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I wish some people would do a little more research and see exactly how we got to where we are. the fact of the matter is, we on the democratic side did a good job to put in the kind of prevention programs, the preventive funding in the bill and we got to understand. the republicans wanted that and we found a compromise that everybody could live with. >> welcome back to up. that was the house majority whip defending parts of the 1994 crime bill and urging 2020 candidates not to single out democra...

Year. >> to the people running for president right now, who are using the 94 bill as the dividing line between how things used to be and need to be now, do you have a word for caution for them, in terms of how they understand what was done in 94? >> well, i wish some people would do a little more research to see exactly how we got to where we are. the fact of the matter is we on the democratic side did a job in putting in the kind of prevention programs, the preventative funding in the bill. and...

Technology, or math. and were going to give away a scholarship for the arts. gina excelled in both these areas. and gina was a girl scout, as you mentioned in the open. weve created an award for a girl scout from the southeast region, who gets her gold award, which is the highest level of award in the girl scouts. somebody who abeliechieves that going to get a scholarship from us. and in our travels going around, weve heard from numerous health care professionals and lawmakers that theres not en...

>> and you talk about allocation of resources. here were talking about $5.6 billion for this wall. in your piece, you point out places where that money might be better spent to combat homegrown terrorism. >> exactly. i think the threat of terrorism that we are most worried about in the united states is attached to homegrown extremists. people who are attached to an ideology like that of al qaeda or isis or some form of terrorist organization, but in reality they were born here or spent most of t...

Massachusetts. we are seeing it in california. seeing it in states that have taken a different approach to how they expand insurance programs and unfortunately were reversing that progress with this development. >> if you are of the belief -- look. of the belief that government assistance programs are no good, that doesnt matter. if youre of the belief that you want to find the way in which governments spend the least amount of money, or spend the money most efficiently, what does success look l...

They thought that this was a safe community and parents who sent their kids to that bar and let them go and be entertained there thought they were safe there. steph? >> what we define as safe and what we define as dangerous maybe needs to be redefined. ron, thank you so much for some extraordinary and important reporting out there. here to join us now is someone else who does extraordinary work. my friend nicole hockley. she lost her 6-year-old son dylan. he died in the 2012 sandy hook elementar...

Community is being used as a political pawn in anyway. >> as a police commissioner i stay out of politics. my job is to serve and protect all the people. it doesnt matter your political affiliation or color of your skin, it doesnt matter to me. >> rodriguez says she is grateful for the support of the president and new yorks governor that recently allocated more than $18 million for gang violence intervention and prevention programs and she wants to be part of the solution to a safer community, w...

Back and ban? most of the gun violence in the country, critics will say, is not through the barrel of assault weapons, but a handgun? >> i have evolved on this issue from being a prosecutor to a member of congress and seeing so many victims that i now believe that a childs right to learn in the classroom from fear, their right to go home and their right to live is supreme to any other right. i dont accept that a weapon of war and assault weapon is covered by the second amendment and that if we b...

Congress cut funding for prevention programs, congressman jenkins thinks hes been the most productive. >> i have served on the appropriations committee. $6 billion working with the white house that we just approved is a significant positive step in the right direction. >> reporter: and something else that jenkins and morrisey are trying to do is distance them from attacks that could tie them to the drug industry. dana? >> dana: i wanted to ask you about the outside candidate don blankenship and ...

Are their other areas you think realistically can get done and what are those? >> i firmly believe fix nics will find its way through. thats an important step towards really stronger and more comprehensive background checks system. thats something weve been fighting for since 2012, since 2013. i do believe thats coming down the line. i also believe the white house is getting behind extreme risk protection orders or gun violence restraining orders and looking how we can encourage states to mandat...