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we'll leave that at that. before announcing sentence on these cases with regard to all of the other pending cases, are any of them here in kco collite? >> i believe some of them are, and have been in buford and other places. >> we may have worn out our welcome here. and i will thank all of the sheriff's office, and i know that mr. harpootlian has sacrificed many, many things, and to have the attorney general here, mr. alan wilson, to be here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice, but there are other victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped s...

The individual who was so strung up on these pills that it happened. big picture, erica, looking at the sentencing issues, they are about punishment, rehabilitation and deterrence, and the judges look for them, and this is clearly a person who could not be rehabilitated, and the judge has to look at what is the appropriate punishment under these circumstances, and is there anything that anyone would believe other than life sentence, and the deterrent fact, that anyone should be able to get away with this, whether you have a portrait hanging on the courthouse door or anyone else. so the judge w...

Exposed any significant weakness there when it comes to sentencing criminals? >> it seems like the republicans who are most pushing it, holly, ted cruz, were looking for their comment runs for president looking to make themselves look tough on crime, tom cotton as well. there could've been something there about her broader again philosophy about criminal justice, about sentencing all the sentencing issues don't really come before the supreme court in that manner. she is not really an outlier in the way she handles offender cases. i think built prior of the 11th circuit a very originalist law a...

Whether or not they want to put these reports into the public and then whether or not president trump actually allows that. because he could invoke executive privilege on these. he could keep the reports out of the public view. >> the article says that after mueller turns over his report, the doj will decide whether to make it public. it goes on to say after crafting the report that mueller has significant leeway. he can theoretically be as expansive as he wants. likely, mueller will publicly address the questions. >> that's the whole point. mueller doesn't have to put in this report -- he can...

The turn of 209th century there were 20zs of crimes. now we don't know for sure because nobody can tabulate 4,500 criminal crimes and hundreds of thousands of regulations. they're really regulating and making criminal those type of activities that shouldn't be criminal. fix the laws. make them more common sense with intense standards. there's the sentencing issues. mandatory minimums disparities, fix that. and lastly is the reentry issues. people who have served their time. particularly nonviolent offenders, why not let them come back and have the restoration of rights. have a productive life....