applebaum: it's a wastebasket phrase.ce, since so many of the early cases, and some of the continuing cases occur, in police custody and result in death. it's a way of explaining what happened without necessarily bearing responsibility for it. if there's a bad outcome you have a ready excuse at hand. >> dickerson: and as appelbaum discovered, it is disproportionately associated with one sector of the population. >> dr. applebaum: they tend to be young, they tend to be male, and they tend to be african american. >> dickerson: so what are people applying excited delirium to? >> dr. applebaum: large numbers of people who are agitated, and hard to control, often hard for the police to control. >> dickerson: should it be sufficient to just say they're hard to control? >> dr. applebaum: you might want to go beyond that and ask why they're agitated. is this somebody who's intoxicated? is this somebody who is experiencing a psychotic episode? or is this somebody who is just afraid, who's been confronted by the police on a dark st

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. >> so what we have so far out of these conversations, ann applebaum is listening more to the warnings and shore up our relationships which have been tattered a bit and deals that we've pulled out of and obviously doing something about the tech companies and social media and the false advertising and disinformation that has just run rampant through these companies that have really taken over certain areas of the population with disinformation. but what about shoring up our democracy as it pertains to the constitution and the attorney general, how the attorney general perhaps is checked and balanced. masha and then annen, i'm wondering are there steps that need to be taken in terms of policy or process given what we've been through? >> we certainly have to think about -- and as anand said, trump has stressed us at every part of the democracy. we have really come to see what we entrust to norms. for example, the independence of the justice department, the independence of the attorney general is a norm. it is not anywhere structurally built into our institutions. but, you know, bigger th