Obama blasts 'Defund the Police': You lose people when you use 'snappy' slogans like that

Former President Barack Obama says that political candidates often lose support when casually throwing around terms like "defund the police" and should, perhaps, learn to meet voters and activists in the middle when it comes to police reform. 

In an interview released on Wednesday, the former Democratic president told journalist and Vanity Fair contributor Peter Hamby for his podcast, Snapchat-hosted "Good Luck America," that politicians saying such things will likely sabotage their efforts to effect change.

During the interview, Hamby asked, "If you're a young activist today and you believe really passionately in a slogan, like Defund the Police, what is your advice to that activist? Knowing that a lot of politicians won't go near that phrase, even if the nuts and bolts of the idea might be popular."