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Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly mon...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomi...

Something else to look forward to along with the bradford pear and the blooming magnolia. Lot more to come around the Cherry Blossoms and around the tidal basins as you can see, not the prettiest of days. If you missed out this year, its always next year. Back to leon. Leon all right, steve. See you in a bit. Good try. Alison now, we turn to a developing story this afternoon about two men arrested for a bank robbery back in march. Now believed to be connected to serial bank robbers that the f. B. I. Has called the black hat bandits. Stephen tschida live outside the federal Court Building in d....

Not only is she a best selling author but shes releasing her new book today called move, putting americas infrastructure back in the lead. Thank you so much for joining us. The book really explains with compelling details many of the health costs and even social justice impacts of our outdated infrastructure system, and i want to get to some of those today. First of all, can you please give us a brief synopsis of where we are today and how were fairing versus other countries . So theres only one indicator in the transportation and infrastructure area in which the u. S. Is number one and that i...

Negotiations, iran did ask about that letter. And last night, the one who spearheaded that that letter took to the floor to express concerns over Irans Nuclear program. When it comes to the role congress should have in this process in doing with the wrong nuclear program, we want to ask our first 45 minutes how much influence congress should have over the process. The numbers are on the screen. You can make this conversation happen on our social Media Channels as well. The New York Times highlights negotiations currently taking place with the p5 plus one as it is known. According to this headl...