EXCERPT:
WEINER: "It’s ridiculous for me to get charged with a crime and to do prison sentence for the things that I did."
HOST: "You -- you think that?"
WEINER: "Well, no one — "
HOST: "Is that your claim?"
WEINER: "Well, no one generally gets prosecuted. No one in the Southern District has ever been sentenced for obscenity, for transferring obscene material. So I did — I did learn that there is an element of prosecutorial discretion that I think everyone should be concerned about, that people being made examples of and the idea of people over incarcerated, I learned. I was a very privileged person to be in that system, but I experienced a lot of men in that system who were also charged with things they probably shouldn’t have been, for periods of time that they shouldn’t have, and their inability to get a trial, a fair trial because of the trial penalty in the federal system. So I learned a lot about that stuff that informs how I talk about this stuff today."