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Finally mentally it has to start locally and the barrier of california laws, for instance, like you said, so difficult, so many of the homeless have mental illness or other big problems that make it impossible for them to hold jobs and to even consider getting a house. you've got to start with commitment laws, mental health treatment, things like that you can't just throw a lot of federal money at a problem where the root causes are not being addressed. >> let me just add to something. >> i'm so sorry, we have to go, i'm really sorry to cut you off, but we are out of time. let's hope the atten...

Finally mentally it has to start locally and the barrier of california laws, for instance, like you said, so difficult, so many of the homeless have mental illness or other big problems that make it impossible for them to hold jobs and to even consider getting a house. you've got to start with commitment laws, mental health treatment, things like that you can't just throw a lot of federal money at a problem where the root causes are not being addressed. >> let me just add to something. >> i'm so sorry, we have to go, i'm really sorry to cut you off, but we are out of time. let's hope the atten...

Criminal history that would pop up in the background system. given that, and the laws that are on the books, this is entirely vexing. >> i would say the good news is while there is often not a criminal background there often is a history of psychological illness or red flags suggesting that, that could have been seen earlier. i think that's where there is the possibility for common ground here. the president talked about this in his remarks at the white house. he was immediately attacked by people on left for not embracing their gun control solutions. that effort to investigate how do you iden...

Jurisdiction to jurisdiction. however, you do have the ability in the event that someone really is acting in a dangerous way to petition the government to come get them. law enforcement. and to commit them until such a time that they are okay and could be released. the problem is you cannot keep a person there forever. there is a time frame upon which you must be released. you can't take people out of public view. it certainly reinforces the need and commitment to have a discussion about the commitment laws and how effective they can be and how they can be used moving forward. >> lawrence we k...

72 hours involuntarily and then they get a court date. usually, you know, if they're sneaky in hiding their instability they get out. and that's very frustrating for so many people. does the bill address it? >> the bill begins to address it. once it gets out of exit tee and people talk about the 72 hour hold and parameters of commitment. right now what we don't have is a situation where families are involved in communicating with doctors when they see a crisis is causing sunday someone to fall down, fall apart. and the commitment laws are so tight that law enforcement, whatever their training,...