we were wrong about that. joining me now, former congress, congressman, what is your reaction to the clinton apology? well, you know, hijacked sight is 2020 for all of us and i don t want to be a monday morning quarterback. many of us who had raised initial objection of the house version of the bill lost our ability to stop it on a voice bill. for nine months we tried to put together a package that would pass. what made it pass were several things. there was a violence against women s act which was added to the bill which had never existed in this country before to protect women against violent crime. there are 14 billions for police to work together to fight crime.
your reaction to the clinton apology? well you know hijacked sight is 2020 for all of us and i don t want to be a monday morning quarterback. many of us who had raised initial objection of the house version of the bill lost our ability to stop it on a voice bill. for nine months we tried to put together a package that would pass. what made it pass were several things. there was a violence against women s act which was added to the bill which had never existed in this country before to protect women against violent crime. there are 14 billions for police to work together to fight crime. there was an assault weapons ban which had always been defeated by the nra. that was part of new bill. and an end to something called three strikes you re out.
sight is 2020 for all of us and i don t want to be a monday morning quarterback. many of us who had raised initial objection of the house version of the bill lost our ability to stop it on a voice bill. for nine months we tried to put together a package that would pass. what made it pass were several things. there was a violence against women s act which was added to the bill which had never existed in this country before to protect women against violent crime. there are 14 billions for police to work together to fight crime. there was an assault weapons ban which had always been defeated by the nra. that was part of new bill. and an end to something called three strikes you re out. if you had three convictions, you got an automatic life sentence. those were the things that changed over the nine-month
not because of the provisions but because we wanted to send it to committee. the bill passed the house on a voice vote. when it got to conference and came back p up a year later, the violence against women s act was added to itment 16 billion or 14 billion for communitier or oh yented policing was added to the it. a ban on assault weapons was added to it. people had to make a decision one way or another, do i vote against it and kill initiatives or vote for it and over time try to improve on the worst aspects of it. if the party had it to do again you would have to ask individual members. after it had those things added to it and others voted against it did so on oh principled terms. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thank you. we ll continue on this topic when we come back. first we were reminded of the dangers police officers face in the line of duty. new york officials say a police
amount of money for prevention. that was just a unanimously held opinion across both parties. well, you know, when you have a vote and say all in favor, aye, all opposed no, and there is no roll call, you sort of sweep it under the rug and assume that everybody s going to support it. the law and order politics that have given us mass incarceration, many people point to nixon, particularly the watts riot, after king that happened in baltimore in 1968, detroit and other places as the starting point of that, right? mm-hmm. are we going to see a different trajectory come out of the kind of black lives matter movement we ve seen over the last nine, ten months? well, let s go back over the last 47 years because when this city erupted in 1968 and all of us were out in the streets being arrested just for being on your doorstep and arrested 6,000 people, what has changed in 47 years? you walk the streets of east baltimore, west baltimore, some of those areas still look like they loo