i only have a short time left here and michael skolnik, and michael, you are fuming with me. i know i m going to get a phone call after this show. go ahead. i love you, don. i want to commend the congresswoman that there s been some talk about trayvon martin that there s not enough talk about it, and brand-new in the job hit the job running and i was in chicago at the town hall summit that they put together what s the fix, michael? you re a white guy i had you on the n-word special, why didn t you have any white people on the n-word special, michael skolnik, hello! what s the solution, michael? i think there s a lot of problems to the violence problem, one big solution there s a piece of legislation called the youth promise act the republicans will not support that talks about prevention and intervention and gang prevention and after-school programs and ideas coming from communities like the south side of chicago to fix the south side of chicago and michael, i ve got to
seeing something progressively move forward through what we know to be is pretty choppy waters there in d.c. right now. welm, i think people made different statements over the last few weeks as to what might happen. i think most have suggested that a normal process for legislation could take place. but, i mean, you can t focus just on the assault weapons ban part of it. you ve got plenty health, also violence prevention generally. the attorney general, i think you just mentioned a report that was issued a few days before the newtown tragedy. how you can reduce violence generally, children to problems associated with children exposed to violence. and they went to great lengths to show you can with evidence-based approaches reduce violence. the youth promise act is supported by a lot of youth juvenile justice organizations. it seems to eliminate what the children s defense fund calls
you have to have prevention that goes back a long way. one of the things that we need to do is to make sure young people get on the track and stay on the right track. we need the youth promise act to provide grants to do this so that you don t have young people being bullied, getting mad, graduating year after year and getting worse and worsz. we need to make sure that we identify these people as early as possible and have a comprehensive evidence-based approach to youth violence and youth violence generally. there s not going to be any one slugsz. it has to be kompb rehencive. and you can t wait until the shooter is at the door. so you would agree with the congressman and that s your message to the vice president that we must solve the problem and we can get to common ground here? agreed. and if the vice president has to