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On any given day, there are more than 5,000 inmates incarcerated in the five facilities that make up the orange county jail system. their charges, stories, and backgrounds are as diverse as the southern california communities most of them hail from. but for the vast majority of these men and women, there is a common element that led to their troubles with the law. >> if you talk to any of the inmates in jail, most of them will have done drugs. their current crime is not drugs. theyre stealing fo...

For us to think you have to make this with senior business people to make a decision, we make it reluctantly. really based on what our teammates tell us. we have teammates because of their backgrounds and their thoughts that were very upset about the broader issues of prison reform and sentencing reform. some of which went through in the past few weeks on a bipartisan basis and the border. they basically said we should make a statement here. and it rolled through the system. the thing i would fo...

Showing a restraint, it is one of the strengths of president trump, people know that he has resolved to get a deal. but at the same time he think he is aware that we are in fact, in the driver seat. iran is out of money. when they have to call back hugs bella from lebanon because they cannot afford their people there, that tells you they are out of money. >> it is interesting you mention lebanon. i want to talk about the "squad" now. you and i have similar backgrounds. both of our grandparents i...

Them. their racial ethnic backgrounds. thats why republicans panicked this week. let me do something i dont normally do here anymore and read trumps tweet. so interesting to see progressive democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a functioning government at all. now loudly and viciously telling the people of the united states the greatest and most pow...

Where his supporters were chanting send her home obviously referring to all maher one of the 4 congresswoman that donald trump insulted with a series of racist tweets last week and soledad on the one hand side and you could see that the supporters are embracing this kind of rhetoric but on the other hand you have the democratic party who is trying to show themselves in a very different light she is trying to show that there is a cosmopolitan america and a lot of the candidates the presidential c...

Its not the call girl. its not the pretty woman. >> reporter: by the end of 2005 ida had five women on her list who were roughly the same age with similar backgrounds. young hispanic women with arrest records for drugs or prostitution. >> i start going out there and talking to the girls. at first some of them were hesitant. and i said, look, im not running you. i just want to know when was the last time you saw her? did you know her? what can you tell me? whats going on out here? >> how much of ...

That, again, gets you at 6%, 7%, of people participating in elections. the key thing in all these things, theres a whole long list of stuff weve been working on. making sure that convicts, once they finish their term, they sthoub all should be allowed to vote. they paid their debt to society. each of these allows generally more people from all different backgrounds to vote but does favor people from low-income backgrounds. theyre the ones who more often than not were dg dbeing diskric nated agai...

Imly. really, what is unifying the country around the world is this corruption in government thats been causing so much suffering for far too long. that is where these voices coming from all walks of life, all different ages, people from different backgrounds coming together and saying, this governor must resign. there has to be a change going forward where the puerto rican people truly have leadership and they need to have focus to serve their interests. >> i want to move now to the controversy...

People who want 15 of it, they can show up and allege the same day that they do vote. >> it gets you another 6 or 7%. theres a whole long list making sure that congress, once theyve paid their debt to society, it should allow people to vote. it favors people with low income backgrounds. they are the people being discriminated against. their voting rights were being diminished or limited. i think weve done a great job. if this is a democracy, we want everyone to vote. >> governor hickenlooper, ma...

In it? >> that belief isnt as important as the belief as the official or public facing story is not true. youll see a lot of disagreement about each of the individual theories. theyre okay with that. theyre okay with being wrong about their specific theories but theyre not okay with their views of being involved. >> who are they politically, ideologically? i mean, do they shift to the left? do they shift to the right? do they come from all different backgrounds? is there something you can tell m...