literally put his name on, championed the bills that created three strikes you re out and incentivizing states to have longer sentences, having more prisons and jails built from the time i was in law school to the time that i was the mayor of the city of newark. a new prison or jail being built every 10 days. since 1980, our prison population has gone up 500% in this country with an overwhelming disproportion gnat overwhelming disproportionate between african-americans. this drug war has been incarcerating african-americans at about four times the rate. so that s nothing to do with barack obama, that is the person who said this is my record. and the reason why that history is relevant today is because there are people in prison today for life sentences on drug crimes because of that tough on crime era. and what i m asking for is two things. whoever the nominee is, one, own up to your record and say, hey, i made a mistake. vice president biden said that
education plan. it includes tripling the disproportion of students and increasing teacher pay and more. take a look. everybody is going to tell you how much they value education. well, i ve got an expression i use. don t tell me what you value. show me your budget, and i will tell you what you value. show me your budget, and i will tell you. how do we increase the dignity of work? how do we increase the professionalization of how you re treated unless we pay you what you are remotely entitled to. vice president biden didn t mention president trump s recent attack at that town hall event but his campaign is hitting back after trump criticized the former vp during a trip to tokyo over the weekend. here s some of what the president had to say. kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low i.q. individual. he probably is, based on his
there s no question that admissions scandals were in massive disproportion. i m one that has a soft spot for the students involved here. perhaps some of the students knew, perhaps many didn t, i think it s demeaning, demoralizing enough. but now to start revoblging diplomas from them, kicking them out of classes. we re talking 18, 19, 20, 21-year-old young men and women. i think, certainly, as it relates to them, if they earned their education once they were in the school, then i think that education needs to be respected. i think many will disagree. that s their prerogative. when we start revoking things from students that have their lives ahead of them. we need to deal with the root core of the problem, if you get to that, the parents, administrators, coaches, everyone involved, i think we do a great service to moving this forward. there s a mom in california who wanted do what you just
or list effects and presenting real challenges to the public. ryan brown, cnn. venezuela s humanitarian and political crisis is deepening. the interim president said a transition is underway. they re gaining international support and trying to legitimize his claim to the presidency. translator: he is the one today making that transition costly in venezuela, not the opposition who have demonstrated their democratic, peaceful, disproportion. here we are. reporter: meanwhile, the u.s. has imposed visa restrictions on
apparent double standard in disproportion and of a force in cases like the arrest of roger stone. as i understand that, his attorneys were in constant contact with the department of justice, 66 years old, doesn t own any firearms and yet he was a subject of a predawn raid by 29 combat armed officers. has mr. jordan s pointed out, cnn was obviously tipped off and had cameras there. in fact, they arrived to set up before the raid began. they were allowed to stay in the film the entire spectacle to despite the fact they were kept out because the fbi was of concern to violence by the 66-year-old unarmed man in this predawn raid. if you compare that to cases like bob menendez who was allowed to quietly turn himself in, the obvious explanation is that this was a political act whose purpose was to terrify anyone thinking of working in the trump campaign in the future and it hearkens back to the conduct of the terrifying