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And creating a culture where we recognize that in the land of the free and the home of the brave, you cannot imprison everybody and be a great society, is really going to be key. and i think that is where we failed. we knew a lot of these projections would create very serious problems. you look at poor communities where now we have 6 million people on probation and parole, we are v. tare have tens of milo can't get jobs. the collateral consequences have been devastating. so i do think it requires a political shift, a cultural shift and that's where the leadership from the attorney general and ...

From the president obama administration delay. it could be the end of the line for amtrak on several western states. why it could end railroad service with key areas in towns that really need it. a car slams into a church on easter sunday sending nearly two dozen people to the hospital. >> it's an issue that some add row -- advocates say has gone on too long. in some cases people spend years behind bars for mandatory sentences even if they are later pulled back or repealed. many requirements have. president obama is setting his sights on granting clemency to hundreds, possibly thousands of the...

The law or not? wouldn't that be the case if he were to be given asylum? >> well, let me say this. edward snowden would not be the first person in the last ten years to get this kind of clemency, but he would almost certainly be the most deserving. washington is full of people who broke the law by lying to congress, by engaging in illegal spying, by ordering the torture of prisoners. we haven't seen prosecutions of those officials, and we haven't seen a lot of hand ringing about the precedent set by not prosecuting those people. so let's not, you know, get on a high horse and say that, oh, dea...

Be? >> so my personal view is yes, it is worth having a conversation about. i would need assurances the remainder of the data could be secured. and my bar for those assurances would be high, more than just assertion on his part. >> jeffrey, what's at stake as the obama administration has to weigh as well, entertain the idea or even have discussions about granting clemency. what is at stake for the u.s. if it were to seriously entertain that, this administration were to seriously entertain that, extend that kind of reprieve? >> well, what the government has to decide is whether it's worth it to...