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Justice reform. he commuted the sentences of 46 mostly nonviolent offenders and becoming the first sitting president to siz it a federal prison. we have an all-star panel, to talk about the president's push and fits into what's been a legacy bolstering summer for him. first, nbc news political reporter perry bacon. also nbc news's presidential historian michael beshlos and michael miller and f. michael higgen higgenbottom. professor, we start with you. presidents are always thinking about what language they can use that will be persuasive in speaking about the 46 communations and criminal just...

That's your morning edition of scrambled politics. hopefully bill franken would have done a more generous smile. let's start with the big news overnight, the protests over the fwrj's failure to indict a police officer in thorric garner death. critics are now looking at this, $75 million that the white house wants to use for police body cameras across the country, arguing now what goodwill it do. could that be a blow to the president's push? >> well, there are some questions that need to be asked about the body cameras. the consensus is that it's probably a good idea to have as much evidence as...

So rather than say, let's go to the tape, nothing. if you wanted the stuff off the computer, you'd go to the tape. that's curious. >> right. if you want the truth and you want people to know the truth, you wouldn't hide it. >> that's one of the reasons on a bipartisan basis a recent fox news poll showed the people across all the political demographics want the answer to what was the irs doing with these conservative groups. >> i did notice congressman lynch seemed to have real questions, out of massachusetts. he's also done a good job before. now it's time for heather nauert. >> good morning. ...

Poverty rates as adults. >> at the heart of the president's push is that they could learn a lot from private community organizations with a proven record of success as turning those statistics around. so following his announcement, president obama charged a task force with the goal of spending the next few months doing more listening than talking. the job was to search nationwide for r the best practices to be amplified and coordinated to increase the achievement of young men of color across the country. last friday after 90 days of meetings, research and investigations, the the my brother's t...

President's push to hike the wage to $10.10 an hour will bring a half million job losses. gary b., that's why you are saying scrap it altogether? >> i know, brenda, and before people on the left say, my gosh, that heartless gary smith, how can you scrap the minimum wage? i went around and searched to see if any other developed country scrapped the minimum wage. in fact, switzerland has no minimum wage. now, look, it's interesting. switzerland's unemployment rate is 3%. so you say, well, surely then, they have a high poverty rate. no, their poverty rate is less than half ours at 7%. ours is abo...