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>> i was struck by ezekiel's loathing of drugs and drug addiction. i mean, drugs seem to surround ezekiel in many ways. i mean, i think it caused a deprivation in his childhood. his brother, whom he adored, had a drug addiction, and that really bothered ezekiel. >> my daddy ain't raising no dope fiends. why all of a sudden you want to start using drugs? you going to let somebody else convince you to pay them your money, take out of your children's mouth, so you can poison yourself? that's just stupidity. that's beyond stupid. >> ezekiel can't stand me. if you see somebody sitting there cutting...

[ bleep ] entertainment purposes, i'm going to tell you, it says daniel, and it says, "daniel's world." >> and where is this located? >> like, oh, man. right above my [ bleep ]. >> gabriel had a lot of tattoos, but one he had on his back, and that was his brother's ezekiel's name and he said he had it on there because ezekiel always had his back. he constantly told me about him and spoke about him as if they were best friends. >> i can't say he's my everything. he's more than that. i don't know, man, he's my mom, my dad, my brother, my son. he's everything that i got in this world. he's my rea...

Up high. >> oh, okay, that's how you get to levels and all of that? got it. >> during the course of ezekiel's interview, i was asking standard questions about marriage, children, that sort of thing, and he kind of sadly said, you know, i've been locked up so much, i've never had the chance to have children. but then he stopped himself and said, but, actually, that's changing. >> and actually right now, i do, i got one in the works. i told you before i told my brother. i'm telling america before i'm telling gabriel. >> what? >> that i'm about to have a kid and my kid is due in june. yeah, june....

We was kids. >> the last connection i got blood relation to my father. i'm my brother's keeper. know what i mean? i am my brother's keeper. >> before i met ezekiel, the way gabriel used to talk about him, i just assumed the two were twins. and then when i actually saw them together, the way they were together, they would finish each other's sentences, they knew each other's histories, they just had such a bond together, that i was very surprised when they actually told me they were a year apart. >> "keeping up with the kardashians" ain't got nothing on us. i'm telling y'all. i don't know, man....

American progress. you know, and to you first, ezekiel, you were a key adviser on the affordable care act. you're intimately familiar with it, the accommodations, the fixes after it was passed. what can president obama do now in the wake of this ruling? >> well, what the ruling says is that the government needs to find another way that's less restrictive to do it. but i would also emphasize, this ruling, whatever its r ramifications does not go at the heart of the affordable care act, nothing about the exchanges, the medicare, the quality improvements, the cost f the bill. what it does do is p...