she mentioned that she spent a week in juvie. certainly any of us, if we were exposed to that type of environment for a week, it could be a wake-up call. unfortunately, in this country, we have so many unduly harsh penalties. that instead of spending a week, you have individuals like alice marie johnson, who was convicted of a first time, nonviolent drug offense, who ended up spending almost 22 years in prison, and it was only because of the president's actions that she is now free. think about that. two decades in prison for a first time nonviolent drug offense. i have spent considerable time with alice johnson -- he is a much better person than i am. just a truly remarkable individual. i just thought to myself what a tragedy it is that we have so money people, just like her, who are still buried alive behind --s because of these admittedly, well-intentioned laws we put in the books in the 1980's and 1990's to try to address the drug epidemic. and we now know it did not work. it did not make us any safer. instead of turning out

work culture that's just reality and you know we saw it at the golden globes last night when ricky juvie is spoke plainly honest quite obvious to me but people have had enough of this having free speech curtailed lest it offend people likely who want to see all kinds of on their every blanket imaginable we've had enough of it and we're just going to say things as they are people are not forced in any regard to tell except what we say but by the same token they have no right to suppress what we say so if you want equality and i do then i think we have to have the fundamental right to have all opinions of all sorts heard saying and understood are you worried at all that we're seeing the rise of no platforming in the sky shin's university shutting out conservative voices another increasingly as we're speaking about the arts and entertainment industry seemingly projecting a one sided left this world view. well i'm comfortable with chairing platforms with people who disagree with and i think we've got to get used to that so i'm not in favor of the and i think that the people want to go and wa