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Laying odds on that. i have tremendous confidence in bob mueller, the consummate professional. if anybody can get to the bottom of this, can he. i'm just going to stay out of the way so he can do his job. >> sal ly, let me ask you about the reason you're there in washington, talk about criminal justice reform. we've had an exploding prison population over the last 30 years or so thanks in large part to the war on drugs and mandatory sentencing. violent crime is at near historic lows. how do we square those two things? how do we get some of those people who have committed minor drug offenses to...

It includes providing legal status for 11 million undocumented workers, reportedly with sharp criticism from many house republicans, some of whom apparently said an election year is not the time to deal with this issue. democrats are saying they see the blueprint as a jumping off point for negotiations. a lot of disagreement among republicans over whether there should be a probationary status for the illegal immigrants or whether there should be a pathway to citizenship. >> and democrats on the side of citizenship. however, they say the fact that there are some republicans who will respect leg...

Nonviolent and have clean prison records should file the paperwork to have their sentences reduced. the federal bureau of prisons will even be telling inmates good the new opportunity. a deputy attorney general james cole says it's the best way of dealing with an exploding prison population. this morning the air force cheating scandal keeps growing. officials say the number of nuclear missile launch officers now under investigation has ballooned to 92. that's nearly a fifth of the entire nuclear force. 40 are suspected of actually cheating on a proficiency exam by getting answers in advance....