yes, that s exactly right. and look how long it has been since he left office, which was 1981. we are getting near four decades he spent as an ex-president. that is also unusual about him in history. and everything we see in the ex-presidents after jimmy carter has been very much influenced by what he did. he is the one who founded, for instance, the carter center to carry out his values. that s something that virtually every other president has done since then. i m interested as an historian, obviously, michael, your job is to look back and help give us some perspective. but i wonder if you can look forward as well. i was just talking about this with mark murray, and already we are seeing a difference in the way, you know, whether bait o rourke had a drunk driving problem that he ended up having a record for. any conversations that we re hearing, how much have you seen
director of the american beverage institute. welcome. thanks for having me. thanks for being here. you called the ntsb s proposal ludicrous. why? it is ludicrous. it is so ludicrous in fact even mothers against drunk driving isn t supporting it. the fact is this recommendation targets moderate social drinkers and it fails to target the hard core high bac repeat offenders who cause the vast majority of alcohol related fatalities. if we want to solve the drunk driving problem in this country we have to target the people that are out there killing people and that is not somebody who is at 0.05. fewer than 1% of traffic fatalities happen down there at that 0.05 or 0.08 level. we have to focus on the high bac offenders if we want to make a dent in the problem. you heard what deborah said. a similar proposal in europe cut alcohol-related deaths in 2010. in half. how could you argue with the numbers? i m afraid that the ntsb is really cherry picking their data. you know, they are do
guess what so when you think about enforcement and whether or not an officer wants to get involved in that when it is highly speculative and somebody is going to sue them and say you pulled me over, you infringed my rights. you were racial profiling and didn t like the way i was driving there was a whole host of problems here. good luck with the officers even trying to put this report together. let alone presenting it to the prosecutors for punishment and filing of the case. that s why it s no surprise now that colorado hasn t even set the standard. soeah, you can go there and drive. what s going to happen to you really nothing? because legally speaking, a conviction wouldn t be upheld because they haven t even defined a standard. make any cases. you can be pulled over for reckless driving though. a cop sees you swerving. bill: yeah, if do you something, sure. if you go 8 miles per hour or something like that, look, here is the deal. and this is the truth. by legalizing marijua
this. guess what so when you think about enforcement and whether or not an officer wants to get involved in that when it is highly speculative and somebody is going to sue them and say you pulled me over, you infringed my rights. you were racial profiling and didn t like the way i was driving there was a whole host of problems here. good luck with the officers even trying to put this report together. let alone presenting it to the prosecutors for punishment and filing of the case. that s why it s no surprise now that colorado hasn t even set the standard. so technically, yeah, you can go there and drive. what s going to happen to you really nothing? because legally speaking, a conviction wouldn t be upheld because they haven t even defined a standard. make any cases. you can be pulled over for reckless driving though. a cop sees you swerving. bill: yeah, if do you something, sure. if you go 8 miles per hour or something like that, look, here is the deal. and this is the truth.
what s going to happen to you really nothing? because legally speaking, a conviction wouldn t be upheld because they haven t even defined a standard. make any cases. you can be pulled over for reckless driving though. a cop sees you swerving. bill: yeah, if do you something, sure. if you go 8 miles per hour or something like that, look, here is the deal. and this is the truth. by legalizing marijuana or any other substance, you add to the drunk driving problem. you compound it. but, with drunk driving, whether you have a fairly quick way to determine, pot, you don t. and as guilfoyle rightly says, it s not going to be anybody prosecuted. you you have people going out there like this. is that sane public policy? you are bringing up exact point. when you want to go and check the numbers of how many of these cases going to file. they are not going to file them. not going to be cases that are going to be taken by the d.a. they are going to reject them. i have got to move ahead to