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Able to walk into our government office. it's unbelievable that it's 14 months it's come to this. you either are preventing people and making sure their backgrounds are clean and doing it in a right and lawful way or you're not. this is just ridiculous. >> dana: one of the things i thought of, this puts the president in a terrible position. according to reports, he didn't know about these allegations until earlier this week. why would you put him in a position like this where he is vulnerable to attack because they didn't actually just do the right thing in the beginning. >> there's something ...

Virtually doing nothing. and not all african-american. and part of the problem is that politically, the whole politicalization, nobody wants to touch this problem. there's only a handful of lawyers who want to take on police departments in municipalities. the idea you resist and sue, there aren't enough to do that for you on a contingency basis. >> the counterargument is, well, resisting, you're going -- there's a higher likelihood you end up getting injured. >> we empower law enforcement officers to protect us. in protecting one citizen, an aggrieved citizen or confused citizen, we give a dif...

Theirs and ours ours. >> they gave it to the government to prosecute the war on drugs. including forfeiting rights to property and liberty on the police are richer. >> oh, absolutely. john: a prosecutor in indiana, a couple of years ago he was hired as an outside prosecutor to do civil forfeiture and he would keep 25% of the total on a contingency basis. >> he was finally caught and punished for doing that. >> it wasn't a very strict punishment. i think they made him repay

But he's not running against those republicans. in fact, he's running to help them by putting them into the majority. and when you compare him to elizabeth warren or senator kennedy who he really inappropriately tried to claim was on his side on the question of birth control, contraception, no, he's not there. he used the arguments when he said, oh, i want it enforced but i don't want to help the plaintiffs' lawyers. that's the key. if you start attacking the lawyers who are going to bring these lawsuits, then you're saying the law shouldn't be enforced. there is no federal agency able to do t...

Majority. and when you compare him to elizabeth warren or senator kennedy who he really inappropriately tried to claim was on his side on the question of birth control, contraception, no, he's not there. he used the arguments when he said, oh, i want it enforced but i don't want to help the plaintiffs' lawyers. that's the key. if you start attacking the lawyers who are going to bring these lawsuits, then you're saying the law shouldn't be enforced. there is no federal agency able to do that kind of enforcement in a consistent basis. if you're going to have anti-discrimination laws enforced, yo...