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Specifics thats going to move this forward in a way that gets beyond simply the platitudes weve become used to hearing. >> shannon: it hard to measure because we talked last night about how there are these groups already were in the mainstream media saying no matter what, this is terrible, nothing is going to work, the president gets no credit because he either gives away too much or he does too little and its too vague. can the president win when it comes to the mainstream media and their asses...

Ways. part of it is putting the narrative out there that looks at the long historical flow. one could say people dont eat in the long term, they eat in the short term. but i think there is an educational component. secondly, we have to be mindful of these disenfranchised communities. apprenticeship programs, how can we employ them? bringing them along and thirdly, we have to look at where we have successes and celebrate them. 20 years ago the balkans were ripped apart. they looked a lot like syr...

He has been crammed into a cell, a style thats designed for eight people. there is 20 other terrorists. he has lost 50 pounds. i believe we are, what we are trying to do is raise as much awareness that we can create some action steps. we are able to get 75 to 80 signatures on a letter to the president continuing to keep the pressure on erdogan. >> shannon: i know the president said he has brought this up before face-to-face and also he has been tweeting saying they call him a spy. the president ...

Decades, raised a good portion of his family, this is an urgent situation. he has crammed into a cell designed for eight people, there are 20 other terrorists. he has lost 50 pounds and we are trying to raise awareness to create action steps, to get 75 to 80 signatures even just this afternoon on a letter to the president keeping pressure on her to one --erdogan. >> he has been sweet messaging publicly they call him a spy but im more spy than he is. time to get his home to the family. what lever...

And in the same places, all in the hopes of driving americans apart. stephanie, it is one of those things, we acknowledge lots of places try to interfere in peoples elections, but once you have all these people saying, this is what happened, you have robert mueller, the intelligence leaders, congress, its just weird that the president will not give a deep throated response to the idea that this is real and we need to fight it. >> how about more than a response, how about action steps? remember l...

And people who need help to go to the national miz law website, who is our partner in this. its one of the big action steps. >> legal defense fund is one avenue. how about a little campaign fund raising? oprah 2020 is trending on twitter. her long-time partner, stedman graham, told the "l.a. times," quote, it is up to the people. shed absolutely do it. >> well, that is great news from stedman. >> if thats great news, does that mean youd support oprah if she was running? she is an amazing leader....

Theres been no talks about this until yesterday occurred. its not going to fix itself. we do have to have real conversation with this issue and come up with action steps. >> thomas this guy was given a bad charge discharge not a dishonorably discharged. can you explain the difference and would it have made a difference? >> i dont think it would have made a difference in this case. it still has the same reporting requirements. the people with the air force are either going to report this stuff, d...

Nothing happened. what needs to happen? >> a bunch of things at the same time. you know, at the end of the day, the primary responsibility is drug prevention and education programs aimed at kids. and then the follow on as we got to redo this law and allow the dea to protect us and monitor the industry more effectively. and then i think finally weve got to put a significant amount of money into drug treatment programs. you simply cant get heroin addicts, opioid addicts off this drug without exten...

Action steps will be taking place moving forward. next week ive been invited to attend the national black caucus in washington, d.c. i would love to see 45 participate and put tangible resources into an organization like that. when z other national organizations like the 100 black men of central virginia and different initiatives that are looking at actually doing tangible things to increase -- or excuse me, to decrease the divide of resources and looking at how we can up lift and empower margin...

We dont ever come out and say its complicated. ill ask our producers to send you links to all of the stuff we have dob on health care and infrastructure and american made and minimum wage on economic growth. please so you dont go on anybody elses tv and spout this nonsense about how the media is obsessed with russia. we talk about a lot of stuff. >> the president is talking about it, hes talking about it. there are no action steps following it. theres an awful lot of meeting and listening sessio...