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Gets the country nowhere. fair-minded americans well understand there are severe problems in the black community that have to be solved. and it will take honest, courageous people to do that. one of those honest people, cnn anchor don lemon who referenced my talking points on his program. >> he has got a point. in fact, he has got more than a point. bill. >> bill: race without much structure young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hurst ling gangs....

This we and them business gets the country nowhere. fair-minded americans well understand there are severe problems in the black community that have to be solved. and it will take honest, courageous people to do that. one of those honest people, cnn anchor don lemon who referenced my talking points on his program. >> he has got a point. in fact, he has got more than a point. bill. >> bill: race without much structure young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture...

Platform that could help us bridge the divide. >> bill: maybe you didnt understand the question. i agree that the black crime problem, which is very intense, violent crime, the reason thats happening to the extent that it is, is because of the disintegrations of the african-american family. do you agree with that? >> i think that the disintegrations of the traditional african-american family has caused great social problems in the black community and in america at large. but, bill, we see the di...

>> tonight bill oreilly is not finished taking his talking points to the president of the national urban league. >> i agree that the black crime problem, which is very intense, violent crime, the reason thats happening to the extent that it is, is because of the disintegration of the african-american family. do you agree with that? >> i think that the disintegration of the traditional african-american family has caused great social problems in the black community and in america at large. but bil...

Platform that could help us bridge the divide. >> bill: maybe you didnt understand the question. i agree that the black crime problem, which is very intense, violent crime, the reason thats happening to the extent that it is, is because of the disintegrations of the african-american family. do you agree with that? >> i think that the disintegrations of the traditional african-american family has caused great social problems in the black community and in america at large. but, bill, we see the di...

>> most of the missing are -- >> -- runaway kids. >> parental stuff? >> exactly. >> thats part of the problem because initially when you get reports of a missing child or a missing teenager, the assumption can tend to be well was there a problem in the family? is this a teenager who is having some adjustment problems? social problems at school? they assume its a run away. after a certain amount of time they can say its a missing person thats frustrating for family members. >> dont know what the ...

America? here now attorneys and fox news analyst kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. we just heard hemmer. it looks like this one guy kept the three girls. these are brothers. we dont know what the situation is yet. i dont want to speculate i think there is something going on. how common. >> 411 people were kidnapped in 2012 by strangers. its a fairly low number. below 1% of the overall 660,000 people that go missing every year. >> most of the missing are -- >> -- runaway kids. >> parental stuff? ...

Important to just put this. this is homicides in elementary and high schools. over the years. what you see is, you know, there are not a lot of people killed in schools in america. every time someone is killed in a school in america, its a horrific tragedy. in terms of what are our social problems, schools themselves as sites of violence are not the thing that we -- is not really the problem in terms of what the data say. i thought in focusing on the schools, that was maybe missing the problem. ...

Same inning. i wrote a book about enough about just this issue. when you look at the out-of-wed-lock birth rate it directly ties into the gun issue. when you look at the high rate of slaughter, murder, homicide committed in the black community you have to ask yourself why do young black people find status and power in the gun? i think its tied to the absence of fathers, its tied to family break downs. we know that when children come from single parent families they have higher poverty rates, mor...

Whole package, champion what you agree with. >> given that that is your view, which has been the hallmark of all of your time in public service the whole time i have known you, what did you make of the sustainability of the beltway cynicism? this whole idea that nothing can be done. it was all president makes the statement. it will never happen. someway or another, that was the esentially the entire reaction from the beltway. when i look at the polls, i feel, like, whoa, america really wants thi...