here has found strength in diversity. >> the predominant gang inside bergen county jail is united blood nationey recruit anybody. they believe in numbers. it's a numbers game for them. there could be bloods from different ethnic backgrounds, black, white, hispanic. when i worked in the state prison system system i actually had a blood gang member who was a hindu. their willingness to accept anybody into their gang is what makes them the most dangerous. because we don't know where they're coming from. >> sometimes blood members don't even know each other. one blood everyone seems to know is michael bates, who has just met with his attorney and is not pleased with what he has learned. >> i got to go to trial now. >> why? >> they're throwing double-digit figures at me. i don't want it. if i got to do some time, they got to give it to me. i'm not pleading guilty to nothing. >> bates has pled not guilty to multiple charges of weapons possession and aggravated assault. he had hoped to reach a plea deal for a sentence of five years, but the prosecution had a harsher sentence in mind. >> 15 and three

being a convicted murderer, goodell is also an admitted member of the jail's largest gang, the united blood nationicials have identified rendell maldanado as a high-ranking member of the gang. they recently transferred him to another housing unit at the request of prosecutors to separate him from his co-defendants as their trial for aggravated assault and kidnapping approaches. >> they don't want us to communicate. it's not going to happen. we're too close to each other. >> one of the co-defendants maldanado was separated from is jesus henrique-marte. the housing units they now occupy are divided by a glassed in recreation area. though they're not supposed to communicate, they sometimes get away with it, when either one is in the rec area. >> we know sign language and they don't know what we're talking about. they trying to messed up with our head. it don't really matter. >> henrique-marte has been known to violate other jail rules, as well. such as jamming the lock on his food court door so he can open it at will. >> that's how we get to see the tv. more comfortable than standing up. there's a lo

blood pressure. one a day. . >>> big dish nation welcome to one of the most intelligent comedians in the gang. the uniteddes of america, thanks, gentlemen. >> too much, thank you. thank you. >> well -- what am i doing here. >> you go across the country and use your comedy to get your conversation going. how the differences unite and divide us straight out the gate. you went some places where the typical person wouldn't be interested in going. >> i took a camera crew with me, so i wasn't going by myself. i went there to try to see if i could figure out what was going on with the klan. you guys know the klan exists. a lot of people in this country think they're a relic of the mast and they're not worth talking about. i wanted to see what was going on. >> you took the camera crew with you. you thought the person you were going to meet was by themselves. they have a crew too. >> i know i know i know i know i know. 6 i would have stood back and watched the fireworks. like a springer episode in the '90s. >> there was a -- we went to the heart of the thin. and talked to people. i was terrified. why didn't you s

were muslims fleeing isis and a blood-thirsty dictator who unleashed chemical weapons on his own citizens. mr. president, in the 1980's, then-ambassador to the united nations jeane kirkpatrick took up the cause of preventing genocide. with the memory of chairman mao's killing of 100 million still fresh in her mind, her attention was turned to africa where she saw the first stirrings of genocide on the continent and then to cambodia where pol pot murdered over a third of his nation. she urged president reagan to sign the convention on genocide and president reagan did just that. president reagan said, and i quote, we gather today to bear witness to the past and learn from its awful example to make sure that we're not condemned to relive its crimes. the genocide convention is a howell of anguish and an -- howl of anguish and an effort to prevent and punish future acts of genocide -- end quote. i believe congress has an important leadership role to play here, and we can help ensure that america has the tools to combat genocide and atrocities and combat violent conflict. that is why i joined senator cardin in introducing the genocide and atrocities prevention