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Benghazi met with that man within 48 hours before the attack . I know nothing about any meeting with him. Ambassador stevens on the day he was killed sent a cable about his meeting with mr. Hamid. Are you aware of that cable . No, im not. He said they, referring to mr. Hamid, they wanted an introductory meeting, they asked us what we needed to bring security to benghazi. So your officials were meeting with this man on the ground in benghazi, libya, discussing security, two days before that. But in august of that same year, the United States government had said that this very man was, quote, a ...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and jim ram stead over on the house side. When we look at what this bill might save, we know that drug ...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profi...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by and let dangerous criminals walk. So this is my question, kind of a statement. I hope that i have you...

So well take all of this in november. The only person you are interested in asking about during her entire questioning were Sidney Blumenthal. If youre so interested in him, release the transcript. You released his emails, theyre the only witness. So youre asking why are we only ask asking for his. Im going to ask the gentleman from california to do a better job of characterizing. These are not Sidney Blumenthals emails. These are secretary clintons emails. If you think youve heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round. With that, were adjourned. The hear williing will come...