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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 for drugs, or their life of cr...

Of life, political perspectives and ethnic backgrounds. everybody ive talked to so far has an opinion about it, including ana marquez who was on a walk with her friend and her friend gabrielle sandoval. he happens to be running for state assembly. >> thats right. >> reporter: so you know a two or thing about politics. >> absolutely. >> i want to ask you what you thought about the hearing and how much you were able to see and why you tuned in and why it was so important to tune in. >> reporter: >...

Echo park, beautiful palace, smack-dab in the mittle -- look at throws lotus flowers behind me. the real treat has been talking to the diversion people who come to this park. weve talked to people from all kinds of backgrounds, nationalities, what is triking do me is that almost everybody saw at least a are a little bit of the comey hearing, and then when you ask them, what did you think about it? theyll start telling you their perspective, but almost immediately it goes into the big picture ide...

Presidential candidates could agree on, prescription drug prices have gotten too high. >> you know, the costs of drugs in this country. were about the largest purchaser of pharmaceuticals in where in the world. and yet we cant negotiate the price. i wonder why? >> its a problem hitting americans of all backgrounds. in a recent national survey, 28 million people experienced a spike in the cost of their meds in the past 12 months. for 4 million of them, the price was so high they walked away witho...

This is a businessman. how to use that public, private partnership and how to have state dollars in that you have a economic impact as private. >> reporter: the urgency for tax reform cannot be overstated. here we are in the early phases of june, again, nothing concrete at this point. wheres the urgency from the administration? >> this is a subject that will be discussed today with the leadership. some that the president talked about. as i just imagine. secretary munition and jims call may have ...

Citizen service, 200,000 british teenagers so far have gone through it, on the way to reaching goal it set out that every person in uk should spend time away from home with people from different backgrounds serving the community, thankfully america is a much better integrated society than britain. but we need to work hard at it, i think that a program for modern national service would be a great idea for america today. to help make sure that isolationism does not grow. what do you think? >> i fi...

Father generation, they reply in a similar way, it is something we all did together. 12 years ago we set out a plan for a modern version of national service, to prepare teenagers their responsibility as adult citizen that enables people to meet people from different backgrounds and teaches them life long lesson were all in thissing itogether. we have duties to our fellow it is citizens, we set up national citizen service, 200,000 british teenagers so far have gone through it, on the way to reach...

Father generation, they reply in a similar way, it is something we all did together. 12 years ago we set out a plan for a modern version of national service, to prepare teenagers their responsibility as adult citizen that enables people to meet people from different backgrounds and teaches them life long lesson were all in thissing itogether. we have duties to our fellow it is citizens, we set up national citizen service, 200,000 british teenagers so far have gone through it, on the way to reach...

Myself. ive spoke on it other people who have been affected and the people ive spoken to all feel the same way. you get on with it. theres signs all around london offering support. theres people laying flowers. obviously we have the vigil tonight. i think well carry on like normal as london does. >> what do you think the attacks mean for the social fabric that connects the different people? we hear victims came from a lot of different countries but the idea of extreme islamism, and the impact of...

To take hold. we wanted to see more cultural integration, here is what david cameron said at the time. >> the most powerful way to bring people together to to did things together. i am struck when someone with my father generation, they reply in a similar way, it is something we all did together. 12 years ago we set out a plan for a modern version of national service, to prepare teenagers their responsibility as adult citizen that enables people to meet people from different backgrounds and teac...