that speaks for donald trump? th? say, pastor berber, he slapped the bible in the face of god. he prayed to god, and then he threw in jesus christ, as a palestinian jew. jesus was from the tribe of the son ofue jew, god. clinton stands against evangelicals, against catholics. she stands against all godly principles. i will be voting for donald trump. your statement about hillary clinton standing against catholics and evangelicals, are you referring to the e-mail between her staff?

caller: yes, you should know this. clinton when he first ran. i did not vote for him when he ran the second time mainly because of the partial-birth abortion. the baby is half born, they put a solution into a needle, poke it into the back of his neck, run it up into the brain, and turn the baby's brain to mush. when he signed that into law, i thought there is no way. host: we will leave it there so that david brody can give us his thoughts. guest: connie actually represents a lot of what evangelicals are thinking. on the abortion issue, we hear this a lot. they believe donald trump will appoint pro-life supreme court nominees. they look at mike pence and they see a pro-life dedicated

believer. they are very comfortable with that. mike pence did a lot for this ticket with evangelicals. talk about having cover. that is major cover for donald trump beyond the fact that donald trump has actually come out with a list of supreme court nominees, many of them showing pro-life cleaning. connie -- leaning. connie is pointing at this underlying issue, that abortion is a major part of the calculus. host: jim in florida. what are your thoughts this morning? caller: my statement and question would be, i think we are all missing the ball with the moral issues. what we need to concentrate on is the banking issues, what was said at the bankers meeting. they need growth to sustain this house of cards. is, they are going to do

instead of doing the hard work and going down and stimulating growth in the western hemisphere by investing in infrastructure, they will that open borders, all of these people into this country, and then we will support them through social programs. what will happen is the american taxpayer will have to pay for this growth through their taxes. then all the bankers will come in and sign this money up. all of this other stuff is nonsense to deflect us from where the real issues are. ifust want to know evangelicals are going to come out and vote on financial issues , which will really affect them. the same with millennials. they will be left holding the bag. instead of a rocking the vote, they will be rocking their parents basement. in 2012 wrote a book about how evangelicals and the tea party are coexisting, how that relationship works. the big issues for evangelicals is the moral issue of the debt and the deficit.

yes, evangelicals care deeply about the deficit. it is not just about the life issue, the marriage issue. yes, those are important, but it is much wider than that. i also think it's interesting, we heard from connie, sounds like a trump supporter, and then we hear from jim who is talking about trade, progrowth, the economy. now we are starting to get a sense of how donald trump is going beyond traditional lines, traditional political lines. that is a bit dangerous for the hillary clinton campaign. i was talking to a democrat strategist who says they are extremely worried about this silent majority that is out there. the polls may not pick up, but will there be a surprise on election day? i think it is a deep concern within folks inside the hillary clinton can't. host: so you are doubting what "the wall street journal" put on

their front page, that trump's path diminishes. he is trailing in battleground states. guest: not at all. obviously, the polls are the polls. i'mt of all, two things, telling you when democrat strategist are telling me, number one, so it is their words, not mine. there is a concern about these online polls. yes, some of them are fly-by-night. but they also represent anonymity. anonymity could potentially be translated as the closet trump motor. we run into many across the country. we have been on the ground and we are hearing from these closet trump voters from california to maine who say, don't tell

anybody but i'm voting for trump . it will be interesting to see what that polling looks like. host: do you think that has at all changed since last week when the 2005 tape came out on friday? find out.uess we will we are seeing some full that there is some movement and it's not good for donald trump. the best news for the trump campaign is that there is still three weeks to go. in this crazy race, anything can happen. --could literally be talking our interview may be dated in an hour because we just don't know what shoe is next to drop. talk to joet to mccutchen in georgia who is an evangelical and calls into the show religiously every 30 days. no pun intended. caller: thank you, greta. love c-span p i have been calling over 30 years.

there is a minister here who is also the barbecue king. there are 26 million small businesses in the country. we are working with them to vote for donald trump. a lot of them are evangelicals. bringing up what you said, i see nearly all of them for donald trump. i call in on all the talk shows. and getting calls from all over the country from small business people who are evangelicals voting for donald trump. i don't think the major media has picked up on this. i predict, and steve moore says this, the 26 million small businesses in america will elect donald trump. i fully believe that to be the case. guest: that is what i'm hearing on the ground as well. and it is all anecdotal. we are never quite sure exactly how this translates into real votes. there is a group called the american renewal project, run by

an influential evangelical organizer, who is doing quite a few of these events. he is getting pastors in a room. donald trump spoke to this group in august in orlando. basically, these are pastors who are going back to their flocks to not talk about donald trump, but how it's important to speak up about the judeo-christian principles in this country, and that it is a duty to vote, not a right. that has been a lot of the talk. i know the faith and freedom coalition is on the ground. the republican national ,ommittee is on the ground knocking on doors, doing phone calls. yes, were the comments he said "it?"5 recover froman

that. donald trump has an interesting play here, the mainstream media card. in the next three weeks, what he could do systematically -- and he has already started to do it -- with the new york times story, and now it is october, not august. he can make the case to his >> we take you live to cleveland where president obama is campaigning for hillary clinton. [applause] ♪

ohio!ent obama: hello, [applause] president obama: thank you! thank you so much. , cleveland! [applause] the head of the airport here pointed out that in 2012, one of our last rallies was right here. some of you might have been there. i have to say, it was an amazing

rally, everyone was so , still fired up. since i've been in cleveland, this time, it seems like there excess of success. [applause] president obama: i don't know what happened, exactly. did something happen here in cleveland? [applause] did lebron have something to do with it? [applause] president obama: congratulations com, everybody. [applause] could everybody

please give jackie a big round of applause? [applause] president obama: we have some outstanding members of congress who are here. [applause] president obama: your outstanding mayor is here. [applause] president obama: although he is campaigning elsewhere in the state, i want to make sure we give a shout out to your former governor and the next u.s. senator from ohio. [applause] president obama: i love you back. thank you. [applause] this will bema: one of the last times i visit cleveland as your president. i will come back to cleveland.

i will just go to a game. [applause] understand,ama: michelle and i cannot our lease was only eight years. we are making sure we didn't sure boy china, making hasn't ruined too many carpets. we want to get our security .eposit back we ar we are blessed to have your support all these years. i remember when i was campaigning here. of a long the midst war putting an enormous burden on our families come in the early days of what would turn out to be the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, you had

all kinds of challenges from health care to climate change where we weren't even pretending to do something about it, we were just kicking the can down the road. , eight years ago personi wasn't a perfect , i wasn't going to be a perfect , but what i guaranteed you was that i would work every single day as hard as i could to make sure working families all across this country got a better deal. [applause] president obama: and you gave me the honor of serving you and eight years later, we have fought our way back from recession, we have helped our auto industry set new records, our businesses have turned job

losses into 15 million new jobs. we have slashed our dependence on foreign oil. hang on, young men. come on, sir. come on, everybody. chant.o our little "hillary"] right, i obama: all think were ok now. i noticed this has been happening everywhere. you have to organize your own rallies. if you are confident about the other guy, just go to his rally. i feel confident about my candidate.

that's why i'm at this rally. [applause] president obama: you don't have to spend time over here. go knock on some doors for your guy. that's a better way for you to spend your time. unless you're just being paid to be here. hey, everybody has to make a living. where was i? when we were in a tough situation. because of your resilience, because of your faith in each other, in this country, we have slashed the unemployment rate in half. incomes are rising again.

incomes went up last year by the largest amount that has ever been measured. poverty is falling. last year, poverty went down faster than any time since 1968. people have health insurance who did not have it before. the uninsured rate is now at an all-time low. we brought more of our brave troops home to their families. we deliver justice to osama bin laden. marriage equality is a reality in all 50 states. measure, ourry wasomy is better than it when we came into office. just true across the country, it is true right here in ohio. look at the auto industry. back whenlat on its

we came into office and now is selling the best cars in the world and is doing as well or better than ever before. that means there are hundreds of thousands of folks here in ohio that have benefited. we've been busy. -- you wanttell you me to tell you? all that progress goes out the window if we don't make the right choice right now. and it shouldn't be a complicated choice because it's ishoice between somebody who as qualified as anybody who has and run for this office somebody who has proven himself unfit to lead or represent this country that we love.

before, democrats and republicans have always had their differences, and that's a good thing, that is how democracy is supposed to work. when i was running against john mccain and mitt romney, we had serious disagreements in debates about economic policy and foreign policy and social policy. those elections were close. i thought i had the better argument and i would be the better president. but i could have seen either one , notem serving honorably embarrassing us on the world stage. they would have engaged in legitimate debates and normal democratic processes. but that is not the case with today's republican nominee. temperament,ve the

he doesn't have the knowledge, he doesn't seem to have the interest in acquiring the knowledge or the basic honesty that a president needs to have. that was true before we heard him talking about how he treats women. , vote.oo that was true when he talked about how muslims are unpatriotic or how mexicans were rapists or when he made fun of somebody who was disabled or talked about our veterans and our troops and goldstar moms. you don't have to be a husband or a father to know that that kind of language, those kinds of thoughts, those kinds of actions are unacceptable. they are not right.

you just have to be a decent human being. for those of you who do not hear michelle yesterday -- [applause] talk about what it meant to her, i could not be prouder of her. yesterday, this is why i married her, to improve my gene pool. [laughter] [applause] president obama: so my daughters would be smarter than me. she was speaking up for women, about theinking lessons we are teaching the next talkingon, she was also know welf of men who are better than this, who don't want to teach our sons the kinds

of things we've been hearing on television, that believe that one of the measures of any society is how does it treated women?- treat its are you treating them with dignity and equality? betterbelieve we are than what we've been hearing, the good news is there something we can do about it. right here in ohio, a battleground state. ohio is always close. you can vote, vote early right now. only voting started wednesday. i know everybody here is early voting. because otherwise, you wouldn't be here. if you stood in line to get in this rally, you have enough

sense to go early vote. for those of you who may not be , you don't even know if you're registered, go to ohio vote.com/locate. voting find the nearest site. iwillvote.com/locate. you don't need to wait until election day. au have a chance to reject dark and pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other or turn away from our role in the world. you can reject the politics of fear and resent and blame and anger and hate.

you can choose the america we know ourselves to be. a country full of courage and optimism. a country full of generosity and ingenuity. we've got real challenges. when i ran acres ago, i said we will not solve everything in one presidency. that's when i ran eight years ago. there are students still trying to figure out how to pay off student loans that. there are parents who are still concerned about caring for a sick child or worried about whether or not they will be able to keep their home. everybody is worried about political gridlock all across the country, people are concerned about the possibilities of increased racial division, there are pockets of ohio and pockets of america where they have not recovered from factory closures,

there are young people who are worried about whether they will have the same opportunities we've had. i have traveled all 50 states, i have talked to hundreds of thousands of people. more thane seen anything else is everything that is good and right about america. i have seen people working hard, i've seen people start businesses, i've seen teachers teaching kids, taking money out of their own pockets to make sure they got school supplies, i've seen doctors out there serving the indigent and poor making sure they have health care, i have seen our men and to make uniform serving sure we are saved, i've seen police officers and a law responders and first who run into danger instead of run away from it. i've seen young activists who call on us to live up to our

highest ideals. i see a young generation that is full of energy and ideas and is not going to be held back by what is right now but will seize what ought to be. and i see most of all, americans of every party, every background come every faith who believe we are stronger together. all of us pledging allegiance to that same flag, that is the know. i know -- america i there's only one candidate who has devoted her life to that mission and that is the next president of the united states, hillary clinton. [applause] president obama: her opponent has made it pretty clear, he

will drag this election as low as it can possibly go. he figures if he makes our pat -- don't fall for it. i'm telling you right now, hillary is one of the smartest, toughest, best prepared, most experienced person ever to run for this job. [applause] news nothingma: that completely prepares you for what it's like to manage a global crisis or send a young person to war. hillary's been in the room when those decisions were made. she has been a first lady, a senator, my secretary of state and she has worked tirelessly and diligently and she has listened to the american people, she has done her homework, she has performed, she knows what

, forions a president makes , worker who needs a good job even in the middle of crisis, payseeps her cool and she everybody the proper respect. most importantly, no matter how tough the arts, no matter how much people try to knock her down, she doesn't point fingers hine for talk about how everything is rate. she works hard and gets the job done and never quits. she doesn't quit and she doesn't make excuses. [applause] president obama: isn't that what you want from the president? -- heced her opponent

seems to be in the middle of the game making excuses all the time for why he might be losing. it's always interesting to see folks who talk tough but don't act tough. if you are tough, you don't make excuses. you don't start complaining about the rest before the game is even done. you just play the game. that's what hillary clinton is doing. she's out there playing the game. she's fighting every single day to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake. that's what she's doing. there is not a person out there who's been more qualified to serve as our president, that includes me and that includes bill.

.he will be great at it she has real plans to address the things she's heard from you. ideas to invest in new jobs, ideas to make sure fewer jobs move overseas, to make sure that jobs come back in places that have been abandoned, to invest in our people and put kids in preschool and put students through college without taking on a ton of that. -- takingon of debt on a ton of debt. her opponent is picking fights with everybody in his own party. hillary's been talking about what we need to do to fight climate change, she's put forward a child tax credit that ,ould help millions of families

she wasn't complaining or whining or fighting. she was just doing the work. that's what you want from a president, someone who's going to sit there and do the work for you. [applause] her opponentma: doesn't make specific plans. ask his supporters right now, it would be hard for them to describe what exactly they were going to do. he says he is great at making deals. i don't know a lot of people who operate a casino and managed to lose almost a billion dollars in one year. whence. the house you know that saying, the house always wins? unless he owns the house. then, it loses billion dollars.

know a lot of people that use that failure to avoid paying federal income taxes. he says it makes them smart. it means he's not doing what all of us as citizens should be doing. which is giving back to our and ournd our veterans roads and our schools and making sure that america continues to be the greatest nation on earth. that is part of citizenship. not trying to weasel out of your responsibility. and then you want to lead the country? you will teach everybody how to avoid doing the responsibility? crisised for a housing because it might help his real estate situation. he said that's called business.

filed for bankruptcy six times stiffed small businesses that he owed money. isn't theconcern family in foreclosure or the small business just trying to make ends meet, you would rather make a buck off their dreams but not be honest on the other side tothe deal, you cannot claim lead this country, you are not fit to be president of the united states. fromgetting some support some working folks. seven years on this earth showing no regard for working people that 70 years -- on this earth showing no regard for working

hasn't supported the minimum wage or invested in poor communities and suddenly, he's going to be the champion of working people? come on. come on, man. [laughter] [applause] president obama: in a speech yesterday, he started talking global elites, the conspiracy of global elites. who spends his time hanging around trying to convince everybody that he's a global elite. talking about how great his rich bestoare, how -- now, he's acting like a populist out there. saying i'm going to work for working people. come on, man. you want to know what someone's going to do? look what they've been doing their whole lives.

if you want a leader who values hard work and respects working americans, if you want higher wages and a fair tax code and equal pay for women and stronger regulations on wall street, you should vote for hillary clinton. [applause] president obama: if you want to know who's going to keep you safe in a dangerous world, the choices even clearer -- choice is even clearer. hillary won't have to resort to torture or ban entire religions from our country. andhas the knowledge experience and temperament to be the next commander in chief. you can't have a guy who's insulted pows and attacks goldstar moms and calls our troops and veterans week and cozies up to dictators and tells our allies we might not stand by upir side unless they pay

first. he may be up at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, but it's because he is whoting insults to somebody got under his skin. that's not somebody you want. he is not fit to be commander-in-chief. and not fit to lead the world's greatest the moxie. who threatensdy to kill his political opponents or silence the media. -- threatens to jail his political opponents or silence the media. some nations to operate that way. do operate that way. they are tyrannies and oppressors. they are not the world's greatest democracy.

we have fought against those kinds of things. we talk to other countries and say in a democracy, you cannot just threaten to jail your opponents. there are things called due process. in a democracy, you cannot just an reporters or press that you don't like. there's this thing called the first amendment. [applause] president obama: in a democracy, concept if you lose, you say congratulations and move country and our system of government is bigger than any single individual. that's what we do. the united states of america has always stood for something better. , is part ofe way

why i'm disturbed about republican elected officials who know better but are still supporting this guy. in part, what's happened here is over the last eight years, republican officials who know better -- they are sane people, normal folks, but what they've done is they've allowed a lot of crazy talk to be pumped out again and again through all kinds of these media outlets, conspiracy theories, i was born outside this country and hillary and we areed isil going to impose martial law and take everyone's guns away and

crazier stuff than that. a lot of republican elected officials have stood by, a lot of house members, a lot of and theystood by didn't say anything because it was a way to rile up their base and mount opposition to whatever we were trying to do. of theme, because a lot hard-core republican partisan voters were just hearing this stuff over and over again, they started to believe it. that's what allowed donald trump suddenly to emerge. donald trump suddenly didn't build on this conspiracy stuff. build allsuddenly

this conspiracy stuff. even during the course of this campaign, they didn't say anything. i know some of them now are walking away. long?d it take you this you said you are the party of family values. you weren't appalled earlier when he was saying degrading things about women? when he was judging them based ora score if they were a two 10? that wasn't enough for you. it wasn't disturbing enough for you when he was saying mexicans come here are rapists? or suggesting that people, patriotic americans of the islamic faith somehow are suspect and should be treated differently? that wasn't enough?

i'm glad that some of them now say wow, that's really bad, i guess we need to walk away. if you are doing it just for political expediency because you are looking up old numbers and you say this might get me in trouble, that is not enough to andooking at poll numbers you say this might get me in trouble, that is not enough. you standthat silently when you nominate a guy a guy he admires is the former head of the kgb? if you say you are about the are opposed and you to what obama is doing with executive action because that tyrant, but you are ok with a guy who says to his opponent in the middle of

the debate, i will for you in jail -- throw you in jail, how does that work? it doesn't work. i want everybody to understand what is at stake here. one of the things i've learned these past eight years is that progress is hard. you have to battle it out. it's not always perfect and you have to work to make it better and you take two steps forward on something like climate change, there will be folks who try to push you back the special interests are strong. the country is so often divided along party lines, it is very hard to get folks to compromise. hillary understands all that. is if youlso knows

stay at it and work hard, good things can happen. in a democracy as big and diverse as this, we cannot demonize each other. refused toust compromise, even when we are right, we have to work with other folks. she knows you have to listen to each other. and see ourselves and each other and fight for our principles. she believes there is common ground out there. she believes we can and should conduct ourselves better. that our leaders will not be perfect, but we should aspire to at least express the decency and goodness of the american people, not our worst impulses. we should conduct ourselves with just a basic sense of what this country is about. a certain sense of dignity. that is not always flashy, that doesn't always grab headlines,

that's not always the thing that will get you on the news, that's not always on a tweet. politics doesn't always lend itself to that. , we have torogress work for it. we don't always get 100% if we want -- of what we want. decades after decades, progress happens. ask all those autoworkers right who had been laid off and thought their plane was going to shut down and now, they are working double shifts because we are cranking out some of the cars. as the proud marine who no longer has to hide the husband that he loves. gettinge young person more help now to pay off student

loans. change is possible. it doesn't depend on one person, it depends on all of us. young people especially out there, i want you to know, you've been through a lot, you have grown up through war and recession and all caps of -- allble change, kinds of incredible change, but i see in you, the best of america. you are trying to look out for each other. about being open to the world, not turning away from it. i know you believe in inclusive society and innovative society and vibrant society. you believe in democracy. i see the same values in you that have always driven this country forward. decency and honesty and hard work and stability. they are timeless values that buying this country together. doesn't bind this country

together -- they are timeless values that bind this country together. even though sometimes our democracy can seem mean-spirited , you have a chance right now to reject that. that kind of politics. you have a chance to reject the politics of fear. you can back up the politics of hope. you have a chance to elect a woman who spends her entire life trying to make this country better. don't fall for the easy cynicism that says your vote doesn't matter. don't fall for what trump tries to do and just make everybody depressed. don't believe it. i promise you, your vote counts. your vote matters. there was a time when folks couldn't vote. guess the number of

jellybeans in the jar to vote. the number of soap bubbles on a bar of soap to vote. folks were beaten to vote. folks risked everything to vote. this election, whatever issue you care about, it could not be easier for you to vote. you care about equality, you need to vote. in thefelt the bern primaries, you need to vote. you can vote for somebody who will fight like heck for working people. minimume we've got a wage rates, equal pay for equal work. you care about criminal justice reform and civil rights, you can foughtr somebody who has for civil rights or for somebody -- if you care about

the environment and climate change, you can vote for somebody who i thinks it's a hoax or somebody who believes there something called science and we should pay attention to it. if you care about immigration see thisd you want to nation continue as a nation of one, you have to get out there and vote. [applause] donald trump's: closing argument is, what do you have to lose? the answer is everything. on the progress we've made is on the ballot. stability is on the ballot. -- disability is on the ballot. courtesy is on the ballot. -- civility is on the ballot.

courtesy is on the ballot. kindness is on the ballot. all the progress we made the last eight years is on the ballot. democracy itself is on the ballot right now. if you want to send a message, make it loud. turn back the voices of ignorance. send a message of progress, send a message of hope. send a message by voting for hillary clinton and show our kids and the rest of the world we were made in the greatest country in the world. thank you, everybody. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] ♪

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>> president obama exiting the rally for hillary clinton here in cleveland here on c-span. we will be bringing you paul ryan later today. headline, ryan tuesday or 2016 back to the issues. they say in a speech to college republicans today, the speaker test gop scrambles to keep control of congress. the former 2012 gop vice presidential nominee will make the place that hillary clinton's progressivism is a field approach that will do little to fix the nation's problems. approach -- is a failed approach that will do little to fix the nation's problems. more campaign 2016 debate coverage.

two senate races, the wisconsin senate race tonight with ron johnson against russ feingold tonight at 8:00 eastern and after that at 10:00, the nevada senate debate, joe heck and catherine cortez vying to replace harry reid. debates tonight here on c-span starting at 8:00 eastern. c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. every weekend, otb brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. -- book tv. book tv is live from the southern festival of books in nashville. the festival features over 200 authors from around the country.

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and the collision of race and sports in the south, marjory wentworth, herb fraser and , and 9:00 p.m., afterwords with sarah goldring on her book "paying the price." she is interviewed by lisa, former president of city university of new york. than half andss sometimes even maybe only 30% of the total cost of attending college. the real hangup students have are the needs to pay rent and buy food and they cannot do those things in the same way when they are in college because they need to spend time in the classroom. wes those kinds of things talk about tripping them up. it wasn't the tuition and fees.

for the www.c-span.org complete weekend schedule. a lynch talks about how to improve relations between police and the communities they serve. the justiceks about department decision to begin tracking the use of force by police across the country. >> thank you all for coming to see me. [laughter] in the interest of transparency and full disclosure, it's appropriate to let everyone know that we do know each other. we did go to college together. we were not hanging out at the club. not that we could afford it. everybody know come at we do know each other, but this is a professional conversation, we will talk about policy. this is a treat for me. i think everybody knows that after a very interesting process

, you began serving as attorney general at the end of april of last year. that was six years into the obama administration. i'm interested to know what they told you your mandate was when you arrived. >> what is particularly exciting is to be here in october, two years ago this month that i began having conversations about whether or not i would be in this position. i often stop and think about that. i talked to people about this position. we were so committed to making sure that the last two years of this administration were as .roductive as any two years

overall to people? it was exciting to me. michel martin: >> as you know, eric holder had couple stints at doj, he served in the justice department 80% of time on t criminal justice. when he came back as attorney time on e spent 80% of terrorism. i'd like to ask you, how do you

time?your loretta lynch: it is a mix. find it hard to put it into percentages, because everyday i touch on everything. michel martin: you're a lawyer, time on a lot of things. loretta lynch: i came back to those time o avoid sheets, every 15-minute calculation. you are right, you always do the envelope calculation of how you're spending time because i want to attention am giving to my priorities and certainly it depends, it shifts, there are times when it is 80 to 100% terrorism, times when it is 80 100% police and community relations, really been a riority of mine since i came on. it was one thing i staked out as sworn rity before i was in. i had time on my hands to think about it. become, i really think, one of the leading issues data and encapsulates so

many issues about criminal ustice and justice overall and not just criminal justice system, but the legal system and not just people's connection to the courts, but people's connection to government at large. all of that, i think, is being played out in the arena of police community relations. that end, you to arrived on the job while unrest as happening in baltimore following the death of freddie gray in the back of a police van. how you ike to ask you framed that problem, that issue, recognizing that many people even people in the room have very different views about is.t exactly the issue loretta lynch: sure. the issue looks different to different people, we come from places and have different perspectives. you are right, the day i sworn of freddie gray's funeral, the first night of violence in baltimore. things escalated. the morning i was sworn in and then that afternoon, my first with the president was on that situation.

it.er i met with my team on it has been an important issue and i think the lens through we'll see so many other issues. for me, particularly having been you know, a as diverse community, a lot of different issues there about policing, about community members, about the minority went to , and when i baltimore, that second week, was how ck me most separate people were in terms of people do see , incidents very differently, but ow united they were in their goals. everyone i met in baltimore was expressing a er lot of pain and frustration and anger, for whatever their source was, ultimately they all came out and said, but, you know, this, is my more city, i love this city and i want to make it better. me, that really began to frame how i looked at those

issues. you ays felt that where find the kind of common ground in a common allegiance to that, then you can build communication. that is how i've tried to frame the issue fwing forward. michel martin: we have limited ime, we'll focus on a few key pillars, i wanted to ask you, when you look at this problem, how do you frame it? primarily f communication? is it one of police misconduct? else?something loretta lynch: i frame it as one, i tend to talk about it in issue f an emotional because it connects people. i talk about frustration and pain. generations of mistrust and i frame it in the because of the fact we're able to see so many law enforcedents of sxment civilian interaction, many resulting in death, it is a time, but i frame it as an opportunity. i also liken it to the civil movement of 50 years ago,

the advent of television coverage of the police dog selma, and birmingham showed the world and the rest of minority ry what the community had been struggling with for generations and it the country, i feel, at that time, to link beyond the and lief over the issue actually get to work on it. i think we are similarly at that now past the 're point of trying to establish that yes, there is a problem, mistrust, yes, there are concerns, everyone sees it now. point i frame a it as an opportunity, an opportunity for community this s, to advance discussion and get involved in police policy and an opportunity up law enforcement to open and own this issue, because you have to own it, accountability and every conversation i have, accountability is the key. enforcement to own this issue and make progress. michel martin: it is an what unity to solve problem?

loretta lynch: opportunity to solve trust, the broken bonds of between law enforcement and the community, particularly minority community. the minority community wants to have a relationship with law because no one wants to be in the situation where, when you feel that you are in you have no one to call. that is the upshot of the pain that we're ion seeing here. it is the combination of people but also rgeted, feeling that there is no one there for them there is no one and that is a feeling that i have always believed nobody in america should have. so, i frame it as a problem of a complete breakdown in many the trust or the very least a frame of the trust relationship. michel martin: today, though, you announced a plan for of data oncollection law enforcement's use of force. would consider this news, we are cover thanksgiving as news

and relevant to our conversation. like to ask you to briefly, if you would, explain this initiative and why now? it is important although people talk about numbers, not the most exciting thing, but in talking about law enforce sxment civilian interaction, if you of the ve a sense numbers of types of interactions it what we're talking about, is very hard to prescribe the problem and find a solution for it. so, the issue of whether or not, for example, law enforcement deaths, deaths of law ians at the hands of enforcement, are they on the rise? have tent with where they been before? is this simply revealing the same problem, seeing it more increase in this this? similarly, when a situation in death, those type of situations lead to mistrust also. a lot of issues that i talk in the th people community, people talk about, it

comes down to issue of respect acknowledgment of individuals and so, nun lethal of force, finding ways to track that, how are people interacting? how is law enforcement interacting with the community? allows us to collect data, we're working on a logistics of getting that up and running. it this rted reporting year with the federal government. when it comes to nonlethal use can rce, the things that have just a corrosive effect, no statute requiring collection of data. we've spent a lot of time through the f.b.i. working enforcement and tribal law enforcement, i would ay, to come up with national consistent standards to gather this nonlethal use of force so look at all the types of interactions that go on etween law enforcement and community members. things you want to know, if you

part situation where one of the country or one police in rtment is having a rise complaints from civilians, by the way they are treated at traffic stops, for example, you know, how does that compare to last year or the year before? what is going on that is leading to this? you want to be able to say, what is happening to officer? end of the shift? is there something there? that data will help us see the policy that can help the problem. michel martin: like an epidemiological approach, i mean, we collect health data, for example. loretta lynch: yes. data is part of it. michel martin: what happens after the data is collected? what do you envision? loretta lynch: we want to make it public, for the general and those who do research and look at policy statute that requires us to collect the data basicallyand custody, says that doj have to keep it, i

said, we're exploring ways to it publicly available and available for researchers and expanded collection of data we're working on that will be essentially we're calling it law enforcement portal, it will be a computerized system, departments using the rmation, same definitions, using consistent standards, we're all about the same thing. that is also something we're looking to make available. know, also in: you occurred on your watch, also, is the death of police officers. loretta lynch: yes. baton rouge, in n dallas, officers were ambush ambushed. dallas, by the way, has been considered a leader in community since those n incidents, others have occurred, how many en enumerate over the last few days, the ones, most recent incident people in law nk enforcement understand is

dangerous, domestic situation, situation, tner something that they certainly talk about within the profess n rofession, but perhaps other people outside don't. how do you -- how do you balance that? chief law enforcement officer of the united states and these men and serve are serving under you. i'd like to ask you, how you are balancing their needs, fears and the rns with those of communities who are expressing needs, feel sxgs concerns, how problem?ee that loretta lynch: i think you have is a nowledge, it opportunity, it is an opportunity, the way we honor the people that we've lost, civil civilians and law enforcement e've lost, honor deaths by using this to have conversations rather to each other, than at each other, to acknowledge law enforce cemetery and dibly difficult dangerous job.

but at the end of the day, both and civilians have the same goal, get home alive and have a safe community, things that we all want. so from the law enforcement lot of ive, we spend a time providing support and by way of for example, bullet proof vests, training how to deal with ctive shooters, we provide support by grant money to hire police officers, we provide grant money toof focus on community policing. the model is one that creates partnership there. and the way that i balance those two is by acknowledging that are genuine feelings of pain and frustration on both sides. know, m my view, you cannot ave a real debate and real discussion by not acknowledging everyone has a point of view and you have to bring it to the table. commonalities there. the same time, we have to members do community understand that law enforcement

members have a dangerous job, be don't want to always perceived of as the danger. o having that conversation or facilitating it is what i'm trying to do, by bringing community members and law enforcement members together. something i spent a lot of time on, also. what do you think this administration has added to that conversation? years ago, if we were to stop random people on the street, they would say the would say, that is a dangerous job. i respect that job. 'm tired of being viewed as a target, however, or like to be more respected, i'm sure if we to speak to law enforcement. again, i come from a policing family, five police officer necessary my family in new york, people who follow my career know this. stop law ou enforcement officers and say, i don't get up in the morning to do a bad job. started this job because i wanted to serve the public. i'm sure they would have said ago, so what is the value-add you think the

obama administration has added this? loretta lynch: value has been to actually get people to work ogether, as opposed to different talking points about each other. you are right, people have made statements and they believe them and an incident occurs, a shooting occurs or use of force apart.and it falls that still happens, but our oal, my goal has been to take people who are upset, who are angry, and say, all right, you law a concern about enforcement in this country, form a council and tell the olice what you think and feel about this. i need you to form a civilian review board. enforcement, i need you to open up your training and invite do that.in, literally that is something i think has attically, not with the focus and attention we're bringing now. gratified at the gratification i've gotten. speaking of : trust, on the other side of it,

t is not a secret, this is an election year. -- as been very tense and what word can i use? one. very fractuous year in which are expressinges a lack of trust in other sectors enforcement, specifically .our department today the wikileaks, you know, ndicates and i know there are issues around how this information was arrived at and i know people take issue with how information was arrived at, let's be honest, as prosecutors journalists we get information from people who are ot our favorite people, having said that, they're one of the pieces of information revealed uggested that a member of the clinton campaign in response to heoncern about hearings said had been in touch with his doj

folks and there was a hearing up.ing this happened in may, on your watch, was it appropriate for anybody doj to have contact with the clinton campaign? loretta lynch: i'm aware of the the articles, seen and i'm aware it has been eported that issue was about a lawsuit that had been pending for sometime and appeared to be bout a request for publicly available information. and so people often do make those requests for publicly information. i don't have any more news for you on that one. michel martin: how are you, you have a candidate who expressed publicly, lack of trust, the issue with is they don't often trust the police to investigate are issueswhen there involving the use of force. conduct, okay. have a candidate who is saying that he does not trust this level of the government to

investigate itself when it comes to matters pertaining to sensitive political issues. that is an issue of trust, how do you address that? specificynch: speak on candidates because of my own restrictions there. sure. martin: loretta lynch: there is enough out there people can look at and see. trust think is issue of about any institution, whether the department of justice or any institution, look at their body work, look how they carry themselves, comport themselves whereas you may not always agree with the result necessary old hing, many time in my job? brooklyn, i had to sit with people and explain why we were bring a case or were bringing a case and deal questions issues and and concerns, look at how you comport it yourself. i think as i've aelz said, i'm proud of the work the department past tice has done in the several years and all the years that i've been affiliated with it. it is staffed by dedicated body f people who spend their time focusing on digging up every

issue they can find to come to about whether some is or is not a problem or how to how to best people, defend the government, how to best advance certain issues and policies. i would say my institution or any other institution, look at how body of work, look they comport themselves, look at ow -- look at influence they have had on the public debate and look for that consistency of look for that level integrity. michel martin: is that advice you give, speaking about the holding your particular position, or are you saying in the institution overall? both, i lynch: i think think both. of ink you in so many areas public life, and very important, ertainly to me, the attorney general, the department focus on most important thing that we do, people.ing the american we do it in so many different an , you know, i was at award program, we cover the

environment, we prosecute people, we defend the we work on policy issues, like we're talking, but know, i gle way, you have tried to make sure that ertainly people who talk to me hopefully focus on the fact we focus on doing the right thing, the direction i've gotten since i was a young lawyer joining this department. i've s the best advice gotten. this is -- only cabinet in the named after an ideal, it means something, means something to me and how we carry ourselves do.what we i talk to young lawyers in the department, i will say to them, cases we more than make, it is people we help. here is always another case, always another investigation, there is another headline n. they erson's life, when are at the end of their rope, the most difficult thing happen to them, that will only happen them once and how you deal with them and interact with them forever.ith them i ask them to been that.

michel martin: so many issues of interest to people, people want to talk about immigration, for example, it is concern to many people and we don't have time to get all the issues, but a do, int question, before i want to ask, how would you given the fractions of the issues, you take a kind of posture, a very dare i say it -- joyous approach, i speaking i see you publicly about these issues. know, some of that is tonal and some is what you say, but also how you say it. advise someone stepping into this chair in the next administration, whoever you person is, how would address at person to the fractuousness, the ubmissiveness, ugliness, if i can use that word, many people

are experiencing over the course of this year? will have to: they find their own voice. not sound hopeful, it is without acknowledging, the pain and frustration that i have experienced in talking with people. i've sat with the family members who have lost their loved ones of police, i've sat with their children. i've sat with police officer's cut down ho have been in ambushes, it is a painful thing. my view is that if as i said before, if we are going to honor lives, all those lives, we have to say, what can we do to move forward. when i travel this country, as i've been fortunate enough to be ble to do over the last 18 months, on my community policing tour, i have sat in meetings people who have very fractured relationships with the sitting at one point in time, where baltimore was last year. were where ferguson was two

years ago and they've made the have a , we're going to better relationship, not perfect, but we are not going to let this defeat us. would say to my successors, obviously find your the oice, never give up on american people, never underestimate the people, the bility of people to find a way out of very difficult, very painful situations into ones make work for themselves. that is really our only option, despair, here in easily do that, put we have an weigation to the communities live, the families that we are raising, the children that we are raising to move this needle it can be done. i have seen it done. people come back, if people in los angeles can sit with their police department and relationship they have been able to engender, not isevery issue, again, no one perfect, we're all human, working our way through the in l.a. ut if people can sit and do that and find

example for as other communities, then this can be done. you know, if communities we're talk to a police officer can say, i opened my arms and my doors of my business the police and i invite them in. they have done this on their done.hen this can be michel martin: well, i'm going to turn to questions now, we ave a number of questions from students about police community relations, we've been talking a to about that, i will turn other issues, if that is okay f. we have time, i'll go back to okay., if that is again, there are so many things to talk about, maybe you'll come again about more stuff. the first question have is from abraham, a freshman. we willant to stand up, say hi to you. coming tion is national out day was this week, how would you characterize president lgbtq rights t on

over the past eight years, as moving forward against north carolina hb 2, do people is?w what that north carolina public facility privacy and security act? oes everybody know what that is? okay. you can work that in. loretta lynch: this is an area proud of this administration for moving the needle on this issue. cannot have a country, even one as great as ours that lives ideals and what we stand for if you are deliberately excluding a huge class of people one of the most basic and fundamental rights we have, the ight to marry, the right to have a family. i really do believe that the how isstructure our families, it up to every individual to determine that. the way in which i think that this administration has been able to work on that issue of the great pride for me. i'm particularly proud the department of justice has such to play in it.le

y predecessor, eric holder, decided as matter of law and policy the department would no against fend defense marriage, the defense of marriage act. we began then working toward ways that we could within who wn doj, enable people had all different types of familys to have every benefit to a family is supposed have. and so i think, you know, you it is simple as injustice anywhere is no friend to justice everywhere. measured by how we treat eople that others want us to excludeor push back or hold back. hb2, obviously it was meaningful to me, that is my home state, north carolina. and to see any state resort to law, something that i have been proud to use as a means of hopefully moving things forward, of really going

backward in time. sanctioned discrimination. michel martin: in may, you said announced the justice department was filing a complaint against north carolina. speaks to law that the access to bathrooms in public buildings. said transgender people, instead of turning away from our friends, colleagues, let us learn from history and avoid repeating mistakes of past. reflect on obvious, but often neglected lesson that tate sanction discrimination never looks good in hindsight, it was not long ago, states, had ding north carolina, signs above restrooms, water ountains keeping people out based upon distinction without a difference. as though you, the commitment you bring to this seems to strike you deeply. others obviously don't make that connection, in fact, we talk to many in the state who support law, who don't see the connection.

what do you see they don't see? when i see,h: well, i will not speak for them, what tried to say to those individuals is, you know, these are your friends, your neighbors, we're talking about a bathroom.st you're talking about the basic rights of privacy and dignity everyone takes for granted, that your own state is saying you don't have. and so many situations i ask people to put themselves in else's shoes and imagine being confronted over their very imagine their identity being denied and how that.would handle and there are people who view that particular law as one that protects people, that certainly way it was cast. i don't think, again, you cannot perspectivehe other is never helpful. people often look at something, aey just look at something in different way than i do, in many instances or all of us do. if i can sort of understand

where they are coming from, then i can see if we can find common ground. michel martin: question from alley. you want to stand up so we can see you? service. foreign alley's question, how do you think donald trump's muslim ban will affect justice in the united states? loretta lynch: okay. question a lot. as i said, only reason why i don't commentr, i on either candidate is because again, the department of justice as to be independent and we stay out of politics. what i can say is that in so areas that are important to doj, we have found it much more productive to work with every community, in particular whether in this chair attorney general, or the u.s. attorney in brooklyn, i found engagement with the arab and muslim community was the est and most effective way to both protect them, along with

my other citizens, under purview, as well as make sure people in that community, people are young not sliding into difficult and dangerous situations. rely on communities, we say, if you see something, say something. people , we are asking to do that about family members. if you see someone live nothing online world of adcallization, say something so and cut that ne cord before it turns into danger. you are talking about a where muslim americans have been targeted, they're the bothms of terrorism, also, here and around the world. e have seen backlashes, whenever you have sometimes highly publicized incidents, you example, bullying of muslim children, particularly if wearing, you will see that happening. we have obligation to protect citizen, i have been

constructive engagement to be more help sxfl much more constructive than mulling off group. michel martin: different question, a little different different. a freshman.ck is are you with us? hello, austin. if you ants to know think the election of judges and prosecutors, i said election of judges and prosecutors result in punitiveness in the criminal justice system f. so, what is alternative? loretta lynch: so there is actually a lot of discussion the years.over t comes up in the context of sentencing in general, in the context of the death penalty, in of studies a number that have looked at differences imposed andlties are how sentences are imposed and the state marily at level. so i think frankly it just depends, it really, always of the judges and the prosecutors and the defense

system also. is hard to say, i think we have certainly seen outstanding judges and do wonderful work. any states are going more to appointed system. even appointment, you have to you have a viously system that is as inclusive as get a e, you representative judiciary and diverse judiciary. ou have a system that frankly is open and is -- isn't closed you might way that think an election is. lot ofink that what is a talk and statistics on that, i tever system a state has, think for me, it is more important that system be as open by having , because different voices on the bench, the same way we have different prosecutors and defense lawyers, then i think you are working toward ensuring fairness. you take a n:

aisa?nal question from law student. how are you? asks what advice for a young black woman about to enter country, sion in the how do i and other women of olor like me navigate this profession to get to the kind of positions of power that you have been able to achieve s. that okay? first, i would say for anyone, but for young the legal entering profession, welcome. welcome. we are waiting for you. [applause] waiting ynch: we are for you and we want your voice and we need your voice. the law is because we are a very reactive profession, part to d for the most clients, to issues, you know, it is behind other professions if look at the statistics, for minoritys and for women. would say is as you enter this profession, first of

ll, the first thing you should to, however, is find the thing in this great profession that you love to do. ultimately you have to be fulfilled and happy in this you are going to explore other options and there are so many things you can do. many great things you can do as a lawyer. i've never regretted it for a moment. so that is why i say welcome. find the thing that you love and things.ferent the advice i always give, particularly young women, young people, young members of minority groups trying to dvance in a system that seems closed is obviously people say find a mentor and all that, that is great. what i have thought works is finding a way in which you can major project, oin a team, work on things, find an area that no one else wants to fix and be the person area.fixes that find a problem and bring that

problem to someone above you, with a solution. nd look for the areas that traditionally have been pathways for people without some of the issues that you see. know, i think law firms are becoming more responsive. active.s are really i saw law firms really respond on issues of diversity when insisted on it. when i have clients who insisted there be women on the team, people of color on the teams, the law firms sit notice.hey take they -- you want to look for situations, as well. found public service was what i loved to do and the benefit was in the office that i chose to go into, there was so much work to do everyone got a chance to had shine. and so your pathway will be but there different, are opportunities there and don't ever let anyone take your always, always own your

though , own your own thoughts, express them, make the people know you are in room. michel martin: question from kahn.ew matthew, stand up. everyone else stood up, stand up. matthew wants to know, with such distrust in law enforce sxment individuals do to support law and order without exacerbating racial tension and inequality? loretta lynch: everyone has to look and see the situation they themselves in. i think there are so many things people can do, speaking out i find supportive of law and order. i think that people who raise hold a nd concerns, mirror up to those of us in law let us know that maybe you have good intentions, you think you are doing a great job. perceived in that way? that is something we have to know. tell people to find the thing that you can work on if that is

the issue of concern for you. 've been in meetings where, whenever i would travel to different cities, and talk about always metolicing, i with high school students because i find high school tend to be, they tend to have the greatest amount of enforcement, law they are walking around and hanging out, whether walking back and forth, whether in places, in areas like mauls, they have a lot of interaction with security force necessary general. that perspective is very would say o me and i to them, do you know any police officers? what would it take for you to a police officer? i ask people what is their biggest concern? that does that. it doesn't have to be joining a something sion or that is big and showy. people often make the most when they work or pick one issue and work on that. go to police to departments and say, you know, i

want to set up a system whereby can see what kind of training you get. can we see two days of the academy? i tell people to do things and those thing dos work, they do work. we have to understand, this is a global issue, it is very, very locally felt. that is where it has to start, where the solutions start. has asked in: no one a question about terrorism, so i'm going to. s we mentioned earlier, your predecessor, talked about just how much of his time and environment was spent on terrorism. thanountries are different they were following 9/11. you prosecuted many accused terrorist. a man planned massive bombing of the federal reserve, the watch for is still on al qaeda-style planned attacks, but we seem to be seeing now are more of these so-called lone wolf attacks. issue. a global i'm interested to know what

changes has the justice to thisnt made to adapt new reality? loretta lynch: yes, it is a new reality. are focused on the large-scale planned attacks, what is happenee nothing europe, in paris and belgium and we're concerned and seen what has happened in the u.s., but as you focus has shifted in for .s. to people who are whatever reason, vulnerable to a online ously powerful presence that sends this radical jihadist ideolodpshgs y into the cloud and hearts and minds of searching for something. we see individuals acting on heir own or with one or two other people in the name of ither isis or other groups and they are more inspired by. more difficult to detect. to focus again on the

engagement with all types of ommunities, with asking individuals, you know, if you see a family member drifting let us know, alert us. we look for patterns of behavior. balance. it is a it is always a balance, also to do this in a way that doesn't on civil liberties, and privacy interests, because that this y important in country. we've had situations where we that balance n correct and we have to work on that, also. a matter of ll again, engage withing our sharing partners and information about what might be going on both overseas and here, learning individuals are contemplating certain things. far hallenge is always how do you go, when you have an ndividual who wants to carry out an act, and how far do you let them go with this. talking to high school

students about this once and at the guy who oklyn, wanted to blowup the federal reserve building. ur policy was make sure that you are clear to this person, you don't have to do this. you do not have to. it is really what you want to do as opposed to you are just talking. do that also, we walk that line, as well. students gh school said, i think you should ask them, do you really, really want to do this. said, look, i understand that concern that you don't want us into this.eone we try to make sure it is their idea. things are a lot of that we do in terms of how we investigate cases, in terms of issues, but it is something that we take very seriously. one of our biggest concerns. while it make its more work on , something we around the clock and still do and still focus on tremendously. what would you consider your greatest success

what in this position and are the areas that you would like to have made more progress in? ou can answer that question looking at the administration on the whole, you know, if you would. you think you have fallen short? if i a lynch: right now, can make that evaluation, i think i certainly have things i going to be tremendous hallmarks of this administration the advances for this administration and the are ry are lgbt rights tremendous and reflect growth in proud of, as ary department and a country. that is something i think will our greatest successes. i think for me, you know, you you want to beat remembered for, you can't control that. iwould hope people would say, did move the needle on connecting police and community could necessary way that lead to change.

nd i think that work isn't done. i don't view it as something we were ever going to finish this problems are these generations old and generations in the making. a framework e left to where this work can continue. that as don't view failing or regret that we didn't solve that problem. hat is part of the human condition in my view. michel martin: i have the speaking with madelyn albright at the very beginning of the obama asked what was i the first thing the president office.do upon taking bay.said close guantanamo [applause] loretta lynch: that is something president is, was and is people d to doing and still work tremendously hard on that. there have been statutory issues in the way of n that, that is true, in terms of

that, i would manage think. that certainly has been a frustration, but still has not third degree administration from working out individuals who no longer need to be there and that in and of itself is part of the success story. and it has not prevent third degree administration from with other countries on only o not only -- not accommodate those individuals from guantanamo bay, but work on rehabilitation programs for them. that is also something that i consider to be a success story. you know, we're all operate in the context, we all operate town, in rly in this conjunction with other forces of so there is a number things that we may not have been we to do to fullest extent would like to have done, but ade tremendous progress on all fronts. michel martin: we have a couple

minutes. what about immigration? difficult, f those emotional issues. it is not just an emotional complicated legal issue, there is shared authority here. loretta lynch: yes. you l martin: are comfortable where with this administration has landed on immigration? oretta lynch: i think the administration has worked long and hard to try and come up with reformhensive immigration and were close to getting it done and did not work in a variety of reasons. and again, that was something there is u know, overlapping jurisdictions, it landed in my lap because it came during my confirmation hearings and time of my is irmation, even though it not totally doj issue, it became process.in my and that is life in d.c., i find. have k that again, we raised issues and kept on the orefront the issues of families, the issues of young people, the issues of

opportunity, the issues of what country do we want to be, keeping that as part of the ramework, how do we welcome people here? there are people born here, people who choose to come here. a great place. ow do we make that as open as possibles safe as possible for everyone in a way that is responsible? frankly grabbing that issue and dealing with it, on engaging with congress it, in what was robust, and discussion, uctive is something i think is this and istration is proud of should be proud of. again, it didn't work in terms f the statute for a variety of reasons, again, that happens. the president moved on his own, is where we got involved in the court fights over that. and pretty ue right now is much stuck where it was with the injunction. unfortunate, we

expressed that view in our pleadings, that we felt this was was legally defensible, legal and appropriate for the time. it would have allowed us flexibility to deal with individuals who needed to stay individuals who needed to be removed in a way that took into the resource drain this presents on all agencies and so this work isn't over, it isn't completed, people will fight, hting this raising this issue. but now when they do so, they context of he looking at everyone who is impacted by this issue. ichel martin: i want to acknowledge teara wilson, the first year law student, you touch og her question. tara, where are you? i want to acknowledge her i stion, it is something think other people are interested in. what legacy do you hope to leave office? leave i think you started to touch on that? loretta lynch: sure. thanks for that. i hope to leave a legacy of

law enforcement and community together tochlt have hard discussions, discussions them.onnect i hope to leave a legacy of protecting the american people whole host of dangers and issues. i hope to leave a legacy of improved our criminal justice system by carrying on a.g. holder started by doing thingos my watch that our system to make more efficient and fair. we support the president's example. project, for we are still working within the on crimes of the smart initiative that a.g. holder set us look at t's dealing with the way in which we and e narcotics cases examine the collateral consequences of the actions, we hold people accountable, but not destroy lives and families. remembered as the attorney general who did count

ustice, not just the cases we made, but the people we helped. michel martin: attorney general, joining us today, i am sure everyone appreciated he opportunity to visit with you. this is billed as exit interview, you are still relatively new, i want to ask how is this different from what you envisioned? loretta lynch: you never know to think when you go into any new job. obviously a lot of policy, a lot of discussions, we spent a lot of time making sure the epartment stays out of the political rangeling on issues. we are responsive to congress on oversight issues we try to be as responsive as possible, but not into the politics, people could have different views on success on that. something we do on i would say that -- michel martin: is it what you would be? loretta lynch: i didn't have preconceived notion on it. michel martin: you didn't want to grow up to be attorney

general? loretta lynch: so many things i to be, so many things i wanted to be. it has been in many ways what i thought, the opportunity to really have a voice on important issues, to really take a stand a statement on transgender rights, on law community issues, policing issues, i had hoped it has been hat and it that n. that respect, it has been what i thought it would be. like martin: what is it being the first african american woman to be chief law officer of the united states? what is that like? mikt you get to carve that way. you carve that way. been a has been, it has great way to bring together so many things i've worked on. lawfact that i have been in

enforcement for over 20 years and the fact also that i have spent a lot of time talking to members of minority community, not just as prosecutor, but as a member of the community. you bring together all aspects of your personality and your xperience in a way, and i'm grateful for that. michel martin: before we let you go, what is your charge to these folks here today? these are your future leaders, they already are. if i could take a moment of personal privilege, i was so project that he one of your classmates has nstituted of recognizing your staff, of giving your staff embers an opportunity to kind of live their dreams. if you haven't read about this project tis called what -- unsung heroes to recognize eople who work in your libraries, your janitorial staff, if i could just take a moment to applaud and congratulate that, what is your charge to them? loretta lynch: my charge to you, this is a wonderful world, you will walk out into it with a lot talent and opportunity and people will tell you, you

know, how to use them and that obligation to use them for good and all that is true. will say is, you do have that responsibility, but what i do is find the thing that you love the most and do it ith your whole heart and you will find not just personal fulfillment, but way of giving to this institution, your community, to the country, to and orld in way that is will move us all forward. ichel martin: attorney general loretta lynch thank you for speaking with us. [applause] >> there will be another couple of n in a weeks. >> thank you so much. >> thank you.

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