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all? it end tended to be more of a free for all. he doesn t ublly come to these end of the year press conferences with a specific agenda. he wants to talk about the issues of the day. reporters tend to ask him a wide diverse range of questions. i m sure he oolt be asked about the affordable care act and the latest decision by the white house to change the rules as it were to allow some of these man s to continue. he ll be asked about economic growth and the national security agency and review that suggested changes to the nsa. he usually doesn t come, as i say, with a specific announcement that he wants to make. we re going to watch for it live. as i know you will as well. you can watch it right here at 2:00 eastern time. and then my friend jake tapper is going to take over for the lead at 4:00 p.m. eastern. yesterday the president did something that he has only done once before in almost five years
but the conservatives seem to be onboard with getting the prison population under control in this country. can you give me a state of the union on how bad it is in this country compared to others? sure. we have the best criminal justice system in the world. we also however are the country that encourse rates the most people in the world. some 900 people almost of adults, some 700 of all of our citizens. it s absurd that we re putting that many people in prison. here is the problem, it s not working. the state of the union of criminal justice system is, i like the system but everyone knows that incarcerating people does not cut down on other crimes happening. the studies are undeniable that it doesn t work. we have to come up with a better solution than just putting more people in jail than anyone else in the world.
what they did was made all of those ancillary issues drop away which then allows you to get to the root, which is the prostitution. but were those things the prostitutes said made them safe? that s the argument. to take a silly example. if you wanted to out law riding a motorcycle which is a dangerous activity and you left it legal but out lawed helmets, then people would still ride motorcycles. if you make all of these if you force people to do illegally legal things dangerously, how are you served pub policy? if you look at the precedent that this could set, if parliament is going to go back and try and craft if they decide to do so if they want to go back and cast something, don t they have to keep in mind what the supreme court just said? what can you draw? always. it s about regulation.
the supreme court of canada today sent down quite the prooul ruling that laws against prostitution actually violate the constitutional rights of prostitutes. so it struck those laws down. which basically means that laws against brothels and laws against street walking and laws controlling living off somebody else s prostitution profits are off the books. all of that happen inning our neighbor to the north. i want to bring in the brain trusts here on this one. danny cevallos and joey jackson. i knew you guys would jump at the chance to talk about this one. wouldn t miss it. first let s just get it out on the table what this effectively means. these laws have been stayed or at least it s been stayed for a year so that parliament can deal with it and rejig and figure out