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Offenders who are most likely to benefit from this, tend to be people who went to prison for dealing crack, correct? correct as opposed to cocaine and there has long been an argument that the laws are racist. >> right. >> in terribms of the outcome. you go to prison more likely if you're black and dealing cocaine -- sorry, white and dealing cocaine than black and dealing crack. >> they can't say it's motivated. white crack defendants get treated like black and hispanic crack defendants. >> right. >> what they say is more people have been harshly sentenced under the crack laws and sentencing gu...

Opportunities that i had, because i might have been in their shoes, i might have been in prison, i might have been unemployed, i might not have been able to support a family. and that is motivates me. >> congressman, there is a racial aspect to this even with the mandatory sentencing laws. when we look at the fact that there is evidence that 19.5%, there are longer sentences for black men than white men. this is according to the u.s. sentencing commission. there is a clear race aspect to this. it's unfair for anyone, but is even more egregious when you bring in the studied racial dynamics even...

Tend to be people who went to prison for dealing crack. correct? crack as opposed to cocaine? and there has long been an argument laws are racist in terms of the outcome. in other words you go to prison more likely if you're black and dealing cocaine. >> right. it's an impact theory. they can't say that congress is design is racially motivated because white crack defendants get treated like black and hispanic crack defendants what they say is because more people have been harshly sentenced under crack laws and guidelines that they're racially, the racial element of it is in the impact rather t...