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Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief,

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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news and Today Bloomberg Lajos

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Speaker 1: jun Grosso and Greg Stuart discussed Attorney General Jeff's sessions

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Speaker 1: attempts to dismantled parts of President Obama's a legacy at

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department. She teks with Tom Schoenberg, a legal

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Speaker 1: reporter for Bloomberg News. Tom, let's start with sentencing for

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Speaker 1: non violent drug offenders, where you can clearly see the

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Speaker 1: Obama rollback. Sure, yes, Uh. Back in May UM Jeff

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Speaker 1: Sessions issued a new charging policy UM department wide, and

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Speaker 1: it calls for charging the most serious UH crimes that

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Speaker 1: you could prove as a prosecutor. And this was sort

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Speaker 1: of a a reversal of what Eric Holder, Obama's first

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Speaker 1: Attorney General, had put in place that took kind of

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Speaker 1: a more individualized approach to charging certain offenders, specifically on

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Speaker 1: violent drug offenders, so as not to trigger kind of

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Speaker 1: harsh mandatory minimum sentences. Tom, do we know yet whether

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Speaker 1: that directive is having much of an effect on the ground.

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Speaker 1: There is this issue about UH Trump being slow to

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Speaker 1: appoint U S attorneys and the Senate being slow to

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Speaker 1: confirm people like that what's happening on the ground right

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Speaker 1: The policy has you know, been in been in effect

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Speaker 1: for you know, just a little over a little over

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Speaker 1: a month, um, but yet all the U. S. Attorney's

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Speaker 1: offices are currently being run by kind of acting U S. Attorneys.

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Speaker 1: Trump is the Trump administration only recently nominated uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe a little more than a dozen uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: nominees for U. S. Attorneys, so kind of until those

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Speaker 1: folks kind of get up and running. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: those offices are just kind of being you know, run interimately.

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Speaker 1: But they also, though he did direct uh you know,

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Speaker 1: in the meantime, a specific sort of each office has

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Speaker 1: to idea if I someone that is going to coordinate

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Speaker 1: with Washington to kind of make sure that their priorities

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Speaker 1: are a kind of being mad as Tom Schoenberg, a

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Speaker 1: legal reporter for Bloomberg News, speaking with Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: JOm Grosso and Greg Store. You can listen to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Law weekdays at one pm Wall Street time here on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio Now. Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law,

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Speaker 1: in London, Barclays and four former executives will appear in

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Speaker 1: court for the first time today over fraud allegations. The

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Speaker 1: case involves fees paid to investors in Gatar while Barclays

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Speaker 1: was raising capital during the two thousand eight financial crisis.

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Speaker 1: Former CEO John Varley is among those charges. Today's hearing

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Speaker 1: will be about bail terms and future court dates. And

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