in response from a question about senator disturb durbin about harsh sentencing laws, you stated in response to the crack epidemic, community leaders when you were attorney general asked for these sentencing laws. my understanding is that many of the community leaders at that time and i was a young prosecutor during those days knew and said even then that the crack epidemic was a public health crisis and that that was really the chorus coming from community leaders, not that they wanted drug addicted people to be locked up. similarly we can find in most of the communities afflicted by the opioid crisis, they are simil similarly asking that it be addressed for the public health crisis that it is. my question is, if and when you are confirmed in this position, would you agree that when we talk about the opioid crisis, the crisis in terms of methamphetamine addiction or any
going to be signed by president trump. it s called the first step act, which targets federal mass incarceration and long prison sentences. the final senate vote was 87-12. it s expected to easily pass in the house, which has previously passed a similar bill. it s the beginning of a corrective to the kind of tough on crime mentality and policy that was pushed to the extreme in the 70s, 80s, 90s, through today. the law would modify sentencing laws and make thousands of inmates eligible for early release or reduction in their sentence and expands job training and other programs to help prisoners reenter society. the bill passed thanks to progressive democrats and the conservative senators and advocates as varied as the coke brothers and kim kardashian. it was also pushed by a guy in the white house who knows something about his once incarcerated father, jared kushner. joining me how, congressman jeff ris.
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rationalize sentencing laws and reduce incarceration. he advanced every single policy position up to the point i would argue of actually potentially violating established supreme court precedent. the line he drew in the sand, which he had to be forced to draw by the way, let s be clear, he didn t just say oh, yeah, right, i was in the kislyak meetings and better recuse myself, but he did draw that line in the sand saying but i did have to recuse once i was told i had to recuse. whim ba william barr is going to be better than that, right. he is much more of an institutionalsist in terms of the role of justice and he has a history. this is actually a decent nomination. it would be wrong to suggest that william barr doesn t have this long history that we should pay attention to caring about the rule of law in the department of justice. the problem goes back to david corn s, you re putting yourself in the position where the values you hold and espouse will be