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Trying to prosecute with integrity. and then up speaking of myself, because i truly view this as a movement. >> shortly after taking office, larry set out this internal memo to this prosecutors. laying out new guidelines that many criminal justice experts have called groundbreaking. >> those guidelines are based on science rather than intuition. >> the new guidelines are designed to reduce the prison population and bring fairness to sentencing. >> we have a policy that you don't ask for more than six months for a technical violation of probation, corporal, absent extraordinary circumstances. a...

Problem we have in america. which is that we have become the most punitive society in the world. we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. we're throwing away people. the bureau of justice predicts that one in three blackmail babies born in this country is expected to go to jail or prison, and nobody seems to be upset about that. and i just think it's shameful. >> but one person who is making changes is larry, a longtime civil rights attorney, now district attorney of meek mill 's hometown, philadelphia. in may 2019, he filed an appeal with the pennsylvania superior court, asking...

The criminal justice system? >> i think a lot of people view it that way. of course, the irony here is that no one lifted up a poor person. no one lifted up at somebody who's not famous. no one lifted up at someone who is alleged technical violations may have been less serious. >> there are a lot of meek mill's in the system. there >> are a lot of meek mill who's are not privileged and don't have access to resources. >> i salute that guy with all my heart, larry. trying to put a stop to mass incarceration. >> meek understands all too well after his long journey that the justice system that his...

His career in public service,ly vote to confirm mike pompeo. that is joe manchin. >> larry set that up so well. >> like he knew we had that. >> goodness. i obviously didn't. >> i didn't know that. >> so there you go. so we know about manchin on that front. at the same time, president trump tweeting that obstructionists may vote against mike pompeo for secretary of state. the dems will not approve hundreds of good people including ambassador to germany. they're maxing out the time on approval prom says for all. never happened before. need more republicans. kennedy? >> of course both sides will ...