thank you, new york senator kirsten gillibrand. continue our discussion of criminal justice, that lawyer michael the attorney general for black america. ben crump, you just heard senator gillibrand talk about clean slate laws and some long overdue changes of marijuana regulations. what kind of reforms would these have on inequities you see every day in our justice system? >> reverend al, if we can get that law passed and states across america, especially states like florida, where you and i had to go thoughtful and 81 year old black woman who was convicted felon, who they came and arrested at 3:00 in the morning because she had exercised her constitutional right to vote. it's almost as if once you have this brand, this solid letter of being a convicted felon, this disproportionately affects communities of color. it's almost as if they were trying to treat you like a second class citizen. so i applaud governor hochul and the state of new york have said we see the best in you. we won't keep dwelling on when you made your worst mistak

i want to let our viewers know that the two senators from new york, chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand say they're closely monitoring the situation in upstate new york. if you're just joining us, an explosion at the rainbow bridge crossing that connects the united states and canada at niagra falls, near niagra falls, two men that were in that vehicle have been found to have been deceased. we've learned from john miller that the vehicle was on the u.s. side of the border, on a local road and then accelerated reaching speeds of up to 80 miles per hour before crashing into the border crossing and bursting into flames on impact. we'll, of course, keep you up to speed with the latest details on this. we're going to take a short break. stay with cnn. we're back in just moments.

the hostage agreement coming into place, including lawmakers like new york senator, kirsten gillibrand, a smoke into families of hostages in gaza. speaking to constituents who were personally affected by this. of course the delay the pause that we saw it a day as we've been speaking to people on the ground this has been such a fluid situation it is almost to be expected. certainly, lawmakers are bracing for potentially more this to happen in the coming days. they are home now enjoying the holidays. they have just a few days until they come back here with a very big laundry list of to do items. certainly that includes approving aid for israel not only for israel itself, military aid but also the humanitarian assistance democrats certainly were frustrated that that was not included in the house passed version of that bill. that bill, by the, way speaker mike johnson making sure the offsets that pay for it where it has to. it democrats knocking out saying that it was inappropriate to condition aid to israel in an emergency fashion to any kind of pay force. now the time goes on your hearin

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