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Approach designed to reduce prison population. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws, our mandatory minimum sentencing around drug laws. >> one of obama's attorney generals eric holder now says quote the policy announced today is not tough on crime. it is dumb on crime. but, the trump white house says the change was carefully crafted. >> this policy was form lathed after extensive consultation with the prosecutors that handled these cases, each and every day around the country. >> prison reform advocates are alarmed by the prospect of a return to the war on...

Particularly for drug crimes that they never used to do prison time for. and for violent offenses, people are serving much longer than they used to. it's all driven by changes in criminal justice policy. >> let's listen to the way the president put that in his riz visit to the prison. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws are mandatory minimum sentencing around drug laws. and we have to consider whether this is the smartest way for us to both control crime and rehabilitate individuals. this is costing taxpayers across america $80 billion a year. >> we've al...

>> modern presidential politics is not a field that is usually defined by appeals for a measured approach to crime. since richard nixon's law and order campaign in 1968 candidates have jockeyed over who could be tougher on crime. but that is changing. there are more calls to rethink a broken criminal justice system and not just in position papers or quiet discussions. candidates are pushing the issue, bringing it up themselves and drawing huge applause. and it's not just antiestablishment candidates like some see bernie sanders, and it's not just liberals. these calls are coming from both part...

Our justice system works here. one, that it targets minorities unfairly and, two, that an aggressive war on drugs has caused a quadrupling of our prison population over a generation. >> a primary driver of this mass incarceration phenomenon is our drug laws, our mandatory minimum sentencing. the statistics on who gets incarcerated shows that by a wide margin it disproportionately impacts those of color. >> it incarcerated african-americans and latinos. something has to change. the war on drugs has gone awry. >> of the more than 2 million americans incarcerated today, a significant percentage a...

In a aids compassionate care. >> bill: catholic charities biggest organized charity in the world they could but they don't. i think this is all abortion-driven. i think that's why in america, by the way, maybe not in other countries, but the american media in general worshipped at the altar of reproductive rights. >> well, yeah. >> bill: primary driver against abortion is the catholic church. >> right. >> bill: that's what this is all about. >> that issue and a lot of other issues. >> bill: that's the primary issue. >> he represents the church. represented the church. and so, yes, the sandals ...