at the very beginning of this crisis the american psychiatric association found that one-third of americans felt it seriously affected their mental health. that reality compounded with the existing prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders make this issue urgent. according to the national institute of mental health, nearly one in five adults lives with a mental illness, ensuring proper supports are in place for families to manage and treat these illnesses should be a priority. so there are 22 bills before us today in many of these have bipartisan consensus. i appreciate you have included the bills that are mentioned in my letter, specifically h.r. 3539, the behavior interventions guidelines act which i worked on with dr. drew ferguson of georgia. we had successful behavioral intervention programs in schools at her states, and that inspired us to work together. for me it was hearing from leadership at texas tech university health science centers and their program to provide 24 behavioral health intervention, and tell the behavioral health services at schools in rural west texas

we should probably point out that the american psychiatric association has a goldwater rule which is that you should not make public statements about safety africa judgments public so you are a member of that group and we've debated this in their meetings and i don't agree with it and there's a substantial minority of members of the a.p.a. that don't agree with it my rationale is that there are some objective publicly known facts that you can make judgments about as long as you're going to get any politically neutral kind of way so in the case of present trump if for instance we can just say that the assumption that he's not a cross there's your baseline he says he's not ok is not but that's a disadvantage in my view because then he would be less realistic and less empathic than might otherwise be and i think that's what we do see a measure we as well actually maybe even me perfectly to my next question because i would understand why people around trying to explain his political expedience here compare him to winston churchill or john kennedy apprehend lincoln you know when you descr

the fact is, the concept of excited delirium is not even recognized by the american medical association or the american psychiatric association. the washington post calls it junk science and reports it stems from an 1849 description of patients with fever and delirium who likely were suffering from infections. the post goes on to report that excited delirium is disproportionately diagnosed among young black men. but i want you to see more of that video obtained by the daily mail from the body cameras that were worn by two of the minneapolis police officers involved in the arrest of george floyd. and i warn you again, the video is disturbing. that's an understatement. it's also extremely sad to watch. cnn's omar jimenez has that story. >> put your hand up there. put your [ bleep ] hand up there. hands on the wheel. hands on the wheel. >> reporter: this partial body camera video obtained by the daily mail showing former officer thomas lane pointing a gun at george floyd within 25 seconds of he and former officer jay alexander king knocking on the door of the car floyd was in. they were responding to a call over a fr