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Places on earth, an institution of higher learning, 18 to 22, 23-year-olds and graduate students would be the one place we might find harmony and things working well. i think in many places it is. one of the things we see in sports, that's my area that i cover, is that every game, think of it, every sport you're watching you see athletes, black and white, male, female, working together. and for a common good. in the missouri case, especially, there's gary pinkel, a white man in his 60s agreeing with his athletes who i believe are about half and half, black and white. that's an important conver...

Difference between because they've been told different things about obamacare and the medicaid expansion. this wasn't a referendum on connecting the medicaid expansion. kip kiens overwhelmingly support that. >> i want to say thank you to our guests. i want to make a shift to the tech industry. this week, twitter engineering manager, the only african-american engineer in a leadership position at twitter, announced he and the company have parted ways. he was among the 300-some employees who were laid off last month but he said he refused their severance package. he wants to talk about the comp...

Planned parenthood outrage. >> someone has to make a moral argument for the voiceless. a great question for hillary. such a champion for the planned parenthood. how her life would have been different if see would have had the alternative. >> bill o'reilly, a says she's a great politician. she sees something she wants to get in there, she throws it in there, she's doing exactly what she's being told to do and doing it well. >> don't you think abortion and immigration, here we go again? aren't they losing issues for the republicans? >> i wou i've said this on record, i would prefer they stick to...

The diversity problem they've had. only 3% of venture capital growth money for these great companies is going to women-led companies. less than 1% to african-american founders. that needs to change. because we've got talent everywhere. if you make a company, we want to make sure you can get that access to capital, really grow it. they're stepping up to diversefy themselves as well as their money. >> talking to some of the students, community leaders around here, we see that happening within this very building here in the bronx. to both of you, thank you so much. appreciate you being here. and ...

Opportunity. >> silicon valley has a massive gender diversity problem, massive racial diversity problem. what is the experience like for folks who placed at companies in silicon valley? do they find it to be an accepting and welcoming atmosphere? >> yeah. one of the most important things we found is that if we pair the students that come through our program with mentors in the space, it makes a huge difference in feeling like they're welcome. because as you point out, in a lot of cases, just because of what the numbers are, a code 2040 fellow may be the only person of color, only black or lati...