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Issues really impacting communities of color in this country. and the marijuana issue, remember, people on college campuses don't get arrested for marijuana. we had more marijuana arrests in 2017 than all violent crimes combined, and it's disprop disproportionately focusing on -- that's a major problem. >> i have to toss back to anderson. we have to take a break. yes or no, if you don't make the next debate stage, will up stay in the race? >> i think we have to have that conversation as a campaign. i do think this is a turning point in my entire campaign. we need the surge. we need the support...

Companies, too. it's a very kind of straightforward thing. you understand why someone is from ethanol because the soybean growers corn growers are giving money, i get it. the marijuana issue specifically is cloaked in the language of freedom. and coolness. and so we don't think of it as a quid pro quo as a payoff. that's clearly what it is. >> right. and i think that to a large extent there is obviously a real issue with the justice of people sitting in jail for sort of nonviolent drug offenses. >> sure. >> that's right. what you want to do is go to full scale nationwide legalization and permi...

Tons of republicans take money from creepy big companies too -- it's a straightforward thing. you understand why someone isec for ethanol because the soybean growers, the corn growers are giving money, i get it. but the marijuana issue specifically is cloaked in the language of freedom and coolness so we don't think of it as a quid pro quo, as a payoff but that's what it is. >> i think to a large extent there is a real issue with the justice of people sitting in jail for these nonviolent drug offenses, that is right. when what you want to do is go to full scale nationwide legalization and perm...

On it if pot is, indeed, a gateway drug it. could result in another tax on the system. >> yeah. we traditionally see that i think for me i'm always for voters making the decision in terms of the marijuana issue. brian: put it on the ballot first, right? >> that's exactly right. so voters are making a decision. president trump has said that he would be open to having that discussion because we know there is a number of states that are receiving revenue and they can't put the money people providing or selling it can't put it in banks because it's against federal law. voters making the decisions ...

In colorado last year. so it's not just a little bit of pocket change. this is a lot of money out of the system in the shadows. it's trying to bring it out of the shadows into the system. >> senator gardner, this is sam stein in the daily beast. you stood up to attorney general jeff sessions on the marijuana issue basically saying you won't get anyone appointed to the department of justice unless you rescind this memo. i'm wondering if you will stand up to him on a separate issue, the issue of separating children from their parents who come here from other countries at the border. the administ...