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Baggy pants, shaven heads and full body tattoos and their allegiance. beginning in the '90s, the clinton and bush administrations deported thousands to countries recovering from brutal civil war but which never had a gang problem. this was a time bomb. in 2005, i witnessed its explosion. we hadn't even been in el salvador half hour before we learned a member of ms-13 had been shot. central america is now one of the most dangerous regions on earth. three teenagers are the latest victims -- now, in the u.s., a new version of ms-13 is grabbing headlines, teenagers committing horrific murders. >> ...

This war against ms-13? >> yeah. we talked to social workers. we talked to a man who has become a pastor actually. he left ms-13 and became a pastor. you know, the issue of ms-13 which is really complex which is why i hope people will watch the show on sunday and read the piece i just wrote on cnn.com. the u.s. actually has had a role in this monstrous evolution of ms-13. >> in what accepts? >> the u.s. funded corrupt governments throughout the civil wars in el salvador and -- and guatemala, and then deported hundred hundreds -- tens of thousands back to their home countries, places with no ga...

Here's what i think at the end. the federal government right now's not functioning. and you know, every time i talk to your folks i say we have to begin to solve many of these problems where we live. if we have problems with poverty, with drug abuse, with bullying, with infant mortality, we can't -- the federal government is not functioning now. so we, where we live, regardless of what our party is, whether we're liberal, conservative, these are issues that need to be solved. gang problems in chicago. that's not an ideological issue or a partisan issue. how do you want to solve that? bring the...

These are issues that need to be solved. gang problems in chicago. that's not an ideological issue or a partisan issue. how do you want to solve that? bring the community together. i don't care who you are. i don't care who you vote for. nobody wants this gang problem to continue. we can work together as a community to solve these things. and i've been part of some of it. and we need to do that around the country. so instead of people sitting around worrying all the time about what's happening in washington we've got to get off the couch and figure out what we can do, where we live, chris. tha...

Comes down to fighting the riot. i have to be part of it. >> why? >> if i'm not a part of it, then it's all mad for me. with my people. i'm a soldier. and if i don't do my duty, then it's up to them to take me out of the ball game. >> what does that mean? >> that's it no more. >> the white guy broke it up. he went to the shock collar for the south siders in the building and said you need to check your people. the south siders said, no, i am not going to check my people, you need to check yours. it got heated. the next thing you know, the dorm filled up with south siders and whites. the cops sa...