are in prison and you are wasting so much money, and so many people with felony records have trouble getting jobs that you are actually adding to crime rather than reducing crime. was it just politics and pander sng. i m explaining why i voted against it. you know you were there. you haired what the arguments were. you re the democratic party. people think we re soft on these criminals and we kolgdz them. we get beat by the republicans who bang us over the head with law and order. we re going to show how tough we are. we re going to prove to america how tough we are sxwshgs that s what this bill is about. you have to ask to vote for it. three strikes you re out, for example, was the best vote getting slogan or soundbyte during the 1994 election cycle. number one, best vote getting slogan. said beat anything you can say about social security health care, or anything else. if you studied it, there s no
1994; is that correct. i did. you were not in the minority of the democratic party but there were a lot of democrats who voted for it. the president pushed it very hard. why did you vote against it? they made the wrong choices. the choices made were to codify very popular sound bites. all it did was load up the prison. if we made a choice to follow the evidence and research, we d have made different choices. to the point now where there have been studies that say we have so many people in prisons in the united states where the incarceration rate is actually counterproductive. that is to say so many people in prison, you re messing up so many families, wasting so much money, so many people with felony records having trouble getting jobs that you re actually adding to the crime. was it just politics?
if it gets out my credit its ruined. we talk about 43 obamacare navigators with felony records, we don t know how many across the country there are. so people with shady pasts have access to our information. do we risk the same sort of exposure with this? when i was detective, when we looked at bank theft and bank robbery, you lose far more money from the insiders than from bank robbery. the insider threat is the biggest threat and the fact there was in federal regulation requiring navigators to undergo a background check meant you can have child molesters, pedophiles, people with crimes like theft and against honesty, having access to your information so the human part is more problematache then the technical part. let s talk about the volume. we are seeing on the bottom of the screen, 991 million credit
they want to work, too. they recognize that that is a dead end path for them to go down the path of drugs or for crime. many of them as a result of minimum mandatory sentencing in the 80s and 90s as a result of the crack cocaine epidemic are carrying felony records which is a hurdle for them as they try to get that job. they want that job. they ll come up to me and say i will do anything, il work anywhere. i want ha opportunity to succeed and make amends for my mistake and raise my family. make noise, guys. i m on your team. you re both speaking the language of this country right now. thank you, mayor kasim reed of atlanta and bob buckhorn of atlanta. this is hardball, the place for politics. my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer.
mistakes. you will see us learn from the mistakes in november when you savage the other guy. first rule of elected politics is to get elected. the second rule is to get re-elected, so don t blame the democrats when they do that which they need to do to survive. there is a lot of dissatisfaction with this president. when have you people who have felony records were uncommitted. 40% of the vote against a sitting president, that s a problem. when six when six term u.s. senators from the republican party are turned out by other members of the republican party, it suggests that the robbery party is at war with itself. that war will continue. you are going to say your party, but you know that i am a democrat. we are going to unite in one sentence, a commercial break. we ll be right back. more on the great american panel when we come back. still to come tonight, sean s interview with actor andy