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Intervened at some point in their lives once they'd already been in the criminal justice system once they'd already gotten in trouble and said you know what i think you can live a different way and i'm willing to help you. and that one person an art teacher or a g.e.d. teacher or somebody who was willing to offer a guy a job, i want to give a shout out to five guys. one of the guys there was an ex-felon and five guys gave him a job and he ended up becoming a manager at the store and was able to completely turn his life around. but the point was somebody reached out to that person and gave him ...

Even for the same weight of drugs. often a white kid was getting six months or probation but a black kid was getting a 10 or 15-year sentence. the president is correcting some of that by commutation of sentences, which is saying they've served their time. not saying they're innocent. i think he's doing the right thing here. >> you talk about reaching out to minorities in your book as well. senator rand paul thank you for sticking around. greta van susteren is live in washington. chief white house contact is live in the studio with me. ed henry. one of the things the president got defensive a...

Question. the president was saying we didn't include the hostages because if we bring in those issues the iranians will see that as an opening to bring in other things they want concessions on from. on the other hand you made all kinds of concessions. for example, blissic missiles lifting arms embargo where maybe the missiles will be spread from iran to hezbollah and other terries. >> the president made it clear, i am working on this every single day to get their release. do you believe him? >> i think the state department is doing that. i think they're just not having a lot of success and the...

Billions to spend. your people seem confident they'll spend it at home. why are you confident they're not going to spend it on arming hezbollah, arming bashar al assad, et cetera? >> that's a great question, and i'm glad you brought it up. i think it is a mistake to characterize our belief that they will just spend it on day-care centers and roads and paying down debt. we think that they have to do some of that because rouhani was elected specifically on the premise of improving the economic situation inside of iran. that economy has tanked since we imposed sanctions. so the notion that they'r...

Good deals five years from now. >> he said there is no scenario where a u.s. president is not in a better position. we'll see. why would he answer a question about bill cosby? >> i was surprised he answered it. it's worth april ryan or any reporter to try to get him off topic. for him to go into graphic detail about drugs leading to rape that's something that's going to grab a headline when his whole focus here was let's stay on the substance of iran. he could have said i'm not going to comment. >> he started that way. >> he said if there is an ongoing investigation i usually don't comment. yo...