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Able to function and live in society the way that anyone would ask to. so i don't believe, as far as my colleagues, you know, i absolutely empathize. i empathize. the same thing that the republicans would do, which is figure out how to work with this, that's what we have to do. my job is to save lives in my community. when we're talking about every single year increasing the budget for police and then the budget for like health and human services continuing to shrink, and st. louis being number one for police violence year after year after year, number one. number two for homicides year after ...

Year after year, number one. number two for homicides year after year -- >> congresswoman. >> when we're adding more money to the police but we're still dying. something has to change. >> congresswoman, i hear what you're saying but i also heard you think it's a coms problem. is it that? >> no. i'm saying that's another way that you can tackle this. you have to tackle it from more than one place. we have to work on what we want to say. what is our message? but we also have to understand, we have to save lives, too. st. louis can't keep being put on the back burner. and i'm here to stand up for...

>> no. it just makes it worse. when you say you have information that you can't give out, that raises everybody's antenna. there's three basic rules we have in the white house for communicating a situation like this. number one, don't make a bad story worse. here we are a week after the story broke still talking about it. number two, speed kills a bad story. kill it in the crib. don't let it walk, don't let it crawl, don't let it run circles around you like it is now. if you change the story, you prolong the story. so you have a situation now where everyday, almost every news cycle we get a ne...