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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news and Today. Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: Jon Grasso discusses a recent Harvard Law Review article by

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Speaker 1: President Barack Obama where he discusses the executive branch's role

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Speaker 1: in reforming criminal justice in America. She speaks with Michael

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Speaker 1: selmy Or, professor at George Washington University Law School. Mike,

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Speaker 1: We've seen President Obama trying in various ways to preserve

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Speaker 1: his legacy. What's your reaction to this writing of a

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Speaker 1: Law Review article touting his reforms in criminal justice. He

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Speaker 1: really took the time to document what they have done

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Speaker 1: in the criminal justice area, and clearly within intent both

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Speaker 1: to you know, preserve his legacy, but also I think

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Speaker 1: to give a signal of the things that advocacy groups

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Speaker 1: likely can do to try and preserve much of what

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Speaker 1: the Obama administration has accomplished. The president's chief legal advisor

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Speaker 1: said that Obama also hoped the article would give the

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Speaker 1: issue of criminal justice reform momentum as he leaves office.

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Speaker 1: As as you just indicated, is that likely since the

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Speaker 1: incoming president ran on a tough law and order platform,

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Speaker 1: It certainly seems that the agenda that is laid out

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Speaker 1: in the article is quite contrary to the agenda that

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration is bringing in. But it's not so

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Speaker 1: clear to me that they will try to undo all

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Speaker 1: that's been done, particularly uh the emphasis on re entry

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Speaker 1: of individuals who have gone through the criminal justice system.

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Speaker 1: Some of the band in the box where employers, and

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Speaker 1: this has happened nationwide, have agreed not to hold criminal

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Speaker 1: convictions against against applicants and also not to take ato

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Speaker 1: account that they might be unemployed when they're applying, and

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Speaker 1: those initiatives which are good for the economy and also

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Speaker 1: help relieve some of the stigma of the criminal justice system,

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Speaker 1: may be preserved, and as well as some of the

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Speaker 1: reduction in the criminal population in terms of prison the

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Speaker 1: prison population in particular, which is also something that's been

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Speaker 1: happening around the country. One of the things that was

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Speaker 1: interesting in terms of the report is it does a

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Speaker 1: lot of what the above administration has done and it's

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Speaker 1: not clear who caused it has also been done in

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Speaker 1: local and state jurisdictions around the country, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of the initiatives have been as cost Satan's and that's

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Speaker 1: been true with an effort to reduce the prison population.

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Speaker 1: So those things there will be interesting to see whether

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Speaker 1: the momentum continues or not. That's Michael sell Me, a

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Speaker 1: professor at George Washington University Law School, speaking with Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law, the FBI

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Speaker 1: reportedly is arrested a former Volkswagen executive linked to the

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Speaker 1: admissions of cheating scandal. According to The New York Times,

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Speaker 1: Oliver Schmidt faces charges of your set to defraud the US.

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Speaker 1: Schmidt once led VWS regulatory Compliance office in the US.

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Speaker 1: Volkswagen says it continues to cooperate with the Justice Department,

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Speaker 1: but won't discuss ongoing investigations. In South Korea, top level

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Speaker 1: executives of Samsung are being questioned in the wide ranging

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Speaker 1: influence peddaling scandal. The investigation has led to the impeachment

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Speaker 1: of South Korean president back one Hey. Lawmakers have questioned

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Speaker 1: whether Samsung received political favors in return for donations to

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Speaker 1: foundations controlled by a friend of the president, and that

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