>> well, in fact, senator mccaskill and the attorney general have now talked.e also talked to other members of the congressional delegation. first of all, in terms of the investigation itself, the justice department on monday opened a civil rights investigation that is led by the u.s. attorney out there and the fbi. and normally in situations like this, you see the fbi open these investigations, keep a close eye on what the local police are doing but not be too aggressive on their own at this stage. but this situation in ferguson is different, we're told, that the fbi has already been doing interviews with witnesses. one official says the fbi has interviewed the young man who says he was with michael brown at the time of the shooting. so you see a little more forward-leaning response by the fbi in this situation. now, the fbi can't, quote/unquote take over the investigation because there is no federal murder statute that would cover something like this. the only hook is the course that it is taking. that's one-track, the investigation. in terms of the police re

and inspired to raise it by the observation made by chairman mccaskill. bout the laurg here. lawyers typically are supposed to be the corporate conscience. they're supposed to be the ones who make sure that corporations comply with the law in spirit and letter. here, the lawyers for g.m. tually enabled cover-up, concealment, deceit. and even fraud. and i believe, although we ution the word "alleged" as lawyers all the time, that the criminal investigation now under way by the department of justice will find culpability on the part of those lawyers. would you agree with me as someone who has been a member of this profession, and done it with great distinction for a long time, that the lawyers here failed the public and failed g.m.? >> i agree that the lawyers work in the public interest or should. i don't know enough about the underlying circumstances that give rise to this to make an official on-the-record decision about the lawyers in this case. i just don't know the answer to that question. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you, mr. feinberg. >> senator baldwin, welcome.

craig senator mccaskill, i respectfully disagree. as you know, i have made a promise to fix what happened in the company to make sure that we are dedicated to safety, dedicated to excellence. we are well on our way and we have made significant change to do that -- to do that, i need the right team. might milliken is a man of incredibly high integrity who has tremendous global experience as it relates to the legal profession. he is the person i need on this team. he had a system in place him unfortunately in this instance it wasn't brought to his attention from a frankly by people who brought many other issues forward. he is a man of high integrity. >> was there a system in place that says your lawyer is telling you your subject to punitive ?amages how is that not incompetent? she says we have our lawyer telling us for different times within a couple of years on something you had not even talked about recalling, punitive damages. how do you have a system in place it doesn't look out for that? >> we had very senior lawyers who had this

and inspired to raise it by the observation made by chairman mccaskill. bout the laurg here. lawyers typically are supposed to be the corporate conscience. they're supposed to be the ones who make sure that corporations comply with the law in spirit and letter. here, the lawyers for g.m. tually enabled cover-up, concealment, deceit. and even fraud. and i believe, although we ution the word "alleged" as lawyers all the time, that the criminal investigation now under way by the department of justice will find culpability on the part of those lawyers. would you agree with me as someone who has been a member of this profession, and done it with great distinction for a long time, that the lawyers here failed the public and failed g.m.? >> i agree that the lawyers work in the public interest or should. i don't know enough about the underlying circumstances that give rise to this to make an official on-the-record decision about the lawyers in this case. i just don't know the answer to that question. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you, mr. feinberg. >> senator baldwin, welcome.

craig senator mccaskill, i respectfully disagree. as you know, i have made a promise to fix what happened in the company to make sure that we are dedicated to safety, dedicated to excellence. we are well on our way and we have made significant change to do that -- to do that, i need the right team. might milliken is a man of incredibly high integrity who has tremendous global experience as it relates to the legal profession. he is the person i need on this team. he had a system in place him unfortunately in this instance it wasn't brought to his attention from a frankly by people who brought many other issues forward. he is a man of high integrity. >> was there a system in place that says your lawyer is telling you your subject to punitive ?amages how is that not incompetent? she says we have our lawyer telling us for different times within a couple of years on something you had not even talked about recalling, punitive damages. how do you have a system in place it doesn't look out for that? >> we had very senior lawyers who had this

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louis, claire mccaskill. and on set, joy reed.too. >> claire, it's always great to see you. i guess i should say senator. last week, we had this police force that was underrepresented and in this -- now we've got toen the point where the national guard is being called in. we're finding out a week later because of all the buildup to this, there are no easy answers. what can you tell us on the ground about ferguson and what hopes that maybe tonight may be more peaceful than last night and the week before that? >> well, i hope you give me a chance to make a few points this morning, from my perspective here on the ground and visiting incessantly with people in the community. >> of course. >> at ground zero in ferguson and around the ferguson area. first, the biggest problem we have right now is that the wonderful people of ferguson who want to be law abiding and -- by the way, this isn't a community that had a high crime rate. the surrounding communities in the area had higher crime rates than ferguson. the protesters have now been in

and senator claire mccaskill says we need to demilitarize this situation. this kind of response by police has become the problem instead of the solution. and joined by john gaskin, a member of the naacp national committee and st. louis county executive committee as well as mark clask. also tim lynch, director of the cato institute's project on criminal justice who has been looking at the implications for this nationally. tim, police have been gathering in full riot gear, driving mine resistant vehicles around this suburb of 21,000 people. where are they getting this gear? >> the pentagon makes surplus military equipment available to local police department. so if the president is looking to take some concrete steps and members of congress, they can shut down this program where the federal government, and in particular the pentagon, is making, you know, armored vehicles, m-16s, camouflage uniforms available to local police departments. that's where they are getting this stuff from. >> and it is not clear at this point they are receiving the kind of training

>> i really appreciate senator claire mccaskill. i think she's awesome. love the fact of what she said, the way it is moderate and makes sense. we have to do common sense things and look at what's going on here. >> senator mccaskill talking about rolling back the militarization we're seeing of this very small police department. i think part of what's so shocking to everyone was to see the gear in the hands of a police department that has at last i checked 55 officers, is that correct? something like that. and then the question becomes, you know, ultimately here is about political empowerment. do you think this is a kind of tipping point for a kind of political sensibility? like, are these people who are here being politicized in this moment? are they seeing the kind of way power works in this place and how it can be changed? >> i think tonight, i think people have had a wake-up call. they see that when you get your message out there, when you use your voice, i think this is going to be a real encouragement for folks to make it out in november. absolutely.

craig senator mccaskill, i respectfully disagree. as you know, i have made a promise to fix what happened in the company to make sure that we are dedicated to safety, dedicated to excellence. we are well on our way and we have made significant change to do that -- to do that, i need the right team. might milliken is a man of incredibly high integrity who has tremendous global experience as it relates to the legal profession. he is the person i need on this team. he had a system in place him unfortunately in this instance it wasn't brought to his attention from a frankly by people who brought many other issues forward. he is a man of high integrity. >> was there a system in place that says your lawyer is telling you your subject to punitive ?amages how is that not incompetent? she says we have our lawyer telling us for different times within a couple of years on something you had not even talked about recalling, punitive damages. how do you have a system in place it doesn't look out for that? >> we had very senior lawyers who had this

and senator claire mccaskill just put out a statement saying we need to demilitary rise this situation. it's become the problem instead of the solution. i respect the work to provide public safety, but my constituents are allowed to have a peaceful protest and the police need to respect that right and protect that right. today is going to be a new start. we can and need to do better. the reaction clearly coming in. on iraq, jim sciutto, the president seemed to open up the door to more efforts to deal with the plight. let's not forget the past couple months or so since isis made the big push into iraq, there have been about 600,000 iraqis, where christia christians, shiites, displaced from their homes. some have fled to jordan or turkey. more than a million and a half iraqis over the past several months who have had to flee their homes. the president may be right that the situation on mount sinjar is improving, but the rest of iraq, it looks awful. >> he opened a door pretty widely. he declared somewhat of a vibt ri say iing that situation is greatly improved. he said americans should b

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benjamin crump if he thinks this case needs a special prosecutor and ask missouri senator claire mccaskill if she thinks a special prosecutor is needed. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> they're emboldened and loud and still marching. >> a tense night of protest. >> another police involved shooting. >> in a community already on edge. >> just 2 1/2 miles from ferguson. >> a suspect armed with a knife. >> appeared to be unrelated to the ferguson protest. >> when he closed within three to four feet, officers fired their weapon. >> people were furious and angry. >> the last thing we need is violence in our neighborhood. >> what if anything can calm the tensions in ferguson. >> everything seems locked in this cycle. >> another night of tear gas and flash grenades. >> what a scene. the anger just boiling over. >> the national guard has done nothing to calm the nighttime violence. protesters are known in ferguson as the militants. >> more interested in raising hell and stealing stuff. >> protest during the daytime. stay home at night. >> these people are crying out for justice. >> justice will b

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now we're learning that senator mccaskill, claire mccaskill, is in ferguson right now talking directlyts. we're learning that through our newsroom, that that's just happening. the other point is as you mentioned the kind of void, the vacuum of leadership. young mayor. i'm sure he's a very bright person, he's calling for calm. we're three nights into violence now, i think you need a little bit stronger call, mayor james noel, than what you've given. he says they have handed over the investigation to the fbi and at the state and county level so there's no more of this impartiality question about whether they're investigating. is that an indication that maybe this police department felt it couldn't handle this? >> well, what happens usually is you have -- because i used to be on the officer-involved shooting team, so anytime there was a shooting that occurred at the hands of a police officer and an individual died, you have to do -- put it together, interview all the witnesses, go to determine whether or not it was a good shooting, meaning valid and it wasn't something you need manslaught

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i think claire mccaskill's comments about the special prosecutor is bubbling up. people are having to respond to it now. you've got eric holder coming to town and the meeting of the grand jury and the possibility that it will be the first day in which evidence is presented at that grand jury. all of those things are happening tomorrow. >> as this case moves along step by step, the grant jury is a big deal. you have to go through this avenue. even everyone is yelling at captain johnson and the governor, that's not the way it works. will there be charges? is it enough? and we're moving along. >> trymaine lee, thank you very much. >>> all right. we are live from ferguson, missouri. peaceful team out here so far. people walking around and chanting. hey, man. exercising their first amendment rights to peacefully assemble. for now, things are calm. there is tension in the air. we'll be live for the hour, so stay with us. .... [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moa

it's a free country, and then senator claire mccaskill from massachusetts, saying -- from missouri, sayinglice response has been part of the problem, and she said, it's my understanding the county police, st. louis county police, will be taken off the investigation. but she did not elaborate. so, will tonight be much different from previous nights? will tonight we not see authorities in riot gear atop military vehicles, shooting tear gas into the area? now, make no mistake, there's been a lot of violence here. buildings have burned to the ground. police officers have been injured. but what -- the opinion is, according to the governor there -- irshould say the senator -- the police response has been part of the problem. that they've overdone it. mike tobin is live in ferguson, outside the police department. apparently walking along with demonstrators. what you got, mike? >> this is a demonstration that spilled out on to the road, and the demonstrations have evolved. there's much now about the police tactics and dealing with the crowd as they are the original death of michael brunch you can

. >> firing rubber bullets, senator claire mccaskill is calling for demilitarization. >> we needed newplayers and to come in and rein in these police officers from what we have been seeing. nearly $450 million in military equipment was given to police agencies in 2013. ed a coupleceiv humvees. others received armored vehicles. that is the latest, abc 7 news. meantime, hundreds gathered here in our area tonight innings support of michael brown. it was part of the national moment of silence. roz? gathering it is a testament to the power of social media. they were organized on twitter. they were saddened by the events happening. they are sick and tired of mourning. [chanting] by the hundreds, they gather in parks, standing shoulder to shoulder in solidarity and praying for justice. the unarmed teen was gunned down. for unarmed young black men have been gunned down by police in just a month. it is too much. it happens too much. >> there's a lot of sadness. we haven't been able to express. >> after the peaceful protest, there must the solutions. >> we need to demand additional training and

everyone, rand paul, claire mccaskill, president barack obama, eric holder. jay nixon comes in, and he makes this change. he takes a guy who grew up here, a change in policing. we have seen it here, as people walk and honk their horns and dry slowly down this avenue that had been cleared of everyone. i think pretty unanimously there is a celebration of that change. people said to me, we feel like we had a victory today. here is a late, breaking development from the st. louis post-dispatch. the single most important figure in this case, the man who will more than anything determine whether is a prosecution and a successful prosecution for this, that man had something to say about the governor's decision which was not what you might expect, and we'll talk about that right after we take this break. stay with us live in ferguson, missouri. this is all in. >>> you are looking at a live stream with some of the scenes in ferguson, missouri, tonight. there have been protests all over the local st. louis area, in downtown st. louis today and protests impromptu sprouti

senator came down, claire mccaskill, she had no security. lady who just got out of jail. she didn't want to talk to her at all. i haven't taken a shower or anything. i said, no, you meet your u.s. senator claire mccaskill. she embraced her as she was crying. that's what elected officials need to do. embrace the people that are hurting so badly inside who are angry because of the intimidation from police officers this week. it's unacceptable for us to have our first amendment right taken away from us, our freedom of expression and our freedom to assemble. and what st. louis county police officers did is they tear gassed my young people who didn't deserve it. >> state senator maria chappelle-anyw chappelle-nadal in ferguson. >>> thursday the president took a break from his vacation to address the shooting death of michael brown by a police officer in ferguson. at that point protests had been going on for four days. police were facing off with protesters in stunning and often frightening ways. the president spoke before the state highway patrol

. >> reporter: democratic senator claire mccaskill who calls it a parallel investigation wants it to be a vigorous one. >> not going out independently and canvassing witnesses but duplicating all of the forensic work, the down, a the trajectory, all of the blood pattern, and there is some really technical forensic evidence in this case. >> reporter: mccaskill says historically the federal government has advanced civil rights more than state and local governments. there are dozens of federal agents interviewing witnesses and one civil rights group say they are getting more information than police. a federal medical examiner has conducted a third autopsy on michael brown and results have not been released. still, mr. obama's involvement is not enough for al sharpton who wants federal legislation and fox news contributor karl rove was more. >> this is not worthy of the president. i think the moral clarity is what's desired and he can provide it. >> reporter: mr. obama says the violence is being cautioned by a small minority who may not even be residents of ferguson. >> we've all seen im

now the equipment mccaskill is referring to includes grenade launchers, humvees and mine resistant armored vehicles, offered for towns where it's hard to imagine these things are needed. the staggering level of combat weaponry in small town america has become fodder for comedians, most recently coming into the cross-hairs of hbo's john oliver. >> look at doralville, georgia, population 8,500, the police there got a tank a while back and up until a few days ago, this video was on the front page of their website. ♪ we're gone to stop a burglary! we're gone to stop a burglary! arh! the name of that song is and this is true, "die [ bleep ] die." >> doralville, georgia, by the way, covers just three squares miles and incidentally a lawmaker has been working on a bill to rein in this for months long before the civil unrest in ferguson. that man, congressman hank johnson joins me from atlanta. welcome, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> i notice you weren't laughing at oliver's bit on doralville. >> well no, it's the kind of display that when you are trying to run a police department, policing a

claire mccaskill is saying it's time to reconsider tactics. >> after 9/11 in a sometimes knee jerk fashiongan equipping police departments with all kinds of tools that had not been typical of policing in this country. and maybe it's time to look at all of that and make a determination as to how effective is a show of what is military force. >> do you agree with senator mccaskill? >> well, i think we have to reexamine it. i can understand the need possibly if there's a terrorist threat and if -- there could be a terrorist threat with people high cartridge ammunition and weaponry, where they might need to respond with some type -- something like that although the national guard will be called out but not against our own citizens and not against our own citizens when there is civil unrest and protest. even if it got to the point where it did where they are breaking glass, that's no reason to come with the amount of force and appearance that was brought by the police in ferguson. >> thursday john lewis called for president obama to federalize the missouri national guard to take control of the

. >> claire mccaskill wants an aggressive federal probe, duplicating forensic work and re-interviewing witnesses. the civil rights groups say they're already finding the witnesses more forthcoming than to local police. mccaskill says historically the federal got has fostered more progress on civil rights issues than state and local issues. both she and senator blunt will immediate with attorney general holder tomorrow. >> for foes who missed, ann comptoned a her final question of the president, are you going to ferguson? can you be of any help? the president d. answer the question. what's the thinking there. will he go? >> the aides are suggesting not anytime soon and it makes sense. most of ferguson's police, working long hours, little sleep. that would be the worst time to divert many of them to the security demands of a presidential visit. also, it's unclear if mr. obama's presence would actually reduce the violence. he has been more cautious in his comments about this than he was after she shooting of trayvon martin, saying young black men are too often involved in crime but that p

i think claire mccaskill's comments about the special prosecutor is bubbling up. eric holdere1 comingo town and the meeting of the grand jury and the possibility that it will be the first day in which evidencexd is presented a that grand jury. all of those things are happeningr >> as this case moves along step by step, the grant jury isw3xd g deal. you have to go through this avenue. even everyone is yelling at captain johnson and the governor, that's not the waynmo works. will there be charges?lpq is it enough? and we're moving alon+j$ @&h(lc% >>e1÷k trymaine lee, thank you much. >>> all right. we are live from ferguson, missouri. peaceful team out here so far. people v:s)r'g around and chanting. hey, man. exercising their first amendment rights to peacefully assemble. for now, things are calm. there is tension in the air. we'll be live for the hour, so stay with us. ♪ in the nation, the safest feature in your car is you. add vanishing deductible from nationwide insurance and get $100 off for every year of safe driving. which for you, shouldn't be a problem. jus

as the military heads out of town, missouri senator claire mccaskill announced today she'll hold a senate hearing on the militarization of the police next month. a response to those shocking images of officers in armored vehicles pointing long guns at citizens in the early days of the protests. while the unrest over the shooting of mike brown seems to be calming down, supporters for his killer, officer darren wilson are organizing. yesterday a pro-wilson rally in st. louis was attended by only 100 according to one report, buu so, i know the pain of that, and the fact that he was a police officer and killed in the line of duty had nothing to do with any of that. what it did for me, or to me, was made me, i think, a fierce advocate for victims of a÷ he's saying he's not going to recuse himself from the case, shooting of michael brown. he thinks that would be a dereliction of duty on his part. he says you have the authority to order him off case. i have to read you some of the quotes because he's been pointed in what what he said about you. your refusal to say definitelytively one way or the

the same as senator mccaskill. should have been all along. >> what about the federal response to this? >> it has been rapid and what we need to see from the president and attorney general. within 48 hours the president sent a team through the attorney general from the fbi to ferguson to deal with the situation there, to assist in the investigation. we had a written statement from the president. obviously a very empathetic statement from him directly, as well. i think that's what we need to see from him as the facts continue to roll in. >> josh, what about the response on the hill? should there be more of an outcry to change this at a national level and roll back some of the militarization of local forces? >> i think so. obviously august is a pretty dead period here in washington. a lot of folks are at home in their districts. when they get back to work, i think we need to see members of congress from both sides of the aisle talking about the militarization of police and tough racial justice issues and looking at wh

meanwhile you're got senator claire mccaskill that's come out and defended mccullouch. does this mean that mccullouch is likely to remain in charge? >> i think he is likely to remain in charge but i think we're also likely to continue seeing calls from the black community for him to step aside because they really believe he can't be impartial in this sglegs w investigation. >> why is that? give us some back story here. >> it goes back in part to a case from 2000 where two black men were shot dead by two white police officers as they sat in the car park at a jack in the box. mccullouch brought evidence to a grand jury which did not indict the men and mccullouch said he supported that decision. that caused a lot of anger in the black community. even since we've had this unrest in ferguson, he sort of came out and said he did not like the decision to appoint ron johnson to police the effort and that sort of made things worse, i think. >> a lot of folks wondered after that why would he even chime in. like why would that be something that mccullouch would feel the need to ev

as the military heads out of town, missouri senator claire mccaskill announced today she'll hold a senate hearing on the militarization of the police next month. a response to those shocking images of officers in armored vehicles pointing long guns at citizens in the early days of the protests. while the unrest over the shooting of mike brown seems to be calming down, supporters for his killer, officer darren wilson are organizing. yesterday a pro-wilson rally in st. louis was attended by only 100 according to one report, but now the support darren wilson facebook page has over 50,000 likes. go fund me page to raise money for his legal fees has raised more than $150,000 in just 3 days. after people started turning their porch lights blue in a show of support for the missouri police officer, according to yahoo! news, one supporter reported an area walmart sold out of blue light bulbs. tonight two miles from here, there's an i love ferguson event where community members will talk about how to push back against the negative images of their town. meanwhile, the st. louis county prosecutor's o

everyone, rand paul, claire mccaskill, president barack obama, eric holder. jay nixon comes in, and he makes this change. he takes a guy who grew up here, a change in policing. we have seen it here, as people walk and honk their horns and dry slowly down this avenue that had been cleared of everyone. i think pretty unanimously there is a celebration of that change. people said to me, we feel like we had a victory today. here is a late, breaking development from the st. louis post-dispatch. the single most important figure in this case, the man who will more than anything determine whether is a prosecution and a successful prosecution for this, that man had something to say about the governor's decision which was not what you might expect, and we'll talk about that right after we take this break. stay with us live in ferguson, missouri. this is all in. you drop 40 granw set of wheels, then... wham! a minivan t-bones you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my car depreciate before

senator claire mccaskill was inside. we did not see senator rory blunt. again, you saw a number of lawmakers and family friends and whatnot. but, yes, as you indicated, the audience itself was by and large folks who look like me. >> alex, you think of events that expose the racial fault lines in america, i think of hurricane katrina more recently. you obviously have the shooting of trayvon martin by george zimmerman. and it seems that there's a big public outcry and then something like that will be washed over with the simple saying. as president obama was elected two times, we're inherently a good country when it comes to race relations. this has shown in a public way with race relations and how communities are policed. will this time be different? >> you hope so. the funeral today is one chapter in the end of a story and the beginning of another. you've seen one man laid to rest. you've seen thousands pack a church to celebrate his life. the protests are beginning to subside. the family has called for a cessation of protests today as they grieve private

three white house officials attended the funeral and senator mccaskill and spike lee. with brown's father beside her, the teen's step mom reflected on the devastating loss. >> he's just wanted so much. he wanted to go to college, have a family, be a good father. god chose differently. i'm at peace about that. he's not a lost soul. his death is not in vain. >> sharpton brought many to their feet with his eulogy. he said there must be justice for brown's death and that it should serve as a wakeup call to the country. >> no community in america would tolerate an 18 -year-old boy laying in the street four and a half hours and we in the going to tolerate it either. whatever happened that devalued this boy's life must be answered by somebody. michael brown does not want to be remembered for riot. he wants to be remembered as the one that made america deal with how we going to police in the united states. we can't have a fit. we got to have a movement. a fit you get mad and run out for a couple nights. a movement means we got to be here for the long haul and turn our chance i

claire mccaskill wrote we need to -- that is from claire mccaskill. let's go to georgia, eric, on our democrats' line. hello. when something happens to black summit the african-americans, you hear nothing from the democrats, or these so-called liberal democrat politicians. they say nothing. but if there's something going on with israel, they come out about. what is happening and what the situation is, president obama must come to realize that this is the way of america. hispanics here in the protests here about what has happened. basically, lacks an african-in say nothinghim- bad about israel. >> how are those issues related? >> the black life is not valued. whenel you all's pain, these kids are killed in all these schools. i feel all your pain. when something is happening to lack kids -- >> we will hear from pennsylvania as we wait to hear from the governor. most of the i think police force should probably have cameras. devolves to completely against a black versus white issue. i recently had a experience, i went for a nightly bike ride, and a cop pu

claire mccaskill said thes these folks should be responsible to the point where federal funding is tiedr or not they will are wateriearing body cams. and there needs to be a paradigm shift. part of this is changing a whole culture of not just corruption, but above the law culture. i remember reading a book about this in undergrad. there is a notion that because i am in charge of enforcing the law, the law does not apply to me. we've seen come over and over again. not just as relates to black victims, i know a white father wrote a piece last week about his son dying and him not being able to imagine what it would be lookic to be ii ii iic like to disenfranchised black person who lost their child. and this is not new to us and we're not been satisfieasleep a switch. but i hope that we can continue working dill sgepts working diligently to make it stop happening. it's not just about black on black crime, not just law enforcement officer assaulting someone. it's about changing the culture. >> angela is right. and last week, we delivered nearly a million petitions to the white house. this is

will get there we decided to take a piece that we could chew initially and it looks like senator mccaskill and senator coburn are all right as well absolutely and given what we're seeing on a community level do you think we're actually see something pass i know that this is supposed to be presented in september that's right introduced in september we think so it's bipartisan i think people are very upset with what is also the swat of the cation of america you're seeing one hundred fifty swat reads a day by departments like department of education who's using a swat team to just issue a warrant a simple warrant so i think people are very upset and this is the tipping point that's incredible and just recently we heard that the davis city council in california told its police department that it had sixty days to come up with a plan to get rid of its m. rap and i guess you know they're following to some community pressure do you think we're going to see police departments maybe scale back a little bit on their own or perhaps you know implement new programs body cameras etc do you think that th

because surely they're notets -- >> did you see senator claire mccaskill's quote? >> it's like eating spinach to him. he does not enjoy spending time -- >> that's right. a long complaint that he doesn't work with them. >> he doesn't have anyone around him to tell him, mr. president, maybe cut it back on the golf. i don't think he does. the person who could tell him that was rahm emanuel and he's long gone from the white house. >> think the biggest criticism if he showed up more often during the day and talked to the american people or we saw more of the generals talking to him, we had an impression he was doing other things, that's the problem. >> right now, as we talked before on this panel, he's looking beyond his presidency. that's why they call him the president in semiretirement. he's been criticized for not having his head in the game. >> panel, thank you. >>> up next, we'll take you to ferguson, missouri, as the sun sets. the town is braszing for more protests. >> and the police officer who fatally shog michael brown. was the police officer hurt? was the pol

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senator claire mccaskill calling a presidential visit a bad idea. the congressman saying that it would add another distortion to the situation. we don't want any more distortions. other democrats are flat-out running from this president. he reread, astonished at how disengaged president obama seems. obama dismiss concerns about mitch mcconnell and his blocking of obama nominee is. the president telling her he read that you and mitch need to work it out and that's according to "the new york times" which also reports that mr. obama is remarkably distant from his own party on capitol hill with lawmakers and staffers an activist attorney general writing and looting the politics of exploitation. not the stuff of which solutions would like to be out and hope and change. we're coming right back. lou: coming up next, months russian led aggression on the game that vladimir putin is paying lou: the kremlin today announced russian president vladimir putin will meet with his to crating counterpart next week for the first time in two months. they will hold bilat

mccaskil said historically civil right system pushed by the federal government and not local. paul ryan of wisconsin said it is important that the feds don't take control and thomas dupree is a bit uncomfortable with eric holder's involvement. >> he's sending a signal to the justice department and prosecutors in missouri that there is a correct out come. they will not say they prejudged it but people could conclude there is a right way and wrong way to do things in the mind of the attorney general. >> reporter: as the violence in ferguson continued, the president seemed cautious. saying he recognized the justice department as a federal agency and he made it clear that it is not law enforcement versus the community. >> it is clear that the vast majority of the people are peacefully protesting and what is clear, that si small minority of individuals are not. while, i understand the passions and the anger that a rise over the death of michael brown and giving in to that anger by looting and carrying guns and attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and serve chaos. >> r

harry reid survived, claire mccaskill survives, bob bennett colorado.n one of the reasons republicansated on electable candidates. they have not done this in the cycle. the democrat incumbents are little bit like butch cassidy and the sundance kid. they kept saying, who are these guys? the republicans keep coming and they have a very good shot at taking the senate. thanre than even? more 50/50 chance question mark >> -- 50/50 chance? 50% odds.lver has we are very cautious. it will become a factor bet around labor day. we are inching up to the redline. interestingly enough the really important races could be colorado and iowa, two blue states where republicans have opened up opportunities. >> all right, chuck gabriel, cofounder and president of a partners during us from washington. always good to get your perspective, thanks. >> thank you. >> up next, unexpected moves in the media world as rupert murdoch drops his bid to buy time warner. more in just a moment. ♪ >> it is time for today's latin america report. puerto rico allowing corporations to file for a group c protection with benef

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