apples to apples. there is situational ethics that gets framed on this. we were talking about last week. this is the concern. franken has allegations against him. he has to deal with them. but look where you are. talking about franken and how contri contrite. you re not talking about the settlements, the behavior and the endemic problems that need to be addressed. is that s what we should be talking about. that s a different level of culpability. what is happening with john conyers is in part what did people know and when did they know it. if millions of dollars were given out since is the mid 1990s, who was aware of that? they had to know. we keep asking that. it is is about intensity. that is the media looking for the next case, the next thing, the next thing. there is no morality to the hunt for moore. that is the problem here. when kathleen rice came on,
period and i think it caused some to vote for it. the president in hijacked sight makes a welcome stale. all of us have recognize, that you can t build your way out of crime. years ago the democratic party took a beating from republicans year after year because we were too soft on crime according to them. and so when the party turned in the mid 1990s and decided that it was going to be tough on crime. sense, the proof was in the pudding. nothing changed. crime continued. incarceration rates did not go down. the good things about the bill were fine. the overall problem was that our streets were still very violent. i think whether or not the president signs it, there are issues about systemic poverty, people not having jobs, a lack of values, a lack of training. let me stop through for one second.
there was an assault weapons ban which had always been defeated by the nra. that was part of new bill. and an end to something called three strikes you re out. if you had three convictions, you got an automatic life sentence. those were the things that changed over the nine-month period and i think it caused some to vote for it. the president in hijacked sight makes a welcome stale. all of us have recognize, that you can t build your way out of crime. years ago the democratic party took a beating from republicans year after year because we were too soft on crime according to them. and so when the party turned in the mid 1990s and decided that it was going to be tough on crime. sense, the proof was in the pudding. nothing changed. crime continued.
if you had three convictions, you got an automatic life sentence. those were the things that changed over the nine-month period and i think it caused some to vote for it. the president in hijacked sight makes a welcome stale. all of us have recognize, that you can t build your way out of crime. years ago the democratic party took a beating from republicans year after year because we were too soft on crime according to them. and so when the party turned in the mid 1990s and decided that it was going to be tough on crime. sense, the proof was in the pudding. nothing changed. crime continued. incarceration rates did not go down. the good things about the bill were fine. the overall problem was that our streets were still very violent.
bombing anywhere in the world. reporter: they say that he left in sudan in the mid 1990s, but there s no indication that he completely severed ties with al qaeda. and the indictment says he helped plan the attacks before leaving. they say al liby the conducted photographic surveillance of the united states embassy. these very same pictures were brought to bin laden in sudan and bin laden looked through the pictures and decided where he was going to put a truck bomb. reporter: but the plan was put on a shelf for five years. all officials seem to know now is that al liby was simply a scout for the operation. by the time of the bombing, he had joined another military tant