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welcome to the show i'm mehdi hassan. you know you can tell the case of the classified documents at mar-a-lago it's serious. donald trump isn't doing interviews. not lucky used to. and it's absent, one trump boxes all over right-wing media. showing he can explain this calmly. should he can explain take down the heat about the face trump using his message to the dartmouth. >> it starts and hence with russia. ukraine impeachment. one karat at the hillary clinton email investigation scandal. the hunter biden laptop. we have the same winds for pete operation by the democrats or the radic...

Criminalized. that waiting list is where we have a tremendous impact. the day-to-day swings in crime numbers going up and down. when you are right wing or moderate or a progressive prosecutor, quite frankly you are going to have very little impact on a daily basis. we've seen across the board. >> i want to play you a clip from fox. how about we listen to some of the rhetoric. >> the fact we have the highest increase in the murder rate on history, that is a direct result of democratic policies, whether defunding the police or limiting bail systems or cutting sentences for drug dealers. despite ...

Socialist and she does say it's a tragedy, she's calling for the abolition of new york city will be's department and abolish the police department and says that doesn't mean the best of police officers -- let me read some tweets of hers during the campaign, she said that always remember police and prison systems are creating to preserve slavery to break the chains must must provide total abolition. she tweeted we cannot reform a system of policing has so rooted in racist from the front and abolish nypd. police have never served our communities, they don't prevent crime, there and on occupying ...

Oakland 86%. l.a. county 126%. portland -- i don't even know how to do that math. >> there is a combination of problems going on. i started a report on the cities in is about two years ago. it started with this wave of criminal justice reform. the initial thing started with equal justice under the law. even have the former president introduced the first step act. the problem is some of these policies have gone so far last that it is not a matter of equal justice and making sure there is accountability. it is about dismantling the system at large. when you have bail systems that are allowing vi...

Rikers island, but the bail system that really forces a lot of people into plea bargaining, saying that they did things they really didn't do, but they can't get around these enormous bales that are put on them and it's this or you end up losing years of your life and altering your future. >> that's exactly right. 77% of the people on rikers island have not yet been convicted of anything, and many of them are there because they can't afford bail. and it doesn't really matter if the bail is $100,000 or $500, if you don't have it, you don't get out. we all know -- >> which is many in our communi...