mayor ras baraka was elected on the police reform platform, and has supported the implementation of the has been in 50 years. and the interesting thing about it is while crime is decreasing, so are arrests. which proves to me there is no causal relationship between arresting people and reduction of crime. how expensive is implementing this consent decree and can newark afford it? oh, it's too expensive. it's incredibly expensive. i mean, we pay a little, maybe over $2 million a year. it's about cost but it's also about culture. part of the reason why it's so hard to reform policing in america is because of the so—called blue wall of silence. an unofficial code where law enforcement officers protect each other. it was no different here in newark. it's like anything else. no one likes to be looked at or watched or investigated. anthony ambrose worked with mayor baraka in overhauling policing in newark as his public safety director. he has just retired after 35 years as a policeman. i think the training, or de—escalation, and our use of force, our scrutiny that officers know that we look a

mayor ras baraka was elected on the police reform platform, and has supported the implementation of thet it has been in 50 years. and the interesting thing about it is while crime is decreasing, so are arrests. which proves to me there is no causal relationship between arresting people and reduction of crime. how expensive is implementing this consent decree and can newark afford it? oh, it's too expensive. it's incredibly expensive. i mean, we pay a little, maybe over $2 million a year. it's about cost, but it's also about culture. part of the reason why it's so hard to reform policing in america is because of the so—called blue wall of silence. an unofficial code where law enforcement officers protect each other. it was no different here in newark. it's like anything else. no one likes to be looked at or watched or investigated. anthony ambrose worked with mayor baraka in overhauling policing in newark as his public safety director. he has just retired after 35 years as a policeman. i think the training, or de—escalation, and our use of force, our scrutiny that officers know that we l

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i now get the floor to mister mohammed baraka, former member of the connecticut and chairman of the arab hire committee in israel . mister bar. okay, you have the floor by video closely, and we thank you very much madam president. the latest gentleman fornia i spoke to you today on behalf of the phone company, the chairman of this committee, this is the unified framework, represents the palestinians of inside israel. they got all the elected heads of municipalities, members of the all the political parties. it also is conferences, civil society organizations and n g o is the total social reference and cultural reference of this community to the community of allison is we, the palestinian committee within israel are the ones where they're displacement in 1048. they remained in that homeland despite the displacement of the majority of people. and in fact, over the past decade since 948, we have different forms of discrimination compensation of the compensation of rights arrests, the imposition of emergency laws, the restriction, all the trouble, paternity and places of work is that we have

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you think about it, when we were -- when i was vice president with baraka he allowed me to put togetherhe allowed me to put together a plan for amtrak from charlotte and another line going from -- in florida down to tampa. another line. if we had moved. we had that tunnel fixed in new york. the money was there to get it done. >> reporter: laura, this is as confusing as amtrak's new line. maybe we should spend trillions to bring back trolleys and horse-drawn carriages. this is the biggest boondoggle amtrak lost $700 million last year. and nearly 30 million in that year before. it is a dying mode of transportation. he should be exploring flying cars and self driving vehicle highways. 's forward-looking. he says it is a once-in-a-lifetime investment? no, it is a lifetime investment, laura. 81 billion so far. and no profit turn. >> laura: he pointed to those little trains in the oval office and he imagines himself riding the rails. >> the president and dr. jill biden visited a school in virginia to push his public education and school expansion plan. perhaps a speechwriter stimulus is what

. >> ras baraka, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. i appreciate you appearing tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. >>> the senate taking up a key vote on a commission to investigate the deadly january 6th capitol attack. joining me now is former republican congressman charlie dent and political cnn commentator. brendan buck is with me as well, former top aide to john boehner. thank you for joining me. br brandan, you. tomorrow senate republicans will likely kill any hope of the january 6th commission. it could be their first filibuster. if that happen, does that mean the party is not willing to defend our democracy? what does it mean? >> first of all, i think it means the effort that has taken place to whitewash what has happened has been remarkably successful. there is a poll out that shows a majority of republican voters believe that the riot on january 6th was left by left wing agitators trying to make donald trump look bad. this is the reality that so many republicans are living in right now. so this actually, in a s

amiri baraka once said -- "wright was one of the people who made me conscious of the need to struggle, richard wright wrote a follow-up novel titled "the man who lived underground" who centered on a black man that was forced to live in the city sewer system after being tortured until he fossil emitted 200 a white couple. but publishers rejected it. portions were turned into a short story of the same name but the full novel, including the graphic descriptions of police brutality, went unpublished until now. richard wright once said of the novel, "i have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration or executed any piece of writing in a deeper feeling of imaginative freedom, or expressed myself in a way that flowed more naturally from my own personal background, reading, experiences and feelings." but his manuscript was largely forgotten until his daughter julia wright unearthed it at the rare book & manuscript library at yale university. she worked with the library of america to have the book finally published nearly 80 years after it was written and 60 yea

sit it accrues accusing her of lying, pretended the words of the poet amiri baraka were her own wordshe forwarded anemia with e submission from him to student magazine just passing it on to her colleagues. he then read what the poet said and pretended it was kristen clarke saying it. that is the type of stuff we have been dealing with, lie after lie after lie. amy: i want to go to richard blumenthal, the democratic senator from connecticut, to immediately -- who immediately responded to senator mike lee's accusations. >> i think as merrick garland said when he was at the hearing, i think i know it has some to someone i see it. i think this charge about anti-semitism is just very regrettably false. it is unfortunate. there is no basis for it. i don't think there is an anti-semitic bone in her body, judging by her record. amy: that is senator blumenthal. we had said it was senator wyden before. to raise that issue, talk about what kristen clarke represents through the years, what she has done, especially in light of the hundreds of voter suppression bills that are being voted on around

ros baraka. mayor, thank you. it's good to speak with you and see you again.esident today. he said he is hopeful for what's to come on racial justice in the criminal justice system. what about you? >> well, yeah. i mean, i don't think you can be a leader and be in charge and not be hopeful, be optimistic. we don't have the luxury of pessimism. we have to feel like things will change. or why would we be in the positions we're in? we have to do what we can to make sure that each day, we are putting a brick down to be able to build on something that we see. >> and the former president, mayor, also speaking out about what he would have done differently as president. that's pushing for change at the local level. watch this. >> if you asked me, what are the things i wish i might have done better or more effectively, the thing that i constantly struggled with was how could i get the passion and concern that had been focused in travon, ferguson, and the subsequent events, how could i help people make the link between those events and political power and action, not ju

i made baraka sweater, a crew neck sweater. >> has he worn it? >> he will.ow that mom made this for me. >> the point being there's time to do it all. there's still plenty of time to continue to work on issues that matter without sort of being in the middle of it. and let me tell you, it helps to have our president, joe biden, in office because when you have a responsible, mature president in office, it makes it even easier for us to move on to the next phases of the work that we do because we're not sitting and worrying every day about what's going to happen next. but there's still plenty of time to do some good. >> plenty of time to do some good. she's right about that. i can't say enough about that waffles and mochi show. in preparation, i said i'm going to watch one episode to get a sense of it. i'll start with tomatoes. well, let me see what's going on with the eggs and the pickles and the salt. >> we watched the salt one. i was making minestroni soup. i oversalted the soup. teddy can't express that. he took a bite of the soup, dad, you blew it. >> it's

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of that journal, amiri baraka was a contributing editor. her denial of this easily verifiable fact is hard to understand. now, let's be perfectly clear. i don't bring any of this up to suggest that all of it is -- is unforgivable. everyone has from time to time said or done things that they later come to regret, but let's keep in mind what we're looking at here. ms. clarke herself is asking us to asupply a very different standard to her than we have applied to others, a different standard in many ways than she has be applied to others. in 2019, her name appeared on a letter sent by the leadership conference on civil and human rights where she sat on the board of directors of that organization opposing the nomination of a lawyer named ryan balance who had been nominated to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. that letter stated that, quote while bounds recently apoll -- balance recently apologized for those comments, comments that had come up in connection with his confirmation proceedings the timing of that apology sugg