chairman furman, welcome. we appreciate your willingness to come to speak with us follow the economic report o of the president. it's a wordpress understand what is in this and get your take on it and where we're going. it certainly helps us in terms of our policymaking decisions going forward. want to welcome you here and thank you for your participation. vice chairman tiberi, ranking member maloney, and i appreciate your willingness to once more continue the longstanding tradition that we have of the chairman of the council of economic advisers testifies before the joint economic committee. this year marks the 70th anniversary of both the council of economic advisers and the joint economic committee, both of which were created to advise our respective branches of government on a wide range of matters affecting the economy. we appreciate this annual opportunity to engage in dialogue with you and look forward to discussing this year's economic report of the president. much has been learned over the course of t

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. >> detective furman, have you ever falsified a police report? >> the real story of how detective mark furman's shocking tape changed the course of

chairman furman, welcome back. we very much appreciate your willingness to come and speak with us following the economic report of the president. it is important for us to understand what is in this and get your take on it and where we are going. it certainly helps us in terms of our policy making decisions going forward. want to welcome you here and thank you for your participation. vice chairman taeaberry, rankin member maloney, thank you for being here and your willingness to continue this longstanding tradition we have that the chairman on council of economic advisors testifies before the joint economic committee. this year marks the 70th anniversary of the council of economic advisors, and the joint economic committee. both of which were created to advise our respective branches of government on a wide range of matters affecting the economy. we appreciate this annual opportunity to engage in dialogue and look forward to discussing this year's economic report. much has been learned over the course of this slow-

. >>> patrick furman is giving the department. the department has been given 400 recommendations. he says one of the biggest problems is a lack of staffing, so he plans to hire 200 deputies this year. the sheriff says he's focusing on giving deputies alternatives to the use of force. >> they look at different methods to de-escalate situations different conversations they can have, different words to use, they go out and they visit different facilities. >> another big issue, a mental health. sheriff furman sayss26% of denver's inmates are being treated for some kind of mental illness. >>> medical experts now using ecstasy mdma to treat ptsd, some in boulder have permission to try this treatment again so veterans james casey is one of >> it was like a light for me to see all throughout this cave and the therapists were like guides. >> patients like caseyundergo undergo three different treatments. could approve it. >>> we checked into some weird campus. of threat. a youtube appears to show someone drawing symbols and leaving a flash drive on campus, still a mystery. >>> what crews ju

. >> detective furman, have you ever falsified a police report?al story of how detective mark furman's shocking tape changed the course of history. >> he was a gift. >>> and then, what's going on

furman. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator klobuchar is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and thank you. sorry, senator coats and i have had a number of votes going on here. i appreciate the words about the improvement of the economy. i think we've all seen that. our state is down to 3.8% unemployment, but we also know there are challenges. you raised one, mr. chairman, about income inequality. we have challenges for workers that are retired and have issues with their pensions. in fact, right behind you there, who i am going to meet with later, sherman lemitainan who is from northern minnesota, spent his whole life, started as a janitor and then a teamster, has issues with his pension because of a decision that is inordinately affecting a lot of states in the midwest that we're trying to work on. but another issue up in northern minnesota that i know that you're well aware of is the current employment situation with the iron ore mining affected by the overproduction in many countries co

sheriff furman is lack of staffing. >> they look at different method to de-escalate situations different conversations they can have different words to use, they go out and visit different facilities. >> another big issue is mental health. sheriff furman says 26% of denver's inmates are being >> cory gardener is back from a visit from guantanamo bay. the sailors captured by iran a discipline. officials spoke to cnn about the investigation into this. the source claims it found the they were taken captive after crossing into iranian waters. they have been since been released. >>> well have an update from >>> we start your morning sprint with super tuesday results. and hillary clinton extended their leads, but so far no one is dropping out of the late. donald trump now leads in the gop deleeate count by more than 100. >> i feel awfully good. >> what a super tuesday. >>> marco rubio won his first state. ted cruz won his home state texas, alaska and oklahoma. >>> and no one is dropping out >> voters were very enthusiastic about the caucus here in colorado so much so that many places rural rou

detective mark furman's book sold more copies in the last few months than in the past five years combinedboard we see that most of these books are selling between eight and ten times what they were selling before the series aired. >> reporter: sales of jeffrey toobin's book on which the series is based are up 900%. >> this story combines everything that obsesses the american people. it has sex. it has race. it has violence. it has sports. it has hollywood. and the only eyewitness is a dog. what more story. >> reporter: the people versus are o.j. simpson harkins back to a name when the name kardashian meant a very different sort of reality tv. >> that's o.j.'s garment bag. >> reporter: that's ross from "friends" playing kim kardashian's dad. he was o.j. simpson's lawyer, part of the dream team. >> i think it's a terrible idea. what if it doesn't work. >> reporter: or the original cast 20 years later, it's deja vu all over again as o.j. prosecutor marcia clark recently told "the view." >> for me it's reliving a nightmare. it's all of. every bit of it is all of, hard for me. >> reporter: dav

furman, a good look. she had 11 at the half. fourth quarter, the terps up 15.jones, the tough catch ins ide, counted. gw women, a-10 semis. john paul jones can do a lot of things, including pass. third quarter, gw pulling away. drives, mrs.ngs this one. look it was therefore the follow. -- she missed that one, but it was followed. they advance. former nationals pitcher jordan zimmermann faced off against even strasburg in grapefruit action. strasburg looked good, going two innings, struck out five, the solo home run, but still had command of his pitches. ben revere drives this deep to write. to right. this deep 2 right, this is crazy, jake ramsey makes one of the greatest shots ever. what do we call that, a good luck chuck? off the miss. another miss, 88 feet. they would lose the game unfortunately. good luck chuck. v-tech beat seventh-ranked miami. kimberly: i love that. robert: kimberly: a dog may be to blame for a strange crash in minnesota. customer say that a labrador retriever truck across the road yesterday. idling, somehow was put into gear. luckily, no

and they went away arguments in furman, the first case that temporarily abolished the death penalty until greg came along, the arguments were of due process and what they mass was a reality with the death penalty can be inputted the people not just for homicide, but for a variety of other offenses, robbery, rape and assault, for the most part targeting african-americans for those not homicide offenses and sentencing them to death. dragon sought to correct debt by , atging in more due process which point the effort to argue against the death penalty on arbitrariness or due process was pretty much decimated. this meant that now the new battleground in terms of ideas have to change. some people it printed at least the decision of great joy economic article public -- published in which the determined effect of the death penalty was analyzed. could preventn eight homicides and that article was in the supreme court's mind when they decided greg and was the topic of quite a bit of public conversation at the time. shortly after the article was published, several other people publish articles tryi

i had a lot of trouble with the reason why and look, i like detective mark furman. we've become friends, but i could never figure out why he would go into the property without seeking a phone search parent. he said he saw blood on the side of the white bronco, but so little to believe that anyone would be seriously injured inside of rockingham so you would fit one of the ek sepgss to go into a property without warrant. just a lot of things and you know, of course, mark furman was accused of planting the glove. i never thought that. not for a second did i think he planted the dplov, but the evidence, the lapd was so much backed under heel, there's so much under siege and had a lot of trouble in the community well before that. >> i want to listen to a clip that you did with o.j. back in 2004. >> the public who follow cases are swayed by the opinions of the various pundits who -- >> but isn't it the jurors that matter and -- >> i found out in my case that the only people who aren't affected by the media were the jur jurors because they were totally sequestered. >> huh?

we will be talking with the chairman of the council on economic advisors, jason furman, who joins ust whatake a markets are doing after the jobs report. there are a couple of interesting things happening. first, you see weakness in the euro and the yen. what the markets are saying, what the markets could be telling you is we got a great headline number. as a result, we expect our virgins to continue because the fed has to move on this and the e.c.b. and boj are in negative territory. or they are saying we don't care what the fed does. i doubt that is the case. look at the treasury market. the treasury market is telling you the same thing. great number. the treasury market likes this. that is why the yield shoots up. people think the fed is going to have to move. the equity market is telling you the opposite or maybe good news is good news for the equity market. if you look at futures, you see we have gains in the futures market. if the stock market expected a gain or a hike from the fed, you would see the opposite. another sign we are seeing is a big spike and retracement. we are get

capital one and nyu's furman center looked at numbers between 2006 were on the list.ionwide 37% of all households now rent and most of those renters are in the suburbs. since many say they cannot afford to rent in the city. but now what you're seeing is those rents in the suburbs start to go up too. a lot of demand out there. >> people are catching on. >> my daughter just rented a place and it will cost more than my house payment. >> wow, really? >> it's in the city. >> tell her you'll trade. you'll have a nice commute. >> you're looking at the last few minutes of the sun before the moon completely covers it over. yes, that's our own sue palka in 1997 watching a total solar eclipse from a cruise ship deck. >> that's cool. >> i didn't know you could access that video. that is so old that it's on a format that we can't anymore. that was one of the most thrilling things i've ever seen in my life. we were near the island of curacao. it was the middle of the day. you never want to look directly at it see we were using welder's glass to look at it i think i know why you're

. >>> furman is experiencing a better season. the west for that, senior guard steven krun. he was awarded with player of the year. here's the first team member to win it in 20 seasons. he averages over 17 points a game. he enjoyed getting the news. >> this means a whole lot. i was surprised. it's been a goal of mine, to finally reach it feels great. >> for steven if you know him it's just about what he's done on the court, it's how he's done it. he's a phenomenal kid. >>> wafford mcgee named the seen senior of the year. he made all team all so-con. begins this weekend. >>> clemson might have virginia where they want them. they have knocked off four other ranked opponents at home this season. they will bid adieu to roper, smith on this senior night. having played virginia tough up in charlotteville earlier in the year. >> we're going to have to play exceptional well to win but we're confident that the way we played in the well this year if we shoot the ball well and defend and rebound like we can that will be a really good game. >> we were disappointed in our performances th

sheriff patrick furman says some of the biggest problems are with staffing which is why they plan to hire 200 deputies this year. that will bring dsd to full staff with more than 1000 employees. something ys is critical to reform efforts. nine months after recommendations from eight. the sheriff gave his first update to council members this afternoon in addition to staffing the sheriff says is focused on getting deputies alternative uses of force by offering de-escalation through this training by the end of the year. >> they look at different methods to de-escalate the situation, different conversations, different words to use. they go and visit different facilities. >> another big issue is mental health. sheriff fermin says 26% of denver inmates are being illness. that means is the largest health mental -- largest mental health institute in the state. they are looking for ways to better educate deputies and alternatives to deal with the mentally ill. >>> flying red-hot batteries and the carpet umppre quite the scare for a couple of trauma students. >> because of the hoverboard. we t

. >> i want to welcome chairman furman and thank you for your very intelligent report and testimony today. it has significant -- is a great work product as usual. i was going to ask about economic rents but my friend has already covered that. i want to go back about paris cord and thinking about this debate about economic growth as it relates to how we position the country around climate change, when he think of two postures, one that is more forward leaning as it relates to climate change in other words setting goals like 50% between electricity by 2030 or various goals that are achievable based on current technology but aspirational. versus not taking the steps and not put in the proper incentives in place. how do you think about that as it relates, putting aside of bimetal stewardship stewardship but as appear matter of economics, which posture will drive greater economic growth for the united states? >> i think acting as soon as possible to create as predictable task for the future and one they said is achievable but a little bit of a stretch to make sure were challenging our self is

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first time for a furman standout since 1998... croone averaging more than 17 ppg... over 19 in league play... he's scored in double figures in 85 of his last 89 3 some terriers taking home socon honors too... easley native spencer collins named first-team all-conference... and freshman sharpshooter fletcher magee tabbed freshman of the year... magee led the nation in free throw shooting... and is fourth in the country in 3-pt percentage... 85-treys to his name.. 3 and much like on the court, the 16-0 gamecocks womens dominated sec awards... sophomore a'ja wilson named the sec player of the year... tiffany mitchell and alaina coates also on the conferences first team... and head coach dawn staley takes home her third consecutive sec coach of the year award... the first to take home three straight.. 3 speaking of the gamecocks... tough test on the diamond for s-c- in the low country... first road game for carolina at the 5-1 citadel bulldogs... bulldogs...chad holbrooks bunch at 8-0 to start the year....exchanging pleasantries with bulldogs skipper freddy jordan before

terps get off to 17 for furman. relatively quiet night for walker. quiet i mean 50 points for swuk. and another double double for briana jones. 17 points, 11 boards as the terps advance to the big 10 championship game. 83-62. we have been talking about maryland all season as a possible national title contender but don't forget about virginia. wahoos number four in the country. it was senior day facing louisville. or senior night. pick your choice there. a big night for the seniors. anthony gayle with the lay-in here. the 13-1 run. quiet evening on the field. brogden scored 17 points in his last game in charlottesville. mike toby added 15 as well. virginia rolls on into the acc tournament which is right in the ncaa tournament. now, the ncaa tournament, the hoyas taking on villanova. a bad shooting day for devonte smith. wildcats are for real. josh hart led the way with 18 points for villanova. chris jenkins added 17 points. wildcats win 84-71. >>> they need this one at davidson. the deficit is closed to just two. but the wildcats, where steph curry used to play, held off the colonial

clay furman is live in oshkosh, wisconsin.t's kasich's strategy for trying to take out trump? >> reporter: hi, there,

. >> thank you chairman furman for you to be here today in your sincerity on this difficult topic just to keep in the back of your mind with what the senator centcom i worked at mcdonald's my first job and i was excited from the minimum-wage increase but the impact was good for me but not for those after me. that is what the senator was talking about i have a better example. my next job was pumping gas and gas station i am dating myself. you can get anyone to pump gas anymore. i remember the owner is small businessman saying the biggest costs was us so we better perform. so i learned how to pump gas but today that job is:and in many service areas to reduce cost it one of those few areas in packs the high school kids that don't have the skills it in the state of ohio more and more to fight those service jobs that were plentiful and is even more tragic war unemployment among black and hispanics. to have meaningful well intended regulations but sometimes they have just the opposite effect for that skill set to be left behind. >> if you thank you are dating yourself i see senator peters ha

this is where the bloody glove was found, remember, that mark furman found. this is with cato kaelin lived in the guesthouse. this is the house that had blood going from the driveway up to o.j.'s bedroom. yes. this was o.j.'s house. >> harvey, how could it be that a police officer who should have known better is trying to keep something so important as a souvenir? i mean, is he going to be in trouble of some kind? >> seemed like he didn't realize it would be important? >> yeah. i mean, look, here's what i am told. he is not going to be in trouble. that i can say privately the cops are [bleep]ed. they are embarrassed to the point where this knife was logged in the computer system outside of the case, the nicole brown simple sob and ron goldman case, because they didn't want anybody to know about this. it's so embarrassing. some today at lapd said the guy felt o.j. was found not guilty already so the case is over and i figured i will keep the souvenir. that's a bad analysis of it. you would think he would have turned it over. nothing's gonna happen to him. >> t

." >> furman: professor west and i occasionally will say something, i know you're going to be shockedversial ( laughter ) >> brown: we found west to be as passionate a listener as he is a speaker. watch him here in south carolina, sharing the stage with conservative robert george. or in class with his students at union theological seminary in new york. rather than needing to lead every important conversation, cornel west prefers to be a part of them. >> cornel west: i think human history for the most part has been a cycle of hatred and revenge and indifference and callousness to the weak and vulnerable. but we're experiencing an awakening. that's what happens in america. right when america's about to go under, you get a spiritual and moral awakening. ♪ our parents worked hard so that we could enjoy life's simple pleasures. now it's our turn. i'm doing the same for my family. retirement and life insurance solutions from pacific life can help you protect what you love and grow your future with confidence. pacific life. helping generations of families achieve long-term financial security

. >> woodruff: danielle vinson teaches political science at nearby furman university. >> we have pocketsf democrats, in the city limits particularly. but everywhere else is very republican. and so our senators are republican, our-- all of our congressional delegation up there is republican. >> woodruff: vinson says the government's partnership with business may seem inconsistent with republican philosophy, but it's a way to make things work. >> when you start talking about ideology, it's good in theory, and you can argue about it at the national level. but when you get to the local city and county level, you've got tangible issues that have to be addressed. >> woodruff: there's no question greenville's economy is booming. half a dozen cranes dot the skyline as new hotels, condos and office buildings multiply. but some are asking if the benefits have reached all of greenville's residents, about fifteen percent of whom are poor. how fast is gentrification happening here? >> it's happening very rapidly, even in my neighborhood. >> woodruff: chandra dillard is a democratic state representati

clay furman is live in oshkosh, wisconsin. blake, what's kasich's strategy for trying to take out trump? >> reporter: hi, there, gretchen. yes, good afternoon from wisconsin. for john kasich it is fairly simple. at this point he and ted cruz have to stop donald trump from getting to 1237 delegates, the necessary delegates for trump needed to win at the first go around so there's not an open brokered convention. in that end john kasich went full throttle against donald trump earlier today in new york. he argued that not only is trump not fit to represent the republican party but he also said be president of the united states. >> as commander in chief and leader of the free world you don't get do overs. you need to be able to get it right the first time. >> reporter: as for donald trump, he is in washington, d.c., today. right now, today, he is huddling with his top advisors as it relates to foreign policy and national security. that team that he announced earlier this month. he also announced today a house leadership committee.

and he said, they wouldn't want to quit the speakership and furman would have given control to the -- so it's president summers, you want that? so you talk about the notion that we were close to a dangerous constitutional crisis, the evening of december 12th. >> so i don't think we were close to a dangerous crisis and what a list of potential presidents. it's really kind of a rose -- [ laughter ] of course there are some candidates that seem well matched with that group. i actually want to talk about a different part of that launch that we had, if i can, and i don't think we were close to a constitutional crisis at that point. we still had a month before the electoral college was going to meet, and by that point, we would have had a decision from florida one way or the other. so, you know, i don't think it would have been a constitutional crisis. the part of the interview or the lunch -- they actually -- the idea was, i would have lunch with dick pozner and they would tape us having lunch, and then they ran this transcript. and so there's a later part of the tape where jack hitt, who

that's according to a report from new york university's furman center, real estate think tank, and capitalasons, foreclosures and better credit after the mortgage meltdown. that is the bloomberg business flash. let's head to the markets desk where is taking a closer look at gold. indeed, gold, which we know has been on a huge tear this year on a long losing streak. we look at prices, we once again have a bit of an increase. to assessare trying the risks. if you look at the gold etf, that is another way we track the price of gold. at if you look at trading lower. even as the price has gone up, we see more investors get into gld. into the fund inflows. we are seeing increases in those inflows. what this means, if you look at ond for this quarter, we are a losing streak. here is the losing streak. here is the increase. it looks like we are headed that direction. date&p versus gold year to is another way to tell the story. the risk off environment with the s&p 500 still year the bottom, down nearly 3%, gold off a whopping 19%. that tells it right there. people want safety. they are worried abo

jason furman -- look for that. it is job stay with robert gordon and michael darda. stay with us.llance." ♪ francine: you are looking at live pictures coming in from chancellor angela merkel talking there at the elysees palace. angela merkel, six to seven months, being out front, and putting her political career on the line, saying we must do more to help the refugees. france oh hollande -- francois hollande saying the refugees must remain as close as possible to home, but he is trying to set up a fund for countries to host the refugees. this goes to the heart of the european union. how the u.k. votes on grexit -- on brexit. it is the eurozone, a political agreement to keep peace in europe. so you can cross borders, and this is being put to the question. tom: you get this. a lot of us in america, including dumb me, do not get this or the greek islands, they get right next door to turkey. so when they go from turkey to greece, it is a hop, skip, and jump. i think it is over 10,000 people per week that show up on the island. francine: we have incredible pictures where you see hundre

senator furman thank you for being here to talk about economic issues and considering the future. long-term structural changes that seem to be occurring in our economy that i think will pose some potentially significant challenges for us in the decades ahead. i enjoyed reading the economic report, job creation, dynamism, et cetera. one issue that's addressed in here and i think you've done some studies related to it as well deals with the pace of technological change and the impact it's having on the job market. i think i heard is some of that as i walked in here today. it's always been -- i would like your reflections and thoughts. it has always been that folks have always feared that technology would destroy jobs but it's never materialized. technology has destroyed jobs. it has. it's created more jobs, they tend to be better, higher paying jobs and a lot of routine jobs have been replaced with ones that require higher education and skill training. it seems as if a lot of folks think we may be getting to an inflection point, that technology is advancing to the point where those

mark furman's book sold more copies in the last few months than in the past five years combined. >> across that most of these books are selling between eight and ten times what they were selling before the series aired. >> reporter: sales of jeffrey toobin's book on which the series is based are up 900%. >> this story combines everything that obsesses the american people. it has sex. it has race. it has violence. it has sports. it has hollywood and the only eyewitness is a dog. what more could you ask for in a story? >> reporter: "the people v. o.j. simpson" harkens back to a time when the ne very different sort of reality tv. >> that's o.j.'s garment bag. >> reporter: that's ross from "friends" playing kim kardashian's dad. he was o.j. simpson's lawyer, part of the dream team. >> i think it's a terrible idea. what if it doesn't work. >> reporter: for the original cast 20 years later it's deja vu all over again as o.j. prosecutor marcia clark recently told "the view." >> for me it's reliving a night their. it's just awful. every bit of it is awful. hard for me. >> 1989. >> reporter: the o'

clause 12-a of rule 1rks the chair declar white house economic advisor jason furmon is on capitol hill furman is on -- capitol hill today to talk about future economic growth. live hearing at 2:30 eastern over on c-span3. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. and coming up tomorrow morning -- new york democratic congressman chris gibson and minnesota congressman tim walz talk about the drawdown to the lowest levels. icks.hen thomas h be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" join the discussion. >> so many of my former books were horizontal studies. many countries across the whole region, the ends of the earth, balkan goes, covering a minimum of six countries. here i look at one country in depth and i use it to explore great themes. i think great themes. the holocaust, the cold war, the challenge of vladimir putin. remember, romanian-speaking muldova have a longer border with ukraine than even poland has so to study romainea is to study em-- romania is to study empires. >> robert kaplan, two cold wars and a 30-year journey through ro

elsewhere on capitol hill today, jason furman, the white house economic advisor, will be testifying before congress, before the joint economic committee, that's coming up this afternoon at 2:30 eastern. we'll have it live over on c-span3. right now live on c-span3 a house panel looking at the bioethics of fetal tissue research. follow that live again on c-span3. we're also covering today, it already happened, just across the supreme court oral argument in the texas abortion case. we'll talk about that later. the house has gaveled back in. live coverage here on c-span. c members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include erroneous -- extraneous material on the bill h.r. 3716. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to house resolution 632 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of h.r. 3716. the chair appoints the gentleman from north carolina, mr. holding, to preside over he committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on t

in the afternoon jason furman who heads the white house council of economic advisers will outline president obama's economic plan to congress. he will be at the joint economic committee live at 2:30 p.m. eastern also on c-span3. >> senate minority leader harry reid and judiciary committee ranking member patrick leahy spoke to reporters following a meeting with president obama and senate republican leaders about the vacant supreme court seat. here is what they said. >> i thought you'd all be interested. you have two eyes. pat was born with one eye he can't see out of and, of course, you know -- will keep both of our eyes so we a good. in the meantime. we just completed a meeting with the president, senator grassley and mitch mcconnell, and the point i'd like to make here is they were willing to meet with the president. looks like they will lease meet with the presidents nominate which we can very quickly but they were adamant. they said no, we are not going to do. this at all. we are going to do what's never been done before. definition of the country has anything like this happened where th

conversation here and go live now to capitol hill for white house council of economic advisors chair jason furmanas sometimes they can build on the base they have. so, ronald reagan took the republican party, which has been since the time of lincoln basically a business overnighted party and helped bring in social conservatives who cared about things like abortion and gun rights. when we talk about republican efforts to attract latino voters, i'm going to remind you of a story from a nonlatino part of the country in northern new england. guy from a car from out of town gets lost, sees an old farmer and says can you tell me how to get -- northern new hampshire, maybe, how to get to boston. the guy said you can't get there from here. that's the story of the republican party right now. the base that they have built since 1964 will not allow them to really reach out effectively to latino voters. 1964, barry goldwater runs, saying let's hunt where the ducks are. it's not all specific to latinos. to the extent that the party now, as we see in the trump phenomenon, has a lot of voters. that's a result o

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. >> well, former lapd detective mark furman is on earlier.n't need to call lapd to get a number for the case. it's all over the internet. i wonder why the los angeles police department felt compelled to do a press conference on an item of possible evidence that they could quite easily eliminate just by viewing the knife. you don't need forensics. so it's really no information. it's uninteresting and they can eliminate it almost immediately. >> so why would there be a press conference and what do you make of the fascination that america still has for of t.j. simpson? >> well it was the trial of the century. that was probably if you think back the first taste of reality television. he is such a charismatic and likable character that people were medicizmerized that he cou create such a horrible crime. i don't think lapd is involved in a master conspiracy here for any reason. they were probably trying to feed the masses clamoring to find out information about the knife. it shouldn't take a lot to eliminate or include the knife. in an autopsy they

spent white house council of economic advisers chair jason furman talked about ways the federal government could