wimp. and that's because women are at the bottom of the toe item pole and don't make the same amount of money. they are more likely the primary caregivers. 80% are moms. they are the primary caregivers and forced to make a decision between feeding children and keeping a roof over their head or paying for bail. >> one of the things you see is and we talked about growing up as a kid of a mother inka incarcerated at so...

Women in the prison in the first place when there's other ways to allow them to be with families. >> you're addressing this on the bail issue. tell me what your group is doing. >> we're a national not for profit. we are trying to stop mass incarceration before it begins. so 99% of jails in this country has been the result of unaffordable cash bail being set on people's case thas don't have enough money to pay. and we're talking about $100, $500, $1,000, it may as well be a million for some people. >> you were more likely to plead guilty? >> it's used as leverage. >> if you're held in a jail ce...

I speak to, because the judges -- and judges take witness tampering extremely seriously. and it would be very, very surprising if paul manafort did not have his bail revoked, according to the people i speak to. this is very much in line with manafort's character. the most surprising element of it, of course, is he should have known he was under constant surveillance and electronic surveillance. >> yes, kim, i mean, you know, just going back to what natasha said about legal experts and she reminded us that this is a judge that has dealt with manafort once before on a bail issue. the likelihood ...