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that is it for us tonight. we will be right back here tomorrow night. "ac360 "ac360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, i'm 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.
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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 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. just 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.
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the indiana law and other recent legislation go further, offering protection and i'm quoting now, 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 whose owner forbids the shop from serving same sex couples or the indiana pizzeria that said it would never cater 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 capital 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
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and then beside that, there were individual meetings all day. the republicans, all 71 of them have been meeting all day today, 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
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of social conservatives, right? >> reporter: it is, and they are 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. joining us now new york university constitutional law, kenji yoshino. these laws do, they need to be clarified, amended in some way
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in your opinion or fine as is? >> we're having all these discussions about religious liberty and i'm worried about who's missing from the conversations. women like caawall tugor. she used a religious freedom bill when she sued the irs because she was fired 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
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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 because of your religious 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 context 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
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enacted by vast majorities of both houses of congress and signed by bill clinton. that also happened with the defense of 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 he has a religious belief and it is substantially burdened by the government and the government can say, yes, we're burdening you, and we 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?
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>> 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 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. what is needed is a more categorical test for protection of 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. i believe we are seeing a repete here. >> 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
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decide whether they want to pass another law that burdens people 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. religious liberty is not a problem, and it is who we are as a people and it is the first freedom and it does not need a fix. >> 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 lesbians 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
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restoration bill is stalled in the legislation committee. sparked a bitter debate in 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 rural geoff davis county georgia, and 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. she believes that it would be a
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against her religion to serve them. >> you talk about the bible, and 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 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 risk? >> he 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.
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they all told us the same thing. they want the law to pass in 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. >> reporter: the ten commandments say that you cannot commit adultery, honor your father and mother. and if someone commits 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
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you, but not so much if you tell them you're gay. gary tuchman, jeff davis county 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. and use this lesson and use this in the future. don't ever do that again. 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."
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crews working in the french alps at the crash site. work where 150 people died. 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? i know from another source investigators have been poring over his electronics, looking
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for any clues, and i know that the only relevant findings on his computers and other electronics is information about that 2009 depression episode that he reported to lufthansa. 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
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pushing back on this. 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 this video. can you describe what this video
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shows? >> the video shows the pas sen passengers at the back of the plane, and apparently, it's a center on his seat which is 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.
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100 times, but then we've been watching altogether with the editorial team of the video watching 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 intermediaries 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 transcription of the cockpit voice recorder and it appears
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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
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authentic, taken in the final 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. just ahead, are leaking compromising the 9525 crash investigation. and also what the california governor did today to address a severe drought that is threatening the state. ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪
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much of what we learned 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
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publication saying he is seeing 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
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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 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 the families were
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given options of whether they wanted to hear it. ntsb had counselors on stand by. half of the families opted to go hear and it was difficult. i went with them and they really handled it extremely privately and it would be so different if it had come out in this way. it's tough on the families. they need to 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
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card actually surviving that 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, andreas lubitz continued
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germanwings 9525's deadly descent, plane in his control alone. more than ten years ago airbus the plane's manufacturer developed 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. >> reporter: here is 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 155 people on board.
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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. we will tell you what is happening to him so far as a consequence. that is coming up next. >> i will tell you the next time
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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. >> planning? 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 mouth.
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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. >> how long have you been in
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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 explains the detective was on
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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 xhen ta and new york times op-ed commentator 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.
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the only way to have a working 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
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video, so i actually do commend 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 do 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 good point but we do have to
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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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generated from this can be geometrically worse than the two minute video. act like you're being recorded 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. where do you get this kind of confidence? at your ford dealer... that's where! our expert trained technicians... state of the art technology and warranty parts keep your vehicle running right. it's no wonder we sold more than 3.5 million tires last year and durning the big tire event get a $120 mail in rebate on 4 select tires. ♪
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after cold wet snowy winter 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 want to have 50 million square feet of lawns turned into what you see there which is zero.
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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 scientists looking at the california's water table are extremely concerned, and this 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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aquifers and that is finite. i 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 going on there. sara, thank you very much. there's a lot more happening tonight. amara walker has a "360" bulletin. hi there, wolf. negotiations over iran's nuclear
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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. prosecutors say that they helped students 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. and pacman is 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. been a journey to get where i am. and i didn't get here alone. there were people who listened along the way. people who gave me options. kept me on track. and through it all my retirement never got left behind. so today, i'm prepared for anything we may want tomorrow to be. every someday needs a plan. let's talk about your old 401(k) today.
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grandson andrew getty died early. he lived around those surrounded by drama. stephanie elam reports. >> 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: police say that a female friend who was at the home when getty died was at the home and called 911. she is cooperating with the investigation as a witness.
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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 tie tycoon j. paul getty who initially had the fortune which forbes puts at $5 billion. 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
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