amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
d.c. president biden calling on the remaining states governors to take action. we first met steve d angelo in 2017. he served a federal sentence for marijuana possession in the 1970s, but his case is a rarity. most marijuana arrests and convictions happened at the state level and he says the states are where real reform has to happen too. i appreciate president biden s call to the governors to also implement pardons because the largest number of prisoners in the united states are in state prisons. reporter: president biden s moves also won t affect the marijuana black market, a major concern for law enforcement and officials across the country. new challenges growing along with the trend toward decriminalizing marijuana nationwide. nbc s jacob soboroff with that report. joining us now, msnbc chief legal correspondent and the host of the beat on msnbc, ari melber. ari, first of all, tell us what this does given the history and