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but we have to start somewhere at the federal level. it s a good place to start. it s not race baiting. he cited the data that black convicts committing the same crimes at their white counterparts are serving 20% more time. we have a criminal justice system that is criminal. it is criminal and it s biased and it s racism and institutionalized. we have to address at every level from stop and frisk to sentencing to all the disparities we see. here s a man that saw the administrations in the 60s inciting violence. i never knew the kennedy and johnson administration incited anything. i think there were a lot of things going on, but i don t think the administration did it. i m no great lover of the end of the johnson years with vietnam, but give me a break. karen finney, james peterson, thank you for your time. and watch disrupt weekends at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. coming up, north carolina s
even a broke clock is right twice a day, clarence. you know, this is good news, reverend. i ve known newt gingrich for years. and there s good newt and naughty newt. naughty newt comes out and panders to that birther vote like trump does. but good newt is a man of ideas. that s why liberals like to talk to newt gingrich because he s always got ideas. some of them aren t great. others are not bad. one thing he does know is that republicans cannot just continue to vote against obama care without saying what would you replace it with? both parties agree the nation s health care system is broken. the needs of those 30, 40 million people who have been uninsured need to be taken care of. and victoria, you get a little excited when you see, wow, newt said what was true. because all of us want to hear some counterpolicy ideas. and you wait on the big idea, then the chairman of the party priebus comes and gives the big
elections. it s just it s absurd. it is a corruption. so voting is cheating when people support democrats. does that mean voting is only right when people support republicans? the gop s rhetoric on this is just ridiculous. i mean, kentucky senator rand paul says quote, i don t think there s any particular evidence of polls barring african-americans from voting. and a man who signed a north carolina law, governor pat mcqueary, says he s putting up huge blocks at the polls in order to stop fraud. we have loop high schools in our voting laws which frankly allow people to vote once or twice or more. we have to make sure we re doing everything to make sure there isn t voter fraud. fraud? what fraud? there were nearly 7 million votes cast in his state last year. but there were just 121 cases of
0 aren t even true anymore. that s part of the problem. if they ever were true. but the data, they can t see through that. they can t see it. but let me bring it to another part of the discussion, james. let s talk about what they always talk about. fiscal responsibility. it s costly, the stuff that they re using as scare tactics 37 this week when the attorney general talked about dealing with harsh sentencing, there is a steep price for these policies that he s ending. take a look at the fact that in the last two decades, prison time is 36% longer than it used to be and it costs american taxpayers $10 billion nationwide. and more than half of that amount was for non-violent offenders. now, i don t endorse smoking marijuana or other things of that sort, but to have these crimes now, we re talking about more than half of them to be things like people smoking marijuana, people doing non-violent drug offenses, and we re spending this kind of money. where are the fiscal conservatives