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Trump? >> let's talk about the here and now. the here and now is -- donald trump undid the damage that was done by biden. >> the facts matter here. it only affected 180,000 prisoners total. millions of others locked up in state prisons. >> sandra: we have to get david if here. >> as a new yorker and somebody who lived since 1980 i saw the dark period. i would talk about the dark period you alluded to when there were 2,200 murders a year in new york city. now there are less than 400. there are about 300. an 86% decrease in the number of murders. most of the people being murdered were from latin...

Now calls a huge mistake. but what about the core accusation that the bill led to mass incarceration? well, as this graph shows incarceration had been going up since the 1970s, the biggest jump by far in state prisons thanks to mandatory drug minimums. when joe biden says the bill did not generate mass incarceration he's right in the narrow sense that only 10% of people incarcerated in america served time in federal prisons, but the total number of people in prison did increase overall, impacted a disproportionate number of people from non-white communities. look, donald trump deserves credit ...

>> one two! three! >> every two months, the rapid response teams from santa rosa and three other state prisons come together for training >> one, two, three, four one, two, three, four! >> your left >> it's a team comprised of officers to respond to any event that may happen at our correctional facilities for riot control, disturbances or incidents of that nature >> forward, halt >> if we had a large-scale incident, we would want to make sure that we had a complement of officers that could address that and we adopted some military mobile field force-type training and we feel that a platoon wit...

Over 50 people dedicated for this mission today it's good to see everybody coming together, working toward a common goal, several institutions, okaloosa, walton, century, the ig's canine what we're doing this morning, mass search. our goal is to identify, locate and remove items of contraband, making santa rosa a safer place for the inmates and the staff. >> today's search will cover two housing units and involve officers from santa rosa, three other state prisons, and the state's inspector general's k-9 unit the dogs are trained detect the scents of both drugs and cell phones. >> we've got si...

The president is trying to address. >> martha: i know it's a big week for you. criminal justice reform is something you feel very strongly about. a little bit of pushback from some of your fellow senators. senator kennedy spoke out against it today. he feels like it is going to free people who are danger to society. why do you believe it's going to actually make communities safer than ever? >> that is a great question, martha. i grew up in a single-parent household mired in poverty, in a crime-ridden neighborhood. we had our house broken into. the first thing i think about when i think about c...