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Agree with funding mental health care more. with intervention programs. where theyre able to reduce gun violence by 40% within their first year through programs like jamaica queens in new york. i think the biggest takeaway is we have to stop debating and realize even though we may not have the solution, one thing we can agree on, for example, is the fact that mass shooters shouldnt be famous. the people who should be remembered from my high school are people like peter, people like coach chris h...

Steve: there is a story in the "new york post" evelyn had apparently an argument with a woman who unhappy with the fact that she was trying to unload some property nearby, couldnt sell it felt like the memorial set up to her daughter could be one of the reasons she could not sell the property i know you are not going to get into that right now because you said the investigation is ongoing. the larger picture about what she was advocating was the end of ms-13 violence in your area since she came ...

Expertise especially if theres one or two in a school size of 3,000 people to deal with someone with this level of mental instability and violence. you look at major cities. los angeles would be one. with gang intervention programs. should there be intervention programs of kids at risk for violence? someone at school can refer them. and has a relationship with law enforcement. so there can be parallel conversation on that referral. about whether that person should be registered in the gun regist...

With a problem, i dont want to hear things are tough. i want a specific solution. let me give you one example among several i would offer. we talk about school resource officers. my guess, they do not have the expertise especially if theres one or two in a school size of 3,000 people to deal with someone with this level of mental instability. they have a relationship with law enforcement so there can be a parallel conversation on that ref referral. what are intervention programs that the federal...

Research is a part of it. we need to provide services in the right way. we need to fund intervention programs and we do very little of that. two, treatment in the way of traditional care. >> going after beg phrma is not the answer. >> no. its important to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable theyre not marketing these medications irresponsibly and theyre also helping to solve the opioid epidem epidemic. for far too many years they were not engaged. in fact, we know 20 years ago part of prob...

We develop ways to delegitimize and prove our own values, strengthening and believing in what america and the west is about. also through things like gang intervention programs where they go to areas that are vulnerable to joining gangs. you could have intervention programs. >> melissa: i can hear people in the audience sort of yelling at their television that thats what weve been trying to do. the attacks we are talking about stem very much like what the last administration tried. while they so...

The west and will send individuals. and unfortunately you have individual isolated incidents, lone wolves. because we in the west, muslim communities, have rejected isis and al qaeda ideology so go on internet and social media to recruit individuals. also have to look at how weve been pushing back against the ideology. we need community-led intervention programs. >> everyone keeps asking what more can be done. muslim community especially in the united states and europe asked to speak out against...

This is an issue and if they are willing to engage and help us to try to prevent it by either intervention programs and things like that, then that would be the best outcome that we could have of this entire chaotic situation. >> alex, thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> and i do think well hear something from rolli"rolling st in the day to come. the question that everyone in hollywood is asking, can sony pictures recover from the cyberattack? i have two guests with answers. stay tuned.

Drug courts, its something that i think other states are looking at. but we have about 96% population in our prisons now. california i think is over 160% population of their prison. so they got a real overcrowding problem. i think part of it goes back to not making thoughtful decisions about who youre sending to prison and what for. the idea that a kid has one marijuana cigarette and you send had him to prison where they can learn to really be a hardened criminal is not thoughtful public policy....

Decade ago, we started looking at adjusting the penalties for criminal use of marijuana. and what weve seen is our prison populations have gone down. as a matter of fact, even president obama and eric holder looked at texas and said, what they are doing there with their drug courts, its something that i think other states are looking at, but we have about 96% population in our prisons now. california i think is over 160% population of their prison. so they got a real overcrowding problem. i thin...