I think we need to make a distinction between the right to peaceable assembly, which is sacred and protected under our First Amendment, and violence, arson, and vandalism, which is not so protected.

Yes. President Trump's desk for a signature, after 8 years under the previous administration, which we talked about it a lot.

When Matthew Charles walked into the room just beside me in that library and hugged me, saying I am now out of prison because of the First Step Act, thank you.

Since the First Step Act was signed into law, we have seen communities restored, hope renewed, and families reunited.

What is better, scarcity or abundance?

Would it surprise you to learn that that observation was made by Thomas Jefferson?

It is choking off our forests.

Granted, we are talking about Federal lands that are suffering from gross benign neglect, really. We have stopped managing them.

In pre-Columbian times, we would lose between 8 and 12 million acres a year to catastrophic fire in California.

That is the great irony. This law was passed to address abuses and protect American civil liberties and was abused for political purpose, for those violations of those liberties.

Make no mistake. While I believe that we must reauthorize several provisions, such as collection of business records, roving wiretaps, lone wolf authority, the reauthorization of these specific provisions in no way addresses the abuses.

I am terribly disappointed that you cannot summon the outrage to put it in stronger words than just this is unacceptable and doesn't represent the FBI.