0:09
sometimes people ask you know they say will come one person make
any difference
0:13
at all and sometimes I wonder that even in washington
0:16
by taiwan the reasons I'm ears cuz have you seen
0:19
just introduced name I was a scanning online about an article he
had written
0:24
that was complimentary or some other things we're trying to do
in
0:27
so I tend my city my staff call him up policy if you'd like us to
come to do is
0:31
hambre shaping close we're glad to be here this morning
0:35
cried canard got outta prison
0:39
%ah couple months are actually the same month I was born
0:42
which was a long time ago 1963
0:46
and the reason clock canard went to prison is that
0:50
his crime was that he was trying to gin enroll in Mississippi
southern
0:54
and at that time it was very difficult for a black man or
woman
0:58
to enroll the second time he tried to enroll they
1:03
plan and liquor on him he didn't drink and gave him a six hundred
dollar fine
1:07
anybody here a match in what six hundred dollars was like in 1963
if you are poor
1:13
one thing led to another and he declared bankruptcy
1:18
he tried to enroll a third time I was arrested and OLEDB
either
1:21
to local police but when he's a tries to third time
1:26
he's declared bankruptcy in any goes by his farm to pick up some
chicken feed
1:31
twenty-five dollars was a chicken feed you know what happens to
him
1:35
he's arrested you know what kinda prison term is given
1:39
seven years in prison for stealing 25 Notre chicken feed which
really was he
1:44
is he was on his land
1:46
that the bank was repossessing people's life can spiral out of
control from a
1:51
six hundred dollar fine
1:53
thomas wolfe talks about this in his book or a young guy goes
enemies care
1:57
has to pay a hundred dollars to get his car out of hock in its 455
when they
2:02
the window he said fifth in line his life spirals out of control
when he
2:07
tries to get his car back that weekend to go to work
2:10
those of us who have jobs in our lives fairly privilege lives
2:14
don't know what it's like to have to pay fines
2:18
and then pay penalties on top of Iran's
2:21
and how someone's life can spiral out of control because is
this
2:25
so %ah this was nineteen sixty-three in a lot of things have
improved since then
2:29
we've gotten rid of segregation du jour segregation by law
2:35
but we still have a problem in our country that is somewhat
like
2:39
segregation but also someone like their two systems
2:42
or as Martin Luther King said in 1967 there to america's
2:47
there's one america that believes in life liberty and the pursuit
of
2:52
but there's another America that is witness to a
2:55
and daily disgrace a lack a lack of hope and despair
3:00
why because like like can are there still people in our society
that are
3:04
being hounded by far lines hounded by this and that several cities
in Missouri
3:10
over a third of their budget is gotten by farms
3:13
in for sinners 21,000 people last year there were thirty-one
thousand arrests
3:19
so I tell people isn't just about what happened this year
3:23
it's about this building up its about this gradual increase
3:27
I call it an undercurrent on the ease in our country
3:31
there still are to america's most people here part of the america
that does
3:37
believe in can believe in life liberty and pursuit of happiness
those who get a
3:41
college education those who get an education no matter the color of
your
3:45
you are party America can live the American dream
3:49
but there are many people who are so it's a lack of education
3:52
but it's also our criminal justice system as I learn more about
the
3:57
criminal justice system
3:58
I've come to believe and that it is something that is going to keep
the STU
4:04
America separate there are so many things one after another
4:08
there are I think I'm just making it unfair for people
4:11
if you look at new york city New York City 500
4:15
billion dollars in five than a third of the budget 25 to 30 percent
to budget
4:20
is done by fines in New York City what reason do we have
4:24
to have politicians telling the police for them to take someone
down
4:28
for selling a cigarette is not taxed couldn't give him a
ticket
4:32
can we say move on under a lot of other ways and saying
4:38
and I don't blame the place I blame the politicians and politicians
write these
4:42
so we can change the rules at any minute so I've said I want to be
part of
4:46
changing some others rules
4:48
house at the white house last week and met with the president
4:51
pain I don't agree on a lot of stuff but on criminal justice we
do
4:56
so there's about 8 republicans in a democrat's the ones who think
that we
5:00
should start changing some of these laws
5:02
for laws it bothers me the most is something call civil
forfeiture
5:07
civil forfeitures where the government can take your stuff
5:11
whether they're convicted you a crime or not I think this turns
justice on his
5:17
so I think that most of our judicial system for most who believe
it
5:22
is that you're innocent until proven guilty civil forfeiture
5:32
and if there's one thing I can change I want to reinforce that in
our judicial
5:36
system you are in a search until proven guilty
5:40
the problem is is it was civil forfeiture is the opposite
5:43
so give me a couple other examples Cristos or a los is a
5:48
family I in philadelphia their teenage son sold forty dollars or
the illegal
5:54
of the back porch the government took their house
5:57
the victim then barricaded themselves like how are we making
anything better
6:02
when we take the house
6:03
maybe the house is a stabilizing force in the family made his
grandma's house
6:08
and kids fifteen years old why would we take grandma's house
6:11
why we take the family's house based and
6:15
not even a and not even a conviction on an accusation and the child
who doesn't
6:20
its way outta control and it's happening in various venues
6:25
but if you look at the washington post 27 race series on this over
the last yr
6:30
six months or so is predominately african-american is
predominately
6:35
or if you wanna see one common denominator is predominantly people
live
6:40
it unfair gonna stop I think we can stop it this is something that
the president
6:46
I completely agree on
6:48
so we have legislation that would change it changes the
presumption
6:51
it says that you will be innocent until they prove you guilty and
they cannot
6:56
unless you've been proven guilty give you an example some other
things in
7:00
civil forfeiture that we've had problem with
7:02
in civil forfeiture they took a 1.5 million dollar
7:06
I motel in in New Jersey why
7:10
because about 10 people I'd stayed there over 14 years have been
caught selling
7:15
10 people out of two hundred thousand people and they took the
hotel
7:21
blame when they look at it as a program with people who take your
stuff get to
7:26
and they get to keep the proceeds is a poor first incentive for the
government
7:31
to want to take your stuff
7:32
interestingly about the same amount of people car for drugs and
other hotels in
7:38
but they didn't take them because they had leans against the hotel
this hotel
7:41
having to be paid for
7:43
so the government actually looks for things that they can
confiscate
7:46
that are already paid for he
7:49
increased I think I lost my volume can anybody help clear that with
the
7:54
are with the audio-visual alright love somebody look into it okay
yeah I think
8:02
that's all I've got naturally to give yes lol
8:07
others in civil forfeiture
8:09
hairs others in civil forfeiture there are a lot of other things
that we need
8:14
to fix in our society
8:16
one of them is a something we call mandatory minimums
8:20
what mandatory minimums do is say that if you commit an
infraction
8:25
say you have to serve a mandatory sentence almost 15 years
8:28
sometimes life in prison I'll give you an example Wheldon Angeles
has a
8:33
24-year-old kidney sold three hundred dollars for the
marijuana
8:37
he got a mandatory sentence fifty-five years
8:41
that's outrageous fifty-five years in prison for songs where are
the man
8:45
marijuana you can kill somebody in Kentucky
8:49
and be eligible for parole in 12 years something is wrong
here
8:53
to come down there us there's a racial outcome to this
8:58
I don't think there's a racial intention but I tell people that I
think they're
9:02
not looking if they don't think
9:04
30 incarceration problem in our country is not skewed towards one
race
9:08
I don't think is purposeful but I do think it is
9:11
actual and it's real we should do something about fifty-five years
in
9:17
prison for selling marijuana
9:18
timothy tyler was a guy
9:21
23 years ago he was 23 years old
9:24
he was I am a deadhead doing lst
9:28
things there you shouldn't do sometime in college don't do
that
9:32
but the thing is is for that car I'm
9:35
I'll sending similar listings in the mail and for using LSD
9:40
he get life in prison he's now 46 years old he's been in jail for
23 years
9:45
this is this is just out of control in and say
9:49
Joe Lockwood 31 years old
9:52
she was selling our writing a false prescription for self
9:56
offer more tab work as 95 percent Allah on five percent I doxie
coda
10:02
so 90 tabs in the way it is actually a legal drug they put her in
jail based on
10:06
the way to the whole drive she's in jail for 15 years for writing a
prescription
10:10
for sale she was an addict
10:12
letter and treatment punisher do something to your
10:15
but don't put people in jail for fifteen years this is all done to
mandatory
10:20
I personally think judges should get more discretion motion judges
Republican
10:25
and Democrat are balking at this there say
10:28
give us discretion to hear what the young person did listen to the
facts on
10:33
it listen to other their remorseful listen to whether or not they
can work
10:37
listen to whether or not we could have another means other than
incarceration
10:41
in 1980 there were three hundred thousand kids in our America
10:46
didn't have a father because her father was imprisoned there's
now
10:49
two million kids in America without a father prison for those using
family
10:55
they perform new were for families with a mother and father
around
10:58
we need to be for fixing the criminal justice system
11:02
if we look at mandatory minimums
11:05
civil forfeiture and then we look at other problems we have in our
society
11:09
one of the problems we have as employment so as republicans were
going
11:13
on saying we don't want people coming away on welfare longer
transition from
11:18
they look back at this and people so I much just to get a job I was
a convicted
11:23
I did a felony wells 21 on for years old still no way of
higher
11:27
me there has to be a way to figure out how we can get people back
to work
11:38
a friend of mine's brother
11:40
grew marijuana plants University of Kentucky's thirty years
ago
11:43
he's a convicted felon PS to check the box every time he goes
to
11:48
look for a job and he can vote
11:51
so if we really want to get people back integrated into society if
we want to
11:56
get people who are not prominently
11:58
unable to work and permanently on welfare we have to learn how to
figure
12:02
and figure out how to expunge their records
12:05
so Cory Booker I put together a bill we call to redeem act
12:08
from what it does is it takes on these minor felonies
12:12
mostly drug possession and some drug sale and says if you
12:16
been tarnished you're outta jail use pagers yes to society
12:20
and there's a server time you should get ready Rackers
12:23
not televised problem at all non-violent crime the index fund
directors you can
12:28
get back to work in the bill also
12:32
the bill that I have with Cory Booker he gets rid of solitary
confinement for
12:37
why wouldn t know years in solitary confinement I don't know
12:41
but I can tell you one story that horrified me in this was in the
new
12:44
yorker a couple months ago
12:46
Khalif routers a young black man sixteen-years-old
12:50
in the box he's picked up an excuse to cry
12:53
I have no idea whether he committed a crime or not but I can tell
you that
12:57
it's a crime against
12:59
what America stands for that he was sent to riker's
13:02
for three years in solitary confinement not all time with many
trips to salter
13:07
environment for three years in prison any was never tried
13:12
have these people taught her the sixth amendment they not her the
speedy trial
13:17
cally for our tried to commit suicide three times
13:21
now what happened to him in riker's but it certainly wasn't
good
13:25
it certainly wasn't fair and it certainly was an American to keep a
guy
13:29
locked up with no trial for three years and we ought to change
it
13:41
trying to go out with Cory Booker we take some records and we let
them be
13:45
when show up when you go to get work we also get rid of solitary
confinement for
13:51
I also think that part of the problem losing your
13:54
building an empire map and Wells Road
13:58
is because we have a lot of things felonies that we can make
misdemeanors
14:02
to have another bill we call the reset billowing take minor
felonies
14:06
mostly non all non-violent a mostly drug felonies and we make a
misdemeanor
14:11
process okay we're %ah says legal or just sayin
14:14
that it'll be a misdemeanor you will never lose your right to
vote
14:18
and you will never lose your opportunity to work by having it
permanently on your
14:22
these are things that we do I think we can radically transform our
country.
14:27
so we have something on civil forfeiture mandatory minimums
14:31
expungement and then resetting your record
14:34
all these things I think will help with criminal justice
14:38
and will help with the people who live in the to america's
14:41
maybe for the people who don't feel like they are open to a life
liberty and the
14:46
pursuit of happiness or don't feel like they're being treated
justly
14:48
that undercurrent of monies s out this out there
14:52
maybe those people start to feel part of the American dream
14:55
and will be ambitious and will try to succeed like the rest of
us
14:59
while the final things is we've had a I was first criminal justice
reform bills
15:04
without a lot of discussion in our country about
15:07
are voting rights and whether people are excluded or not exclude in
what we need
15:11
to do to make it better
15:12
i think is a good thing is is that more people though it more
minorities voted
15:16
at a higher percentage even then why it's
15:18
in Mississippi in other states last time around we've come a long
way
15:22
but a number one thing precluding people from voting our
country
15:26
is a felony conviction anti-bill with Harry Reid that would restore
federal
15:31
rights if you serve your time for a nonviolent felony and
your
15:35
you're behaving yourself you get your voting rights back because I
think it's
15:38
hard for people to feel part of the America
15:41
that how's life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is they can't
vote
15:44
so we want people to be a work we want people out the owners
though
15:48
how do we protect all these things and how we make it a better more
united
15:54
I think we have to pay more attention to the Bill of Rights the
bill Wright was
15:58
there to protect all accts
15:59
I tell people the bill right isn't necessarily for the prom
queen
16:04
although will apply to her also not necessarily for the high
school
16:08
quarterback to college quarterback
16:10
those who are popular among you always 25 is for the least popular
among you
16:16
is for those who might have unorthodox ideas it's precisely for
minorities
16:22
and you can be a minority because the shade if your scam
16:25
for you can be a minority because the shade if your ideology
16:29
you can be them a minority because you're african-american
Hispanic
16:32
but you can also be a minority because you're an evangelical
Christian
16:36
there's all kinds reasons that you can have minority opinions
16:39
that need to be protected the bill right should do this
16:44
we have instances in the last year to you were always let down our
guard
16:48
and I'll give you a couple examples we have something out America
called
16:53
indefinite detention this means that an American citizen
16:57
could be indefinitely place in prison and sent to Guantanamo Bay
forever
17:02
without a trial and I had this debate with another senator on the
floor I said
17:06
really you could sense an American citizen the Guantanamo Bay with
no trial
17:12
in the city after dangerous pass it on
17:16
pegs the question doesn't who gets to decide who's dangers and
who's not
17:21
and who should be afraid
17:23
us anybody think that you might wanna be afraid if you're jewish
have people ever
17:29
animus towards the Jewish people anybody ever think there was any
animus towards
17:33
african-americans our country
17:35
anybody ever think there's been an animus toward any kind of
minority in
17:39
our country ought to be concerned
17:41
about incarceration without a trial
17:44
and the answer is and even from this president I don't think his
presence
17:49
people based on their race I don't think he will do that and that's
what he said
17:53
when he signed the legislation he said but I'm a good man
17:55
and I will never do this I'm not questioning whether the president
a good
17:59
I'm questioning whether you are a law on the books that requires
our leaders to
18:04
there have been times in our history we've let down our guard
18:08
Madison wrote about this from Madison said
18:11
if the government were comprised have angels we wouldn't need these
laws
18:16
b5 government will comprise two angels you know wouldn't matter if
there's a
18:21
the remember the times when you didn't get to process
18:25
remember the times when they're worth group in our country like
the
18:28
into japanese-americans during World War Two it didn't get to
process were
18:33
incarcerated without trials that's why we have these rules
18:36
it's not about this president about the next president or the
president
18:41
we also now are doing something that I think really goes against
justice
18:47
and the ideas and justice we're collecting all other phone
records
18:50
everyone in your phone records is being collected and stored
18:53
every cell phone record probably in America they won't tell
us
18:57
but in all likelihood the vast majority phone records are being
collected
19:01
but if you look at the warranty doesn't have your name on it
19:04
the Fourth Amendment says they're supposed to have your name first
post to
19:07
specify who you are what you did what they want to look at
19:11
know they go to a judge in ass for probable cause but you want to
warrant
19:15
that has all your phone records says horizon on
19:18
I'll knowing my name mister horizon
19:22
and I don't think that you can write one single wharton get the
Wreckers have $20
19:26
million people fifty million people's records
19:29
supposed to be individualized in fact we fought a revolution over
this
19:33
in the revolution call these things receive assistance they were
generalized
19:37
warrants that's why we wrote the fourth amendment yeah had to
specify the person
19:41
can specify the possible crime problem calling it happen
judge
19:45
you should be worried about this was the government's a
19:48
trust us were good people will never look at your actors
19:53
was already did a couple intelligence folks who were looking at
their wife's
19:58
boyfriends record so I
20:00
people are tempted to look at your records
20:03
and people are perfect condition collection wreckers coach to
get
20:07
if we don't like to miss records yet just get a war and if you've
got john
20:11
smith and he's talking to five people in Pakistan your work for the
next five
20:14
people on their document and more people
20:17
get another warrant if there's a rapist in DC
20:21
and you don't see him run into a house the police don't go break
the door down
20:24
if they think they're inside they stand at the door
20:26
they call a judge history in the morning and they get a
warrant
20:30
we need these constitutional protections think about what happened
in the
20:36
think about how Martin Luther King's phone was tapped think about
how
20:40
hundreds of people in the civil rights movement have their phones
tapped
20:43
think about many people protested against the war had their phone
jack
20:47
you have to have these protections not because one particularly bad
person
20:52
because there is the potential forbade people some day to take
charge
20:56
government criminal justice
21:00
was a lack of criminal justice it's not a black or white problem
it's not a
21:04
black or brown problem what it is is is a poverty problem
21:08
but the thing is we have to be careful to make sure that the bill
right
21:12
applies to every individual if there's one thing I want to get
across to you is
21:17
we have to defend the Bill of Rights
21:29
I think there are two other areas in which there are two america
still
21:32
and where we need to try to figure out how we can united to
america's
21:36
the others in education if you're here release date or you're
visiting
21:41
and you went to school you went to college or you're working
21:44
you succeeded you wanna hear your part in the Americas can I
am
21:47
field goal after the American dream Life Liberty pursuit of
happiness
21:51
but if you didn't get into school or you want a crummy high school
or college
21:56
you know here meanwhile the other america is in fact the the
statistics
22:00
are startling if you look at graphic to grab who went to
school
22:04
who who waded in had their kids after they were married in one
school
22:08
is like night and day here in here so there are two different
america's
22:12
how do we equalize education education is the great equalizer
22:17
we fought for brown versus the board in the fifties we got the
schools together
22:22
but there still is a lack of equality in the schools is the best
way to put it I
22:27
went to public schools with a
22:29
calculus in high school physics chemistry to biology to a ride and
Adam
22:34
in physiology in high school
22:35
tried a great public school my kids have gone public high
school
22:39
but all public schools are not creating people in and there still
was a problem
22:43
and a lot of the problem I think can only be fixed if we allow
more
22:47
innovation means less rules from washington
22:50
allow more competition allow people to choose which school they go
to any to
22:54
the cities and there's a better school in the suburbs
22:56
let people drive out to the suburbs as they want to go to that
school
22:59
school choice will allow schools to be equal the right now I think
our concern
23:04
is that the people making decisions on the educational
establishment and not
23:09
but if you watch the movie Waiting for Superman I defy you to watch
a movie and
23:14
not have it here come out here I
23:16
looking at the people trying to get into a good school and how
these parents are
23:20
you know doing anything they can to win the lottery to get their
kid to go to a
23:25
we have to figure out how to make education equality
23:28
cross the border and finally what we have to do is we have to
figure out how
23:32
I economic copy quality I'm not talking about some sort of equality
about
23:37
commandant more about equality of opportunity
23:40
I think that we have to look at something new
23:44
we've tried passing money outlook and look in my state appalachians
got money
23:49
we tax or by the country and then we Senate appalachia
23:52
fan or appalachia still 40 us we have pockets of poverty in
lawful
23:57
just as poor as they ever were the problem is if you give me the
money and
24:02
asked me to give it to somebody
24:03
people in government don't know who to give it to so we have to
John Smith
24:07
resale here he will open a business we don't john smith er merry
spence's good
24:12
the marketplace does though every day when you go out you spend
your money in
24:16
a restaurant or a wal-mart or target or Kmart
24:19
here spending your money and you're voting on which businesses will
succeed
24:24
so I'd say we want to stimulate Detroit to Troy Scott 20 percent
unemployment
24:28
thousands of acres of abandoned housing sure to do something for
Detroit why
24:33
don't we dramatically cut the taxes for Detroit
24:43
jack kemp was the first one to talk a lot about this he called
Amanda fries
24:47
I call on economic freedom zones what we do is we take tax
cut
24:51
areas that have high unemployment slow growth in hyde
24:55
I incidence of poverty and then what we do is dramatically cut
taxes not a
25:00
week almost completely wiped out federal taxes
25:03
saying have more money so in Detroit it would be a 1.3 billion
dollar tax cut
25:08
for Baltimore be in nine hundred million dollar tax cut over 10
years
25:13
so that nineteen and why does this work better
25:21
than a government stimulus see we tried a government stimulus
25:24
we did about 45 years ago we gave a bunch of money almost a true in
about
25:28
eight hundred billion dollars we gave out
25:30
we didn't know who to give it to so when they divided up is about
four hundred
25:34
thousand dollars per job but if you give it back to the people who
are already in
25:39
like in Baltimore even a ball crush pockets of poverty
25:42
door businesses they're they're succeeding you don't give it to
the
25:46
you don't know whether be good business cute person already in
business now are
25:51
process their money to begin with a armed so give them back more
their money
25:55
but in a dramatic fashion
25:56
so we can stimulate to cities and get the city's growing
again
26:00
what i'm saying is think outside the box cuz what we've been doing
ass and then
26:05
I think there are ways that we can have criminal justice in our
country
26:08
I think there's ways we can have the quality of
26:12
education our country and I think we can have a quality the
economic opportunity
26:16
but if we keep doing the same thing over and over again
26:20
that's the definition of insanity if you expected numbers all
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I truly think that the two americas a martin luther king talked
about can come
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and I think it's imperative that we do it because I've seen and
felt this
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under Colonel Denise top 10 Ferguson have been a Chicago and
Detroit a lot of
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places with a great deal of poverty
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some %uh this is government governments done the wrong thing
sometimes
26:45
pleasers trying to do their job for the most part for the
politicians
26:48
have done a bad job creating criminal justice we need to try to fix
that we
26:53
need to fix our educational system
26:54
but we can't just let the establishment say we're not going to ever
change
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that's what's been going on for thirty years now and do we allow
innovation
27:02
but finally we have to make that debate or have the debate
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about who best spends money is that
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other politicians smart enough to know how to spend it or should we
send it
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sure we have it if we want to make Baltimore richer leave more
money im
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Baltimore can we make Baltimore richer have more jobs
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by not sending it to washington in the first place I'm a big
believer in
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I'm a big believer in human ingenuity I'd say forgive power and
freedom back
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will see success like we haven't seen in a long time
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election introduce our moderators Q&A
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Germany forties Morehouse man and we're really excited I'm
here
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boosting risk thank you thank you thank you thank you very
much
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go ahead Q&A will just sit around Paul
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I just saw I was refreshing to hear him talk on so many
different
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topics obviously that us rollin involves the art of your life
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here and and elsewhere our first question
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I'll to Nepal the fruit the federal government provide incentives
for
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higher X offenders yeah I think
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the best way to have an incentive is to get rid of the record
basically so
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expunging the Wreckers i think is one of the best place to try get
ex-offenders
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arm and I think pretty
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what about millions of people yet is as many as 5 million people
lost the right
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but there somewhere in that neighborhood who have also are
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having difficulty getting employment and so if you allow people to
expunge your
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that we some exceptions obviously era sex offender
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unit child molester things like that don't go away and so violent
crime stay
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on your record but if you
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smoke some pot or %ah grew grew marijuana plants in college
29:16
i thinkI how to get a second chance actually as
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Regional Trial smoke some pot left
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selectively say that I think his
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second question I am just come expound on that
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please explain your federal federal medical marijuana bill
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and the role the federal government and Drug Policy
29:37
and there's another bill we introduced this week with Cory Booker I
and Kirsten
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Gillibrand a Democrat from my new york
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and what we do is we try to say that the federal government
more
29:48
interfere with States who want to have our a medical
marijuana
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and wonder things we've done is their schedules for drug schedule
one two and
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threes pretty much most everything that too is somewhat restriction
one
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is almost impossible even most physicians can prescribe schedule
1
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will marijuana schedule once a week at research it
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and I'll most doctors can prescribe it
30:13
a given couple examples of people who do use marijuana
30:17
for a benefit mathematically are mild
30:20
political directors father in law as Ms he's confined to a
wheelchair
30:24
and when he lived in Arizona he is to you star Kat X
30:28
really have II doctor would prescribe boxing cotton and
30:31
Hidaka and narcotics and they sedated I mean really didn't like the
feel from my
30:36
body as a lot of pain and
30:37
and discomfort with a mass many Drive Medical Marijuana anything
like it
30:41
helped him and helped him with his appetite helped him to do with
his
30:45
but eisenberg you can't do it so I think there are reasons to allow
doctors to
30:49
prescribe it more easily
30:51
allow more research to happen there's also appears some kids have
so many
30:55
seizures this is not controlled lead like a hundred to learn
seizures a day
30:59
their brain doesn't develop and they remain mentally stunted from
the
31:04
most these kids are on all the traditional seizure
medications
31:07
medications that they're not talking about cannabis oil without the
THC
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to actually personally take the THC which is a the park to make
sure yet how
31:16
high they take it out and do this
31:18
oil to the kids and some are showing some benefits does it
31:21
me to study and he should be studying but I
31:24
I think parents are within on separate seizure medications ought to
have a
31:28
chance but i think is a great job of alerting the public
31:31
I don't know if your congress is ready to pass it yes but
31:34
the public I think reading actionable as your president how would
you
31:44
all support US gas and oil and instead of importing it from other
countries
31:49
I like the supposition on the question
31:53
I am you know one way to be independent and have a
32:01
growing energy industry in our country is we have to compete with
everybody
32:07
and one other ways were not being very well as our taxes are
higher
32:11
iranian former Miss harm so for example our business tax the
corporate income
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tax our country's 35 percent
32:17
in Ireland its twelfth in england it's twenty
32:20
and France's somewhere between 20 and 25 close to here has a lower
business tax
32:26
then you bring in the regulatory burden of what we have on our
energy and
32:31
industry and we have a greater regulatory burdens our tax burden to
our
32:34
regulatory burden tire
32:36
arm even with all that we're doing pretty well with energy
production
32:40
production production the fracking revolution
32:43
we now are virtually we're getting to the point where now the
question is
32:47
more sure you were to the law saying we can export because we're
actually now
32:51
where we can actually act for oil
32:53
there was a law passed in nineteen seventy saying we weren't
allowed to
32:56
for now we were talking about actually I was becoming such a leader
that we
33:00
action thank you what are your thoughts on the progress of
33:06
african-americans in this country role
33:09
what you do as president accused continue progress
33:13
I'm you know I think sometimes
33:16
we think we haven't gone very far when I think we've come a long
way
33:20
and I say we collectively obviously it's not me but I think
said
33:24
we got rid of all of the the legal process most to the law and the
legal
33:28
problems legal separation
33:30
in and we did in the sixties and took a while for that take effect
and transmit
33:35
but I think really the problems are so much shorter legal
separation earlier
33:39
but we still has ordered a factor
33:41
so this dish you are which means of the law and then there's two
factor which
33:45
means is still a fact that there's
33:47
a significant segregation in our society
33:50
arm I think it's economic opportunity
33:53
and criminal justice the one thing government can do is we need to
make
33:56
criminal justice more fair
33:58
when the I didn't mention is which is also promises and like I say
black white
34:02
or brown promised the poverty problem is
34:04
many people %ah can't keep up with their child for payments for
instead of like
34:09
working out a schedule we send him back to prison to action like
debtors prisons
34:13
with all these things that are on just about our criminal
system
34:16
that could be changed I think that's the biggest thing that work on
spy criminal
34:23
make the the correlation obviously with criminal justice reform
economic
34:31
talked about energy to expand on just a little bit
34:34
more the economic freedom zones on this year polls
34:38
what is it gonna take to make that a reality if you will in just a
little bit
34:47
time zone what's the benefit for individuals
34:50
small businesses and I'll show you a municipality's
34:54
self those it resolves I think if you look at the practical
politics
34:58
this and say water what does anybody right now offering
Detroit
35:02
0 not one person has one solution out on the table
35:05
they might mean some Democrats who say let's just give them a
billion dollars
35:09
we don't have a billion dollars we have to borrow from China to
give it to on
35:13
I we borrow a million dollars a minute I'm think there is a
democrat
35:17
legislative proposal for Detroit but I am a proposal for
Detroit
35:21
from Baltimore for law for all big cities when you dramatically
lower the
35:27
you don't affect the local infrastructure cuz like your police
your
35:32
it's your lives all this stuff you pay for through local
taxes
35:36
but think about it if you will house at a Detroit
35:40
you're the president at the bank and I tell ya give you a
five-percent income
35:45
39 percent income tax if you moved to Detroit my guess is you might
consider
35:49
doing is cheese is huge bonus to the initial do it we also have
hiring
35:55
in that if you need to get those tax breaks
35:58
you have to hire from I think 25 share people have to be
36:02
live in the neighborhood traces actual arm
36:06
any other questions any other
36:09
followup questions to speak a little louder she could
36:24
he play weight is among them
36:27
it's true love everything on the margin that we don't have money
for most things
36:33
people coming in wanting more money for diabetes says a lot of good
causes out
36:38
and they want more money for
36:40
but I tell them what I tell everybody else if you have a cause that
you
36:44
you have to figure out where the money is going to come from so you
would have
36:48
and I'm willing to do that also so for example
36:52
said repeatedly I'm that before i touch one penny for any had a
safety net
36:58
I'll cut every penny of corporate welfare essays
37:09
following the first said into the senate you talked about
37:12
looking at eliminating cutting spending by $500 billion
37:17
the whole world teen years five years or two years
37:20
right could you speak a little bit of both more
37:23
the when you look in a in this is i think is a good point because
some
37:27
people think well republicans are for no government Republicans are
for cutting
37:31
everything they'll be nothing left out the form
37:33
and that's not really true were mostly for not spending money that
doesn't come
37:37
and so when people say you're not for any government I say
well
37:41
i'm for three trillion dollars worth that much comes in that's all
we are
37:45
but we spend 3.8 trillion we bring in $3 trillion so this is huge
disparity
37:51
between what comes in one goes out
37:53
and within the three trillion you have you have to make some
distinctions on
37:58
the Department of Commerce is thirty forty million dollars
38:01
I cut it all tomorrow I like your name but notice it II thing no
one would
38:07
notice it was gone most
38:08
tomorrow commerce is actually going to rich corporations
38:11
there's twenty billion dollars worth a direct welfare to rich
corporations on
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over 200 million dollars on average about forty or fifty
38:20
big corporations so you could eliminate at others
38:24
quite a bit to a lot of different departments they could you know
and I'm
38:28
not sure you noticed a difference
38:29
within the department education for Calado now
38:33
up thirty forty years now but the vast majority that could go back
to the state
38:38
and would not be done in Washington
38:46
import-export bank would be a part of that is why not call
38:49
call that corporate welfare you're not alone okay bus