The compassionate thing is to have people who are having mental health crises to get them in treatment, not to let them sit on the streets and yell at our people while they're walking by. And so The President actually signed an executive order to make it easier for some of these people to get access to mental health treatment. And I don't know for the life of me, what happened in this country where we decided that the compassionate thing was to let somebody fester on the streets instead of be, Instead of get the treatment that they need. (30:46–30:54)
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Asserts that the President signed an executive order to facilitate access to mental health treatment.
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