BREAKING: Trump Just DROPS THE HAMMER On McConnell! He's IN MASSIVE TROUBLES NOW
prison reform has long attracted bipartisan support the president Trump
took it a step further today backing not just prison reform but the sentencing
that puts people behind bars in the first place after months of blocking
president Trump today through his support behind a compromise bill to
reform how criminals are penalized the bill includes reasonable sentencing
reforms while keeping dangerous and violent criminals off our streets among
other things the first step act would shorten mandatory minimum sentences for
nonviolent drug offenses change the three-strikes-you're-out penalty from
life in prison to 25 years he eliminate the stacking regulation that makes it a
federal crime to possess a firearm while committing another crime and end the
disparity between crack and powdered cocaine possession President Trump was
weary of supporting the measure fearing it would make him appear soft on crime
his former attorney general wanted no part of it
there's still those who would like you to believe we should release criminals
early shortened sentences for serious traffickers drug traffickers that would
be in my opinion bad for the rule of law it would be bad for public safety but
after several law enforcement groups backed the new measure the president
felt it safe to jump on board in many respects were getting very much tougher
on the truly bad criminals of which unfortunately there are many but we're
treating people differently for different crimes
all right here's something important our friend Desmond figureA said on last
week's show you have a crime bill right now that Cory Booker's begging for
people to get on board when we talk about mass incarceration going from
500,000 in 1980 to 2.2 million now there are American citizens who are locked up
right now but yet our concern is on those who are trying to break in America
but it is also important to point out that 97% of people in jail did not put
took a plea deal because they did not have adequate representation some of the
90s hundreds of people were destroyed through Bill Clinton's crime bill and
nothing's being told the best way to say she's talking about the first step bill
a historic reform of the criminal justice system that President Trump and
his team have worked hard to negotiate here's the president today I'm thrilled
to announce my support for this bipartisan bill that will make our
community safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have
served their time so important he's right and this is a major populist issue
just as much as immigration or trade let's remember what positive populism is
all about pro-worker pro-family pro community bill clinton's 1994 crime
bill ended up incarcerated millions of working Americans far too many of them
African Americans for far too long hurting their ability to work and earn a
living contributing to family breakdown and helping to tear apart the social
fabric in our communities turning that around is a fantastic accomplishment and
leaders from all sides are on board you've got Mike Lee this bill would deal
with that and would tell judges that they've got discretion to actually be
judges and it will make life better for millions of Americans who one way or
another are affected by our federal criminal justice system
you've got Democrats including dick Durbin and Cory Booker you've even got
ban Jones of all people check out his praise for president Trump you'd think
with all that support this bill would easily pass Congress that's what the
bill sponsors Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is hoping hears his tweet
deal make her a real Donald Trump can get a big bipartisan deal done this year
on criminal justice reform plenty of time to pass first step act in December
will GOP senators and leader McConnell stand in president Trump's way of
achieving major bipartisan victory or join in historic and popular reform and
there's the problem there's one hitch in all this Mitch Mitch McConnell seems to
think his only job in life is confirming judges of course that is vital but so is
president Trump's agenda and it would help if the Republican Senate Majority
knee that could actually help pass it instead he's blocking it he won't bring
the first step bill for a vote because well it's not exactly clear we don't
have a whole lot of time left but the first step is to
analyze what proponents are actually for there been a lot of different versions
floating around and then we'll whip it see where the boat count is another
objector is outgoing Tennessee senator bob Corker a lot of people like me are
still trying to understand what it does he said there'd only been a higher-level
discussion of whether we should attempt to do it hmm a higher level I think the
explanation is on a much lower level the one that Washington usually operates on
money blocking this bill would leave more people in jail now who would be
most in favor of that the prison industry of course and guess who's
received more money from private prison companies than any other member of the
Senate that's right good old bob Corker don't bother wiping them not off on your
way out of the swamp senator and mitch mcconnell's opposition to this bill
which has mystified many people makes a little more sense when you discover that
he has received wait for it over half a million dollars from private prison
companies and their financial interests over the years never mind
cocaine Mitch this is corrupt Mitch put people first not donors do the right
thing pass this bill tell me what you think at Steve Hilton X and at a next
Rev FNC Trina you wrote about this just today on Fox News com I did I wrote
about it today because it's something that is close to me it's personal
occasionally in politics you come across a policy that actually means something
to you and this happens to be one of them being a woman of color born to a
teenage single mother growing up in poverty
somehow navigating my way through this government imposed learned helplessness
community managed to be the first to graduate from college and broke the
poverty cycle in my family and it was because I had access to people who
actually cared and offered tools and resources to make so I could make better
decisions from my life everyone deserves that chance you have people today and
don't get me wrong we have the best system in the world it is the best
however I don't think anyone can say with a straight face that justice is
blind or that justice is handed evenly in this country but that should
be our goal and I think that this act gets us a little bit closer to it so
tell me I think you might disagree well I all I justice reform for me it's
been a big issue and a bit of people have touched on this when it comes to
the issue of you people who do plea deals because they've got a public
defender who's got a thousand other clients and they just want to move you
through the system and so you plead something that you actually didn't do
and that's of course effects of the disenfranchised and the poor so when I
think criminal justice from I think justice reform especially when we're not
dealing with criminals who gets stuck within that framework and
who don't get justice the problem with this bill is what the president said it
would do it make community safer and get you know get you know get justice for
people who work with me a languishing in prison who shouldn't be there we saw an
example of that with Kanye West and Andy and Kim at the White House with a woman
who was involved in some kind of a drug deal sentenced to life in prison right
and that that's the only crime she committed Americans realized that that
was inappropriate this bill however in moving from the house to the Senate
changed and it changed to include retroactive sentencing changes to where
people would be let out automatically and it created at one dynamic of
specifics about who would be blocked from that but not included include
people involved in domestic violence strangling your spouse assaults with
deadly weapons prison breaks drug trafficking holding immigration papers
to keep people in slavery so that they can't escape so if we are going to be
releasing those people or giving them an easier time to get out of prison they're
going to go right back to the community
I agree with you completely I don't think any Republican anyway wants to
support a bill that's gonna let violent criminals back out on the streets and
there are fifty two categories of violent crimes that would make you
ineligible to get any benefit from these sentencing performs here's the fact we
just got to deal with reality and I know I know all of us want to do that
ninety-five percent of these people who are in federal prisons they're coming
out and they're going to come out with more
skills they're gonna come out beat let me keep it rolling on this because I do
think that the Senate bolted on some of these changes let's get back to the
fundamental people are coming out of prison and if they come out needing to
immediately be dependent on the federal government or somebody again because
they don't have the skills because they haven't bonded with constructive family
relationships that they could have they could have had if we don't treat women
with decency pregnant women in president don't shackle them and treat an almost
barbaric conditions that's not that is the fundamental thrust of the bill
that's why they call it the first step act because it's under saying the
government gets many things wrong you know if the government also gets wrong
the government also gets wrong its approach to federal prisons and we need
huge reforms this is just the first step there are many more they'll tell you
next step we need rainin and crazy prosecutors that have the power to
Matt's point about there are 50 offenses that are make it completely ineligible
every other case after that there's not this broad open let's open the doors and
let the criminals out there's a case-by-case basis that these people are
looked at and individual reforms are determined whether or not they let you
say these we know this bill Tory and making more changes would be appropriate
and we can get to where we need doesn't look like he's interested in that at all
just to block it right I don't know if that's right well come on then show us
that it's wrong I mean that's a fear okay so this this is an issue that has
divided communities and families but it is not a divisive issue it is such a
no-brainer and you know obviously you can go much further with legislation but
what does the first step act do you know the first step back has a couple of main
features the first part of it deals mostly with prison reform as you said
giving incentives to prisoners currently serving time in a federal prison
take courses and otherwise prepare themselves to reenter society without
reoffending the second part of it deals with sentencing reform and it deals with
some of our more thorny and draconian provisions of our federal sentencing law
but over time of over federalized criminal law and resulted in these
massive sentences like a young man that was prosecuted in Utah for a federal
offense for selling three dime bags of pot over a 72 hour period and because
the way he was charged he got 55 years in prison as a minimum mandatory this
bill would deal with that and would tell judges that they've got discretion to
actually be judges all right and what are the chances that it it passes the
Senate where you are the chances are very good look if this bill were brought
up today it would pass overwhelmingly it would pass with a veto-proof
supermajority I believe not that we would need it because President Trump
would himself sign it as he indicated today so I'm encouraging our leadership
in the Senate to bring this bill up bring it up now let us vote on it now
this will pass overwhelmingly it'll bring a big bipartisan victory and it
will make life better for millions of Americans who one way or another are
affected by our federal criminal justice system this is obviously an important
issue for the president's son-in-law who was also one of his chief policy
advisors Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump but this was almost
diametrically opposite to some of Jeff Sessions view of the criminal justice
system so with sessions now having resigned does that mean that this
administration's starts anew on this very issue I think it can and then in
any event Jeff Sessions who was his Attorney General until just a few days
ago didn't persuade him to not support it and so the president keeps his own
counsel the president makes his own decisions the president decided today to
support this bill and so we've got the full support of the administration and
like I said we've got the support I believe of a super majority in both
houses of Congress the House version of this bill passed
with 360 votes just a couple of months ago I believe that with these additions
we will keep that number if not increasing in the house and we can also
get it passed in the Senate and how is this something that there is pressure to
pass in this lame-duck session before the new Congress is sworn in in January
or are you confident that Democrats are going to get on board because you have
been working across the aisle and across chambers with Democrats on this issue
yeah that's right and I've been working for about eight years ever since I've
been in the Senate on this issue initially it was me and a whole lot of
Democrats not as many Republicans as we've got now over time people have
realized it's neither democratic nor Republicans neither liberal nor
conservative this is just a good public policy issue it's an American issue but
I'm glad you asked that question about this Congress versus the next one I
believe Kennedy that this needs to get done in this Congress well we don't know
what demands the Democratic controlled the House of Representatives might make
in the next Congress I actually have some grave doubts about our ability to
pass in the Senate whatever they will pass in the Democratic controlled house
next year and our ability to get something like that signed by this
president so now is the time President Obama tried for eight years to get this
done he wasn't able to do it yeah president Trump has the opportunity to
do it now but Congress needs to act now do you think as far as immigration
health care building the wall in wall funding where does this stand in the
docket in the short term before January well like a measure to keep the
government funded and like measures to fun border security this is one of the
things that I think has got to be addressed one way or another before the
end of the year we do have time we do have a couple months in fact we have
until noon on January 3rd of next year so let's get it done now thank you
god bless you and God bless america
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