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funeral is tomorrow and three obama administration officials are scheduled to attend, including broderick johnson, along with marlon marshall, a st. louis native who attended high school with brown's mother. works with who marshall in the white house office of public engagement. brown was shot six times by a ferguson police officer. missouri governor jay nixon says he expects the funeral to be safe and respectful. he also weighed in on two investigations underway by federal officials and the county prosecuting attorney. i am confident with the dual investigations that ultimately justice will be served here. i believe everybody has a duty here. all of those around appreciate fully the pressure and the watch that is going on here. and i am hopeful that everyone is going to live up to those duties and do a good job moving forward. >> i cannot get you to say you are absolutely confident robert mcculloch can do that question mark -- that? has experience. you do not want to prejudge any of this. he is working hard. the justice department is involved, investigators involved, a lot of folks working on th

today, his funeral was attended by a few examples like spike lee, cabinet secretary broderick johnsonand 485 people who call themselves family. >> mike, thank you. >>> question. does this remind you of this? a teacher in michigan blogging about how the looting in ferguson compared to the boston tea party. kyle olson is with the education action group. he's got a real problem with that comparison. now, is your problem with the comparison or the fact that it was a teacher who made that comparison? >> well, both. i mean, first, i think to compare the looting and the destruction of personal private property of small businesses to ruin the livelihoods of people who had nothing to do with that situation, i think is totally inappropriate and it's an unfair comparison and doesn't belong in lo classrooms. >> now, it was a teacher who made that comparison using a blog. what do you think should happen to the teacher? >> well, there have been calls for his firing and that sort of thing. i don't think that sort of thing is appropriate. what i think should happen is this is a good moment for parent

also cnn's jim accosto reports that secretary broderick johnson will attend along with deputy directorlic engagement, marlin marshall. marshall is a native who attended high school with michael brown's mother. michael brown's death has fueled protests, sparked debate and opened a wave of legal questions. we've set aside a lot of time to get answers from two of our best legal analysts. jonie jackson, legal analyst at hln and in orlando, joined by mark o'mara. want to start first with the prosecutor in this case, robert mccullough. he's attracted a fair amount of controversy. a lot of pressure for him to recuse himself. in fact, an independent prosecutor take over. mark o'mara, mccullough has held this job for decades. in your view, is there a case for him to step aside? >> i waivered early on thinking because of all the social and political pressures that maybe having somebody completely independent would help ease the concerns, but i've got to say i've sort of gotten to the point where he's done it for 24 years. i think it's a dangerous precedent to say solely due to the external press

who were personally sent by president obama as part of a delegation led by cabinet secretary broderick johnsonmeanwhile, over the weekend in the president's hometown of chicago there were 42 shootings in that city this weekend alone. this brings the total number of people killed by gun violence in chicago to well over 2,000 since obama's inauguration. here to discuss this is the bureau director for the washington naacp, hillary sharpton. >> great to be with you. >> 42 shootings in chicago, two males fatally shot by chicago police, a 3-year-old killed, two teenage boys killed. one 14 and one 16. we have an epidemic of violence in new york, chicago, detroit, los angeles. you pick the big city, you name it. and yet the president's decided to focus on this one shooting. but we don't know the facts here do we, yet? the only person that was judge, jury and executioner in that tape sounded like jesse jackson. he doesn't know the facts on the ground either. you don't know them, i don't know them. >> the facts we know are deeply concerning. you're absolutely right, we have a gun problem in america. >>