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>> of all of those, that target fanny basket is a great idea. i'm sorry, i really think it is. it makes the fanny thing kind of cool. be sure to set your dvr to watch "outfront" anytime. "ac360" with wolf blitzer starts now. good evening. wolf blitzer sitting in for anderson tonight. the national outcry over state legislation that supporters say are only to protect religious freedom and critics say have been expressly designed to let people discriminate. we're talking about bills like the one indiana governor mike pence signed that almost immediately asked lawmakers to rework. the arkansas governor hutchinson promised to sign but declined to at the last minute today. each backed down after enormous pressure. the bill promoted with claims like a federal religious freedom law that passed years ago with bipartisan support and like laws in other states including one that then illinois senator barack obama voted for back in
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the late 1990s. listen to governor pence. >> the religious freedom restoration act was signed into federal law by president bill clinton more than 20 years ago. indiana has passed a law here that mirrors the federal law that president clinton signed. this is a law that mirrors what president clinton signed. federal law in the book since 1993. the federal law signed by president clinton. the federal law since 1993. that's what it's been for more than 20 years. federal law for more than 20 years. the religious freedom restoration act on the book more than 20 years. >> that's the claim. like the federal law. keeping them honest not quite. here's why. the federal law in most existing state laws that were put in place years ago are written to give legal protection to individuals who claim their religious rights are being violated by the government. the indiana law and other recent legislation go further, offering protection and i'm quoting now,
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regardless of whether the state or any other governmental entity is a party to the proceeding. legal analysts say the last line broadens the law to cover businesses which means it protects the flower shop forbid from serving same-sex couples or the indiana peasizzeria that said it would never kat torecater to a same-sex wedding. these laws are not the same old, same old. more efforts to change the indiana law after all the protests. miguel marquez is joining us from indianapolis. what's the latest you're hearing about how these negotiations inside the state capitolal are progressing? >> reporter: it sound like they are done wolf. the house speaker, brian bozwin came out a short time ago. meeting for five hours total. met 3:00 in the afternoon. 2:00 earlier in the afternoon and then beside that there were individual meetings all day. all 71 of them meeting for about
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five hours today in total on this. he came out a short time ago saying they think they have the language. they want to cross a few ts, dot a few is. a few senators on the list. business community and some activists who have been involved in this they want as broad an agreement as possible before they go to the public basically, make that language known across the land and then they will rush it very quickly through committee here tomorrow it sounds like and then through both houses before getting it to the desk of the governor probably by tomorrow afternoon. wolf? >> it's a bit difficult though to understand how the indiana lawmakers please everyone with this because if they write into the law that religious freedom does not include the ability to deny services to gay citizens that's going to infuriate a lot of social conservatives, right? >> reporter: it is and they are
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not going to please everyone. the left here now wants full repeal of the law and a non-discrimination clause put into the civil rights charter of the state. that's not going, they feel they have the upper hand now because it's a debacle for the government here. and right, they don't want to give up what you were talking about earlier, the definition of an entity. the business can make a choice. they wouldn't call it a discriminatory. they would call it a choice not to serve certain individuals because of their deeply held religious beliefs. wolf? >> miguel thank you very much. miguel marquez reports. constitutional law professor, kenji yewshina. these laws do, they need to be clarified, amended in some way in your opinion or fine as is? >> we're having all these discussions about religious liberty and i'm worried about
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who's missing from the conversations. women like caawall tugor. fought back when the irs fired her for carrying a religious emblem required of her by her sikh faith. robert soto weeks ago won religious freedom case because the government seized his sacred eagle feathers. we're talking about all these hypotheticals and not the real people who have benefitted from religious freedom legislation over the last 20 years we've had these bills at the state and federal level. >> but molly, your point in the case of protecting religious minorities from intrusion by the federal government in this case. the concerns about arkansas are individuals by other individuals under cover of religious freedom, right? >> and this is an important point to make. there has been much misinformation how religious freedom bills work. they can only be used as a defense. you can only use a religious freedom bill if you have been accused of breaking a law or face fines or government action
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because of your religious lib beliefs in conflict with a government action. the department of justice itself has said that religious freedom claims can be raised in the cases between two private individuals. so to say this is some huge difference between the way we've seen religious freedom bills happen in the past and now is not quite correct. >> all right. let me get kenji to respond. what do you think about what molly is saying that it's basically not a big deal what these laws are now stipulating? >> i think that it is a very big deal. i think that the private public distinction you raise is an enormous deal. i also think we need to look at the contacts in which this law was enacted. it's often said by the other side 19 states have an enacted religious freedom states but 18 of the 19 states did that before the united states supreme court in 2013 struck down the defensive marriage act. we got too lyrical about laws enacted by vast majorities of both houses of congress and
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signed by bill clinton. that happened with the defensive marriage act in 1996 which was struck down in the supreme court in 2013. the it's clearly to discriminate against gay individuals. >> the whole point of religious freedom legislation is it helps us navigate the conflict between government rules and people's religious liberty. it doesn't say who wins. it merely said when there is a conflict it gives us a way of navigating the conflict. the religious person has to show is substantially burdened by the government and the government can say, yes, we're burdening you, but have to do it and no other way than by limiting. it's moderate legislation and works whether it's dealing with laws about same-sex marriage or any of the many other laws that are on the books at the federal and state level. >> you want to respond, kenji? >> yes, some civil rights commitments have been deemed by this nation to be so deeply held that they shouldn't be up for a case determination by a
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particular judge. so in this instance subjecting the civil rights of gay and lesbian individuals and gay and lesbian couples to the whims of a particular judge under the very murky area of a balancing test is not what is needed. it's a more categorical protection for gays and lesbians. what's particularly striking governor pence said he was for religious liberty and against discrimination as if those two things were mutually exclusive. religious liberty claims are use often used to oppose in sad history of civil rights. >> molly, you might argue these are separate issues but some feel it's closely connected. i assume you believe women, people of color, people with disabilities should all be protected by law against discrimination but what about gay people? should they be protected from discrimination as well? >> it's really up to the people of arkansas and indiana to decide whether they want to pass another law that burdens people
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in the state. that is truly up to them and i hope people have that discussion in a calm non-hysterical environment, which is not what we've seen as the people of indiana have been bullied and had their democratic process taken over by corporate heads and powerful people. it's a bad way to make a decision whether you want to have more government regulations. >> kenji, go ahead. >> it's not a problem, it's who we are as a people. it's very first freedom and doesn't need a fix. >> yeah i think we should be proud of this moment in american history because we see a majority of american people rising up, seemingly, across the nation saying this is no longer acceptable and even though gays and lessbians are a small minority, they deserve the same protection as others enjoyed in the past. >> thank you very much. molly hemingway, thanks to you as well. now georgia. where lawmakers have one day left before going on vacation and a religious freedom restoration bill installed in the legislation committee. sparked a bitter debate in
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georgia. advocates say it revealed precisely the type of discrimination they say these laws encourage. more on that from gary tuchman. >> reporter: head out to world jeff davis county georgia. you don't have to look hard to find proponents of the religious freedom act. >> if you had gay customers in here to buy flowers and said we want you to come to the commitment ceremony would you do it? >> no. i couldn't. >> reporter: jennifer williams is an associate of the flower shop an observant baptist and believes the bible has guide book for her life. you talk about the bible. the bible talks about love and loving. >> it is and i don't love them less. i pray for them. >> reporter: if you don't serve them -- >> i don't hate them. but -- >> reporter: but you're not
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loving them if you don't want to serve them? >> you can still love someone. i mean even though you don't serve them. >> reporter: a flower shop down the street the exact same opinions. from the florist and her son, who is studying to be a southern baptist pastor. >> i would respectfully tell them i'm sorry, i just don't want to do it because of my beliefs. >> reporter: but right now, while georgia is considering a law to make it legal for you to do that you can get in trouble for doing that. >> i understand that. >> reporter: you would be willing to take that ris snk. >> yeshe died on the cross for me. it's the least i can do for him. >> it's called the judge of the universe and i don't care what anybody else says. >> reporter: no matter what a law or not, you would not bring your flowers to a gay commitment ceremony? >> no. >> reporter: there are five florists we found in this area. the employees of three of them did not want to appear on camera. they all told us the same thing. they want the law to pass in
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georgia. they want the right to turn away business from gay people. their sentiments of course very offensive to many. a demonstration taking place at the georgia capital this week. >> we see this bill is clearly a vehicle to be used to discriminate against the gay and transgender community. >> although the flower shop employees don't like to use the word discriminate they see the bill as a vehicle to legally deny service to gay. >> the ten commandment say don't commit adultery honor your father and mother. some commit adultery would you serve them? >> yes. >> reporter: why would you serve them but not someone who is gay? >> it's just a different kind of sin to me and i just don't believe in it. >> reporter: these flower shops are happy to do business with you, but not so much if you tell them you're gay. gary tuchman, jeff davis county
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georgia. just ahead, new images from the crash site of 9525. search teams combing through debris. ceo of lufthansa makes first visit to the site. also tonight. >> how long have you been in this country? >> almost two years. >> almost how long? >> two years. >> i got news for you. remember this in the future. don't ever do that again. >>'re. that rant by a new york city police detective. the fallout and price he's paying for talking that way to an uber driver. that's ahead on "360." anyone have occasional constipation diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these occasional digestive issues... with 3 types of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips' our eyes they have a 200-degree range of sight. which is good for me... hey! ...and bad for the barkley twins. take care of your eyes with centrum silver women. multivitamins with 60% more vitamin d.
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chief executive of lufthansa visited the site. he refused to answer questions about the co-pilot who is accused of deliberately crashing the plane. lufthansa admitted told the airline five years ago that he had had an episode of severe depression that didn't keep him out of the cockpit. pamela brown joining us with a new development in the investigation. pamela what are you learning over there in germany? >> reporter: well wolf we've learned according to a source close to this investigation that a fresh, new clue has been discovered just recently and that this point though investigators are not ready to reveal publicly what that new finding is. of course the hope is that it could be closer to an answer about the motive. what caused andreas lubitz to do what he did? poring over electronics, looking for any clues. i'm told so far the only relevant finding on his computers and other electronics is information about that 2009
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depression episode that he reported to lufthansa. wolff wolf? >> what about the scene at the crash site? how are the recovery efforts, pamela going? >> reporter: well we know wolf that the german investigator, the chief german investigator is there at the crash site in paris, in france i should say. he said today, emotionally, it's been difficult but that it's actually brought them closer to an understanding of what happened in this investigation and we know now, wolf there's new video at the crash site because that access road that was built in this video is giving a closer look of the rescue workers there collecting the belongings the remains there and the debris. the rescue efforts, at the scene, they're moving along. wolf? >> pamela that reported video from inside the plane, the last few seconds, if you will before the crash. investigators are still pushing back on that right? what are they saying? >> reporter: yeah. investigators all around are pushing back on this.
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yesterday, we had authority with the french police saying that the video, the cell phone videos hadn't been exploited yet and analyzed. now the prosecutor involved in this case said he hasn't seen any videos in this investigation and urged that anyone who has the video to turn it over that he hasn't seen anything yet. so there has been strong pushback from the investigators involved in this case. wolf? >> pamela brown, thanks very much. tonight, a cell phone video purportedly the one that pamela was just talking about, very much in dispute. the french prosecutor in charge of the investigation says that it simply doesn't exist. two publications though they described the video in chilling detail. neither, though has shown it. a reporter said he has no doubts about the video's authenticity. he joins us tonight. frederick, you're one of the very few people who has actually seen inthis video.
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can you describe what this video shows? shows? >> it's passengers at the plane. apparently it's a center of his seat filming with the cell phone and we can see that the plane is moving. that's very something disturbing like maybe this moment is just after the plane hit with his right wing a mountain before the final crash. what is the most impressive in this show of video is the sounds the noise. the fact that noise of people screaming and screaming again. >> how many times, frederick, have you watched the video? >> maybe 100 times. 100 times, but then we've been
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watching altogether with the team of match the video to make the decision and decided not to broadcast it because we thought that it was not bringing anything to the investigation. but that it could be something very difficult for the families. >> i know you say you were able to view it by conducting what you called a long investigative process involving intermediaryies connected to people working at the crash site. how can you be sure that the video you've seen is authentic? >> i won't go into details, but the people who were directly connected to the people on the film are people i fully trust and i know since many years. and then it's important to say because in my report there is also all this work with the
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transcription of the cockpit voice recorder and it appears that it corresponded exactly and in the video and were made. >> frederick, there have been suggestions that your publication, other publications actually pay sources for this kind of information. here's the question. did you pay someone for access to this video? >> no. no no no. i can swear on god i didn't pay any single dollar to get an access on this video. it's only a matter of friendship of people i was in touch with. >> bottom line frederic you have no doubt the video was authentic, taken in the final
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seconds of that doomed flight? >> no i have no doubt. i have no, no doubt and i would finish on that point. the video would not bring anything to the investigation. >> frederic thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure wolf. compromising 9525 crash investigation and then a first for california. what the governor did today to address the severe drought that's threatening the state. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in san diego, we're building the first one ever to run on natural gas. ships this big running this clean will be much better for the environment. we're proud to be a part of that.
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about crash 9525 come initially through leaks. tonight a french newspaper is reporting that police have questioned the head of the country's aviation regulatory agency about such leaks. one question tonight, could they be compromising investigator's work? joining us the aviation attorney and former military pilot justin greene and joining us mary schiavo, former justice of transportation for victims of transportation accidents. we just heard the editor the publication saying he is seeing
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that video, says it's authentic. french authorities say they don't know about this video or any videos for that matter. what do you make of all of this? >> i think it's very very unfortunate. like mary i have to work. i am privileged to work with the family and victims of aviation disasters and the last thing they need to hear or find out whabd on that flight is on the front page of the tabloid. that being said there's a concern about the integrity of the crash site which in this case is a crime scene. i don't believe the video itself will add too much to the investigation because i really just confirms what we already know from the cockpit voice recorder. >> mary the fact that there have been so many leaks so early in this investigation. have you seen anything like this before? >> well unfortunately, i have. as inspector general, i conducted a lot of investigations and a former federal prosecutor too. you know investigations are leaky, even in the best of
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circumstances, but here it goes beyond that because obviously, someone has had access to the crime scene and there's several crimes right there. tampering with the evidence and obstruction of justice and theft of private property. this is a property of victim on the plane and u.s. law requires it be returned. the eu is supposed to have similar laws in place. >> mary justin just mentioned this but got to be incredibly difficult for the families of the crash victims being leaked out to the news media rather than hearing them first from investigators. >> and we're so privileged and used to how the ntsb and the united states conducts it. for example, on the flight 93 after september 11 2001 they kid have the cockpit voice recording where you could hear the passengers because they battered down the door with a food cart and options given whether or not to hear it. ntsb had counselors on stand by. half of the families opted to go
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hear and it was difficult. i went with them and they really h c onhiwa 'sghthlithd t make their own choices in private. >> justin terms of how these crash sites are blocked off, very protected almost like crime scenes but wouldn't it be extremely difficult for someone to find this memory card and take it without anyone seeing them do that? >> you know, i don't think so. i've been on crash sites before and there's a lot of debris across a very large area. all it takes is someone to reach down and pick something up put in their pocket. what i think is important to stress is there are rules that are supposed to protect a crash site. i'm not saying the french didn't follow those rules. but it's truly unfortunate and, you know i hope nothing else goes missing. >> mary you saw the wreckage there. the plane was completely destroyed in this crash. what are the odds of a memory card actually surviving that
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kind of impact? have you seen that before in other crashes? >> yes. oh yes. i have. i have cases where i have cell phone video and some cases, it's crucial. in one case it was really a key piece of evidence. i've had cases where you've gotten pictures off of cameras, information off of a laptop. it's amazing what can survive and in a couple of those crashes, it was a horrific fire and still survived. these things survived and there should be more. i would think they would be finding more but you really have to comb these crash sites and sometimes, you literally get down to sifting with screens. so it's just a matter of finding it and if they find them i think they'll get more. >> mary schiavo, thank you very much. and justin green, you as well. digging deeper on the technology that might save lives in a situation like this one. rene marsh has that. >> pull up. >> reporter: despite glaring cockpit alarms like these,
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andreas lubitz continued germanwings 9525's deadly descent, plane in his control alone. airbus the plane's manufacturer helped develop software to allow a plane's computers to take over a flight if it got close to crashing. but the project was scrapped before it was put to use. >> in the case of the germanwings passenger murder this technology i believe would have saved the flight. >> here's how it would work. if the pilot does not respond to current audible warnings in the cockpit and auto pilot function would kick in, steering the plane out of danger and on to a safe course. many commercial pilots say a plane should never be taken out of a pilot's control. the crash landing of u.s. airways flight 1549 on the hudson river in new york and, an example. a flock of geese knocked out both engines, the heroic actions of sully sullenberger saved all
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155 people on board. some pilots warn technology like enhanced crash avoidance could make jet liners vulnerable to hackers. >> more and more people will come to know the technology. they'll work on the technology and therefore, there will be bad people able to exploit that technology. that's not a good thing. >> reporter: but in incidents like the germanwings, where the pilot blamed for the crash, former department of transportation inspector general mary schiavo said there must be additional safeguards. >> most of the crashes in the last two or three years could have been saved by an override. >> reporter: rene marsh, cnn, washington. just ahead, fallout for the new york city police detective caught on tape ranting and an uber driver. what's happening to him so far as a consequence. that's coming up next. >> let me tell you something. next time you do it again -- >> okay.
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commissioner bill bratton said the behavior of a detective caught on video ranting at an uber driver was, quote unacceptable. the detective who was assigned to the fbi's joint terrorism task force placed on modified assignment after the video was posted online. watch this. >> i don't know what [ bleep ] planet you think you're on. >> i'm not planning sir, i'm here. >> i said planet. [ bleep ]. >> that was the beginning of the rant. it's disturbing, uncomfortable to watch and in bratton's own words, reflects poorly on cops. but is it illegal? randi kaye reports. >> you understand me? you understand me? >> yes, i understand. >> reporter: you're watching a nasty exchange in new york city's west village. the man in the car is an uber driver who honked his horn monday afternoon at a new york city police detective who was attempting to park his unmarked car without a signal. >> okay so stop with your
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mouth. stop it with with that [ bleep ] and realize the three vehicle traffic law violations you committed, okay? >> reporter: we asked cnn legal analyst paul callan to take a closer look at this video. a passenger in the uber car recorded the whole angry exchange on his cell phone and posted it online. >> you understand me? pull over. >> reporter: we saw him curse but he's not breaking the law. >> no he's not breaking the law by cursing at the driver of the car. >> reporter: not only does the detective curse, but he slams the uber driver's car and berates him at every turn. >> okay? you understand me? i don't know what [ bleep ] planet you think you're on right now. >> i'm not planning sir, i'm here. >> planet -- >> yeah i'm not -- >> he's ridiculing the driver based on the driver's accent. it seems he's clearly discriminating against him based on his ethnic or nationality.
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>> how long have you been in this country? >> almost two years. >> reporter: about 2.5 minutes into the video, we see the detective's face on camera for the first time. he's detective patrick cherry with the joint terrorism task force. do you think he has any idea he's being recorded? >> no he doesn't. and this is a very brave move by the passenger in the backseat. >> reporter: before it's over, the detective actually threatens the uber driver with arrest. >> the only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail in the precinct is because i have things to do. >> reporter: are there any grounds here he could have arrested him or an empty threat? >> it's an empty threat. no grounds for arrest here. i'm not sure he had the right to stop the car. because bear in mind the driver wasn't acting illegally in tooting his horn. >> reporter: while the officer remains on modified assignment the president of the detectives endowment association speaking out calling detective cherry a person of good character and
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explains the detective was on the way back from visiting a sick friend in the hospital a fellow detective, in fact who was in critical condition explaining emotions running high and may have contributed to patrick cherry's behavior. randi kaye cnn, new york. >> joining me now, political commentator, off that is charles blow and former nypd officer dan bongino. spokesman for the detective's union, the cop is a good person good character. shouldn't necessarily be judged on this one incident. detectives are human who have things happen that may affect their behavior. you agree with that? >> well listen wolf. i don't agree any person should be judged by their worst moment but when you're wearing the nypd shield you're representing an entire department and you have to be aware of that. listen the policing is going to change. cell phone cameras are everywhere and if you don't want to be a cable news celebrity, i suggest that you act all the time if you're a police
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officer, as if you are being video taped. just the way it's going to be. >> you're right. that's good advice. charles, the guy asked how long the driver was in the country, basically mocked him from being from someplace else a man who works, pointed out from the joint terrorism task force who presumably on a daily basis, don't know exactly his job but work with surveillance investigations potentially arresting people who might look just like this driver. he was going off. what do you make of that part? >> i think the entire video is a kind of sad statement. both for this officer in particular but also for all of the, you know, really good officers who try their best to kind of tamp down the perception that police officers are abusive, that there are good officers out there and just doing their best to do their jobs and we as a society, we need police officers. the only way to have a working
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civil society is to have people who enforce the laws. but what we also need people who are able to switch back and forth between how you deal with people who have actually broken the law and how you deal with someone like this, not being aggressive to you, not broken any laws and simply tooted his horn. you invested with a tremendous amount of power and shown to abuse that power, not only reflects poorly on you but the entire police force and that's a sad statement. >> charles the detective, as we reported he's now on some sort of modified assignment while being investigated by internal affairs. potentially could face suspension reassignment. what should be done here in your opinion? >> well i think the police department has moved very quickly on this. to start the process of figuring out what to do and what happened leading up to that point, but it is clear what's happening on the video, so i actually do commend
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the police department. i commend bratton for his statements on this that this is not a good reflection on this officer or the police department as a whole. but i think culturally we have to start asking police officers to do what a lot of other people in other cultural institutions. in journalism if someone caught breaking the rules, other journalists shun the person and condemn the person and the person not welcome back into the fold. i think that the police departments across the country have to adopt the same sort of ethos to say if you are actually doing something that besmerges our image, we want nothing to do with you. i don't think we can't enough cameras in enough backseats to catch every person who does something out of the ordinary. i think what we have to have is other police officers, the better angels of the police force to say, we will no longer tolerate people who do things that make us look bad. >> dan bongino, what do you think? >> i think charles brings up a
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good point but we do have to look at this from a 30,000 foot view. it's not like being a journalist. and i'm not saying he was equating the two in the danger level at all. but it's different, wolf. you have young, i got on the job with the police department in my early 20s. put out in a neighborhood and in my case a very high crime rate and very dangerous situations. you come to rely on these people literally, fellow police officers save your life. this was 100% unacceptable but i think we have to understand why there's that silo mentality sometimes so we can break it down rather than kind of criticize. >> what kind of punishment do you think he deserves this cop? >> i don't think he should lose his job. i think he's going to get a hefty suspension and i think charles brings up a point that's accurate. these kind of effects can ripple throughout a community, especially in the community of cab drivers or uber drivers who tend to talk. the negative externality can be
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geometrically worse than the 2 minute. act like you're being recorded all the all the time. >> probably will be given the smartphones and cameras out there all the time. dan bongino, charles blow. thank you very much. up next -- drastic measures right now in california. the state is literally running dry.
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in much of the country this could come as a shock for some of you. for tens of millions of californians who have been suffering through some of the hottest driest weather in decades, what happened today no surprise. governor jerry brown for the first time in california history imposing statewide water restrictions. sara sidner is joining us now from a very dry patch in southern california san fernando valley. these historic restrictions what exactly do they cover? >> reporter: well look. governor brown put it bluntly. he said it's a historic drought that demands unprecedented action. and you're looking at some of that plan of action just over my right shoulder. instead of those lush green lawns we're used to seeing they
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want to have 50 million square feet of lawns turned into what you see there which is zero. it's drought resistant plantings with technology that uses just a fraction of what you need to water a grassy green lawn. there's also another push to lower the usage of drinkable water in urban areas by 25%. it is a big ask to take a big effort. but looking at california's water table are extremely concerned and this all couldn't happen soon enough considering the state that california is in now. >> california has about one yaer of water left in its reservoirs on the surface. and that's what our water managers tell us and that's readily visible from measurements on the ground. >> sara the reservoirs go dry within a year what happens next? >> reporter: look then they start pulling out the ground water and the water from the
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aqua firs. that is finite. that can't be replenished. we don't have the snow pack which we don't. the governor showed very clearly, he should have been standing at five feet of snow and nothing there. there is nothing to replenish that. that means less and less water in this state and as you know huge numbers of people and lots of agriculture, agriculture also being told you've got to conserve. we want to see plans for how much water you're going to use and a drought management. a lot going on in the state. a lot of people worried. i want to tell you this. there are communities that we've been to that have no running water in their homes, more than a thousand homes now. no running water because their wells have gone dry. this is really affecting families and every day people especially in the central valley. >> pretty shocking what's sara thank you very much. amara walker has a "360" bulletin. hi there, wolf.
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negotiations over iran's nuclear program extended again until tomorrow thursday, in hopes a deal can be made. republicans on capitol hill are blasting the decision. senator robert menendez is temporarily stepping down from the foreign relations committee now that he faces a 14 count federal indictment on corruption fraud, and other charges. the new jersey democrat is accused of improperly using his office to help a florida eye doctor who was a campaign donor. menendez said he's angry and ready to fight. in atlanta, a jury convicted 11 former teachers on racketeering and other charges. a 12th defendant acquitted and more than 20 others with plea deals. helped cheat on standardized tests. and happy april fools' day everyone. a lot of good pranks but this one caught our eye. some shoppers thought the petco selfie stick was real. the claim is that it's activated
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with a bark or meow. maybe one day, just not today. pac man eating his way around google maps. hit the box at the bottom of your screen to play along and have a good laugh. what a great idea. who doesn't love pac man, wolf? >> thank you, amara, for that. up next, found dead. questions remain about andrew getty's life and death. that's next. in my world, wall isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. start investing with as little as fifty dollars.
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we never thought we'd be farming wind out here. it's not just building jobs here it's helping our community. siemens location here has just received a major order of wind turbines. it puts a huge smile on my face. cause i'm like 'this is what we do.' the fact that iowa is leading the way in wind energy i'm so proud, like it's just amazing.
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grandson andrew get tity died early. he lived around those surrounded by drama. >> reporter: in lavish estate andrew getty, heir to the getty family fortune found dead tuesday afternoon. >> it's treated as undetermined death investigation. >> reporter: just 47 years old, police say he suffered from several health issues and at this point, no criminal investigation. >> there appears to be natural or accident. he had some medication that we recovered and don't know if he take the medication or what his medical history is. >> reporter: a female friend at the home where getty died was the one to call 9-1-1.
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she is cooperating with the investigation as a witness. it is unclear if that woman is get ty's estranged girlfriend. getty filed a temporary restraining order against her citing domestic violence. in court documents say she used pepper spray on him and had to be removed from home by police on numerous occasions and getty had high blood pressure and risk of injury or death because of this. he claimed she used it against him. said his estranged girlfriend quote, aware of my medical condition and exploited this information to demand money and property from me, refusing to leave my house. andrew's father philanthropist gordon getty. one of the richest members with estimated worth of $2 billion but it was gordon's father oil tycoon jay getty who initially had the fortune, puts at 5 billion.
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oil well in oklahoma j. paul moved to los angeles living life of a wealthy playboy. married five times and amassed a private art collection which became the foundation for world renowned museum for family name. a family known for immense wealth grieving for the loss of one of their own. stephanie elam cnn, los angeles. >> anthony bourdain parts unknown starts right now. this is the story of one man, one chef and a city. also it's about friends and a lot of other chefs. and a culinary tradition that grew up to change the world of astronomy. a family tree and the truck from which many branches grew.
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