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Would like to do here? >> well, look. this is a significant in a system that in new york which is had under the rockefeller laws some of the strictest approaches here, no matter what your age, what he is trying to do is basically say if you have paid your debt and it's over a decade later with no reoffense, this is not held against you and using that executive communation power and using it as a policy to change the punishment for these people that shouldn't last their whole lives they said. >> 10,000 lives here. one estimate has it here, glen. as a qualify for this, certain requirements and i...

Drug laws being too severe, people going to jail for drug crimes. >> a lot of celebrities have been arguing about -- >> should have diminished sentences now. under new york laws now not the rockefeller laws, all of the drug dealers can get probation under the new laws. >> probation? >> absolutely, yeah. >> that's interesting. makes you think twice about the recent debate. thanks to paul. the death of philip seymour hoffman has raised new awareness to the growing heroin problem. for weeks, we 'been talking about this on the program. nationwide heroin use has surged doubling -- more than doubl...