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Messages to the american people are critically important. i think the president's resolve. i saw him steel himself during this visit to get something done. i felt it. i think it's powerful and i think it's real. but what was even more powerful to me in this time and in this moment was the moments that the president spent with the families of the victims of this racially motivated heinous attack on this community. and the president didn't hurry through those meetings, did not rush through the people that were hurting and in pain and spent a lot of time individually with families which i think s...

American people are critically important. i think the president's resolve -- i saw him steel himself during this visit to get something done. i felt it. i think it's powerful, and i think it's real. but what was even more powerful to me in this time and in this moment was the moments that the president spent with the families of the victims of this racially motivated, heinous attack on this community. and the president didn't hurry through those meetings, didn't rush through the people that were hurting and in pain and spent a lot of time individually with families, which i think shows his com...

>> good morning, mr. simpson. >> good morning, ma'am. >> i conducted your last hearing in 2013 with hearing representative mr. robin bates. do you recall that hearing? >> yes, i do. >> all right. at the time, we asked you what your plan would be if we to grant you to your consecutive sentence you told us you were going to complete commitment to change. have you done that? >> no, i haven't. at one point i couldn't take the course. you know, i took -- i took two courses that i guess you guys don't give much credit to. called "alternative to violence." i think it's the most important course anybo...

How to use it, that, you know, to try to walk these guys through. you know? not throwing punches at one another. also, at one point a couple of guys came to me and they said, o.j., i understand you're a baptist. we're baptist and have no baptist service here. can you help us get a baptist service here? i worked with them. we now have an ongoing baptist service that i as well attended, i attend it religious and pun is intenned and i realized in my nine years here i was a good guy. i'm sure when bruce -- i was always a good guy but could have been a better christian and my commitment to change i...

How to use, you know, to try and walk these guys through, you know, not throwing punches at one another. also at one point a couple guys came to me and they said, o.j., i understand you're a baptist. we're baptists and we have no baptist service here. can you help us get a baptist service here. we now have an ongoing baptist service that i -- that's well attended. i attend it religiously, pun not intended. i realized in any nine years here, i was a good guy. i'm sure bruce would tell you that. but i could have been a better christian and my commitment to change is to be a better christian. >> ...