she s stuck around now for a year. a lot of grassroots gruroups ha been able to work with her and get her to do stuff that s so practical that you wouldn t know it unless you talk to people in the grassroots program. she s doing a good thing. people can smell a fake a mile away. she is really passionate about this issue. let s move on now, when trump and the white house first announced the push for criminal justice reform we agreed that the proof would be in the pudding. so what s it done so far, van, where s the proof? listen, i give them mixed marks. on the legislation they ve done well. the first step act brought democrats and republicans together, even, i think, next month 2,000 people are going to come home because of those horrible crack cocaine laws. stuff like that. positive legislation but on administration not so good. the obama department of justice put a lot of safeguards in place and was moving in a positive direction. when jeff sessions came in there
this issue. let s move on now. when trump and the white house first announced a push for criminal justice reform, we agreed the proof would be in the pudding. so what s it done so far, van? where s the proof? listen, i give them mixed marks. on the legislation they ve done well. the first step back brought democrats, republicans together. even i think next month 2,000 people are going to come home because of those outdated horrible crack cocaine laws, stuff like that. positive on legislation. but on administration, not so good. the obama department of justice was moving, and jeff sessions threw a lot of that stuff in the garbage and trying to put more people in jail. you ve got jared kushner and ivanka and others who want to push in a positive direction. but they could do a lot more and they re not doing it. so if trump wants to run on this, he s going to have to get
to 1. our bill went to 18 to 1. a little better. but fundamentally that. i was criticized by the bush department of justice. my legislation was opposed by them. it was seven years later or so before our bill ever passed. so i stepped out against my own republican administration and said openly on the floor of the senate that i believe these crack cocaine laws were too harsh and particularly it was disadvantageous to the african-american community where most of the punishments were falling. and it was not fair, and we ought to fix it. so i just want to say, i took a strong stand on that, and i did not agree. you and i did not agree on the retroactivity because a lot of these were plea bargained cases, and may not have been totally driven by the mandatory minimums. but so i thought the court
20-1, our bill went to 18-1, a limb better. i was criticized by the bush department of justice, my legislation was opposed by them. it was seven years later or so or really longer before our bill ever passed. so i stepped out against my own republican administration and said openly on the floor of the senate that i believe these crack cocaine laws were too harsh and particularly it was it was disadvantageous to the african-american community where most of the punishments were falling and it was no fair and we ought to fix it. so i just want to say i took a strong stand on that and i did not agree, you and i did not agree on the retro activity because a lot of these were plea bargain cases and may not have been totally different by the mandatory minimums, but the so i thought the court had basically now agreed that it is