Phone lines are open. Andcrats, republicans, independents. You can also catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. Should the u. S. Toughen drug sentencing . You can call it now. The headline from the reporting on this, attorney general Jeff Sessions charts course back to long drug sentences. The trumpet era of Drug Enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds like the old days. The message came on friday in the form of a memo from ag Jeff Sessions to all federal prosecutors, stop seeking leniency and start seeking the toughest sentence as possible. We are seeing an increase in Violent Crimes in our cities, particularly in baltimore, chicago, memphis, and milwaukee and many others. The murder rate has surged 10 nationwide. Largest increase in murder since 1968. We know that drugs and crime go handinhand, they just do, the facts prove it. Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business. If you want to collect a drug d
[inaudible conversations] let me start with a few preliminaries about todays newsmaker. I am david anderson. A longtime member of the club and member of the clubs newsmaker committee. Im an attorney, years ago i was was correspondent for the cincinnati herald. The there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here so do re speak the members of the media, who may be here, and asking questions. And many of those may be working journalists and so please understand that theyre here to do a job. Now, after our guest makes his opening remarks youll have chance to ask questions. When you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. Before we get started, id like to mention some Upcoming Event test club. On march 21st, a panel on the South China Sea dispute. And that will include various security, economic, and legal issues. On the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials, and on march 24th, the club will host john kot ky nin, commissioner of the irs, and that is
From combee centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We have a program tonight a great show. A great show tonight. Its a bit of a different kind of show, though. Its not the same kind of show youre used to seeing. Tonight, a person on daild shamelessly plugging their new movie they have not seen. laughter is me. cheers and applause look at that look at that devil may care. I have a devilsmaycare attitude and very little voice left. The producer and correspondent, jason jones, who started this whole mess by going to iran in 2009, interviewing Maziar Bahari for a field piece and was used against Maziar Bahari following the 2009 protest. They will be on the program tonight to discuss that field piece. Jason and tim. Maziar bahari will be on the program to oh, boy. Spoiler alert. Maziar bahari, he got out of prison. I laughter appla
Stewart. cheers and applause captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We have a program tonight a great show. A great show tonight. Its a bit of a different kind of show, though. Its not the same kind of show youre used to seeing. Tonight, a person on daild shamelessly plugging their new movie they have not seen. laughter is me. cheers and applause look at that look at that devil may care. I have a devilsmaycare attitude and very little voice left. The producer and correspondent, jason jones, who started this whole mess by going to iran in 2009, interviewing Maziar Bahari for a field piece and was used against Maziar Bahari following the 2009 protest. They will be on the program tonight to discuss that field piece. Jason and tim. Maziar bahari will be on the program to oh, boy. Spoiler alert. Maziar bahari, he got out of prison. I laughter applause i hate to cheers ive given away ive given away the ending of the movie. laughter Mazia