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And people who need help to go to the national miz law website, who is our partner in this. it's one of the big action steps. >> legal defense fund is one avenue. how about a little campaign fund raising? oprah 2020 is trending on twitter. her long-time partner, stedman graham, told the "l.a. times," quote, it is up to the people. she'd absolutely do it. >> well, that is great news from stedman. >> if that's great news, does that mean you'd support oprah if she was running? she is an amazing leader. i've watched oprah for years. i'm from chicago and i remember when she started at "a.m. chicago...

There's been no talks about this until yesterday occurred. it's not going to fix itself. we do have to have real conversation with this issue and come up with action steps. >> thomas this guy was given a bad charge discharge not a dishonorably discharged. can you explain the difference and would it have made a difference? >> i don't think it would have made a difference in this case. it still has the same reporting requirements. the people with the air force are either going to report this stuff, do their job or not. sounds like in the civilian world we call a plea bargain, he was charged with...

Nothing happened. what needs to happen? >> a bunch of things at the same time. you know, at the end of the day, the primary responsibility is drug prevention and education programs aimed at kids. and then the follow on as we got to redo this law and allow the dea to protect us and monitor the industry more effectively. and then i think finally we've got to put a significant amount of money into drug treatment programs. you simply can't get heroin addicts, opioid addicts off this drug without extended science based treatment. that has to be funded by congress. >> science based drug treatment th...

Action steps will be taking place moving forward. next week i've been invited to attend the national black caucus in washington, d.c. i would love to see 45 participate and put tangible resources into an organization like that. when z other national organizations like the 100 black men of central virginia and different initiatives that are looking at actually doing tangible things to increase -- or excuse me, to decrease the divide of resources and looking at how we can up lift and empower margin iced communities, i want to see is he going to put his time, talents and treasures into organizati...

We don't ever come out and say it's complicated. i'll ask our producers to send you links to all of the stuff we have dob on health care and infrastructure and american made and minimum wage on economic growth. please so you don't go on anybody else's tv and spout this nonsense about how the media is obsessed with russia. we talk about a lot of stuff. >> the president is talking about it, he's talking about it. there are no action steps following it. there's an awful lot of meeting and listening sessions but in terms, the action we've seen him take is firing james comey. >> except that he's ac...