with his emphasis on the poor and the marginalized. josh dubois was part of his faith based and partnerships. you think there was a shift going on with the former pope and the current pope. i think they have a deep, mutual concern for issues related to the poor, economic inequality and making sure people can live lives of dignity. but there are sensitive issues in which these men will disagree. very important issues. president obama supports marriage equality. pope francis does not. however, these are the type of men who are not going to let disagreement on two issues even those two very important issues prevent them from collaborating on many other things including addressing economic inequality in the united states and around the world. i ve been incredibly moved by his compassion, his message of inclusion. i was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities we
groups out there that work and they work well. they are going to serve as national models. center for urban families in baltimore has a job readiness program for men and boys and great fatherhood program as well. obviously the harlem children s zone which the president referenced a number of times and becoming a man program in chicago. there are concrete examples but before you make this type of investment, you want to spend time to study what works and that s the period that my brother s keeper is in right now. josh, you re the president s spiritual adviser and mentioned best practices and a lot of these programs rely on faith based initiatives. do you think faith should be a part of these kind of guidance in school or do you worry about the constitutionality in that? when you use federal funds, they can t go to political purposes but secular programs are great but there s powerful faith-based programs as well. the reality is, there are some
have individual one on one programs for at-risk youth where the school counselor and principal or counselor principal plus outside agency get involved before they go off the tracks. one big advocate for exactly that kind of preventative mentorship, president barack obama. who recently unveiled a new initiative called my brother s keeper, it s designed to empower young men of color and it is certainly based on these new reports urgently needed. we re going to close out our call to action with a look at the president s personal commitment to this issue with one of his longest severing aides, josh dubois, of neighborhood partnerships office at the white house. thank you for joining us. it s wonderful to be with you. when the president announced this my brother s keeper initiative focusing on young men of color the washington post said he quote, faced repeated criticism from those who say he is failing to pay enough attention to blacks and other minorities. but i ve got to say having
we are awaiting live news from ft. hood, texas the scene of the second shooting rampage is less than five years that we ve all been reeling from this week. rick perry and ted cruz are both expected to attend a news conference. we just received a new statement from the family of the suspected gunman specialist ivan lopez. his father is saying, this situation has caused great pain. i ask for prayers for the affected families, even more so when there is still an ongoing investigation. my son must not have been right in the mind. he wasn t like that. weaver also learning more about what may have caused ivan lopez to snap. there may have been a verbal altercation with another soldier or soldiers. and there s a strong possibility that that in fact immediately preceded the shooting. but we do not have that definitively at this point, but we do have strong indications of that. so this may well have been preceded by a fight it turns out. pressure is building continually on the pen
people are now serving? we have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of in prison that simply should not be there. very expensive for the taxpayer. also very difficult for their children, both mothers and fathers in prison as well as, of course, that i themselves. it s time to look at this fresh. go ahead, josh. i have to respectfully disagree on that no substance point. if you go to the justice department s website, you ll see that he actually offered very specific guidance to prosecutors around the country and told them that they can no longer pursue these mandatory minimum sentences for those tried with low-level drug offenses. judge, what he tried to do was give people more broader tools. they wouldn t be require to use those maximum sentencing guidelines. there is more flexibility but i would say in the framing of the attorney general s remarks