let's go over to ashley johnson. >> that's right, we have gotten a report, they got a letter from the attorney general's office in what is believed to be a discrimination investigation. we have calls into the attorney general office and i got a response saying that they have no comment. then this article from north jersey says neighboring towns are worried that waves of jews are coming in. so it strikes into the heart of the new jersey governor race. one individual was quoted in the article, they passed an ordinance to perturb real estate solicitors, pressuring people to put their homes on the market. and in the article he is quoted as saying that we have a large jewish community and we welcome anyone, whether christian, jewish, muslims, and the new york jewish community has expressed alert. neighboring towns are worried that this could negatively impact their school district and the character of the community. >> thank you, ashley. i want to thank you guys for joining us. >> it is good to be here. >> thank you. >> jim, welcome back. the host of "new jersey now." >> you are the one th

bill: ashley johnson chased d he weighed i controversy, defending richard stockton, and a bad historyf slavery in this country. but it isforward and not backwa. >> what are thoughts going on at stockton university? tt jon meacham had a very interestingnew york times"o where he distinguished between this country and those that were trying to destroy the country. bill: joining us now is a new york media personality and a direct descendent of richard stockton. welcome to the show. thank you for joining me. first of all, who is with you? >> this is my mother 2 how are you when i. >> doing good. alice, what went through your mind the minute that you heard that the bus was taken out of the library at stockton state university? >> i almost blew a gasket. i cannot believe it. not that it didn't occur to me when i was standing in columbus circle talk to people this week about whether or not christopher columbus took him down. not that it didn't occur to me about robert lee. i knew that i was a direct descendent of richard stockton. yes, he was a slave owner, who is not a slave owner at that ti

and make for a recommendation on what should be done with them in manhattan, ashley johnson with chasing news. >> thank you. >> all right bring in our panel to break it down, welcome back, happy to have you here, jenette hoffman, and jim mcqueeny, start with you, columbus circle, an iconic part of manhattan, history it happened, columbus discovered america. >> historical, hypocrisy, it is ridiculous the way that is going on. where does it end. >> it is getting out of control, we need to take a stip back and look at it is before we you know, get rid of spha stats -- statues every where, history is important. >> you want to take down some. >> there are other issues. >> any statues you would take down. >> i don't. >> why not. >> you think about people -- >> because history is important, you get these elected officials jumping out there for headline, enough already, get too real business, go to work, let's not focus so much on tearing down statues, this is an important part of our history, whether you like it or not. >> i don't think that politicians have anything betser to do with our taxpa

for details will bring in ashley johnson. >> a pizza shop in east brunswick new jersey is at the center of controversy for an alleged police note. that cop says an employee wrote pig. but the man who works here i was here when it happened says, that was never the case. >> there to chicken panini, they put it in, i took out the twist and i marked it on the box. which is a pns squiggly line for alec. we've doing that for eight years. all my employees know the symbol. she was pretty far from the box when she made this accusation. very irritable. >> it sparked a social media war. the local pd eight please came in and took to facebook back in the cap. >> we love the police, we still . when i can it change t w it. because one cop aggressive with us. >> what are your thoughts on incident? you can tweet me at ashley j and tweet the show at chasing news.l to weigh in. matt, welcome back. you are jersey attorney and particle strategist editor. mike donovan, silver rights advocate, good to have you back. and jeanette hoffman, political strategist. yo s teems to me there could be a miscommunication

let's start with details from ashley johnson. >> the push to legalize marijuana throughout the country could have a surprising connection to the heroin epidemic ripping families apart in new jersey. senator corey booker believes that marijuana can help combat the opiate crisis. >> what we know from states that have already legalize marijuana? we see plymouth larry data that opiate related deaths go down. >> bookers referring to medical strategy known as harm reduction. >> harm reduction is the philosophy that some ways of doing drugs are safer than others. so the idea that we could use a medicine that is the drive from cannabis that is not addictive like opiates, it would be a win for everyone. >> this is not been scientifically proven. opponents call it hypocritical saying isn't the whole point of rehab to get an addict off of drugs not onto another question could marijuana help the opiate crisis plague in this country, or is it dangerous? tweet me at the show at chasing a. >> i want to bring our panel, welcome. were joined by wayne smith. when, you know about local politics welcome b

i'm in a bring in ashley johnson who was there today. >> senator corey booker was in town to push marijuana legalization. before he got there the police had to step in. >> what's wrong with you? the police arrested a man after he dropped medical marijuana. he was taken away in an ambulance. shortly after, booker arrived into the attention to recreational marijuana. the senators marijuana justice act would make ganja, pot, mary jane, lighting up a joint legal at the federal level. >> were not concerned about the ins and outs of the bill. they just one know if they can smoke on the street without getting arrested. what is at me for the everett a person? >> the reality is, the same with alcohol, marijuana, we need to be responsible as adults of anyway be responsible use of marijuana. that's outrageous. i believe we've come to a point in society where we can and prohibition. >> standing by booker seiden taken the state was state senator nicholas kothari. he proposed to be illegal in the garden state. >> we have been doing nothing but suffer jail with nonviolent offenders. destroyed features of

of course in the women's event, you've gotjessica ennis hill, katarina johnson—thompson, we had dean macey before. ashleyt is the athlete trying to follow in those footsteps he's the commonwealth silver medallist. he came 5th in his heat but ran quite well, finishing in a time of 11.14 seconds — a season's best. next up it was the long jump, and bryant did quite well in this. his best leap measured 7.41; metres. that put him in to 16th place overall, and then there was the shot put, just over a0 metres, 13th place in his group although then he slipped to 17th. they are currently going in the highjump. they came out at five o'clock for this one. again he is doing all right, 1.96 metres at the first time of asking but some of his competitors including the leader at the moment, from france, well over two metres. he's pushed himself to 15th overall, less tha n he's pushed himself to 15th overall, less than 200 points of the medals with six events to go. it's going to bea with six events to go. it's going to be a bit ofa with six events to go. it's going to be a bit of a struggle. he is just about to go now.

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johnson—thompson. the decathlon is ongoing, it seems to be never—ending. the morning sessions go on late and they have to go out very quickly. ashley mayer, the frenchman, has been leading. ashley brya nt frenchman, has been leading. ashley bryant is doing 0k, he has never really challenged. ashley bryant started the day in 16th place at the half—way stage of the decathlon. this morning saw the 110m hurdles, the discus and the pole vault, and they are under way in the javelin right now. he threw very well in the javelin, actually. the final event is always the 1500 metres in the big apple. —— in the decathlon. the decathlon finishes with the 1500m. the decathletes are such gladiators. i'll be back with more from the london stadium later. you know it has been a busy day of sport, all of that football. over to lizzie and john bennett now, with details of the opening saturday in the premier league and the rest of the day's sport. thanks, 0lly. well, john, this is a dream start to the new premier league for neutrals. after last night's opening goal—fest, today has been equalling compelling. starting of course with champions chelsea, be

ashley parker, i want to ask you, because the focus is going to shift pretty quickly. we know that the president is planning to go back to texas on saturday. and your colleague jenna johnson wrote in "the post" in the last 24 hours that trump is keeping the focus on himself here, he's making this hurricane all about him. she writes, as rescuers continue their exhausting and heart breaking work in southeastern texas on tuesday, the rain continued to fall, a reservoir near houston spilled over. but yet again, trump managed to turn the focus to himself. his responses to the devastation have been more focused on the power of the storm and his response than on the millions of texans who have been affected. what's your sense of what makes how this president has responded to the disaster different from president's past? >> well, jenna captured it right in that piece she wrote. he went down to texas but at least on that first trip he didn't meet with any of the victims of the hurricane and he at times almost seemed to forget that he was there on a relief effort and almost held a brief, but an impromptu political rally where he kind of turned to the people assembled and said, you

johnson said about 200 years ago the prospect of the hanging focus mind wonderfully. the prospect has these guys' attention. so they will pass a tax bill. the house will apass a tax bill. ashleyen? >> probably late september, mid-october. ashley: you are optimistic. >> but the key thing is the senate. can the senate get it done? and the other key is they don't wimp out to the congressional budget office and pass, you know -- mcconnell leaves the senate comes from kentucky. he should know the difference between weak tea. it gives a kick to the economy right away, gives people big refunds in april, so you get the investment going, the spending going, voila, things get better. ashley: here we are we have the budget deadline, the debt ceiling deadline, health care, tax reform, all this other things. do you really see that being accomplished in just 12 days? >> i think on the debt ceiling and things like that -- ashley: will they go to midnight, as they always do? >> it's not going to be like six years ago where they nearly let the government default. they will pass something. i think the big thing they have to focus on more than anything else is the tax bill. health care will com