Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.