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congress made a decision about retroactive reductions in drug penalties so i m not sure what but judge in both cases we hear the argument from members of congress or the sentencing commission we shouldn t worry, there is individualized case by case determinations. and that is my experience. that s when there is a retroactive change, what happens is that whether it s the guidelines that are changed or the laws that are changed, which happens in congress there is a sure kwenlt determination whether or not to apply that reto actively, apply the change so those convicted of that personality moving forward and the people already convicted, both of them get the benefit of the change if the determination
0 recommendations, whether they re in congress, they re not the kinds of things that i can opine about. so you don t want to opine whether 17 years is too long or too short a sentence for murder? senator cotton, the congress has prescribed a number of factors that judges look at when they sentence. it may in many cases not be. i can t answer in the abstract in the way that you these are very concrete. let s turn to rape. do you know how long the average inmate convicted of rape serves in prison in america? well, senator rape is not a crime in the federal system that i m familiar with working with, so i don t know. it s 7.2 months. do you think 7.2 months is too long or too short for someone convicted of rape to be sentenced to prison? senator, that s a policy question about the egregious crime of rape and congress has said that the court is supposed to take into a number take into account a number of factors when sentencing. okay. i can t answer in the abstract. j
nbc news has not yet verified but cnn has run with that this evening. the oversight committee had asked the white house for documents about their security clearance processes last month. they got no response at all. last week they reupped those requests you are kwenlt urgentl white house flouting all president for house security clearances being handled. today the white house counsel finally responded to those requests from the oversight committee and responded with this refusal. a refusal to hand over any of the documents that that committee is demanding. now in terms of those two lanes that we re watching, courts, the courts and congress, and these new questions we have to ask how the lanes function alongside one another and all of these various investigations and confrontations between administration and law and administration and congressional
there was a conversation with them protesting, throughout the community somebody said there s a sale going on, then something wenlt wrong and guns were pulled and shots fired. on facebook, this is tyrone harris holding up two guns. it connects to the gun in his hands. from what i heard, he was with friends and the friends had confrontation. they started shooting at the friend. he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. tyrone, he was shooting back at them. he had a gun. reporter: ana, there s been a lot of conversation throughout the community about the violence that happened on sunday. a lot of protesters pushing back saying it had nothing to do with their peaceful protest. the video helps with it.