>> the kids love them. the kids come alive.is is where we see kids who are outcasts like myself -- still am -- get together with the jobs, the cool kids. it is one of the only places where over subgroup of kid in a school has a place to shine. in the kind of traditional school environments we see kids being forgotten about and this is the place where those kids are often found. >> from john in connecticut, democrats line. you are on with our guest. good morning. >> good morning. thank you so much. love "madam secretary." >> thank you. >> love c-span. i'm going to start off by saying it's really unfortunate that we have to approach this with democrat/republican/independent line. this is an absolutely nonpartisan issue. so having said that i can't say enough about supporting arts education. we actually started a nonprofit in connecticut called the connecticut alliance for arts education and we are trying now to move this to the next level. we are creating systems to create professional development that is infused -- arts-infused

i saw a mixed kid on the cover and i saw me. and i wanted to be this kid. and so the financial aid award letters came back and this place gave me the best package. so unbeknownst to me or my family, i went off to one of the best schools in the country, williams college. and you say the next four years were difficult would be an understatement. they were the most challenging four years of my life. crown point central school at the time just didn't prepare kids for college. we didn't have ap courses. we didn't have calculus. we were just dabbling in precalculus my senior year. and so i ended up in all remedial classes and those are the classes i struggled in every single day. i was fighting for survival. i was hiding in the back of classrooms. i didn't raise my hand for four years. feeling like the brown kid. but thankfully, williams believed in me when i didn't believe in myself. i just didn't know how to ask for help or why to do so. that takes us back to the dorm room. i remember sitting there in the afternoon about 1:00 p.m. and am studying for psych 101,

feeling like the dumb round kid. -- dumb brown kid. thankfully, williams believed in me when i did not believe in myself. i did not know how to ask for help or have a compelling enough why to do so. that takes us back to that dorm room. in theber sitting there afternoon, 1:00 p.m., studying for psychology 101, supposed to be an easy a. i'm reading this chapter over problems for the fourth time, that is the only way i knew how to study -- try to memorize every word in the chapter so i might recall some of it when i got to the quiz. as i'm trying to get this information to stick and it is not -- i'm thinking, i am barely getting a c in this class and i am not sure i will make it through this, let alone the rest of the semester. the phone rings. my dad. listen. we just got back from phoenix. immediately, the way my parents -- plane tickets, i was shocked. he goes on. listen, we lost touch with shane. we have not talked to him in a few weeks. we went to find him. daniel, we tracked down his apartment and i convinced the landlord to let us

younger kids will be feeding off the older kids and that's not right. the kids that have behavioural problems and other things, other issues, is not going to be noticed because y'all have multiple kids and y'all don't, y'all can't really take the time out to give the special kids, like, you know, behaviour problems the time to make them move forward. like help them succeed. i just feel like y'all should keep our school as is and just keep it there. [applause] >> dear members of the board my name is shakeel and thank you for this time. in conjunction with the other individuals that have come forward, i also have to express that this co- location will impact our malcolm x community. essentially, by the fact of competition. you are asking the charter to compete with the same population that the school has been working for for decades and decades was pause for malcolm x academy to have its own afterschool progr program, on its own floor, has been an incredible privilege. co- location strips us of this privilege. if you guys are really committed to equity, r

kids.alkingo say -- i was about this with erich before we came on. you know, if you're in math get an 85 on the test, that's pretty good, right? 85, like at an b-plus. if erich goes on stage on broadway, starting when? guest: waitress. june 5. guest: and he only gets 85% of it right, that's a major problem. you come on june 5, i might only get 85% of it right actually. [laughter] guest: but you think about, if you're in music, you need to get 99-plus percent of it right or you're really letting people down. we're talking about discipline, rigger, standards -- rigor, i thinks, things that everybody can get. guest: you change a child's life by putting them in an orchestra band. i didn't understand math at all until i sat down at a piano and understood it. i always learned about education is that one size does not fit all. no standard of education is work for everyone. why don't we fund another way to even more kids to get a fully well-rounded education. with usr guests are until about 9:30 to

one here.s this i saw a mixed kid on the cover. i saw me. and i wanted to be this kid. aid lettersinancial came back. and this place gave me the best package. unbeknownst to me or my family, i went off to one of the best schools in the country. williams college. and to say the next four years were difficult would be an understatement. there are the most challenging four years of my life. prepareint just did not kids for college. we did not have ap courses, we did not have calculus. i ended up in all remedial classes. those with the classes i struggled in every single day. i did not raise my hand for four years. feeling like the dumb brown kid. but williams believed in me when i did not believe in myself. know i would ask for help or be compelling enough to do so. it takes us back to the dorm room. i remember sitting in the afternoon. it's 1 p.m. and i'm studying for psych 101 which is supposed to be an easy a. i am reading this chapter over probably for the fourth time. that feel the way i knew how to study. try to memorize everything the word in a chapter that i might

and then again, at a pep rally, dixie.te kids sing some black kids raised their fist. and a black power salute. tension.ore and in all of that environment, then votes --rd is asked to vote in november on what they're going to do about the school name change. refused to vote on whether to change the name. member, one white board member, said black students didn't deserve the right to ask changes, because of all the fights at the school. if the black students had been a little less arrogant, demanding,ss compromise would have been accomplished. you may get a lot of these it to, but is it worth polarize and alienate your whole community? number hate each other's guts. so i mean, the rhetoric was pretty strong on all sides. and also among members of the school board. that was delayed -- next month, the state agency's representative sent people to tyler to tell the school board issue wasn't closed. that they were going to have to symbolsthe confederate and the name of the school. 1972, theary 14 of board voted 5-2 to get rid of rebel mascot, the confederate flags, the dixie

nearly 200 kids around the city. we have boys and girls. and the communities, we're bringing rugby to, so many of the kids are lacking outlets in life and pathways to opportunity. >> we have to have a starting gpa. zero tolerance with the attitude. >> partnering with teachers allows us to fuse mentoring for these kids along with coaching them. >> scholarship eligible, 5,000

and he walked up to the kid and gave them a big hug and he's like i love him, i that why, why do you say that he said it is beautiful i love all the people that is my family this missing my cousin and brothers i said with wow. and it was awesome he lot of that anyone like me, i'm scared to tell my mother on the daily basis i love her. >> i see shopping carts no shopping bags things on their heads they'll carry their manufacture and a lot of kids always doing the same thing it was young people doing that. >> just like you. >> just like you. >> this one check your oh. >> oh, yes. >> (bongos). >> i didn't like the people like bread soup they have obligate soup i liked that a lot of rice like white and red rice that was spicy the pin apples and oranges apples were good it was good overall i was scattered to try it. >> i didn't know that african had like the beautiful parts it is very green i don't know that was like that thought that would be like dirt shacks, not to be rude but that's what i pictured from what the media said. >> i thought like african would be like a desert or something

but my kids are kids and would never be caught dead to have a nonapple brand as they get older, they knowing about them the iphone, what they don't want is the samsung the much ignored apple ecosystem. service charges to have all of their millions of people stored. when my kids come beg me about wanting a samsung, you would hear my tune change. you think i have been recommending verizon at the beginning of the show for nothing? it is the cash cow that your kids turn you on to. how about this google it, dad that is how you found out about google now alphabet. and when i found out from the kids that they weren't allowed to google at school because it was cheating we had access to librarians at the houghton library they would have to find out things that you didn't know where to begin with. my kids aren't into sports they get news from iphones and entertainment from netflix is it the simple interface the desire for them to watch what they want to watch? all of them. no f.a.n.g isn't all their creation i figured out amazon facebook, i went to harvard, and when you were a freshman, there

but 7,000 are injured and four to six kids die in accidents each year. >> kids grow up being belted in three-point belts in cars. it's high time that they have the same safety afforded to them on school buses. >> reporter: the school bus industry says both lap and shoulder seat belts are available should school districts order them, adding roughly $10,000 to a bus that should last 12 years. meanwhile, the ntsb is also urging collision avoidance braking and better bus driver oversight and background checks. we learned today the new jersey bus driver had 14 license suspensions and eight speeding tickets. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> let's take a deep look now at a crisis that too often falls below this country's radar. it involves our children. suicide is now the second leading cause of death among america's young people. and a startling new report shows that black children 12 and younger are taking their own lives at about twice the rate of white children. doctors say it's a tragedy rarely discussed in black communities, but now there is a growing effort to break that silence

he was like a kid.a kid trying to have fun and fit in the group, doing what the other guys do. trying to be part of them. >> was it really that innocent? >> true or false, darren was committing a crime? >> he was. >> entering somebody else's home, even their garage, that's a crime. >> yes. >> even if the door is open? >> yep. >> and if karma's life was threatened, he had the right to shoot. didn't he? but as police went over karma's story about what happened just before the confrontation, something stood out. karma was describing how his wife first noticed someone was approaching their garage. >> he was, like, show time. she's, like, i see something. >> she said janelle made the statement it's show time. >> it's show time. >> exactly. >> suggesting what? that they've been getting ready for this all night? >> that seemed like a very interesting statement to me. it's show time. >> it didn't seem to fit with someone claiming to be terrified in his own home. then karma told police he took his time going out

and they will -- instead of helping their kids they are looking for kids to help. economists used to work with me and i drive them crazy and say middle class is not a number. 51,215 or $52,000. it's a value set. it's a value set. it's about being able to own your home and not rent it and send your kid to a park, being able to send your kid to a public school that if they do well, they can go on after high school and if they qualify, you can figure out how to pay for it and figure out how to care for your mom and hope your kids will not have to take care of you. that is not a joe bidenism. that's the reism. that's the people flawed for the last three generations. looking further and further down the road. i don't know anyone with the guys i grew up who aspired to be a renter. i don't know any. but, look, not just bay paying the bills. my dad used to have an expression, my dad, we moved from scranton pennsylvania, if you listened to barack, you think i climbed out of a coal bucket. it's not true. my dad was a sales person and when coal died and everything tied and no

to look to their kids for help. instead of helping their kids. i have an economist who works with me, i think i drive them crazy. i say middle class is not a number. number, can give me a set.0, it is a value it is about doing able to own your home and not having to rent it. being able to send your kid to a park and you know they will come home safely. it is about being able to send your kid to a school, a public school and if they do well, they can go on after high school. and if they qualify, you can figure out how to pay for it. in the meantime, you can take care of your geriatric mom after your dad passed away and you hope your kids will never have to take care of you. a joe bidenism, that is a reality, the people who fought for the last three generations. now it is looking further down the road. -- ofot know anyone who the guys i was with who worked at general motors who did not -- who aspired to be a renter. i do not know any. billsnot just paying the that worries these folks. my dad used to have an expression. we moved from scranton, penns

when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. i only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. i found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. i went, volunteered and my life changed. suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. i eventually moved up to san francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through los angeles county and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. one of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost,

and this differences in those kids life oh, my god this is just i got to be a part (clapping.)ut supporting the community >> (clapping.) >> a hundred stories about success that was my duty to connect with her cultural the third trip it was like wow. >> i was speech also i work with youg youth. >> you definitely recognize you're there for them. >> it made me feel good about myself and people are more friendly there than here. >> city was an actual people. >> we definitely know it is like the history. >> i think they have another finder needs. >> their. >> everyone is still smiling and people told me about that i didn't believe it i want more in school. >> and school it didn't capture even touch the tip of the iceberg as to what you're people endurd are experiences i couldn't imagine living peacefully in a community. >> all of a sudden because of people's dreams they capture you and he and enslavery. >> you're closer to our culture because their traveled of the west africa through the states boat and they traveled by boat as horrific as it was only 40 days you don't forget our cu

but the truth is trump hasn't lost any kids. >> there may be a reason the kids can't be found.hey don't want to be. >> the department of health and human services say they are not missing but unaccounted for because sponsors have refused to respond to follow-up calls. sources in shelters say some sponsors could be undocumented as well and don't want to interact with u.s. immigration officers. >> trevor: turns out the immigrant kids aren't lost by trump, they just don't want contact with anyone in the trump administration. sort of like melania. (laughter ) at the same time this was happening, another misinformed immigration scandal blew up online. someone tweeted these photos of the u.s. government holding undocumented children in cages. and again, without doing research, people online lost their shit. the president has caged our precious children! he's milking them like cows! what has become of our republic image! once again, the people didn't get their facts straight because these kids unfortunately were sleeping in cages, but this picture was from 2014 when the president was

are those opioid kids but the question is if these kids will become the opioid kids and that is where they say we better double check this and to make sure that doesn't happen because now you areng talking not just a small amount of member kids that attend or 15 million kids. >> you just spoke about healthcare but i have a question with a different aspect. we have seen mergers since the first of the year with dbs and aetna and walmart and scripps the pharmacy benefit managers. what is this leading to? we are breaking down the silo in the industry where people can perhaps the not insured that members of the conglomerate can compete. maybe each on will be like a mini national health service in the u.k. and it can be good or bad but where do you think this is leading and do we have to worry about mandates with the affordable care act if the trend continues i think the unexpected development is the resurgence of the development will -- insurance companies the thought is that they would be gone by now they really didn't serve a purpose in the marketplace that was wrong or policy decided no

we're going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking.lease, be slow, be safe and be mindful. >> i just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. if you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. think about how fast you're driving. think about the stop sign you're about to come to. just think. and just doing so, you'll help someone live another day. i guarantee that. i guarantee that. ♪ >> how do san franciscans register to vote? find out about the candidates in an upcoming election work here with our current propositions are about so they can exercise to vote? based on the voting rights act of 1965 to make accessible of all citizens spirit deferment of elections operates the voter information division to register voters educate them about the ballot and advertise the election. voter information includes an array of publication and outreach tool to contact people. in person, in print, online, and through traditional and social media. >> we kind of get san francis

all of the kid know the kid who was arrested and he says and another kid said the same thing that this coaches, he used to wear a trenchcoat to school every day and he wore that trenchcoat again today and maybe this t-shirt. >> it said born to kill. >> it wasn't unusual even though it's 90 degrees. he showed up today with a tent -- trenchcoat, sat down and pulled out a long gun and started opening fire hitting mostly students in at least two classrooms and then with the fire drills we don't know teachers or students pulling fire alarms that a number of people were hit as they were running and we know a ticket 10 people are dead. >> we are getting more information about the gunman's home and we know police had surrounded it and they were worried there might be explosive devices inside. we are getting confirmation that yes in fact they did! -- discover an explosive device. there possibly also following the latest -- there could be an explosive device at the school as well and the police are clearing it and that's called to -- >> it does sound more like a planned attack because clearly if

many try to spy on their kids. dr.isley has decades of experience as a child phycologist, and says transparency is key. "i prefer an approach where you make it absolutely clear to the young person what you're doing. if you're going to carry around something like a cell phone, i need to be able to know how you're using it and make sure you're using it responsibly and that's reasonable contract to enter into with kids." for 15 year old morgan madden, life looks a lot different now thanks to tracking apps. she's following her passion - she says - all because her parents snuck the tracking app on her phone.1:23-1:30 morgan madden/parents use tracking app "15:15 i was like what the hell, like why are you doing this. why can't you trust me you know?"she says she was hanging out with people her parents thought might get her into trouble and admits lying to her parents often about where she was. but an iphone app called "find my friends" got her out of trouble. her parents where able to find her, and go to her exact location-

kids. is another ten families that have to live like i do. it's not -- it's not a good thing, believe me. my life has been changed and it will never be like it was before. and now there is ten more people have to live like i do. and it's not -- it's not something that -- that is good to live with. and i really feel for the families in texas. that's what angers me. and it happened again, anderson. >> you talk about anger. i know you have been turning that anger into action ever since your daughter was killed. you are focusing on school safety. do you think anything has changed? are we in the same place as we were before the parkland shooting? >> well, i think not much has change, because it happened again, you know after 9/11 there hasn't been one high jacking that i know of after 9/11. but today we sit here me and you, talking. and it's the 22nd school shooting of this year. now, when is enough going to be enough where people say, listen, we need to have single-point entries and metal detec

♪ i'm a toys"r"us kid! grown-up problem: filing for bankruptcy, and 5 billion dollars in long-term debt. - the bankruptcy is among the largest ever by a specialty retailer. and it could usher in changes to the company's nearly 1,600 stores. - for more on this, we turn to our chief business analyst, roy wood jr., everybody! [cheers and applause] um... roy, as someone who's spent a lot of time in children's toy stores, what are your-- what are your thoughts on this? - as a child. [laughter] spent time in the store as a--as a child. - of course. uh, so roy, what-- what, like, what happened? what did toys"r"us do wrong? - [sighs] well, trevor, i think what happened with toys"r"us, honestly it shouldn't surprise investors. toys"r"us didn't keep up with the times. it's right there in the slogan: ♪ i don't want to grow up well, you should have! [laughter] kids don't want toys now, they want gadgets. they're hacking wikileaks on their ipad, a etch a sketch doesn't even have bluetooth! it--even amish kids are at toy

but also not being an angry kid. so as of right now, those are the reports that are coming in about him. >> tammy, i'm not a professional in this field, but you and i have been through the bios of so many maof the people involved. playing in a team sport does not match the profile of a loner. you are on a high school football team, it's one for all, all for one. >> right. but just because he played on a team sport does not necessarily mean he was a part of the team. >> of course. yeah. >> he may not have been accepted. and we don't know how long he played on the football team for, whether it was a short period of time, whether he was accepted, or whether he stopped playing because he wasn't accepted. but we do know that he was described as a loner, described as not having friends, as not talking to people. but really as keeping to himself. i mean somebody that walks around with headphones on constantly in between classes, not talking to other students and not engaging, is somebody that is really keeping to themselves

they're profiting off our kids. that's inexcusable, we need to protect public education and our teachers. and frankly, it's outrageous they're trying to attack malcolm x school, to bus that up. i think that has to stop. and i also think that this par system that you have -- and i brought it up at the last meeting -- is part of privatization. it's attacking senior teachers and african-american teachers. it's been proven in studies. we're going to call on you to terminate the par program. it shouldn't be used as a disciplinary program and we have to stop terrorizing the teachers. why don't we defend them instead of bully them. that's what we have to do. also, i think what is driving education in this city are the billionaires, the tech billion billionaires. they're interested in making profit off our students. that is what's driving them. that's what they did in los angeles. they made a deal with apple and sears, the testing company, to basically scam off the students. we need to put the public first, public education

it's affecting kids of color. you know, lack of access affects children of color, and it's really important that we want to -- we want to provide equitiable outcomes for children in san francisco and ensure that all kids are ready to learn when they come into the school district, and we want to make sure that all families can thrive in san francisco. >> thank you, miss beckman. we're now going to start with the closing arguments, and we'll start with you, miss rhenner. >> the 3.5% tax will be passed onto us, the customers through the businesses, and i think that that will make san francisco that much less affordable. again, the child care, the value of child care, the effects dissipated by third grade, except in these totally different, different studies with different groups of people, and they've been highly contested. i've read all of these studies. testing moms with less than i.q. of 85, that's totally different. again, i do think the teen moms need totally free child care while they finish school, but we alre

being able to buy tobacco, well kids can't buy tobacco now. this is about not fringing on adult choices. it's going to lead to more crime, it's going to lead to more retailers closing. controller's economic office estimated 50 million lost in sales. vaping stores and other retailers that are highly reliant on tobacco sales will close. raping actually helps people quit smoking. it's less harmful. vaping and e cigarettes are included under this proposed ban. >> thank you. dr. chung? >> thank you for asking me to be here? i'm here not only as a concerned physician but as a father. i have two wonderful nine-year-old twin boys and girls, and i am worried that this is allen assault on our k. canny flavored tobacco has only one use, and that's to hook kids into tobacco. this measure is all about protecting our kids, our community, and i feel very strongly that we should uphold this ban on tobacco that has already been passed by a unanimous decision at the board of supervisors level. so please join me and the san francisco marin medical association, t

are opioid kids. i think the question is whether or not these kids will become opioid kids and that's why i say we better double check this and make sure that doesn't happen because now you are talking, not about small number of kids taking medication. you are tagamet 10 or 15 million kids. >> you just spoke about healthcare, but i have a question in a different aspect. we have seen mergers even since the first of the year. i see in etna, now walmart, atlanta, scripts, the pharmacy benefit managers, what is this leading to? we are breaking down the silos in that industry where people could perhaps be not insured, but members of a healthcare conglomerate that can offer all of these things and maybe they can compete. may be each one will be like a mini national health service like the uk and that might be good or bad. i guess my question is what do you think this is leading to and will we have to worry about mandates in the affordable car-- affordable care act anymore in the future this trend continues?

these kids are 18.f the counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and trying to make sense of a decade he didn't feel pairy to. >> a movement which i did not intend. this was pure, in my heart. >> all sorts of people have been writing various articles about the hippies, usually about the hippies as if they were animals, something to look at. thus, we've gotten hundreds and literally thousands of people coming up to haight-ashbury to watch people. it makes it an unpleasant place to be in. >> news got out about the haight-ashbury. it became overrun. >> we're now entering what is known as the largest hippie colony in the world. the fountainhead of the hippie subculture. the nickname is hashburies, and marijuana, of course, with lsd, is being used. >> literally people made the trip to san francisco to be a part of something. by the time they got there, that trip was over. >> this is the latest stage in the evolution of the hippie movement. the hippies are trying to get away. so, they go out to a cabin

i think kids go to school to study and play. and you put your kids in the hands of people that you trust, that you trust that they're going to treat the children properly. but then, they are punished, and they are traumatized, and i'm wondering why. >> okay. thank you. so i'm going to allow one more speaker. so i'm going to allow one more speaker because of the translation. [speaking spanish ] >> good evening. my name is guadalupe hernandez. i am a mother from cleveland, and i have been at this school for five years. and i'm very sad because several of these teachers that are leaving -- and i don't know if it is because they are being fired or if it is because they are retiring, but they're being let go. and some of these teachers have been my kids, my son's teacher, and he's been crying and telling me that it's not fair for them to let go of these teachers. and i have to say that these teachers that are being let go, they are exemplary teachers. they have been very good teachers. [speaking spanish ] >> and unfortunately because

walked in to a school and shot these kids? it's enough. you know, i keep getting angrier as i think about this. and i look at the pictures while i'm waiting to get interviewed, i'm looking at pictures of my daughter and i'm saying now there is 10 more families that have to live like i do. >> melissa: do you have any word for them to get through you? say there is nothing that you can say to make them feel better because they won't feel better. but perhaps it's about joining the fight? >> yes. i welcome them to reach out to me. i would love for them to call me. i will be there for them. that's all i could do for a parent that lost a kid is just be there for them when they need you. there is nothing you could say that's going to take away the pain. but let's make sure it doesn't happen again, you know. i'm going to go -- i think i'm going to go to texas. that's what's going to be now and i want to go see some of these families and just give them a hug and let them know that, you know, i know how they feel because no one else know

is killing our kids. there is huge amounts of money for kids in math and science. oak ridge national laboratory million. hit $30 they could not spend it because they were not any kids that came in to apply for the programs. i wanted to see if you were aware of this. host: talk about these specific skills. guest: again, there is a large pushe happening and a big in college and by the public to increase the number of students going into the so-called stem fields, science technology engineering and mathematics. there are a lot of well-paying jobs out there for those folks. whether they are prepared coming out of junior high and high school, there is a concern whether the elementary and secondary schools are adequately andaring kids for college if the goals we are seeing in middle and high school are aligned with college, being ready to go to college. in the chronicle of higher education that while higher education generally isn't popular, people really like the own schools.r democrats and republicans see a n

kids know about the kids that have mental health issues in the school. they know who is bringing the weapons to school. they know who is talking about it. they watch them on social media. what is the breakdown? why are these high school students not telling adults or their parents? what did they say two years ago? they said there's -- i don't want to be a snitch. you cannot talk about this reporting without this idea of a snitch culture. two weeks ago those same kids we talked to, two years ago, said they would use the reporting app called the advocator that they developed if this -- if that were the situation. there's also great pushback in the schools that if we create a mechanism such that kids can communicate if we have the trust between the teachers and the students, if we do create this, what's going to happen if we identify mental health issues and we don't have resources for them? we hear this, right, so here we have something that the kids have designed and the kids say we want to be able to report emotional and physical safety issues. i want to

i should have had a republican kid. [laughter] so when they put me in a home, i would have a window with a view. by now there will be no view. aside, we have not seen this huge concentration of wealth. the folks at the top are not bad guys. i get in trouble with members of my party when i say wealthy folks are just as nature arctic -- as patriotic hearing but this patriotic.ing -- as but this gap is yawning, gaping. -- it is pulling us apart. we have to deal with the tax code. it is wildly skewed towards taking care of those at the very top. overwhelmingly investors over workers. it is riddled with unproductive expenditures. me oneomics teacher told of the reasons for tax expenditure is to promote the social guard, generate people taking risk, increase .roductivity plus, --$3 billion tell me if $3 billion plus, if two thirds of that meets criteria. what a life. look at what has happened with the latest patch test your once again, those at the very top get the biggest breaks. what do we have to show for it? even our repu

it's a chance for the kids to socialize and blow off steam.but this isn't any ordinary youth group. >> you been feeling okay? >> reporter: these kids share a common, and difficult, experience. they each have a parent in prison. >> let's go, play ball! >>eporter: rick wilson has run the new leaf mentoring program since it started eight years ago. >> we have had several of the kids in the program-- over hf their life. ve been a part of their lives for over half their life. it's like a big family >> reporter: 10-year-old devon rush has been in the program for six years. his mentor is joler, a local college student. devon's sister natalya's in m,te progtoo. >> you ready freddie? >> not yet. >> reporter: their father is in prison, serving a 30-year sentence for dealing cocaine. their mother jennifer has also been to prison three times, also for selling cocag e, and violatobation. >> my kids suffered big time. big time, these babies suffered. >> reporter: jennifer me from her last stint in prison in 2015. now she's pursuing degrees in electrical eng

daughter free dang you know all the kids grandchildren. i know what happened to them informed on school or start my. really her. loser kid. most difficult i ever went through. my sister mary goes she gets drunk. and she commits suicide so. you know if i can fly like hell to stop the thing that took my friends and relatives and maybe i could keep somebody else up there feeling the pain that i thought from it. when somebody on the reservation talks of a dollar less they talk of them you know doing something for the people you know so i'm going to keep fighting just to you know chill ass sister mary so the family that passed on before me that i'm remember i'm in this weight. of. people see the indian wars ended in eighty ninety. all of us like oh do we know that the war still going. they may not be out there killing this with guns and by dumpers they are doing killing innocent would just their every day walk of life you're just the united states the way they operate on a daily basis and what kills us. when i'm sitting here old old man you kno

where are the kids? a mom i am -- i just can't think about a child, a 4 year old in a different country with strangers and now vulnerable to human trafficking and abuse. there is nothing that these parents can do. i think that the president should use every resource at his disposal to find the kids and make sure that they are safe and tell us that they are safe. >> this is an unintended consequence? >> i think this is a process going on a long time. the children come into detention. there is a vetting process of who the children are assigned to. it is a much larger group of kids. they are assigned to sponsors in this country who go through a process to be able to qualify to be sponsors. the children are placed in them. what happened, thousands more than the 1,500 you are talking about that they follow up with a lot of these -- they follow up to find out where the children are and how they are doing. they found that 1,500 of them, somehow the sponsors and the kids are off the radar. they haven't checked i

we're supposed to be talking about it and i think it is important to focus on the kids and the kids that it serves but i want to stop -- talk for a minute about another organization. the jewish community relations council, which i believe is behind a lot of the problems with proceeding with the memorandum of understanding. a rock is a true grassroots organization. it is obvious by the people who come out to support them. it is obvious from the kids that they work with. the jewish community relations council, by their own definition is a treetops organization. they work in the back door weighings with powerbrokers like you guys and like the people at glide church you initially came out against the memorandum of understanding. but after actually meeting with the people back they had the sense to realize that they had to been had. and they rescinded their support. i think you guys should follow suit. when you are talking to these people from the gcr seed you are not here that much they don't have the numbers. sorry. but i would just ask you, the next time that they are here, the next time t