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>> act out was started by larry kramer in new york city. after that chapters began to spring up around the country. >> the militant group act up gained increasing influence on aids policy. weekly meetings of the new york chapter attract hundreds, mostly young, mostly gay. >> i realized i only had a year or two more to live probably so why not go out with a bang. so i quit my job on wall street and became a full time activist. >> let's do a demonstration and keep it there. >> we had so many angry young men who had lost friends and were terrified they were going to die. >> pretty scared. but bei...

>> this is a major day of protest by aids activists in this country. 1,000 of them converging on national institutes of health, demanding more research on the disease. >> they started to become confrontational. >> why are you saying this, i am a physician, trying to save your lives. it was that kind of confrontation had me say time out. >> demonstrators blocked police cars, tried to break into the lead biomedical research agency. >> the police were about to arrest a whole bunch of them. i said don't arrest anybody, just bring them up to my office and let's start a dialogue. >> we were able to ...

Notice. >> the president-elect is pretty good at using twitter to distract people from the really big issues that are happening. he can do a tweet saying that 3 million americans are felons because they were doing -- not doing -- they were voting illegally at the same time as all the trump university settlement was announced. i think that was the same time. he's very good at getting people to pay attention to the relatively little th things he's doing when we see these interest groups sell out american workers and trump doesn't seem to really care when it comes to getting his congressional col...

This is the first test, the first example. i hope he cleans his act up and pays for attention to this and puts heat on mcconnell and ryan to do the right thing. we've got this case where the mine workers in ohio -- around the country, more than 12,000 mine workers because of one guy, mitch mcconnell -- we're trying to get trump involved. he won't get involved. and a whole bunch of thousands of workers, retirees and widows are unfortunately going to face christmas with their health care cut off. >> senator sherrod brown of ohio. thank you very much, appreciate it. >> thanks very much, chris. >>...

See, that's how jail works. if you're good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last seven to ten days we're starting to see his behavior change because we've been giving him less attention. we've kind of been having just one or two people deal with him for the most part, as opposed to when he acts up, everybody shows up to include myself, sergeants, corporals. so what we've done is we started to kind of trim those numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him. and up to this point, we have seen some imp...