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The Al Franken Podcast

49: Mental Health and Criminal Justice

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dade County Judge Steve Leifman and Norm Ornstein on Judge Leifman’s remarkably successful Jail Diversion Program, which saves lives and big bucks. An inspiring, feel-good story about changing the lives of our society’s most vulnerable.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We got a, just a great one today. And, you know, for a change. And I, and I, and I, uh, this time I mean it. I actually mean it. Look, I, I, I don't want to dwell on Trump.

0:22.9

But, you know, recently he said, I am a cheerleader for the American people as a way of excusing the two months of stuff he said like, no, I'm not worried about a pandemic at all.

0:42.1

We've got it all under control.

0:44.5

Or, you know, we only have five people who are sick, and it's going to be zero pretty soon.

0:51.9

And we all have it under control.

0:56.3

And also we have it under control have, we have it under control. And also we have it under control.

1:02.7

And we have it under control. And anyone who wants to test, get a test. And it's all under control.

1:10.6

And it's going to disappear in April when it gets warmer. And so he said, he said about that,

1:11.8

well, you know, I'm a cheerleader.

1:14.3

I'm a cheerleader for the American people.

1:28.6

And the thing is, I have never seen cheerleaders at, you know, any sport, turn around and fire AK-47s into the crowd.

1:31.8

Just have not seen that.

1:39.8

I've never seen them put down their pom-poms and start scolding the crowd for not cheering loud enough.

1:42.0

You're a disgrace.

1:43.5

You're never going to make it as a fan.

1:49.2

And then the other thing, this crazy thing about it isn't the role of the federal

1:54.4

government to actually run this thing to help the states and they're on their own. That's really the role of the

2:03.0

federal government. You know, our founders wrote a constitution that basically gave all the power

2:12.3

to the states. And that constitution was called the Articles of Confederation, and it did not work. So they

2:24.2

scrapped that, and they wrote another constitution, the framers, now called the Constitution.

2:32.1

And that constitution created federalism and that put the federal government

2:38.3

in charge of a lot of stuff. And I guess Trump, who I know is just a voracious reader

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