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Your reaction? >> that was funny but not true. when you think about donald trump, let me be very clear from a policy standpoint he has been the most impactful president for african-americans in generations and i say that because i'm a policy standpoint into or 3 years look what he has accomplished, thousands of people released from jail, 90% of them being black, a draconian effect in the 94 crime bill, talk about below unemployment rate which is awesome, opportunities in marginalized areas, and the list goes on and on. this is a president who happens to be a republican a lot of black folks did...

The american medical association said. said, i think you have the opportunity to save a generation from addiction. we know that the youth are attracted to these flavored e-cigs and to those who argue they're effective smoking cessation, the u.s. preventative task force has not found that evidence. so my question to you is, the president hinted weeks ago he might want to ban these flavored e-cigs and yesterday was saying something different. how do you balance all that? >> i think what the american people saw yesterday was a president who is focused on policy issues and focused on the american ...

Fashion. they do not happen as mass shootings, whether it's like in las vegas where i was firsthand in the aftermath of that or parkland. the vast majority are people that know each other or are acts of suicide. do you think that matters as well in terms of the policy solution and the conversation we have about the kind of country we have? we have to keep our eyes focused on that these are actually the anomalies? >> i think that's a very important point. the gun violence in this country, gun homicides or gun suicides in rural communities. but when you look at the fact that 100 people are shot ...

Underlying question here is whether or not we want to decrease the number of people who are having abortions per year, i think a better policy solution would be number one, having a better sex education, starting younger ages. number two, we should also provide perhaps condoms, perhaps plan b pill as an option. perhaps we should provide birth control as an alternative. if you educate people and provide people with better resources, then there wouldn't necessarily be a reason for individuals to rely so much so on abortions. so i think we should get as conservatives smarter about how we address ...

Investment can reduce the rallies, traffic online, the hate and attacks we're seeing. >> the internet has clearly allowed all sorts of information to spread, so it might have been a localized issue or sentiment. people are able to find connections not just across the country but overseas and find solidarity in that. that's part of what the new zealand attacker was trying to do with the manifesto, to get it online, and get it in the hands of people that may rise up and join him in civil war. there's a social aspect of understanding why violence is not the answer to any of the situations, then t...