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Here to explain, the host of alana fix my life, on the oprah win friday network. thank you for coming on. and giving us your words of wisdom. we hear a lot of reports of anger and violent incidents since the election. more such incidents reported now than there were even after september 11th, according to the southern poverty law center. what do you say to people who feel anxious or fearful? >> my first thing would be breathe. really, take some deep breaths and fear not. there is nothing to fear...

>> if it sounds like -- it just went -- any time something sounds like trickle down, i think people become concerned about it, it -- trickle down does not seem to work for any president who tried it, am i wrong? >> its not -- trickle down economics is what left wingers call a tax cut across the board. it was 22% across the board for everybody who pays taxes. it was across the board tax cut, taking the corporate rate from 35 to 15, when were competing with europe, that has a 25% average. >> were ...

Heard during the reagan years. during the reagan years -- >> theres no guarantee growing 4% a year. thats the number that donald trump pulled out during the campaign. theres no evidence of that that this will in anyway lead us to 4% growth. anyway. >> yes, there is. and what we had during the reagan years with lower marginal tax rates and some deregulation, we grew at 4% a year, during the obama years we grew at 2% a year, the difference between growing for a decade at 4% a year than 2% a year i...

Bush brothers cashed in on the bush presidency or billy carter did something embarrassing to jimmy carter, this is a much different and more worrying level. >> you were shaking your head in agreement to what he was saying. do you think its his business competitors would like to know? >> yeah. i think ryans exactly right. the thing thats interesting about this, donald trump has a lot of faith in his kids. theyre close to him in business and outside of business. this is the limited circle that he ...

Injustice, a lot of policing, police data. >> youre very outspoken about it. >> extremely. its important, as black men who have real life experiences, who understand what its like to be pulled over, we get that, and understand that, but i think that specifically looking at police data. its important that we know to know how many people are being killed by police, how theyre being killed. one thing thats potentially imperiled. he could come back and renege on all the promises the obama administra...

Lot of them were into politics, they felt discouraged that i -- you know, i remember an activist telling me i voted for obama twice, and trayvon martin is still dead. >> in this book you talk about why theres been so little under an obama presidency to change that. >> we needed to have a black president to understand the limitations of the office. in reality, so many of these young folks, they voted, they canvassed for him, they watched trayvon martin, they watched michael browns body lay in the...

Elected giving us this break. >> i didnt feel that way about it. i thought he would become the nominee. maybe that was it, because i was looking at it as a black man, anything is possible. >> you cant ever underestimate the power of -- >> i want to talk about your new book, its called "they cant kill us all." ferguson, baltimore and a new era? the racial injustice movement. you covered baltimore, you covered freddie gray. did that start the movement in this country, do you think? >> i think that...

Responsibility, some of the same kind of conservative ideology we heard, lets clean up the streets, get education better. >> i had eyean law on and i hear from people of color, from women that are sad, people are out protesting. what do you feel? >> how do i feel? it is going to be a busy few years i think, right. one of the main thing is obviously me and the team i work with at the post, we do a lot of raisin justice, a lot of policing, a lot of police data. >> youre very outspoken about the is...

Oh boy... [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. welcome back, according to police data, chicago may be on its way to shedding the title of americas murder capital. homicides dropped more than 20% from last year from 506 people in 2012 to 401 people this year. that is the largest one-year drop in a decade. according to the police department, and the lowest murder toll in half a century. chicago police chief mccarthy, who was appointed by ra...

Nra. the crazies have taken over my organization. they have taken over gun ownership. no, im the gun owner that the nra was made for. i hunt. i have a gun to protect my family. and i cant wait to hear what the nra says tomorrow. i hope its positive. they say theyre going to be constructive and i salute them, but theyd better be because the worlds changed. >> theres been studies by -- frank lunz polled nra members about what kind of gun policy they would be supportive of, and it was reasonable st...