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So you know we're only looking at federal policing. but we do control the pursestrings. and so we can influence state and local efforts by conditioning grants to reforms. and we're looking at all of that. >> you know, i must say, congresswoman, i think you are the first democrat player i've had on the show, the crew will tell me if i'm wrong and i'll have to call you and apologize, but i think the first one to mention that policing has gotten harder, that as there has been social net breakdown, more and more things are put on their plate that they weren't training. i'm not saying the things th...

You tell me a profession that has the power of policing where police can take away your freedom and take away your life but have virtually no transparency, very little accountability, and 18,000 different ways of going about their job. no other profession functions like that. >> how hard is it for you on your side of the ball here? progressives are pretty hard on not wanting a compromise bill. they did not give you good leverage with all of that defund the police talk. so how do you make them happy and find a deal in here between extremes? >> first of all, understand that in the house of repre...

City, state lawmakers have passed more than 250 policing bills designed to address police behavior, accountability. what about on the federal level? there's a bill named after george floyd yet to pass. negotiations are under way in congress. the floyd family met privately with the president the day after it. they renewed their calls for lawmakers to act. >> we just want this george floyd policing act to be passed. because this is the thing. if you can make federal laws to protect the bird which is the bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color. >> democratic congresswoman...

You're welcome back any time to tell us the state of play. >> thank you. >> be well. >> all right. we'll stay on these questions about how we fix policing, how we get things better, things that are creating division through disinformation, like what else? covid. where did covid start? do you know? i don't know. i do know that everybody is now saying it had to come out of this lab which somehow is a suggestion they did it to us on purpose. so let's go back to zero on this, because i'm trying to make it better and i actually think i was adding to the confusion. let's go back to zero. let's bri...

Net and dumped society's problems on policing to pick up the pieces. mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, a lot of issues that should be handled because they are social, health, and economic issues. so we need to refund communities. in that regard there's a part of the bill where we provide grants to communities to reenvision policing. mental health is huge. if you look at the number of people killed since george floyd was murdered, and it's well over a hundred, and i looked at many of the cases, and a number of them involved people that were having a crisis. now, if we provided...