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And how he wanted to raise his children, and what he wanted for his children. so he probably wanted so much for us that he didn't have that much to offer. so he went to selling drugs. [line ringing] - hey, kim. how are you? - hey, good. do you have a minute? - sure. mm-hmm. - i wanted to touch base with you. i asked you last week to follow up with the parole board for michael thompson. - yeah. - what's going on with that? - well, i haven't gotten any response■ at least nothing that indicates something solid. i sent them another email indicating that it had been three weeks since they had res...

I believe the only, the only one i can depend on was god. and i believed in him, i believed that one day. yeah, i believed in him. and that's what got you through. yeah. like i said, i don't know you, but i appreciate meeting you and you telling your story here. hayley, your thoughts. thank you for having us. and i'm just really happy to be seeing this day with michael. our whole goal is just to put a face to all of the numbers. like there's michael knows them. there's tons of other people that are in just like him. and we just wanted to use the film to kind of bring the humanity to the story ...

I think seeing somebody like michael and hearing his story is, it helps people access kind of this issue a little bit easier. now we're doing that weird tv thing where we talk about you while you're here. but that's that also goes to kyle which is why does it matter to take some that, we talked about this in politics. we talked about this in numbers. sure. why did it matter to you to tell the story as haley was saying through a person? because this is all people is all people in the system. yeah, well, i think you know, with cannabis being legal in a lot of states now you know we've seen a lot...

Hailey and the nonprofit last prisoner project that are doing this amazing work around nonviolent, you know, offenders and when it comes to cannabis and you know, so being able to kind of, you know, it's a, it's a privilege, you know, and also a duty to kind of, you know, be able to get michael up platform because again, a lot of people don't have that platform. so we just tried to you know, do it in the most, you know, honest and authentic way. well, as his known msnbc partnered here to present this, but as a journalist and a lawyer, i really think you did something important. and it took all...

Clemency hearing, we're just restricted to seeing his face and there's a shadow and bars kind of across his face. so that's how we kind of got his that element across, but it's mainly about focusing on michaels humanity. yeah. and similarly, let's also before we go kyle, look at this quiet moment when he does leave prison. final thought from you, some of the most important stories of injustice, are the hardest to tell because powerful forces make them hard to tell. sure yeah, i mean, you know, it was a difficult journey, you know, kind of