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Said, but at what point does this give way to other controlled substances? >> chris, we were having this conversation with the attorney general at a veterans' drug court in roanoke, the second such court in the country, and there was some moving testimony there yesterday that the attorney general wanted to highlight of veterans that struggled with substance abuse and his point is these veterans who serve and come back, if they have a personal problem, a social problem, we should first try to treat it that way and use incarceration as a last resort. and he likened that to the approach to mariju...

And ask my panel a question as well. dorian, part of the thing i love about this story is how often can we just say, there's a social problem. oh, look, here are some people who have solved it. not who have founded an organization, but, just, yeah, they figured it out, they solved it. they made sure the folks had housing and wraparound services. is this a model, given everything we spent the top of the hour talking about, how difficult it was to get things done, is this a model for getting things done? >> absolutely. this is a model for solving intractable social problems. they made a commitme...

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Avoid certain people when the odds are this group might be more dangerous than another group. jesse jackson said when i hear footsteps at night, i turn around and see white people, i'm relieved. >>steve: where do we go from here? how do we wrap this up? >> the problem with the country, the number-one social problem are kids raised without fathers. in the black community 75% of kids are born outside of wedlock. 85% of black kids at some point will be in a home without a dad. name your social problem, whether crime, drugs, and it is kids born in a fatherless home. obama said if you grow up in a ...

>> well, it's an impossible slope because if you bail out detroit, you're going to be bailing out every city. this is just something that it's going to be a natural progression. things will probably happen, but it's going to be a rough time. you look at their unfunded liability, their unfunded pension liability, it's so high that michigan would have a hard time with it, and michigan is not having such an easy time anyway. so detroit is really -- the governor of michigan is doing an excellent job. he's incensed at what happened. we have other cities like it. we have many cities that are as bad ...