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jeff rosen tells us chief mata's breadth of experience made him a strong candidate. he's confident he'll enforce the law no matter who the defendant is. >> we take our role very seriously in the d.a.'s office to oversee police misconduct when it becomes criminal. i know that as the police chief, chief mata has been very vigorous in holding officers to high standards and he's going to continue that as our bureau chief. >> as far as chief mata's replacement, the city hopes to announce an interim chief of police and start the recruitment process before march. >>> when it comes to an emergency, minutes can make a critical difference and city leaders in livermore and pleasanton worry ambulances are taking too long to respond. there's questions about whether the current service provider is really the best solution for the tri-valley. >> reporter: when someone calls 911 needing an ambulance, the expectation is that it will show up quickly, but according to a new letter from the city managers of livermore and pleasanton, that's not always the case. livermore resident jake da

jeff rosen spoke with us about mata's new role. >> chief mata is going from handling everything san jose related to uh. a little bit of a in some sense, an even broader focus in that a lot of the things that our bureau of investigations does is help other agencies in the county, other police departments with particularly complex or challenging investigations. >> the department has seen multiple controversies in recent years that includes an investigation that revealed racist text messages by an officer who shot a black man. one other controversy saw an officer accused of masturbating while responding to a call at a home for domestic disturbance. this video shows mata walking the fired officer out the door. despite the challenges, san jose mayor matt mehan said he's pleased with mata's work and put a premium on accountability and transparency. >> he has fired officers for misconduct. i mean, he has been serious about walking the walk on, holding everyone to a very high standard, mehan said he'd like the replacement search to be both within the police department and across the country. >>

jeff rosen being replaced by jeff clark.hat he planned on doing, i said "good... "(bleep)"-- excuse me, sorry-- "effing a-hole. "congratulations, you just admitted your first step "or act you take as attorney general "would be committing a felony and violating rule 6(e). you're clearly the right candidate for this job." >> mr. donoghue, did-- did you eventually tell the president that mass resignations would occur if he installed mr. clark and what the consequences would be? >> i said, "mr. president, within 24, 48, 72 hours, "you could have hundreds and hundreds of resignations "of the leadership of your entire justice department "because of your actions. what's that going to say about you?" >> in the end, that proves to be enough to stop trump-- very reluctantly, very reluctantly-- from putting clark in as his acting attorney general. talk about a close call. >> narrator: but for the january 6th committee and federal prosecutors, the pressure on the justice department was another part of the conspiracy. >> he's trying to e

santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen and metro silicon valley ceo dan pulcrano are descendantst survivors. the only time he talked about it was when he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming with nightmares, and that was has haunted him for his entire life. >> my dad, my grandmother and my aunts and uncles were in three different concentration camps, two slave labor camps in poland, and eventually bergen-belsen, where my dad survived. his mother survived, and they were liberated in march 1945, recognized people who helped their family survive. >> on display this week at city hall, an exhibit recognizing the righteous among the nations who helped other families do the same. >> as we move further and further away from that moment in history, people tend to forget. and so it's really important for us to keep that memory alive with an annual remembrance, especially now with anti-semitic incidents reportedly on the rise following the october seventh attack on israel by hamas militants, nicole cutler is israel's special envoy for combating anti-semitism. >> she says remem

with the first section of the panel, and then we're going to do old switcheroo scheme and get a jeff rosen is going to bring up judge tatel and katyal and have a great conversation as well so we're going to have a continuous session about the constitution. and let's go, ladies, gentlemen, please welcome mary sarah michael klarman, jeffrey rosen and moderator doug bradburn. wonderful. thank you, jeff. democracy. well, good morning constitutional principles, ideas for 100. alex, what what is the constitution in mary building you start yeah i this is something i find i spend a lot of time with my talking about is the fact our constitution our notion of a constitution was kind of new genre right is a new idea that you could have a piece of paper and you could write down on that piece of paper. the frame of government and in the period that the framers were working with in 1787, that idea was in transition. so people had begun to write down on pieces of paper charters. they were in england, they were state constitutions what they wanted a frame of government be, what rights they wanted, but no

the jcs says the flier targets santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen. he's pictured in the lower right hand corner with his eyes crossed out. the rally was held at the da's office, and we reached out to rosen for a response. his office sent us this video from december 15th of him calling for peace. >> i want our area to be a microclimate of peace, of diverse city, of respect and love for one another, but also to christian, hindu, sikh. >> and we also reached out to the rally's organizers, but have not yet heard back. >> still to come tonight, businesses reacting after a ruling on berkeley's first in the nation ban on natural gas. the sense of relief being felt at some restaurants, also a rate hike at california largest home insurer. >> what homeowner need to know tonight. >> also blue cross, calif announcing a round of layoffs tonight. the bay area office that will see the impacts appeals for the ninth circuit denied berkeley's petition for the court to rehear the case. after the ban was ruled illegal last year. ktvu amberleigh live now in berkeley with

hour about the first section of the panel and then we are going to do the switcheroo and get the jeff rosen bringing up them and have a great conversation as well. we will have a continuous session about the constitution. let's go. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome sarah, michael, jeffrey and moderator, doug bradford. >> wonderful. thank you. well good morning. constitutional principles and ideas for 100, alex. what is the constitution? mary builder, you start. >> this is something i find i spend a lot of time of my students talking about, is the fact that our constitution, our notion of the constitution was a new genre. it was a new idea that you could have peace of paper and you could write down on a piece of paper the frame of government and in the period that the framers were working with in 1787, that idea was in transition. people had begun to write down on pieces of paper, charters. there were examples in england and there was state constitutions and what they wanted a frame of government to be and what rights they wanted but no one yet had really begun to think that was the co

jeff rosen spoke with us about mata's new role. >> chief mata is going from handling everything san jose related to uh- a little bit of a in some sense, an even broader focus in that a lot of the things that our bureau of investigations does is help other agencies in the county, other police departments with particularly complex or challenging investigations. >> the department has seen multiple controversies in recent years. that includes an investigation that revealed racist text messages by an officer who shot a black man. one other controversy saw an officer accused of masturbating while responding to a call at a home for domestic disturbance. this video shows mata walking the fired officer out the door. despite the challenges, san jose mayor matt mehan said he's pleased with mata's work and put a premium on accountability and transparency. >> he has fired officers for misconduct. i mean, he has been serious about walking the walk on, holding everyone to a very high standard. >> mahan said he'd like the replacement search to be both within the police department and across the country.

going to do one hour with the first section of the panel, then will do the old switcheroo and get jeff rosen to bring up -- and have a great conversation as well. we will have a continuous session about the constitution. let's go. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome tara, michael, jeffrey rosen, and our moderator. >> well. good morning. constitutional principles and ideas. 100, alex. what is a constitution? >> yeah. this is something i find i spend a lot of time with my students talking about, is the fact that our constitution -- our notion of constitutional and is it was a new idea that you could have a piece of paper, and you could write down on a piece of paper the frame of government. and in the period that the framers were working with, in 1787, that idea was in transition. so people had begun to write down on pieces of paper charters. there were examples in england, there was a const to duchenne. what they wanted a frame of government to be and what rights they wanted. no one had yet begun to believe that that was the constitution. we see people talking about the instrument, the pi

santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen and metro silicon valley ceo dan pulcrano are descendants of holocaust survivors. >> the only time he talked about it was when he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming with nightmares and that was an haunted him for his entire life. >> my dad, my grandmother, and my aunts and uncles were in three different concentration camps, two slave labor camps in poland, and eventually bergen-belsen were where my dad survived. his mother survived, and they were liberated in march 1945, recognized people who helped their families survive are on display this week at city hall, an exhibit recognizing the righteous among the nations who helped other families do the same. >> as we move further and further away from that moment in history, people tend to forget. and so it's really important for us to keep that memory alive with an annual remembrance, especially now with anti-semitic incidents reportedly on the rise following the october 7th attack on israel by hamas militants. >> michael cutler wants israel special envoy for combating anti-semiti

trump also mentioned jeff clark on a separate call with rosen.ey rosen: he made, what i regarded as a peculiar reference. i don't remember the exact quote, but it was something about did i know jeff clark or did i know who he was or something like that. i was quizzical as to how does the president even know mr. clark? jake tapper: rosen confronted clark who admitted he had broken the longstanding policy governing communication between the justice department and the white house. white house lawyers pat cipollone and patrick philbin also intervened and warned clark to not communicate with the white house. clark agreed. but just two days later escalated the situation with an email that set off a series of events that would rock the justice department. richard donoghue: we came in on monday, december 28th. hectic day as they all were. and then in the afternoon, we got that email, which i had to sit down and read more than once to make sure i understood what he was proposing. jake tapper: what was he proposing? richard donoghue: he was proposing sendi

jewish community relations council says the flier targets santa clara county district attorney jeff rosen in the lower right hand corner with his eyes crossed out. the rally was held at the da's office. we contacted district attorney rosen's office for a response and we received this video from december 15th of rosen calling for peace and a one hour area to be a microclimate of peace, of diversity, of respect and love for one another. >> the muslim, jew, christian, hindu, sikh. >> we also contacted the rally organizers, but we have not heard back from any of them yet. the new year brings some new movies to the big screen, including many new installments of some popular franchises. >> and just last month, fans dango released a survey of the top ten most highly anticipated movies of 2024. there were action packed movies in there and anime movies that made the list, and deadpool three leads the list. >> this is marvel studios first r-rated movie. this reunites or actually pairs for the first time, ryan reynolds deadpool and hugh jackman's wolverine. beetlejuice two is the number two spot. nu

jewish community relations council says that flier targeted santa clara county district attorney jeff rosenured there in the lower right hand corner with his eyes crossed out. we contacted district attorney rosen's office for a response, and we received a video from december 15th of rosen calling for peace. after a one hour area to be a microclimate of peace, of diversity, of respect and love for one another. >> it wasn't jew, christian, hindu, sikh. >> now, we also contacted the rally's organizers, but we have not heard back from any of them yet. >> california hopes the next snow survey set for february will be far better than the results of the first manual survey of the year. the snowpack is currently 7.5in deep and snow water content at 30% of average. one year ago, the snowpack was five feet deep. the state's water resources department is still optimistic about a wet and snowy winter, since california's heaviest snowstorms occur between january and march. we always use that april 1st snow metric because in terms of snow water content, that's typically when our snowpack is at its peak.

. >> jeff rosen, thank you. >> his book, "the pursuit of happiness," how classical writers on virtuee lives of the founders and defined america. it'll be published on february 13th. >> can't wait. >> look forward to that. >> jeffrey, come back, please. >>> amid the swirling court cases surrounding donald trump, president biden delivered a fiery speech on friday, marking the third anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. biden used some of his most pointed language to date against the former president. >> hear me clearly, i'll say what donald trump won't, political violence is never, ever acceptable in the united states. never, never, never. it has no place in a democracy, none. [ applause ] it can't be pro-insurrectionist and pro-american. trump and his maga supporters not only embrace political violence, but they laugh about it. at his rally, he jokes about an intruder whipped up by the big trump lie, taking a hammer to paul pelosi's skull and echoing the very same words used on january 6th, "where's nancy?" he thinks that's funny. he laughed about it. what a sick -- my god. [ a

this is very tricky flight restricted zone and thank you to alex rosen and jeff ricker for that amazing cold open, which, by the way, for any miami vice fans was edited frame for frame. so the original miami vice intro and that is true and thank you to congressman burchett and moskowitz for your amazing comedic performance. my wife maybe cut out all the ufo references and that. so apologies to the disclosure supporters here tonight are oh we're are we. yes to my amazing wife kristen holmes. thank you for putting up with me. doing two jobs the past few weeks. i promise i will start cleaning the house again tomorrow and i know you will hold me accountable. we have a great show for you tonight. tyler fisher of really funny guy and the legwarmers and unbelievable ball eighties cover band as well as dj ghost who will be spinning on the stage and then upstairs are happy hour excuse me our late night after party will go until 1 a.m. tonight, but before we start, it's a tradition. i don't have a drink. can someone bring me a drink, please? it is a tradition for the dinner committee chair to oer