3am mission statement, 4am staffing, 5am successful series B, 6am wake up and get to work.

VW is a 5am network providing 10gb standard for the businesses that prefer to spend their nights dreaming rather than worrying.

VW the business 5am network built by VW for London.

Hey everybody, today is a very special episode of the Breakdown and it's one that I hope you can refer back to for years to come.

I'm going to take my time here today and it really means that much to me and I hope it means that much to you.

But before we begin, I really need to properly introduce myself.

I'm Sean King, I'm a journalist, I'm a CEO of a media company, I'm a trained historian, but first and foremost, I'm a lifelong advocate for justice reform in this country.

I'm 39 years old and I've been fighting for justice reform for 22 straight years. It's the work of my life.

For years I worked in jails and prisons and youth detention centers as a full-time teacher.

I fought to free people from death row. I fought to change laws and I've seen them implement it.

I helped run a pack called real justice where we elect new district attorneys across the country and I've seen whole systems start to change as a result of that work.

If you've heard of Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hour theory that it takes 10,000 hours of work on a thing for you to become an expert in it,

I've put in my 10,000 hours on justice reform. I mean that literally, I've done the math.

I've written over 1,000 published articles on injustice in America, more than almost any writer in the nation.

And I said all of that to say that this week I've heard a very dangerous lie being told about how the systems of mass incarceration were built in this nation.

And I didn't expect to have to respond this way because I didn't expect Joe Biden to lie about the 1994 crime bill.

He wrote it. He was the primary author. He fought for it. He claimed credit for it and fought for that credit.

And the results of the crime bill were devastating.

Every single expert on this topic agrees and I encourage you to consult the experts and their text and their feeds and their timelines because all of them agree that the 1994 crime bill was devastating, particularly the black communities until Latino communities and it ravaged them.

This week Joe Biden took the stance that not only is he not sorry for the crime bill, but that it didn't even increase mass incarceration. He said that.

And it's shameful because either he's willfully lying, which is horrible or he's just plain ignorant about the true impact of the bill, which is also horrible.

Either way, I have a major problem with it because these laws from the 1994 crime bill, these laws are still in effect and they do damage severe damage in our communities every single day, 24 hours a day.

...