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There, but then i wouldnt get to your book. you write in this book about the back-sliding of the american democracy, gerrymandering, voters suppression, legislative hardball. what can be done? >> i think the biggest thing -- this is something small-d democrats should support as well. people who arent necessarily aligned with the democratic party. democrats should win elections on the state levels. what they can do is win a burch of governorships in some of these big states, in many of them gover...

Kanye and sat down at that meeting, i would have asked president trump would you hes doubling down and helping for-profit prison lock up more people. instead of having real criminal justice reform, im afraid its going to continually get worse unless were willing to address it at the state levels. >> you have made the connection as well to immigration. >> absolutely. >> now that were incarcerating even little kids, private prison industry makes moan on that. >> you look at core civic, one of the ...

Heres the thing. its got to come from national leadership. local leadership. at the city and state levels. it can be boiled down to one word. when there is contact with the police, compliance is the order of the day. you dont try to fight and lit gate the issue in the street. you roll with it get to see a judge later. but compliance ensures we all go home safely at the end of the day. todd: ken crane thanks for getting up with us early there in arizona. we appreciate your time. >> thanks. i appr...

Rob: millions of americans no longer dependent on food stamps. tracee carrasco with the numbers. tracee: 2.8 million people have dropped off of food stamps, this is, of course, part of continuing downward trend that we are seeing but also as the trump administration attempted to reform the program both at federal and state levels, we can point to improving economy as of reason why we are seeing these numbers go down. rob: okay. here is the question is nutela better than chocolate? tracee: well, ...

Question will get to the supreme court. do these restrictions significantly impede the opportunity of a woman to have an abortion? the supreme court might have said that kennedy supreme court no, the brett kavanaugh supreme court might say no. so they will permit more state interferences. if >> marie: i dont want roe vs. wade to be repealed in its entirety either but i think the more concerning judicial question might be whether theres just so many restrictions and state levels that are now uphe...

You, the exit question paul butler f donald trump were to pardon michael cohen, michael flynn, paul manafort, what would that do to the mueller probe? >> well, mueller is at least as crafty as donald trump, so people who have exposure on state levels could be charged with state crimes, which the president has no ability to pardon. but its also true that if he does pardon these people, they cant claim the fifth. >> right. >> so they could be forced to testify. so president trump it aint going to ...

Someone down, and trump world has a lot of people involved in a lot of stretchy things. >> yep. >> michael cohen, the piece about him leads you if a motivated prosecutor wants to make a turn on anybody in the country about anything, he probably can be turned in that sense. so we should be hopefully at the end of the rainbow. when someone turned its for a good reason. >> yeah, thats right. just like innocent people take the fifth amendment. it doesnt mean that he is actually guilty that he took t...

Defamation but in this case it actually could. he has mad exposure on any number of federal and state levels. just to be clear, the state exposure means that the president cannot pardon him. the president is not able to pardon anyone for a state crime. >> final question about the money. there is $200,000 plus in legal fees apparently being paid by the trump campaign. the trump campaign says its all russia-related stuff. its by the boards. he was exposed to it because of his relationship with the...

In the federal and state levels. the florida senate is set to hear a bill that could ntains mt gun provisions that could lead to arming teachers. thats what the nra and uber b lobbyists want. joining me now, a man whose daughter was among those shot in the parkland shooting. what do you make of the debate going on in tallahassee? there is a lot of pressure on families to do something on gun reform. all they are doing is modest reforms. they are still not willing to do things like banning assault...

To say lets up the age to 21, thats one thing thats happening at some state levels. >> harris: i dont think that wouldve changed the situation with the church shooting. >> marie: no one policy will have been able to prevent every single tragedy as its happening, that cant be the standard for policymaking. but if it can make it harder for one crazy person to get a gun -- >> harris: if they are under the age of 21. >> marie: i happen to think we should look at high-capacity magazines. >> harris: t...