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your prayers and your prayers and your thoughts, and if we give enough of these thoughts and these prayers, these mass shootings will stop. >> we are going to talk to our friend, the comedy due out of the good liars, about the stuff that made waves around the country. thats later on this, our you dont want to miss this conversation. we want to begin with that breaking news that out of wisconsin, where a retired judge was shot and killed by a gunman who police say was preparing to targe...

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But i can definitely understand where there were hurt feelings there. i think my dad took the long view, and that was his brothers were there in the civil rights movement early on. i think he felt an obligation, not only to making a political decision, but to his brothers memory. i think he felt this obligation to be with this historic figure, barack obama, at the time. so i hope that the clintons understand that. i know in the heat of the moment you cant, because thats just the way things are. ...

Expert in the field and is now an adviser to the avielle foundation. >> we have 41 normal controls, motors in the group. this is illustrating the key finding. good frontal lobe functioning in the normal individual. but if you look at the motor here, theres a distinct lack of activation in that prefrontal cortex. >> the the research jennifer and jeremy want to fund will ask what might cause that low functioning and how a person with it could be treated early before becoming an adult. on top of th...

Meantime, a turning point in mental health care came 50 years ago when john f. kennedy signed the community mental health act. the goal was to stop locking people up in institutions. send them home. build centers to treat them, but the money wasnt there to follow through. people were released. many went to places where people couldnt treat them. patrick kennedy works to build on that 1963 law. he joins me from capitol hill. wonderful to have you on. >> thanks, brooke. good to be with you. >> you...

About these issues. i really appreciate it. >> you know, i found that comment by tucker carlson so very disturbing because, again, it moves us in the exactly wrong direction and i know one of the things that you have talked about, i have read what you have written, that even bringing the issue from a legislative perspective to the floor was in some bways -- there was a stigm just with doing that. you think about the stigma if you need help of coming forward. >> well, im sure tuckers family as al...

Green vegetables. its kind of a first world problem or one percenter problem. or look at you, how could you be depressed? you have a good job and a good life. i think thats why its important for people who do deal with depression to come out and talk about it if they are comfortable. obviously its a personal decision. but if they are comfortable, because i think it shows a lot of people who deal with this that first of all, its not your fault. and second of all, its not like x, y, z would have h...

Addiction is a brain illness. i interviewed 150 of the smartest people on the planet. this is a serious brain illness. once you know you have it you are responsible for treating it. he did not treat it. and most people that dont treat it either end up you in jail, in an institution, or dead. >> geraldo: what about the responsibility of the company who made the deal with that enentity? >> the companys responsibility he is an ace is set. they have to take care of their asset or not. they insured t...

Addiction is a brain illness. i interviewed 150 of the smartest people on the planet. this is a serious brain illness. once you know you have it you are responsible for treating it. he did not treat it. and most people that dont treat it either end up you in jail, in an institution, or dead. >> geraldo: what about the responsibility of the company who made the deal with that enentity? >> the companys responsibility he is an ace is set. they have to take care of their asset or not. they insured t...