Subject: RE: Video Request: Cotton on Breitbart Radio
From: "Yoxall, Collin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Bhatnagar, Akshai" <[email-masked]>, Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 11:01:29 -0700

Generally repeats TPs from yesterday's speech.

Brannen: (goes over cottons b-round) have wanted you on for a long time. Daughter went to west point and served w/ 101st and combat engineers.

Cotton: thanks for her service. She did it the right way; I went to Harvard so I had to redeem myself.

Brannen: trying to empower the audience RE: criminal justice bill. People cant understand why people who they admire being for this bill. You had a speech at Hudson yesterday. Explain what bill is, how we avoid it and is it dead?

Cotton: proponents of sentencing reduction have hearts in the right place. See poverty but looking for the wrong solutions. Policing, and other reforms have helped us reduce crime over the last 25 years. Unfortunately we may be living in the beginning of a new crime wave. Polls show people are worry. We have already released thousands  of felons some of whom have committed crimes-

Brannen: 70k released at end of program?!

Cotton: and that is w/out new legislation, just the sentencing commission. Some will commit crimes. We are below 200k in federal prisons. Small number of people in the federal system there for possession and most are that b/c they plead down. How can reform claim to be low level when it lets out thousands of violent felons but there are few hundred for possession. We shouldn't use a blunt instrument to take out the small numbers of sentences that are unjust, which should be commuted or pardoned.

Brannen: is this over? Audience asking how they can get involved. Is that people should take away.

Cotton: bad policy has a way of sticking around in Washington. Listeners should continue to contact congressmen, senators. We should try to have more education in prisons to make sure prisoners come out productive citizens. We should make prisons safer for prisoners and corrections officers. We shouldn't let violent prisnors and let people know that.

Marlow: possible to have system where you release violent offenders and see steady rate in crime? How do we know?

Cotton: impossible. Have learned over 25 years. NYT fails to see connection between fall in crime and increase of prison population. Ways to use commutation power, etc to help those that have turned lives around and so on. Violent felons who are released will commit crimes, as we have seen.

Marlow: what is the political motivation for people who want release violent criminals?

Cotton: Republicans I talk to have the best of intentions. They see unjust sentences, broken families, etc. I understand. I don't agree that letting violent prisoners out is a solution and we should send more violent criminals to prison. We protect towns like libel, AR. They are thankful for someone doing something.

Brannen: How do people get access to your thinking, etc. we are covering intensely.

Cotton: my senate website.  Social media. Speech at Hudson represents what I think about this subject. Safe streets and communities are not the natural state of man. We have low levels of crime b/c of 25 years of cops on beat, prosecutors, and elected leaders. Go to website to see speech.

Brannen: story went viral on our site. Thank you!

From: Bhatnagar, Akshai
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:15 AM
To: Yoxall, Collin; Research_D
Subject: RE: Video Request: Cotton on Breitbart Radio

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From: Yoxall, Collin
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:55 AM
To: Research_D
Subject: Video Request: Cotton on Breitbart Radio

Sorry I did not catch this earlier; looks like he was on at the top of the 8am hour. Has not posted to youtube yet

Joining @breitbartnews daily radio with Steve Brannen. @SIRIUSXM subscribers --Tune in!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/733627440313028609

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