Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190605:15:21:00
Take a listen to what he had to say. >> when i wrote the crime bill, which you have been conditioned to say is a bad bill, there's only one bill, only one provision in it that had to do with mandatory sentences that i opposed and that was a thing called the three strikes and you're out, which i thought was a mistake. rational way to go about it is to make sure you're not putting people in jail who, in fact, have not committed violent crimes. you should put them in work programs and positions where they are on probation, et cetera. >> reporter: though he's not directly responding to criticisms ...