across the country and supporting this, including supreme court justice center kennedy and the american bar association. everyone from the national sheriffs association to the aclu and the marijuana project. it is the only bill in the senate with both the marijuana association and sheriff association. we lost in the senate floor, it was full busted. i also raised the issue with our president. i suggested he could put that in an executive order and we could bring the best minds together to create the kind of solutions the president and bernie sanders were talking to i would say tonight, it has now been nine years since we started working on this issue. i would ask that the president consider taking one day, writing this executive order, getting the commission together, and fixing the whole criminal justice system. not just part of it. also, i hope you will consider this of all the responsibilities of the president, none is greater than that of being your commander in chief. i spent my entire life in and around the u.s. military. i served in vietnam as a marine. i spent five years in the pentagon, four o

. >> you mention statistics, the american bar association says there's a 2010 sensis, saying 5% of lawyersre black. whether defense attorneys or prosecutors down the road, should that change, don't we need more lawyers. >> it's obvious if you have a majority of white prosecutors, you get their point of view. it reminds me of the academy awards, where they said there's no black films, who are the judges? mostly white dudes. >>> an historical agreement between iran and six others, by the united states, has many asking can the u.s. trust iran. should it be evers said. >> rain is an anti-american sponsoring regime. >> iran is a country that must be confronted. >> iran - any. >> republican senators wrote to iranian leaders, warning them a nuclear deal would not last. >> because of policies. why should iran trust us. >> this is what we do on "third rail." let's flip the question. you know, iranians have a long history, 1953, overthrown a democratically elected prime minister. there's the islamic revolution, united states against that, supporting saddam hussein in a war against iran, so on, so fo

the american bar association along with the library of congress is sponsoring the national exhibit of magna carta which will visit various cities in the u.s. and london. >>> it will be on display in trenton for the next 11 days. >> meteorologist melissa magee in for adam tonight. already seeing some pop-up showers around the area. >> that's right. to the south of the city in delaware but more numerous as we go throughout the day on tuesday. storm tracker6 live double scan radar showing you for philadelphia philadelphia, most of south jersey off to the west and our suburbs of pennsylvania we're dry but down in delaware you can see in dover we are tracking some moderate activity so storm tracker6 live double scan street level showing you if you're in dover getting close to your region. if you're traveling along route 13, canterbury, eastward into route one to the north of milford and even in milford we do have a little bit of unsettled weather. a passing shower or two allows for that this evening but again more numerous as we go throughout tuesday afternoon here's the picture outside. t

i was invited in 1984 to serve on the american bar association commission on taxpayer compliance and we had three pharma commissioners, some professors tax experts and we produced a lovely report over two years about 100 pages long single space. we had a staff of experts to help us out and went through everything we could figure out why there's three or $400 billion owed to not pay. it is hard to prove in any way with the main causes. the higher the rate the greater the noncompliance, the lower the rate the list of noncompliance. what do we have? they are avoiding taxes by exaggerating deductions. we have tax lawyers, tax accountants. luther wrote the first book in 1983, the number of people who practice law in new york city versus washington d.c. we found in the early 80s the number in washington had grown so rapidly that they caught up with the number of new york city except the number of lawyers in washington practice law. they does advising people on tax policies and so forth. we created a massive industry and in silicon valley before the bust i remember talking to 400 financial

to understand why your campaign is important so this is a rule that was propagated by the american bar associationout the judicial establishment. what this case shows is that context increasingly matters with the first amendment jurisprudence. the other two cases was walker with the first amendment also lost five / four and many people believed the argument was on the license plate of government speech or the person who's car is in many people believed it is a hybrid but they put it into the government's speech box because then they gave him power in the third case, was about municipal finds where the first amendment aside one and content based speech they did apply scrutiny with different size rules and that was the ideological sign or a commercial synar directional sign the court said it fails but the context was the was clear from the record was being persecuted so it could find a way to get the science up the ordinance would change so in all three cases the judicial and legal establishment worried about government power to regulate signs or license plate programs or an ordinance were there is

the american bar association actually offered to pay for it $14 million. and now you see members of the other party who wouldn't touch the issue of criminal justice reform, putting it into their platforms. the american conservative action conference here in washington made criminal justice reform one of their top three topics this year when they wouldn't have touched it with a 10-foot pole six or seven years ago. so i believe in a lot of different areas. i've approached a lot of different issues this weekend my life. if you talk about problems that maybe other people aren't going to talk about interest and the end half of the facts show a way forward, you can make a difference. i believe we have done that. the issue of the mentally ill in our prison system, it's first of all the result of some well-intentioned cases, judicial cases that took place back in the 1970s when there was a lot of concern about putting people into mental institutions against their will and the standard became much looser and their were a lot of people who truly need help them out on

. >> i am with the american bar association i want to do is take you all to get here in one space the first time in a battle they china but russia and iran as a threat in this space. so russia also plays of big role in diameter and private practice now but the enforcement issue is what we are concerned about for our clients and a variety of activities that has both the patent trademarks and cyber and i am carey is also most recently at the indictments of the university professor and the fact they are involved in the cutting edge work with military and dod to see more penetration and information leaking out. what is the role we can play in the private sector for enforcement for the trade mart work? >> we have enforcing intellectual property that is deteriorating to doesn't target that intellectual property but a lot of are unhappy with the position in the government has taken. and we are very concerned about in the country to stay within their borders so that is a real concern. summit would be a real blow corporation but that has taken but some of the steps that russia has taken with t

takeovers across the country supporting us, including supreme court justice kennedy and the american bar associationnd organizations all the way from the national sheriffs association. it is the only bill in the history of the senate where they were both on it. 57 both -- 57 votes. it was filibustered. we lost on the senate floor. i suggested that with an 18 month commission we could put that into an executive order and truly bring the best minds of america together to put together the right kind of solutions that would affect this kind of thing, the kind of thing that the president is talking about today. i would say tonight that it has now been nine years since we started working on this issue and i would ask that the president consider taking one day writing this executive order, getting this commission together and looking forward to fixing the whole criminal justice system. not just one aspect or another. [applause] i will also say, and i hope you will consider this, of all of the responsibilities of the president, none is greater than that of being your commander in chief. i have spent my enti

including also supreme court justice kennedy and the american bar association and the organizations all the way from the national sheriff's association, the international association of chiefs of police to the aclu and the marijuana project, i think, probably only billed in the history of the senate where they were both on it. we lost on the senate floor. we got 57 votes, it was filibustered. but i also raise this issue with our president in 2011 after we lost on the senate floor. and i suggested that 18-month commission, he could put that in an executive order and we could truly bring the best minds of america together to put together the right kind of solutions that will affect these kinds of things that the president is talking about today. and bernie sanders was just talking about. and i would say tonight, it's now been nine years since we started working on this issue. and i would ask that the president consider taking one day writing this executive order, getting this commission together, and let's really move forward to fix the whole criminal justice system, not just one piece of

including supreme court justice kennedy and the american bar association and the organizations all theay from the national sheriffs association, to the aclu and the marijuana project. the only bill where the marijuana project and sheriffs association were both on it. we lost on the senate. it was 57 votes. i raise this issue in 2011 after we lost on the senate floor and i suggested that the $14 million, put that in an executive order and we can truly bring the best minds of america together and put together the right kind of solution that will affect those kind of things. and i would say tonight, it has now been nine years since we started working on this issue. i would ask that the president consider taking one day, writing this in negative order, getting this commission together, and let's ask the whole criminal justice system. and i hope you will consider this, that of all the responsibilities of the president, none is greater than that of being your commander-in-chief. i've spent my entire life in and around the united date military. i served in vietnam as a marine. i spent five ye

. >> i am with the american bar association i want to do is take you all to get here in one space the first time in a battle they china but russia and iran as a threat in this space. so russia also plays of big role in diameter and private practice now but the enforcement issue is what we are concerned about for our clients and a variety of activities that has both the patent trademarks and cyber and i am carey is also most recently at the indictments of the university professor and the fact they are involved in the cutting edge work with military and dod to see more penetration and information leaking out. what is the role we can play in the private sector for enforcement for the trade mart work? >> we have enforcing intellectual property that is deteriorating to doesn't target that intellectual property but a lot of are unhappy with the position in the government has taken. and we are very concerned about in the country to stay within their borders so that is a real concern. summit would be a real blow corporation but that has taken but some of the steps that russia has taken with t

and so this is a rule which by the way was prop gated by the american bar association, is really a rule about the judicial establishment as much as anything else. what this case shows and the two other first amendment cases, that also which were 5-4, is that context increasingly matters in the courts' first amendment juris prudence. >> which were the other two? >> one was the confederate license plate walker in which the first amendment side also lost. also 5-4. and i think many people believe that the argument was on the license plate is that government speech or the speech of the person whose car it is? and which box you put it in was dispositive. many people believe this is probably a hybrid but the court put it in the government speech box because that gave the government a lot of power over what messages they could be and not. and then the third case, the town of -- i was going to say gilbert or -- town of reed case was the case about municipal signs. that's the first amendment side won 5-4. and again content-based speech. there, the court did apply strict scrutiny and struck down

i was invited in 1984 to serve on the american bar association's commission on taxpayer compliance. and we had three former commissioners, some professors some tax experts, and we produced this lovely report over two years. it was about 100 pages long, single spaced. we had a staff of experts to help us out. we went through every single thing we could figure out why there's $300 or $400 billion of taxes that are owed but not paid. and it's very hard to prove in any way scientifically, what the main cause is but we could all agree on one cause. the higher the rate, the greater the noncompliance, the lower the rate the less the noncompliance. only the only unqualified recommendation was have lower rates. when you think about cost, what do we have? we have i don't know how many hundred billion dollars in unreported income because people are trying to avoid taxes by underreporting income or exaggerating deductions. we have tax planning, tax lawyers, tax accountants. my favorite statistic when we wrote the first book in 1983 is the number of people who practice law in new york city versu

including also supreme court justice kennedy and the american bar association and the organizations all the way from the national sheriff's association, the international association of chiefs of police to the aclu and the marijuana project, i think, probably only bill in the history of the senate where they were both on it. we lost on the senate floor. we got 57 votes, it was filibustered. but i also raised this issue with our president in 2011 after we lost on the senate floor. and i suggested that 18-month commission, for $14 million he could put that in an executive order, and we could truly bring the best minds of america together to put together the right kind of solutions that will affect these kinds of things that the president is talking about today. and bernie sanders was just talking about. and i would say tonight, it's now been nine years since we started working on this issue. and i would ask that the president consider taking one day, writing this executive order, getting this commission together, and let's really move forward to fix the whole criminal justice system, not

the american bar association actually offered to pay for it $14 million. and now you see members of the other party, who wouldn't touch the issue of criminal justice reform, putting it into their platforms. the american conservative action conference here in washington made criminal justice reform one of their top three topics this year when they would not have touched it with a 10 foot pole six or seven years ago. so i believe in a lot of different areas, i've approached a lot of different issues this way in my life. if you talk about problems that maybe other people aren't going to talk about, and you stand up and gather the facts and show a way forward, you can make a difference. i believe we have done that. the issue of the mentally ill in our prison system, its first of all the result of some well-intentioned cases, judicial cases that took place back in the 1970's when there was a lot of concern about putting people into mental institutions against their will, and the standard became much looser and there are a lot of people who truly needed help who

why your campaign is important and so this is a rule which by the way was propagated by the american bar association that is really a rule about the judicial establishment as much as figure else. i think what this case shows and the two other first amendment cases that which were 5-4 is that context increasingly matters in the courts' first amendment juris prudence. >> what were the other two cases. >> one was the confederate license plate. walker which the side lost also 5-4. and i think many people believe that the argument was on the license plate is it a government speech or is that the speech of the person whose car it is and which box you put it in was dispositive and i think many people believe well this is probably a hybrid but the court put it in the government speech box because that gave the government power over what messages they could be and what not. and the third case, the town of reed -- gilbert or reed -- the town of reed case was about municipal science, the case the first amendment side won 5-4 and again content based speech. the court did apply strict scrutiny and struck down a

i was invited in 1984 to serve on the american bar association commission on tax payer compliance. we had three former commissioners, some professor, some tax experts. and we produced this report over two years. it was 100 pages long single spaced. we had a staff of experts to help us out. we walked through every single thing we could figure out to figure why there are $300 billion of taxes owed but not paid. it's very hard to prove in any way scientifically what the main cause is. we could all agree on one thing. the lower the rate, the less the noncompliance. the only qualified with no hesitations of the task force was, have lower rates. if you think about costs, what do we have? we have, i don't know how many hundred billion dollars in unreported income because people are trying to avoid taxes by under reporting income or exaggerating deductions. we have tax lawyers tax accountants. my favorite statistic when we wrote the first book in 1983 is the number of people who practice law in new york city versus washington, d.c. and we found in the early '80s that the number in washingt

. >> i'm with the american bar association. i am a senior counsel at -- and want to thank you all for giving the patent goes together and getting them in one space. victoria, we worked together on a report and we were -- the first time when they not only china but russia and iran as advanced threats in this space. my question is russia also plays a big role as a violator and i'm in private practice now and i think the enforcement issue is what we're really concerned about for our clients. using a variety of activities that combines both patent trademark and cyber in which things are going for. i'm curious also most recently we just had the indictments of university professor and the fact that universities are involved in cutting edge work with the military and dod and we're seeing more and more penetration at university and that information is leaking out. for all three of you in a way what do you see as the role we can play in the private sector in increasing the capacity for enforcement, given the fact we're seeing extraordina

we are an initiative of the merrick and bar association, the american civil liberties union, familiesinst the mandatory minimum, and the national association of criminal defense lawyers. so we work wholly independently of the white house. but we screen applicants. we have more than 30,000 now, to see if they appear to qualify under the president's initiative. and then we send those petitions over to the pardon attorney. amy: reynolds wintersmith tell us your story. having once faced life in prison for selling crack. but talk about what the clemency that president obama granted you or the commutation of your sentence, what it means. >> to me, what it meant, it gave me another chance at life. to build upon this part of my life in the present. i am thankful -- it may me realize even when we have the possibility of failure in front of us, that doesn't mean we should give up hope. we should continue to strive you know, make it easier for a person to want to give you a second chance. i am thankful for it. amy: can you talk about the sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders like yourself? >>

gennie: i'm here representing the american association justice -- american association for justice. we are the largest trial bar formed in 1947. we are committed to ensuring all people individuals, consumers, families have access to records when we talk about how to define a slap in -- define a slapp -- families have access. when we talk about how to define a slapp, one is lawsuits. they bring it to bully and harass and silence someone. and that is wrong. you don't have a right to bring frivolous things to a court of law. the second is usually there is a disparity in resources between the two parties. the person bringing the slap has tremendous resources. they can pay for them. the david in this situation that is a serious economic threat. i think those two points are very important. i stress them because the two point sometimes get lost. i'm going to be presenting someone of an imposing ill -- imposing view with the speak free act. not because i disagreed with that i disagreed with the slap defined in it. it applies to a lot of lawsuits that you don't intend it to apply to. such cases as whistleblower lawsuits

objectives of the national black prosecutors association, which is the advancement and education, recruitment retention of african-american prosecutors, upholding the honor and dignity of the bar cultivating relationships among the nations, prosecutors perpetuating the history of the profession and providing service to the community. to me, it is simple. i along with the other members watch with pride as attorney general lynch took on drug dealers and terrorists in new york. we cheered when the nomination was announced because we knew it was well deserved. we marveled as she handled question after question that was thrown at her with cool, calm, and the collected manner we had expected from her. and we cheered on confirmation day. this is the pride of the ascent of a fellow member who supported us all the way. as the president of the national black prosecutors association, it is the greatest honor in my career to be able to present the attorney general with this award, because she has been a role model to me as an african-american female prosecutor, and to so many others. general lynch, the words he spoke three so true. we do not look to revenge and retribution. we look to the

the nonpartisan hispanic national bar association the federal circuit bar association the american intellectual property law association. but she was -- even though she was nominated way last year, she has been stalled over and over and over again. she was unanimously reported from the committee two months ago, still having been stalled this long. i am afraid this is the way -- the way she has been stalled, it is what's happening to federal court nominations by the new republican majority. six months into this new republican-led congress that is supposed to move forward on things the senate's only confirmed a handful of judges. in fact, it's been more than six weeks since a vote was even scheduled by the majority leader for a single judicial nominee. we have 11 other consensus judicial nominations pending on the senate executive calendar in addition to ms. farnandez stoll. look at the difference. the last two years of george w. bush's term, democrats came into the majority. some thought we will, we'll probably slow up his judges. we didn't. by this time, by this time in president bush's last tw

. >> i'm with the american bar association. a senior counsel. i want to thank you-all, jim in particular, for getting the patent gurus together here and getting them in one space. victoria, we worked together in the economic report. i was with the government in 2011. we name not only china but russia and iran as persistent threats in this space. my question really is, russia also plays a big role as a violator. and i'm in private practice now. i think the enforcement issue is what we are concerned about for our clients. we are seeing a variety of activities that combines both patent trademark and cyberin which things are -- cyber in which things are going forward. we also had the indictments of the university professors and the fact that universities are involved in cutting-edge work with the military and d.o.d. and we are seeing more and more penetration at the universities and information leaking out. it's for all three of you. what do you see as the role we can play in the private sector in increasing the capacity for enforcement given the fac

the justice department and the american bar association each tried to identify every crime and failed. mr. larkin continued no reasonable person, not even a judge or lawyer could possibly know all of these legal prohibitions, although criminal penalties are attached to each. john baker a retired louisiana state university law professor said quote there is no one in the united states over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. he added, that is not an exaggeration. i have special interests in this because for 7 1/2 years before coming to congress i was a criminal court judge in tennessee trying the felony criminal cases. i believe in being tough on crime, and i have been a very strong supporter of local law enforcement, the people on the front lines who are fighting the real crime, the violent crime that everyone is so concerned about. but i remember in 1993 reading an article in "forbes" magazine, one of the nation's most conservative magazines. this article said that we had quadrupled the justice department just between 1980 and 1993 and that federal prosecutors

the stonewall bar. it was an ugly raid. finally the patrons fought back protested, rioted. that led to gay pride marches. it wasn't until the 1970s that the american psychological associationok homosexuality of its official list of diseases. you have this confluence related to sexual identity and the roles and relationship between men and women in society. again, you know we have made tremendous strides. there's still more to do but boy was the fire lit in the 1970s. >> read her is piece, cnn.com/opinions. sally kohn thank you very much. >>> this is such an awesome series on cnn. >>> i'm brooke balance win. thanks for being with me. "the lead" starts right now. \s >>> he's either going all in on sealing the border or there would be a lovely new golf course in laredo texas. i'm jake tapper. >>> the politics lead. donald trump takes the line taking his loud unscripted message that mexico sends its criminals to the u.s. right to mexico's doorstep. is the world lead isis not a bigger threat to the united states than al qaeda. that from the head of is the fbi, explaining why an isis attack on the homeland is the one they worry about most of all in a rare interview with cnn.

the american association for justice. some justice. some of you probably know it but if you don't we are the world's largest trial bar formed in 1947. we are committed to ensuring that -- committed to ensuring all people individuals, consumers families, patients coworkers have access to all reports in order to enforce the rights. so are talking about slabs and how to define a slap i agree with i agree with much of what they're saying. i want to highlight two points that i think you should think about because this is important. one cop meritless lawsuit. the person bringing person bringing them has no expectation that they will win in court every they are bringing it to bully and harassment silence. and that is wrong. you'll have a right a right to bring frivolous things in a court of law. second is that usually except but larger media defendants usually there is a disparity and resources between the two parties. the person bringing the slap as tremendous resources. they can make frivolous filings in a court of law because they can pay for them. whereas the them. whereas the david in the situation, the smaller litigant that is a seri

objectives of the national black prosecutors association., which is the advancement and education, recruitment retention of african-american prosecutors, upholding the honor and dignity of the bar cultivating relationships among the nations prosecutors perpetuating the history of the profession and providing service to the community. to me, it is simple. i along with the other members watch with pride as attorney general lynch took on drug dealers and terrorists in new york. we shared with the nomination -- cheered when the nomination was announced because we knew it was well deserved. we marveled as she handled question after question that was thrown at her with cool calm, and the collected manner we had expected from her. and we cheered on confirmation day. this is the pride of the ascent of a fellow member who supported us all the way. as the president of the national black prosecutors association it is the greatest honor in my career to be able to present the attorney general with this award, because she has been a role model to me as an african-american female prosecutor, and to so many others. general lynch, the words he spoke three so true. we do not look to revenge and