I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.