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In this the united states. there's one variable here, which is the prevalence of guns and the ability of -- now, somebody like nancy lanza, who seemingly had no evidence of mental illness and nothing prohibited her from getting it. could we require locks? there are -- to throw up our hands and say, well, we'll never prevent everything is to suggest somehow that we're helpless against do anything, and i think that's where this president -- even if he fails, thomas, even if he doesn't get anything across the goalline, he knows that health care started thanks to bill clinton. he pushed it over. i...

>> but the sort of the take-away from this discussion has been we need better resourcing in terms of mental health, and i guess i want your opinion on this, seeing as you are deeply involved in the affordable care act. in terms of what's happening on the state level, budgets are being cut, i believe. the national alliance on members of the jury illness says since fiscal year 2009 states have cut $1.7 billion if nundz for state mental health budgets. how does the affordable care act deal with that in terms of dealing with those that need mental health counseling. >> the most important thing tha...

Cut, initially. when you're doealing with someoe who comes in to say they're hearing voices and appears to have mental health issues and talked about isis. how does this fbi determine, okay, we don't need to worry about this person, this is just mental health? >> first of all, they deal with this surprisingly large number of times so they have a pretty good indication of someone even remotely serious but they look into it and look at this person's social media and background and maybe interview family members and at a point where they're learning that he's had a consistent history of mental il...

Half of the people on death row are incompetent, more or less. >> here's a guy, though, who apparently dressed up as a cowboy during the proceedings, called 200 witnesses, among them, jesus. >> yep. >> i don't understand how there was any question that he was, i guess, sane. >> well, yes. and here's a guy who long before these crimes in question was diagnosed with schizophrenia. it's not a situation where you say you're putting on a show to get off, there's a lot of evidence here that this guy had a lot of serious mental illness problems. what we have in this nation now is not a capital punish...