officer eisen shot the beanbag. in an attempt to put distance between the suspect and himself, he started backing up all shouting, put it down. the suspect refused to obey the commands and quickly continue towards officer heppler with knives in each hand. the only option he had to stop the threat to him and fellow officers was to use the fire arm. officer heppler shot the suspect and save himself, the other officers, and undoubtably the suspect's sister from being stabbed. for these actions they are being awarded the silver medal of valor. congratulations. [applause] >>>> captain feeney, and lt. mak solomon, ryan, lieu and reyes. >> good evening. as commanding officer of park station i was looking forward to sharing with you the outstanding office actions of these officer. however, i will stand down for officer solomon. i would be remiss if i did not mention and acknowledge that this is the last medal of valor award ceremony that mark will attend as an active member of the standards as the police department. mark is

options, and i know we have a shotgun that has been dogs, but how old is that technology -- the has beanbags, but how old is that technology? i am not seeing anything about the alternatives other than lasers. i am really concerned about the legality of singling out a particular group of our citizens, and the legality of saying we are going to ignore the protocol. as i am not singling out a demographic of people it might be used on. i am singling out officers. they would be using it as a trained and prescribed in policy. >> are believed that it nauseous the lights people in mentally ill situations -- i believe that it is for mentally ill people. 5 they have concern for everybody. >> the last thing i want to say, why is it taking so long to get up and running? if the leadership is fine the -- behind the cit, why are we trying to drop a solution without weapons? >> we are not. this is on top of. >> i have a question, because i was not on the body when this resolution was approved, and i just have a copy of it now. it appears we already are in violation of ipsit, given that t says we were to get

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. >> words of mitt romney, politics ain't beanbag, right? >> that's right. >> glenn thrush, thank you. interesting to see owen ebook can impact the campaign. first campaign we've had ebooks coming out during the campaign. see that level of reporting impacting what goes on the ballots. matt miller in the guest spot, friend of the show. find out who he's calling a drawbridge republican. i love that term! i am going to become facebook friends with our babysitter. no. these work, right? no. all right. mom! look what i found in the s no! no! no! ♪ ew! were you guys just making out in here? what? no! is it okay if i quit my job and start a blog? no. really? cold cuts from a package? yes. [ male announcer ] in a world filled with "no," it's nice to finally say "yes." new oscar mayer selects deli meat. the tastes you love and no artificial preservatives. it's yes food. >>> there's no question that the conversation around the republican party has been hijacked by todd akin and as the convention approaches gop leaders are trying to shift the focus bac

you wiremember was on the receiving end of some of the tough romney politics, and politics ain't beanbagand it will get nastier and uglier than what we have seen. i think that the paul ryan pick more than anything so far in the campaign has made this election a choice between a two contrast s. you could not have a clearer contrast between the two campaigns right now especially on the issue of medicare and the budget. >> so, in terms of what they all want to talk about, romney certainly would like to switch the conversation back to jobs, wouldn't he? >> he would. and as the president's team knows, there are more jobs reports coming out, and it seems that we have reached the critical mass every time one of the jobs reports comies out, an then we all of the sudden have a new analysis of how the president is doing on the economy, but really it is surprising to see medicare just jump to the forefront of this campaign and talk about an issue that was a sleeper until romney picked paul ryan. up until that point, we weren't talking about medicare that much and as you saw in florida, this is such

politics ain't beanbag and certainly ain't stand-up either but the idea that somehow in one of the most environments in american history, a presidential candidate would choose to pick an intellectually and morally repugnant conspiracy theory for a cheap laugh, if it wasn't so irresponsible and truly pathetic, it would in fact be laughable. thanks again to ari, howard and jodi. that's all for now. see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific when i am joined by former governor ed rendell, george pataki, steve kornacki and laurence o'donnell. "andrea mitchell reports" is next live from tampa. hello, andrea. >>> hi, alex. here we are at the site of the republican national convention. it is as you know delayed. they will convene at 2:00 for just about two or three minutes, start their deficit clock and we'll have more on that later. we'll be talking to governor bob mcdonnell who chaired the platform committee and talking to the mayor of los angeles, who chairs the democratic national convention in charlotte next week. he's here at the republican convention to present their

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beanbag firing guns called stun batons grenade launchers teargas rubber bullets and even a 12-gauge shotgunthey also talked about how we could use these for surveillance purposes, recognizing that these drones could be equipped with thermal and -- imaging, facial recognition techniques, wifi tracking capabilities systems to interdict text messages and phonecalls. there was a sheriff at the press conference and he said no matter what we do in law enforcement somebody's going to question it. but we are going to do the right thing and i can assure you of that. so are you feeling reassured? well, for good reason. you are not the only one. in fact the aclu thinks that everything is being put in place now for a 24 sevenths surveillance society that would her family change the nature of public life in the united states. the people who are getting upset about that are not people just on the left or the right. this extends to many americans who value their privacy as well as their safety. in fact there are some interesting collaborations that we are now looking into. i just do not bid peace in the n

taser is that can electrocute suspects on the ground, beanbag firing guns, grenade launchers, teargasrepublics, even a 12 gauge shotgun. they also talked about how we can use these for surveillance purposes, recognizing that these can be equipped with a thermal imaging -- imaging, official recognition techniques, wi-fi network cracking capability, systems to intercept text messages and phone calls. oh, but there was a sheriff at the press conference to said, no matter what we do in law enforcement somebody is going to question it. we're going to do the right thing, and i can assure you that. so are you feeling reassured? [background noises] well, for good reason. and you're not the only one. in fact, the aclu thinks that everything is being put in place now for a 24 / seven surveillance society that would profoundly change the nature of public life in the united states the people who are getting upset about that, this is not people just on the left of the right. this extends to many americans who value their privacy as well as their safety. here's some interesting collaborations' that

. >> stephanie: politics ain't beanbag. this is going to be a tough election.e he's right. that was the wrong thing to do. oh, i hope he doesn't -- hurt his credibility. credibility? mitt romney is running the entire campaign on lies. >> i didn't say it was the wrong thing to do. i just said i hope he's right. >> here's my ethical standard. i have said that the best thing republicans can know how to do in the campaign is to tell really good lies and lies that sound remotely believable. so my ethical standard is we should be telling better lies. frankly, i don't even care if this is true or not. i think it is remarkable that a democrat is actually playing hardball. >> stephanie: in politico, interesting the piece politico did on this, he has created the frenzy. turn the focus back on the tax returns, on top of that, reid genuinely believes his source. a long time investor at bain. it is interesting. ben labolt, the obama camp spokesman said reflecting the growing number of questions americans have about mitt romney's finances, he pointed out that governor romney

sitting on a boat eating with a guy that looks like a beanbag chair with legs, that's not good naked.sta. it is disgusting, absolutely horrifying. but you know, it was interesting because when i got on it, it was this group. they do this monthly dinner. all very nice people. they're like oh, yeah, this isn't about sex and we don't look -- because i was like do you guys check out each other's packages. they're like no, no, no, no one does that. this is about being with other people of shared interests and being in our natural state. it was like they were reciting press releases or something. and then finally as the night wears on, they have a couple of drinks and they're like really -- because i took my shirt off right away because i thought that would be a nice show of solidarity. >> peter: i would think that would be weirder to just take your shirt off. >> it definitely was. they were just like don't talk to the guy with the shirt off. and then eventually, they were egging me on and finally -- i stripped down to my boxers. oh. that's like probably the water wings of the nudists. you