. >> reporter: but one person who is making changes is larry krasner, a longtime civil rights attorneyo be the newly elected district attorney of meek mill's hometown -- philadelphia. in may 2019 he file an appeal with the philadelphia supreme court asking for a new trial for meek mill and a new judge. two months later the court granted both requests. but rather than retry the rapper the d.a. offered a deal. in august 2019, more than a decade after his original conviction, robert rameek williams pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun violation. in exchange, prosecutors dropped all other charges against him. >> and the sentence is no further penalty. >> reporter: outside the courthouse, meek mill thanked his supporters. >> meek free. thank y'all. i appreciate that a lot. >> reporter: vowing to continue to fight for them. >> i'll continue to do what i do with the reform movement and help the people that helped me. i thank y'all. >> reporter: it's a mission the district attorney shares. >> we call ourselves the land of freedom. we ought to be the land of freedom. what we are in fact is the m

larry krasner maybe one of the most progressive district attorneys in the country and i think has maderemendous mov forward. but the question right now is how do you engage with the police unions? it is one thing to decriminalize things and another to eliminate cash bail. these are necessary moves toward abolition. but what we have right now is a situation where the police union continues to lead a path toward reinforcing militarization, toward justifying bad shoots. we have a black police commissioner who i think -- who i know cares about black people but again, the structure is the problem. unfortunately, the mayor, the city council, and many people around the city cannot imagine a world without policing and prisons. so we have to reorient them. that means our call on the ground has to be consistent. what politicians are doing now is saying we need community policing, body cameras. but these are all reform measures that can convince the world that policing as an institution is still a viable possibility. what was the added the case of walter wallace, as opposed to george floyd or bre

philadelphia district attorney larry krasner told huffpost -- "we're having a conversation with members of his base who believe that there is a satanic, pedophilic, sex ring running out of a pizza parlor. i have trouble figuring out whether these people are actually part of an elaborate 'saturday night live' routine, or if we should be terrified because they like ar-15's." the united states confirmed nearly 140,000 new coronavirus infections on tuesday, setting yet another world record for daily cases. the u.s. has confirmed over a million new infections in just the first 10 days of november, and u.s. coronavirus hospitalizations have topped 60,000 for the first time. in oklahoma, republican governor kevin stitt is resisting public health officials' pleas to order a statewide mask mandate after hospitals in tulsa ran out of intensive care unit beds. texas has passed a million confirmed coronavirus cases -- more than the entire nation of italy. in el paso, officials have more than doubled their supply of mobile morgues as icu beds have run out and covid-19 patients are being routed to a

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but i would definitely love to see it, particularly katie porter he -- porter, bernieie sanders, larry krasnerladelphia. host: alabama, good morning. .aller: yes i would like to see president-elect biden choose senator doug jones from alabama for attorney general. i think he would help us out. host: what do you think he lost reelection? caller: alabama is a very republican state. the people in alabama have been brainwashed by fox news. they watch fox news all day, that's all they do, and they ,on't believe that democrats who gave them $1200, is good. they voted against that. i think we are kind of twisted here in alabama. host: that's from athens, alabama. for a republican perspective, fred jessup, maryland. 30 think is a realist the pic for a biden administration you would like to see? it's not panetta and all the same old ones they used from the obama administration. joe biden has a history, everything he has done policy wrong.backwards and even secretary gates admitted that and he worked right under joe biden. this is a man who barely does thecampaigning and gets most votes in the history o