How will harsher sentences affect flow of drugs in the U.S.?

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Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors to revive practices of the "war on drugs".

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors across the country to revive some of the toughest practices of the decades-old "war on drugs," reversing Obama administration policies that aimed to lessen the federal prison population. Hari Sreenivasan talks to John Walters, COO of the Hudson Institute, and Gil Kerlikowske, former "drug czar" under President Barack Obama.

AIR DATE 5/12/17

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How will harsher sentences affect flow of drugs in the U.S.?

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