on the table around criminal justice. what motivated you to make this your first real big kind of domestic policy push? it s the fact we in america, biggest gross waste of american money, american taxpayer dollars in our country. it doesn t make our communities safer. in fact, i think it makes our communities more dangerous. it wastes obviously taxpayer dollars and suppresses the truth of who we are. we say we re the country of freedom and justice yet we incarcerate more people in america than any other country on the globe. you see every single day in cities like newark the profoundly awful impact of the criminal justice system, even the police officers that i ride around with at night, they feel like they re stuck on this treadmill going nowhere. they can name people on street corners. that s how well they ve gotten to know them. if you re a murder victim in newark, a victim in my city, it s an 8 85 pk chance you ve bn arrested before an average of ten times. on both sides people a
your first real big kind of domestic policy push? it s the fact we in america, biggest gross waste of american money, american taxpayer dollars in our country. it doesn t make our communities safer. in fact, i think it makes our communities more dangerous. it wastes obviously taxpayer dollars and suppresses the truth of who we are. we say we re the country of freedom and justice yet we incarcerate more people in america than any other country on the globe. you see every single day in cities like newark the profoundly awful impact of the criminal justice system, even the police officers that i ride around with at night, they feel like they re stuck on this treadmill going nowhere. they can name people on street corners. that s how well they ve gotten to know them. if you re a murder victim in newark, a victim in my city, it s an 85% chance you ve been arrested before an average of ten times. on both sides people are going through this crazy game. police, individuals. that we could sto
benefits program. and there s another real problem, too, and this is a serious one, which is greasing the wheels of the fraud. the states are basically zooming, the jobless benefits checks into direct deposit, meaning right into the accounts of the individuals so friends and relatives of the prisoners are calling up pretending to be the prisoners when they re not and the money zoomed right in. you would think if the government is doing that, zooming the money right out the door so quickly via direct deposit they should be more rapidly cross checking the social security numbers to see if these individuals even deserve the jobless benefits. megyn: that may be the only time that the government zooms money to anybody, are they going to zoom your tax refund? i don t think so, you ve got to go to prison to get your money. and there s an idea why president obama is campaigning against a series of automatic budget cuts that the white house designed and he signed into law and then when
financial and military aid from us this year, what are we getting in return? why are we putting up with this? coming up in moments, ambassador john bolton is here to respond to that. we re tracking a developing story in washington right now where a group of republican senators furious about the possible sale of another taxpayer backed green energy company to the chinese. fisker automotive, taxpayers loaned the company roughly 530 billion dollars and fisker struggle and china is moving to buy a majority take and lawmakers are voicing concerned, technology paid for by american money is sold off to boost china s economy. well, an american ceo meantime is causing a controversy overseas making major headlines when he blasted the french work ethic.
it been? the iron dome is a remarkable invention, an israeli anti-rocket system they ve been working on for years and came into operation about 2 1/2 years ago. american money helped finance it. it s a system computer operated anti-missile system which identifies the instant a rocket is fired from gaza or anywhere where it s going to land. taking into account all kind of things like trajectory, wind, payload and know almost immediately after it s fired within seconds where it will land. if it will land in a populated center, they fire a rocket to intercept it. in fact, they fire two. each rocket costs $100,000. if it will land in a harmless area, say in the sierra field, the system just lets it land. it s a very effective system israel has invented and clearly prevented a lot of damage this round. we ll check in with you again