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About your father's death by suicide when you were 18. you've talked about how he came back from world war ii and had physical and i motiemotional scd struggled with alcoholism and depression. when you were at home growing up. i just wonder how that experience in your family has impacted your view when it comes to mental health in america. >> ana, it is very painful. i mean, i can feel like it was yesterday. that is the truth. my dad, i mean, he was a decorated war hero. he fought in the battle of okinawa. he volunteered after pearl harbor. it was in the whole war and he lost half a leg to a g...

>> was it ptsd? >> it was ptsd, for sure. i watched his decline. he was an officer in the united states army. a lieutenant. lost half his leg to a japanese grenade. i remember i saw his physical struggles, but that paled in comparison to the emotional struggle. he spiralled downwards. he became an alcoholic. this is a guy who was a good man, a strong man, a man who served his country with pride. but there was not a medical system, a healthcare system and a mental health system there to catch him and help him. we have a long way to go. i have to tell you, i thought about it a lot and my wife in...

Is it strategy? is it ptsd from 2016? >> why not do a little dance? kind of end zone celebration. >> or just pat yourself on the back that you ran on health care, policy at a time when a lot of people are debating whether or not policy gets through with all the tumult and all the sort of junk in the system that trump -- they ran on a policy message. was complicated, about preserving obamacare, and they won. >> they don't know who is in charge, which is part of the problem. as we see the battle for house speaker kind of coalesce and it looks like nancy pelosi will win out, but she's also going ...

Every week, they are going through depression. i don't call it ptsd. i call it ctsd. it's continuous. we look to leaders to figure out ways to solve this problem. what do we get? we get the mayor who shut down all of the merge health facilities in the urban communities. well get no funding for schools to have clinical staff to deal with these issues when students need some help in school. so what snaps they go to the streets and the just as tremayne said, it create morse trauma. >> there is not an expectation that people of color in urban communities deserve or are even prepared to accept thes...

Different role than it trook, but i ended up changing my life. they are going through depression. i don't call it ptsd. i call it ctsd. it's continuous. we look to leaders to figure out ways to solve this problem. what do we get? the mayor that shut down all the urban clinics, no funding when students have issues in schools. what happens? they go to the streets and the justice said it creating more trauma. >> there is not an expectation that people of color in urban communities deserve or are even prepared to accept these kinds of resources. you mentioned ptsd. yes, those are returning soldier...