his name was daniel faulkner. this is a picture of daniel faulkner. it's important to tell this story. the story begins 32 years ago. many people have never heard this story. others have perhaps forgotten since it was some time ago, but the fact is danny faulkner can no longer speak for himself, and those who have tried to speak for him have often been drowned out by some powerful and wealthy voices that have had a political agenda, that has perversely defended his killer rather than the memory of daniel faulkner. so the story begins, mr. president, late at night on december 9, 1981. it was actually the early morning hours, 25-year-old philadelphia police officer, danny faulkner, stopped a car that was driving in philadelphia. the driver got out of the car and began to assault officer faulkner. the driver's brother, was watching the incident from across the street. when he saw what was happening, and as officer faulkner attempted to handcuff the driver of the car, abu jamal ran up to the car and shot officer faulkner in the back. as officer faulkner wa

it was more than three decades ago when fellow officer daniel faulkner was shot in the face, as the manfficer who was just trying to do his job. abu jamal never denied it, but his death sentence was commuted. and debo adegbile is up for a huge job at the doj, and it is a position that thousands of police officers around the country do not want him to have. despite all of that, today his nomination was approved for a vote in the senate floor. and you know what the democrats did with the nuclear option? basically, they now control whether this guy will be confirmed or not. but it is not going to happen before mr. faulkner's widow weighs in. that woman is maureen faulkner. good to see you. >> hi, megyn. >> and this can be approved by the democrats who control the senate. this man likely will go to head up the department of justice's civil rights division. and you have written a passionate letter saying you find it it -- revolting. >> i do, i am going to do everything i can not to allow this man to become in the justice for civil rights. please, i beg you to go on and look at the youtube. a

he killed a cop named daniel faulkner in 1981 in philadelphia.s. but back in those days, the black panthers had ruled in many ways. they had to move settlement. many people dying, confrontations with cops. so you had this confrontation where not a typical thug, temple, university grad, broadcaster, a radical politician by all accounts. >> he's a black panther. >> a black panther. by every regard, a radical. he kills in the con frontation that involved his brother, kills daniel faulkner. the cop is dead. he defends himself. he gets sentenced to death. now he's on death row. there are scores -- i'm exaggerating. there are many appeals to get his death penalty exonerated. >> lot of celebrities on his side. >> it became a cause celeb. it definitely did. rejected, rejected, rejected. then the naacp's legal defense and education fund, with him as head, argues a technicality and gets the death penalty overruled. but now he's serving life without parole. so faulkner's widow, as the lawyer who successfully argued the vacation -- vacating of the death pena