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Similarly, we need to tackle mass incarceration. and this may be the on bipartisan issue in the congress this year. we actually have people on both sides of the aisle who have reached the same conclusion that we cannot keep imprisoning more people than anybody else in the world. but i believe in a tthat the de and the discussion has to go further, anderson, because we've got to do more about the lives of these children. that's why i started off by saying we need to be committed by making it possible for every child to live up to his or her god given potential. that is really hard to do if you ...

Kids or their loved ones being victims of violent crime. look, none of this is easy. none of us has all the answers. but together as a city, we saved a lot of lives. it was about leadership, it was about principle and about bringing people together. >> thank you. >> thank you. nor webb in 2006, you called affirmative action state sponsored racism. given half the democratic party is nonwhite. aren't you out of step where the party is now? >> no. i believe where the democratic party traditionally has been. i decided to run as a democrat, it gives people who otherwise have no voice a voice. tha...

I saw sanders whispering to webb i'll do my best to help you do that. there were those kind of moments i don't think the camera got. >> was there a breakout moment for you, juan carlos, did you see anything there that surprised you? >> i was surprised how they were working together, even though hillary clinton was dominating the conversation. just the way, the demeanor, you could see that senator webb and governor chafee weren't looking at her when she was speaking. but governor o'malley and senator sanders were looking at her all the time. >> i want to show viewers our pictures. hillary clint...

Is too far to the left. it contradicts this other idea she is enemy number one of the republican party. so in that way i think she's trying to accomplish many things i things in that answer the take away we will hear as her being a pragmati pragmatist. >> at the same time she said her enemy is the gop, the republican party. >> so this is sometimes i don't know if it's intellect chum consistency, sometimes she's competing in a democratic primary. other times she's mindful of the election where she goes into battleground states, one of the interesting questions hoy could get things done? senator...

>> thank you very much, governor. senator webb, you have two minutes. >> thank you. people are disgusted with the way that money has corrupted our political process. intimidating incumbent and empowering wall street every day. the turnstile government that we see and also the power of the financial sector in both parties. they're looking for a leader who understands how the system works, who has not been corrupted by it and has a proven record of accomplishing different things. i have a record of working across the political aisle. i've also spent more than half of my professional life away fr...