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for three or four questions. the gentleman just here, if for three or four questions. the gentlemanjust here, if you could say your name. sure, paulfrom itv news, you say that there is no quick fix but many of your predecessors say there is, simply to send fewer people to prison, isn t that the immediate way to reduce the pressure on our immediate way to reduce the pressure on our prisons? as i pointed out in my speech, we are sending fewer first time offenders to prison and we are sending fewer people to prison, for short sentences. but the fa ct prison, for short sentences. but the fact is, we have seen an increase in prosecution rates, for areas like sex crime, and an increase in sentences for those, which i think reflects the seriousness of those crimes and i think it would be wrong to arbitrarily reduce those sentences are not prosecute as many cases. so we are keeping a steady prison population, that is what has happened for the last six years, we are reducing the ....
raised. we will take as many as we can get across the hour. there is a strong argument we have seen the most remarkable press conference seen the most remarkable press c0 nfe re nce ever seen the most remarkable press conference ever given by us president. lasting well over one hour, it painted a dystopian vision of america, and a world in a mess. that now has a president offering reassurances, taking care of it. the familiar but potent cocktail of attacks on the media, boasting about the election result, promising to heal the country. that last one is looking a long way off. as always, when trump speaks, a number of state m e nts when trump speaks, a number of statements which were demonstrably untrue. we will look at this onto dave s 0utside source. mr trott ta kes dave s 0utside source. mr trott takes america, its presidency and its place in the world is new territory, just as he said on the campaign trail. let s start with the president s staunch defence of his perf ....
armies of lobbyists and lawyers? or does it work for all the people. now the house of representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful. the house is about to vote on a budget deal, a deal negotiated behind closed doors, that would let traders on wall street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system. this is a democracy, and the american people didn t elect us to stand up for citigroup. they elected us to stand up for all the people. that s the bugle signaling charge. today the white house scrambled to contain the fod. just minutes before the scheduled vote, the white house took the dangerous move of taking direct aim at the warren wing of the party by declaring and campaign contributions, opening up the ÷÷ñaúfloodgates. first you give the keys to the bank and then you bail the banks out. we are not having that. i think the vote today shows that, shows ....
down an american movie, censor an american picture it doesn t like, wrong in not calling him first before buckling before a north korean dictator. this is obama laying it on the line in a press conference that signalled all the audacity he s packed into a week since the november election, the deal on climate change, the protective order for people who came here illegally, and including the post of an american ambassador with the communist government in cube a taking questions from all women reporters in today s press conference, where will this obama audacity take us? i m joined by david corn, and by actor, writer and director sean penn who joins me now by phone. first of all, here s the president speaking about sony s decision to pull the interview, the movie that inspired the hacking. let s watch. sony is a corporation. i would agree with the president. i think that, you know, i m not speaking as an advocate for the motion picture industry or as a critic. but we have t ....
lewis was all talk and no action, news came out that he plans to spend martin luther king day tomorrow visiting the new smithsonian museum focused on african-american history and culture. john lewis is the one who introduced the bill to get that museum built in 1988. eugene, you touch on this. i want to push forward on it as well. facts do matter. trump called lewis district crime i hridden which does incl major part of the city of atlanta. no one is defining there is crime in the city. to try to define an entire city in 140 characters of less is a massive overgeneralization. what will happen when he is in office saying these type of things? well, if he continues this, he can expect to be criticized increasingly but more than that, people really would like to see what his solutions to the problems he arises are. he had a meeting with talk show host, steve harvey, and his hud secretary nominee friday saying they would focus on some of the challenges in inner cities such as ....