UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL PROSECUTORS EASED OFF
JUST A LITTLE BIT IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN IT CAME TO
DRUG-RELATED CHARGES AND THAT CAME ABOUT IN A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT WAYS BUT THAT IS ALL IN THE PAST NOW.
WE HAVE JEFF SESSIONS AND HE HAS NOW PREVIEWED A FAR HARSHER
ON THE NEWER DRUG POLICY EFFECTIVELY DOUBLING DOWN
ON THE WERE ON DRUGS OF DECADES PAST.
LET'S GO TO VIDEO 5.
TODAY I AM ANNOUNCING THAT I SENT A MEMO TO EACH OF OUR
UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS LAST NIGHT, ESTABLISHING A
CHARGING AND SENTENCING POLICY FOR THIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
AND I TRUST OUR PROSECUTORS IN THE FIELD TO MAKE GOOD
JUDGMENTS.
THEY DESERVE TO BE UN-HANDCUFFED AND NOT MICROMANAGED FROM
WASHINGTON.
RATHER, THEY MUST BE PERMITTED TO APPLY THE LAW TO THE
FACTS OF EACH INVESTIGATION.
I HAVE EMPOWERED OUR PROSECUTORS TO CHARGE AND PURSUE THE MOST
SERIOUS OFFENSE AS I BELIEVE THE LAW REQUIRES.
THE MOST SERIOUS READILY PROVABLE OFFENSE BUT IT IS
IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT UNLIKE PREVIOUS CHARGING
MEMORANDUM, I HAVE GIVEN OUT PROSECUTORS DISCRETION TO
AVOID SENTENCES THAT WOULD RESULT IN AN INJUSTICE.
WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN VIOLENT CRIME IN OUR CITIES
PARTICULARLY IN BALTIMORE, CHICAGO, MEMPHIS AND MILWAUKEE.
ST.
LOUIS, AND MANY OTHERS.
THE MURDER RATE HAS SURGED 10% NATIONWIDE.
THE LARGEST INCREASE IN MURDERS SINCE 1968.
WE KNOW THAT DRUGS AND CRIME GO HAND-IN-HAND.
THEY JUST DO.
THE FACTS PROVE THAT SO.
IF YOU WANT TO COLLECT A DRUG DEBT, YOU CAN FILE A LAWSUIT
IN COURT THAT YOU COLLECT IT WITH THE BARREL OF A GUN.
WOULD'VE LOVED TO BEEN THERE FOR THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION.
SO IF WE MADE IT LEGAL, COULDN'T YOU THEN DO IN COURT?
WHEN YOU DO NOT NEED TO USE THE GUN?
THAT'S HOW THAT WORKS ACTUALLY.
I DON'T BELIEVE THEM.
I JUST DON'T THAT I DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT COMES
OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
OF THEM ARE PAID THE HIGHEST INCREASE?
I GUESS IT IS BUT IT IS STILL LOWER THAN IN SOME TIME BECAUSE
IT'S MARKEDLY LOWER THAN A 1968
I USE TALKING ABOUT PERCENTAGE INCREASED OUR
IS WHITE SAYING IT THAT WAY.
THAT'S MEANT TO DECEIVE YOU AS A CRIME IS RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL
WHEN IN FACT, IT HAS GONE WAY DOWN SINCE THE 80S AND 90S.
AND DOWN ALSO IN MANY OTHER MAJOR CITIES BUT HE PICKED,
CHERRY PICK THE ONES WERE CRIME IS RAISING.
REALLY FAST, THAT IS HOW NUMBERS WORK.
AS THEY GET SMALLER, SMALLER INCREASE IS A BIGGER
PERCENTAGE INCREASE.
THAT IS ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THINGS GETTING SMALLER IS
MANIPULATING THAT THE FULL PEOPLE.
IF YOU ARE A MAJOR-LEAGUE PLAYER IN ITS MAY AND YOU HAVE A
153, IT'LL GO FASTER
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT.
SORRY FEEL THAT FROM YOU.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS TOUTING THE JOBS FIGURES THAT
ARE OBVIOUSLY LEFT OVER FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND
PRESIDENTS IN GENERAL TAKE TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR THAT AS WE KNOW
BUT THE FUNNY THING IS IS THAT THEY WILL TAKE CREDITS FOR THE
JOB INCREASE OF A ROBUST ECONOMY LEFT BY THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENT
AT LEAST BY SOME INDICATORS BUT HERE, THE CRIME NUMBERS WHICH
HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY LOW THEN THESE SOMEHOW OF THE RISING
CRIME.
IF YOU GET THE JOBS, DON'T YOU ALWAYS GET THE CRIME INCREASE?
ISN'T THIS NOW AND YOU WANT THEY HUNDRED AND 13?
I DON'T IMAGINE I'LL BE EMBRACING THAT.
TO GO TO THE HEART OF THIS ISSUE ON THE WAR ON DRUGS THERE
NOW GOING TO AMP IT UP.
THERE OTHER OVER 200,000 PEOPLE IN FEDERAL PRISONS LITTLE
IN STATE PRISONS IN AMERICA ON DRUG CHARGES.
OVERALL.
50% OF THEM ARE FOR DRUG CRIMES.
MARIJUANA IS AT A MINIMUM NO DIFFERENT THAN ALCOHOL.
IN REALITY, IT IS ACTUALLY MUCH BETTER FOR YOU THAN ALCOHOL.
THEY BOTH HAVE THEIR DOWNSIDES OBVIOUSLY.
MARIJUANA
AT LEAST AS UPSIDES.
THE UPSIDE THAT BOTH HAVE IS THAT YOU HAVE FUN ON THEM.
I KNOW THAT THE REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT THAT.
FUN IS TO BE OUTLAWED BUT IMAGINE IF WE LOCKED UP OVER
100,000 PEOPLE FOR HAVING A BEER.
OR SELLING A BEER.
YOU HAVE TO GET THAT COURSE GUIDE.
HE'S CAUSING A LOT OF TROUBLE BY SELLING THOSE BEERS AROUND HERE.
WHERE IS MR.
LIGHT?
BUD LIGHT.
THAT IS WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR HERE.
THEY JUST IMPRISONED SO MANY OF US.
SO MANY AMERICANS ARE HAVING A BEER.
IT IS NOT THAT HARD
TO IMAGINE, THAT'S WHAT WE DID DURING PROHIBITION AND
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?
CRIME AWAY BECAUSE HE DID PROHIBITION OF SOMETHING THAT
PEOPLE WANTED TO CONSUME SO THEN YOU HAD AL CAPONE AND THE GANGS.
THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
JEFF SESSIONS AND HIS BAND OF MORONS COME TOGETHER AGO
HEY, I HAVE A GREAT IDEA.
LET STUFF MORE AMERICANS INTO OUR PRISONS AND BY THE WAY,
WE ALSO HAPPEN TO CONVENIENTLY LIFT THE BAN ON THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT USING PRIVATE PRISONS THAT OBAMA PUT IN SO OUR
FRIENDS TO DONATE A LOT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO
US TO RUN PRIVATE PRISONS WILL NOT MAKE A LOT MORE MONEY BY
IMPRISONING YOU GUYS ARE DOING SOMETHING PERFECTLY INNOCENT.
I AM WAY OVER THE TOP ON THIS.
ANY POLITICIAN THAT DOESN'T WANT TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA, YOU
SHOULD NEVER VOTE FOR.
I KNOW THEY SAY WAIT A MINUTE, DIANE FEINSTEIN OR WHOEVER, ARE
98-YEAR-OLD SENATOR WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.
THINK IT OUT.
I AM TIRED OF AMERICANS BEING IN PRISON FOR SOMETHING THAT
SHOULD BE EXACTLY WITHIN OUR RIGHTS.
I THOUGHT WE LIVED IN A FREE COUNTRY.
YOU CAN'T SMOKE WEED?
THAT IS CRAZY.
THAT IS NOT FREEDOM.
DON'T SAY YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF FREEDOM IF YOU SAY NO, THAT
THING THAT GROWS IN THE GROUND, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO
SMOKE IT BECAUSE I HAVE MORALITY.
MY MORALITY SINCE I'M AGAINST IT.
NUMBER TWO, I'M DONE WITH IMPRISONING MINORITIES OVER
AND OVER AGAIN, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT WHEN WE GET
TO THE STATES, IN THE MILLIONS.
MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE IN PRISON FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE PERFECTLY LEGAL.
SO THEY COULD MAKE A BUCK OFF OF IT, LET ALONE THE HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS THAT HAVE DIED FROM THIS DRUG WAR AND THEN THIS
MONSTER SAYS LET'S DOUBLE DOWN ON THE WAR ON DRUGS, LET'S
PUT MORE PEOPLE IN PRISON.
IT IS A GROSS INJUSTICE.
1ST OF ALL, ALL THE REPUBLICANS, NOT EVERY REPUBLICAN IS ON
THIS BUT ABOUT 95% OF THEM AT LEAST, THROW THEM ALL OUT.
PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON ARE SO OLD.
EVEN OBAMA, THEY LAUGH EVEN TIME YOU BRING UP LEGALIZATION.
ONE TIME THEY ASKED OBAMA ABOUT IT AND HE LAUGHED.
LEGALIZATION IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE.
YES IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE IMPRISONING MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS YOU SHOULDN'T IMPRISON, LET ALONE THE
FACT THAT YOU WERE TRAMPLING ALL OVER OUR RIGHTS AND YOU
DON'T BELIEVE IN FREEDOM.
ANY POLITICIAN WHO DOESN'T WANT TO LEGALIZE SHOULD BE
REMOVED FROM OFFICE.
THEY ARE PART OF THE SYSTEM THAT IS ENSLAVING OUR FELLOW
AMERICANS.
I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THE MINORITY ASPECT OF IT
BECAUSE THIS IS JUST STRAIGHT UP A RACIST POLICY.
THE WHOLE WORLD DRUGS WAS.
THE POINT BEING COME THE CITIES HE TALKED ABOUT ARE LARGELY
BLACK CITIES AND WHAT HE IS SAYING IS WE'RE GOING TO GO
BACK TO THE OLD DAYS, IF YOU ARE BLACK OR MEXICAN OR BROWN
OR ANY OTHER AND YOU HAVE DRUGS, YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL FOR A
LONG TIME.
WHY PEOPLE DON'T GO TO JAIL FOR POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA.
WHY PEOPLE DON'T GO TO JAIL FOR SELLING MARIJUANA AND LIKE
YOU SAID, HIS FRIENDS RUN THESE PRIVATE PRISONS AND THEY'RE
GOING TO GET TUNNEL MONEY.
WITH OBAMA, HE WOULDN'T GO FOR LEGALIZATION BUT HE DID SAY WE
ARE NOT GOING TO PUT NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS IN JAIL.
IT DOESN'T WORK.
STOP IT.
THE COMICAL THING OF WHAT SESSIONS JUST SAID WAS THAT HE
SAID I'M NOT GOING TO MICROMANAGE MY PROSECUTORS AND
INTO SENTENCES LATER SAID I'M GOING TO HAVE MY PROSECUTORS GO
WITH FOR THE MAXIMUM PENALTY SO HE IS MICROMANAGING MEETING THAT
IF YOU WERE A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AND YOU GET SOMEONE LIKE YOU
WERE TALKING ABOUT, THE PERSON SMOKING WEED, THEY'VE A BAG OF
WEED IN THE CAR TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT UNDER OBAMA'S
POLICY WAS LIKE OKAY, YOU HAVE TO GO TO REHAB OR AN AA MEETING.
WHATEVER IT IS.
HE IS SAYING PUT THAT PERSON IN JAIL.
YOU HAVE TO PROSECUTE.
THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN SO MANY TIMES DO NOT WORK.
IT IS BEEN PROVEN IT'S A RACIST POLICY.
YOU GO BACK TO THE WAR AND THE DRUGS ON 80S
SO IF YOU'RE BLACK AND YOU HAD CRACK YOU ARE GOING TO JAIL FOR
20 YEARS AND IF YOU WERE WHITE AND YOU HAD A BUNCH OF
POWDER COCAINE, THEY CALLED YOUR DAD.
COME GET YOUR SON.
JUST ME BACKUP SOME OF THE FACTS HERE THAT ALONSO
GENERALLY REFERRED TO.
WHITE PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE ACCORDING TO STUDIES IN
AMERICA SMOKE MARIJUANA AT THE SAME RATE.
BLACKS ARE ARRESTED AT A FOUR TIMES GREATER RATE THAN
WHITES ARE FOR THE SAME EXACT THING THAT EVERYBODY IS
SMOKING IT BUT THEY ARE DOING SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF
THEIR TARGETING MINORITIES ON PURPOSE AND IT IS AN ACCIDENT.
NIXON WHEN HE STARTED THE WAR ON DRUGS ONE OF HIS TOP AIDES
ADMITTED IN THE 1990S WHO WANTED TO TARGET OUR POLITICAL ENEMIES.
HIPPIE LIBERALS AND BLACK PEOPLE.
THEY SAID IT I IF YOU ARE FOR THE WAR ON DRUGS, YOU ARE
LITERALLY SUPPORTING A RACIST POLICY.
A POLICY THAT WAS INTENDED TO BE RACIST.
REALLY FAST, EXCEPT THAT I HAVE TO SHOW DOCTOR THE
MICROMANAGING, HE SPECIFICALLY SAID AND YOU CAN GET THE ENTIRE
TWO-PAGE MEMO ARE THEY GOING TO MORE DETAIL THAT THEY HAVE TO
LIST HOW MUCH OF THE DRUG THERE WAS WHICH OFTEN THEY WOULD
NOT DO UNDER OBAMA AND THE REASON IS IS THAT ONCE YOU
LISTED, THAT CAN TRIGGER MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES.
IT'S EMPTY FROM HAVING THE FLEXIBILITY TO POSSIBLY NOT
HAVE BEEN STAYING LONG THAT LONG THAT REALLY FAST I WANT TO
SHOW THE EFFECT OF THIS UNDER DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
AND HOW OBAMA ACTUALLY BROKE WITH THIS PATTERN.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE PRISON POPULATION.
BAILEY STANDARD FOR LITERALLY 50 YEARS AND THEN UNDER REAGAN
ASSERTS TO SHOOT UP, GOES UP THE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS.
SHOOTING UP UNDER CLINTON AS WELL AND THEN FINALLY UNDER
OBAMA START TO GO DOWN AGAIN AS HE BOTH DOESN'T GET HIS FEDERAL
PROSECUTORS FOR LOCKUP PEOPLE FOR NONVIOLENT DRUG CRIMES
AND PROVIDES CLEMENCY FOR TENS OF THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO ARE
IN THERE PREVIOUSLY.
BUDGETING CIRCUITS FOR SMALL THAT GRAPHIC IS INCREDIBLY
IMPORTANT AND OBAMA MADE MISTAKES AND HAD AN OPPORTUNITY
TO THANK MARIJUANA ON SCHEDULE ONE AND DIDN'T BUT IF YOU WILL
REMEMBER, THE FEDERAL DRUG MINISTRIES AND FOR THE
FIRST TIME SAID WE ARE GOING TO OPEN IT UP FOR RESEARCH.
THE PROCESS HAD BEGUN.
PROGRESS HAD BEGUN.
YOU SEE THAT TURN.
POLITICS USUALLY IS A SLOW MOVING.
X-RAY THAT WE GET THE MOMENT THAT WE GOT ON GAY MARRIAGE
WHICH WAS LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT IT FOR TWO HOURS AND THEN
WE RELY GRAY, GAY PEOPLE CAN MARRY.
IT WAS FANTASTIC.
THAT'S GREAT.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAD BEEN LIKE THAT IT WOULD'VE
BEEN TERRIFIC BUT USUALLY YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE STRUGGLE.
I'M NOT MINIMIZING THE STRUGGLE THAT THE GAY PEOPLE WENT
THROUGH BUT IT HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY.
SURPRISED PEOPLE.
AGAIN ONE OF THE MISTAKES HE MADE WITH TRUNK, NO MATTER WHAT
YOU THINK OF HILLARY CLINTON WHO WOULD'VE SEEN A JOB DOWN SLOWLY
BECAUSE THE JUDGES YOU WOULD'VE APPOINTED, THE FDA WAS ON THE
ROAD AND WHOEVER DID IT, WHOEVER DECIDES ON THE SCHEDULES,
EVENTUALLY THEY WOULD OF BEEN LIKE WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IT
TO SCHEDULE TO 2.
IT WOULD'VE HAPPENED.
WE
RETARDED PROGRESS AGAIN BY ELECTING DONALD TRUMP.
AND THEN JUST LITTLE THINGS THE SESSION TO SEEMS LIKE HE WAS
RIGHT OUT OF THE NIXON ERA,
SESSIONS COMES OUT OF THE 50S.
SESSION STILL BELIEVES AND REFER MADNESS.
THEY'RE GOING TO GET HOPPED UP ON THOSE READ REFERS.
USE THE OLD STATES RIGHTS ARGUMENT CENTERS WANT TO
POINT OUT THESE ARE FEDERAL PROSECUTORS.
THEY'LL WORK FOR WASHINGTON.
THERE'S NO STATE ISSUE YOU CAN HAVE IT DIFFERENT IN
COLORADO THE NEW YORK.
THEIR FEDERAL PROSECUTORS AND THE NONSENSE AT THE END, WE
WILL TELL PEOPLE NOT TO BE UNJUST IN THE SENTENCES.
I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT JUST SESSIONS PERSONAL HISTORY
BUT I WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED IF JUST SESSIONS WASN'T WORTH $17
MILLION WHEN HE FINALLY RETIRES BECAUSE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT
IN CCA OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HASN'T
SEEN 13TH, STILL AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX TO SEE INSTANTLY
IT IS FANTASTIC, IT WILL COMPLETELY CHANGE THE WAY
YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAR ON DRUGS.
FINALLY, JUST SESSIONS WHEN HE WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
ALABAMA PUSH FOR A BILL THAT IF YOU WERE CAUGHT DRUG
TRAFFICKING TWICE, WOULD'VE GIVEN YOU THE DEATH PENALTY.
THAT IS WHO JEFF SESSIONS IS.