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>> i mean it goes back generations, chris. >> where did they come from? were they the best? scientists, architects coming in with bags of gold? >> you know what, not everybody is a scientist and an architect, but the thing is we need to be able to decide. you don't go to sleep at night and leavior dooe your doors ope >> nobody is saying the doors shouldn't be locked. >> i have to show i.d. >> you're saying different things. niger, we should have only the best. we never have. we never have. we've given people the chance to be the best, niger, all right? now you look at somebody's lineage like y...

We need to know who is coming in and going out of this country. we should only accept the best here, chris. why is that a problem. >> since when? >> who came over here in your family, how did you get here? >> the thing is -- >> no, no, no, who came in first for you? >> i mean it goes back generations, chris. >> where did they come from? were they the best? scientists, architects coming in with bags of gold? >> you know what, not everybody is a scientist and an architect, but the thing is we need to be able to decide. you don't go to sleep at night and leave your doors open -- >> nobody is sayi...

Last year. you say it goes back generations, really prior to the founding of the nation. in the years since, has anything gotten better in your view? >> i do. i think people are more willing to talk about these issues. more willing to recognize that there are problems in places. i've known people, especially conservatives that for years that there was no racism anymore in america. and on the whole in some places and in some situations there is. i think events have taken place over the last year have made people realize hey, i didn't realize what it was like to be black and get stopped by a pol...

The state. not just the individual kim but the entire family. going back generations. >> reporter: a system that, thanks to america's existing democratic system, no president of the united states could ever recreate. while the crime of not showing quite enough joy at a rally can be punishable by reeducation or jail time for the average north korean citizen, for top officials, that kind of thing can be deadly. a top education official in north korea was once executed by firing squad for showing a, quote, bad attitude at a gathering of the supreme people's assembly. brian todd, cnn, washington. ...

Michael. >> two clarifications. on the signing statement broadly, are you saying that the president was not aware of that very law, of the details of that very long signing statement and it was just something done -- >> no, no, no that's not -- no. the president is obviously aware of what happened. the question that was asked is it is a process. it happened for administrations going back generations i'm sure. i don't have the precise nature of when signing statements came into being. this goes along with a bill signing to make sure that the executive branch's intent is as understood. >> a lot ...