AS PRESIDENT WOULD YOU DIRECT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM
THAT IT IS NOT CURRENTLY DOING?
>> YES, I WOULD.
WE HAVE SEEN FOR FAR TOO LONG
THE KIND OF RACIAL BIGOTRY
DIVISIVENESS AND ATTACKS THAT
UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TAKEN THE
LIVES OF OUR FELLOW AMERICANS.
LEADERSHIP STARTS AT THE TOP.
IT’S PARNT THAT WE SET THE
RECORD STRAIGHT AND CORRECT THE
RACIAL INJUSTICES THAT EXIST IN
A VERY INSTITUTIONAL WAY IN OUR
COUNTRY.
COUNTRY. BEGINNING WITH THINGS THAT HAVE
TO DO WITH OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM WHERE PREDUMOMINANTLY THE
FAILED WAR ON DRUGS HAS
DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED
DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED PEOPLE OF COLOR AND PEOPLE IN
POVERTY.
POVERTY. THIS IS SOMETHING I’LL DO AS
PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF
IS TO OVERHAUL OR CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM, WORKING IN A
BIPARTISAN WAY TO DO THINGS LIKE
END THE FAILED WAR ON DRUGS, END
THE MONEY BAIL SYSTEM AND ADD
THE KIND OF PRISON REFORMS AND
SENTENCING REFORMS THAT WE NEED
TO SEE THAT WILL CORRECT THE
FAILURES OF THE PAST.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING HERE IS
THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE
TO TREAT EACH OTHER WITH
RESPECT, ALL OF US AS FELLOW
AMERICANS REGARDLESS OF RACE,
RELIGION, ETHNICITY, GENDER AND
OUR POLITICS.
OUR POLITICS. THAT KIND OF LEADSHIP STARTS AT
THE TOP.
THE TOP. AS PRESIDENT I WILL USHER IN A
21st CENTURY WHITE HOUSE THAT
ACTUALLY REPRESENTS THE
INTERESTS OF ALL AMERICANS FIRST
AND FOREMOST.
AND FOREMOST. >> CONGRESSWOMAN GABBARD, THANK
YOU FOR THAT.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO ABOUT THE
ISSUE OF WHITE SUPREMACIST
VIOLENCE?
VIOLENCE? >> FIRST, WE HAVE TO DESIGNATE
WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISM AS
DOMESTIC TERRORISM SO THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CAN
PROPERLY -- I TALKED TO AN
ANTI-HATE ACTIVISM WHO TOLD ME
ABOUT HOW HE WAS RADICALIZED
OVER A TEN-YEAR PERIOD.
HE SAID HE WAS A LONELY
14-YEAR-OLD AND THAT HE WAS
REACHED OUT TO BY A HATE GROUP
AND HE WOUND UP JOINING IT FOR A
DECADE.
DECADE. NOW HE’S OUT AND HELPING CONVERT
PEOPLE OUT OF THOSE HATE GROUPS
AND BACK INTO THE REST OF
SOCIETY.
SOCIETY. BUT WHAT HE TOLD ME IS THAT IF
ANYONE HAD REACHED OUT TO HIM
WHEN HE WAS THAT HURT, BROKEN
14-YEAR-OLD BOY HE WOULD HAVE
GONE WITH HIM.
HE SAID IF IT WAS COACH I WOULD
HAVE GONE WITH THEM OR A MENTOR
I WOULD HAVE GONE WITH THEM.
BUT INSTEAD IT WAS A HATE GROUP.
WE HAVE TO CREATE PATHS FORWARD
WHO MEN IN PARTICULAR ARE
FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS.
AND 90% WE’RE TALKING ABOUT ARE
YOUNG BOYS AND YOUNG MEN.
WE HAVE TO AS A COUNTRY HAVE TO