have to have health insurance. everybody has to. if you re a younger person, you might not. the idea here is you spread it all about. that was the idea from the beginning. exactly. that s the democrat s exact argument. what you saw today in the hearing is the democrats are really prying to set policy parameters through their questioning by asking about the individual mandate. by asking about coverage for children, for those just coming out of college. the republicans have no plan. so we don t know yet what they re planning to replace obama care with. the executive order that president trump signed has been vague on the subject. so they re trying to nail mr. price down before he s even confirmed. shepard: the democrat s argument seems to be that as long as you can talk about something forever that your constituency believes in such a that obamacare is awful. so the democrats want to pin
emanating from our president is palpable and disturbing. aaron david miller joining me, so nice to have you. you ve written extensively on this pick. if confirmed, he still has to go through the confirmation process, david friedman is clearly signaling plans to turn away decades of u.s. policy towards israel from both democratic and republican administrations. receipt tore vehicle one thing. implementation is another thing. what do you expect the actual implications on the ground to be? i must say, i ve been a part of transitions from rs to rs, ds to rs and rs to ds and i ve never seen a pick like this. much will depend on the policy parameters. if what is attributed to mr. freiedman in terms of arguing against a two state solution, settlement should be legalized,
this request to get this reduction. will they have the resources to do so? is it a complex process? it is a complex process, but they will have the resources to do so. a few years ago the sentencing commission reduced crack cocaine sentences modestly and made that change retroactive, just as they did yesterday. so at that time, over 25,000 prisoners petitioned the courts, and the courts, the probation officers, the public defenders, and the justice department got together and made sure that there was a fair and as easy as possible could be process. there are some that are concerned here, kendal, they say they should put restrictions upon those who can actually get this reduction. do you think that is the process that should go forward? well, i think that you re going to see the justice department looking at them not only case by case, but in terms of some policy parameters. for example, attorney general holder has said people whose crack cocaine convictions were accompanied by cr