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People haven't had enough, that doesn't make me afraid of donald trump, it makes me afraid of people who i share spaces with in restaurants, people who i share work spaces with. the fact that there is a quinnipiac poll that says that 45% of white americans approve of this president even right now based on results that came out today is troubling to me. i'm wondering what will it take for people to stand up to righteousness. this is not a sidebar issue. this is not a distracting issue for someone who is a black american the this country. it is my primary issue. >> it's also not an issue that he...

Unemployment, we talk about the first step act, reauthorization of the second chance act. opportunity zones, pardons. when we talk about all the things his administration has delved into for the african-american community, it something we haven't seen before. this is what's in his first term. when you talk about what do you have to lose, the real question is what do you have to gain, and i think pointing to those many items i just mentioned. >> neil: one of the things the president's comments, go back and then adding in the fight with elijah cummings and by extension al sharpton. i don't need ...

May qualify, let's be clear here, we know how we got to this point and it was the disaster, '94 crime bill pushed by democrats, clinton, democrat party in general, mass incarceration of african-americans. this act which i actually lobbied on last year, to see it come to the into, is something that's restoring justice to the millions of folks who lost their family members. there was a great impact here f we look at the numbers in 2014, 2.3 million african-americans were a part of the prison population accounting for about 34% of the total population. and this act is bringing about real justice ...

Quarter of a million people that are elder in prison that all the data shows pose little threat to us and most are there for egregiously long nonviolent drug terms. you have 65-year-old, 75-year-old people who are expensive to keep behind bars and pose little threat and put in prison under draconian times and even those of us voted for the first step act, which i helped right. they are not made retroactive. i just believe we should have judges start to take a second look at many of these people that are incarcerate and if they find there is no reason to keep them in jail, this includes any vic...

An application for those who served 10 years. >> the idea is really the evidence and the data. we in america have about a quarter of a million people that are elder in prison that all the data shows pose little threat to us and most are there for egregiously long nonviolent drug terms. you have 65-year-old, 75-year-old people who are expensive to keep behind bars and pose little threat and put in prison under draconian times and even those of us voted for the first step act, which i helped right. they are not made retroactive. i just believe we should have judges start to take a second look at...