[ applause ] . john: our legal system is a mess. every single lawyer s due takes forever, and the guilty get away with it. but at the same time lots of people are locked up for things they didn t do. we know that now because dna evidence is more available. these innocent people were jailed. i was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape of my friend, and i spent almost 20 years in prison nar crime. i spent 11 years and 3 months in prison. 20 years, 9 months and 5 days in prison for a crime i didn t commit. john: how does that happen? tim lynch runs the project on criminal justice for the cato institute. the system is not as accurate as people think it is? it s not. our system is badly flawed. more flawed than many people want to admit, john. as you said since dna evidence came on the scene, we discovered we ve got hundreds and hundreds of people who had their lives shattered because they ve been thrown in prison for crimes they didn t commit. john: chris christie sai
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it will only bring more strive in iraq if the militias move into anbar totally ineffective as well. they have proven themselves to be a paper tiger. just like iran, couldn t defeat saddam hussein despite the nine-year war whereas we defeated him in a mere three weeks. they have repeatedly showed themselves to be paper tigers not up to the fight. we need to work with the iraq i didn t government and security forces, we don t need an arbitrary cap to the number of troops. some of those are things that going to be near the front lines like forward air controllers to make air power more effective and some are core level assets like intelligence advisers or logistics experts. we in conjunction with the iraqi government need to be taking the fight to the islamic state not trying to rely on toothless iranian backed militias. how about in terms of ramadi right now they have had abadi dispatched these militias to retake the city after the forces fled, even though they outnumbered th
committee on the future of the u.s. armed forces and recommendations to improve the services. including cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing and managing the civilian work force. [ gavel ] committee will come to order. this week, the committee will hold two hearings that focus on the two major pillars of our agenda. tomorrow we ll hear from the service chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. today, however, we ll concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. we ve done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military health care, commissary reform, a rewrite of the uniform code of military justice as well as significant organizational reform. while a lot has been done, however, a lot more needs to be done. if world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and processes of the past will suffice for today and espec