Covered the coverup trial. I understand people were convicted. But you need to understand that lawyers, lawyers donts play fair. They argue two things. They can argue, look, the person didnt do the crime. The person wasnt guilty. But usually in a political scandal the argument is there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. Its not theyre blameless, its not theyre innocent. But we say wed rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. So were were loading it to a very high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you didnt get that evidence into the courtroom properly, then it cant come in. If you didnt share exculpatory information properly with defense, those are procedural violations which can equally invalidate a verdict. And im happy to argue both. So, thats thats kind of what were going to go through. One word from last week. Last week was the allure of
Book you talk about the Golden Triangle of freedom. Your leaping right in, arent you . I have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book im talking about america and at the very heart of it is the Golden Triangle of freedom. But what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. A number of years ago dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Again all founders understood this. Quickly its that freedom requires virtue. When we say freedom we mean selfgovernment requires a virtue. Virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. To explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. You cant have selfgovernment or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you cant force people to go
The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 423, the nays are 4. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the motion is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table they have Unfinished Business is the volt on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. Cook, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 479 as amended. The clerk Union Calendar number 102, h. R. 497, a bill to direct the secretary of the interior to convey certain public lands in the San Bernardino, california to the San Bernardino Water Conservation district and to accept in return certain every nonpublished lands and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended . Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the cl
The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 423, the nays are 4. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the motion is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table they have Unfinished Business is the volt on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. Cook, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 479 as amended. The clerk Union Calendar number 102, h. R. 497, a bill to direct the secretary of the interior to convey certain public lands in the San Bernardino, california to the San Bernardino Water Conservation district and to accept in return certain every nonpublished lands and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended . Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the cl
Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profile of drug defendants currently in the bureau of prisons right now, youll see that there are a number of low level nonviolent drug defendants. For example, less than 1 of the defendants in federal prison actually had violence or threatsover violence in connection with their drug offense. Only 16 of them had a weapon. Half of them had little or no criminal history at all and only 7 of them are lead