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Is this a bridge too far? tell me your thoughts and digesting this news. >> i think that clare is right, this is an issue that democrats wants to feel energized by and lead our base within the elections. historically, you all know very well, reproductive rights and anti abortion stance has been something republicans have really relied on, even when it was not a mainstream issue, to seek sub port from their base and battlefront states. that something theyre going to try again. but democrats are s...

That narrative could be put out there. but we as latinos need to make sure that we show up. and we also have to understand that this has been happening over 200 years. we know that the history shows that latinos, particularly mexicans, were lynched here in california. about 600 were lynched across the country. so we understand that police killings is our issues, too. however, we need to make it a mainstream issue. >> nicole, broaden this out for me. we are talking specifically about police bruta...

Implement renewable energy and the kind of house of the well if you have the workers in the fossil fuel industry and in the of course tourism industry as well so theres kind of a confrontation there isnt there a do you see your protest building the kind of momentum necessary to turn your demands and the public policy. absolutely sir i remember exactly a year guard. i was stretching outside my local m.p.s office and we had around 50 people there and full of the masses of. global strike we had mor...

Is thats a no its a very close group to the greens but in any case no matter which candidate youre talking about it really all depends on the content do you feel like lets say the fight against climate change has been adequately represented ever since the european election so are people talking about it enough now or are they talking too much about people. what i think to talk about the climate crisis has certainly increased so thats but its not by far not enough if you just look at the council ...

The issue where it needs to be, and that is in the mainstream dialogue and conversation in the country? i remember when i was a teenager and we all were protesting the war in vietnam, when i was in high school. when muhammad ali, who was the heavyweight champion of the world, stood up and said, i wont go to the war, it made it a mainstream issue and it added to the anti-war effort. so isnt kaepernick, whos not facing jail or poverty like ali, but by making this stand and then by having the nikes...

Mainstream issue. we will not be silenced anymore. >> here are some examples of videos removed by facebook, including one video at least titled make men masculine again and where are the moderate muslims. these were videos, clearly that had been posted as you say, facebook has been censoring some of them. are they back up, will? how quickly -- when they say this is a mistake, we swear were not censoring conservatives, you are obviously skeptical of that. where are we with that now? >> they actua...

In this country i think dr. martin luther king and mike huckabee would certainly have differences in opinion going on there. have you heard -- right thing on same-sex marriage ruling. >> no mostly what weve heard is the circus that is the republican primary. and you think about it. do you want one or two extra percent in iowa with a small amounts of people that is a mainstream issue. or do you want to be mainstream candidate and support 60% of the country. you have to find that balance. right no...

That is not a -- even close to a majority opinion in the republican party, much less the entire country. so i think youre right, its absolutely a mainstream issue and these other questions are very much mainstream as well. if you look at regulation of wall street. salinda lake does reporting for regulation of the financial sector. thats gone from something like 70% immediately after the crisis, to like 80% now. theyre not by any means restricted to democratic voters. >> noam shriver, thanks for ...

Times. theyve worked on this on the war on drugs side which is how people often end up in prison for nonviolent offenses for 5 to 15 years and also may be interest in republicans getting involved in this, even though in some states that might not help them electorally, some people are putting politics of it aside. what do you think from your time in prisons briefly is to making it a mainstream issue? >> we should never have a conversation about what party someone is going to vote for if we give ...

Prosecuted, these are matters where justice really needs to be done. there are many, many of these kinds of acts, violence girls i epidemic. and we have to stop marginalizing the kinds of actions and understand what a toll they take on human rights, what a toll they take on the lives of people whose lives are shortchanged as a result. they take tolls on economies, on public health. these are very, very serious matters. and they really deserve attention at the highest levels of government. >> wel...