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The drug problem as a health issue like most countries. if you are adistricted that shouldn't be a criminal offense. if your kid is on drugs you don't say i'm giving you 27 years in prison. that will make it better. but we do that to poor folk's kids. almost only to poor folk's kids. when you combine the fact that you have to have a lot of money when you get in trouble to get out of trouble no matter the underlying facts and the fact that the penalties for drug offenses are so long that's why you have so many people behind bars. >> you've been working with republicans on this and there is a lo...

Medicaid, not to touch medicare. that's what i don't understand completely the disconnect between what the president thinks of this and where republican leaders are. it just does not seem to me this is a bill that this president ran on in 2016. >> it's not. you can go down the list of the promises donald trump made, and it's just objectively you can line them up here and everything he promised to voters in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania he's violated with these bills. and on top of that, eddie, only 14% of americans support these bills. and we don't even have the cbo numbers out o...

Get a reasonable budget that's not targeting people who suffer theer deepest. not creating a budget that puts profits over people. >> tucker: rather than getting to motive, why don't you say, look, the snap program for example, which you support, and i think it is fair to say, we shouldn't cut this and here's why. instead of making gross generalizations about people's ethnicity and skin color, and evoking the shared memories of persecution, which you are doing on purpose, say, look --bo >> this is persecution. poor folk will be persecuted. we are cutting the legal services, so people can't hav...

And in the '60s when bobby was killed he was trying to hold together that demolition coalition of working class people in both groups, white and black. >> he was. at least based on his rhetoric and appeal, i think he was doing a great job. the coalition he was pulling together 82 days into that campaign. unfortunately he lost his life. the coalition he was pulling together is the coalition that essentially re-elected president obama minus the working class white folks who have broken more towards the conservative side. one of the things that happened was the industrial complex and how it gets ...

Military industrial complex and the ways in which we think about the military and how that gets politicized between republicans and democrats and how white folk break from the conservative party. for some reason, all of the new deal policies in the entire social safety net have been very effectively designed to people of color, black folk, and immigrants, as opposed to the very, very real sort of population of poor folk who live in the south who are white also who use social services. there's been a very effective campaign on the right to sort of say that the social safety net is for those oth...