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Watching the parents outside of their there is a woman who traveled she is visiting her visiting her sister-in-law she comes from a place i just to shooting recently and now she is standing outside of the school because her sister-in-law's kids good at school. it's a blight on the country. i very much appreciate the press conference and the contrast won't went on a new faulty for those officers stood back and these officers ran right in their knowing full well that she was armed to the gills. i was prepared to die for this. it speaks very well of them i agree with greg about the reporting issu...

Politicians. they always talk about homelessness is is a low housing problem. no, it is a drug addiction and mental illness problem. rather than addressing mental illness and building synchrpsychiatrichospitals whero for long term stays in treatment and addressing it that way, they will talk about how we need to build more housing. how we need to send checks to people, that never solves the problem. >> harris: there is also a hunger problem in this country pair we have a tremendous amount of people who don't eat everyday. let alone three meals a day, they don't get one. and we really saw this ...

>> well, i mean, listen, people snap all over the world, right? america isn't the only place with people whose brains are breaking. we are not the country with more mental illness than other countries. in this country we have a fetisi z ation of pep weaponry and easy of access to the tools of mass murder that people have moments of mental crisis and have easy access to weapons. other countries just don't allow that. so i'm all for spending more on mental health, in fact, the gun bill we passed last year put 50 billion additional dollars into mental health. i never thought we would solve our gu...

This is a mental health crisis we are dealing with right now. so what do you make of what i tried to argue today? >> two things -- one is -- one is it is not true. the only reason we didn't see -- we saw a break of about ten years where he we did not have the number of mass shootings that we have had since the last -- since 2004 and that is because bill clinton passed an assault weapons ban, with the help of a democratic and republican congress. and during that time- the rates of mass shootings dropped substantially. but the other is if you look across cultures, you know, the countries in cana...

Frisbee outside and he said to his son, can you watch out for the needles. that's a really strangeri thingo say to a 10-year-old. >> tucker: is horrifying. thank you for that first hand report from what was the prettiest city in our country. it's great to see you tonight. thank you.ig >> all right. >> tucker: michael has thought a lot about the subject. you just wrote a piece arguing it's time for california to declare a state of emergency over homelessness. thanks very much for coming on. so what would that -- i don't think anybody watching the show needs to be convinced that there is an emer...