. >> reporter: stanford professor ralph richard banks found the statistics so troubling he wrote a book about them called "is marriage for white people?" >> blacke fought the good fight. they've engaged in a noble endeavor of trying to lift black men. that strategy hasn't really worked. >> i really enjoyed this. idea of black women giving up on black men only served to make some angry. >> there's no other ethnic groupilating their own race. >> reporter: but bank argues if you look at the numbers there's simply a shortage of eligible black men. would do well to expand their options in the same way that people of other races have and to look beyond black men in their search for aorter: monet says she's open to dating outside her race. >> i just want love and i just want to be happy. and if it comes with a black man, i think that would be amazing. but if it came in athing other than african-american i'd be okay with that as well. >> reporter: so the search goes on, both online and in person. >> i am going out with we've been hanging out, dating for a couple of months now. >> life is good.

ralph from valley, pennsylvania. some comments on twitter as well in this segment. richardrites, top foreign-policy priority of 2016, mark.question -- we need to pass a law that unless congress declares war, no american can leave our shores with a weapon. let someone else be the cop. top 2016 foreign-policy issues, syrian unrest. migration of increased attacks cyber in balance on u.s., effective national leadership. we want to hear your thoughts for the next hour and 10 minutes of our program. joe and is up next from florida on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. as far as foreign policy, i feel that, first of all, we need to get donald trump in office. we need to get the politicians out. they have created all of our problems. obama is the worst president we have had. as far as i'm concerned, we need to vote for donald trump. he is the man who will get this country back in shape, he will find jobs for the unemployed, he will help the veterans, he would do everything he says because he is not a politician. politicians have destroyed this country. we need to take