host: what about the justice department dustin will alluded to earlier? paul: there are two categories. the first is let's teach everybody. even back in the dark ages, when i was at the justice department we had a small unit. we all tend to be pretty technical and we had a lot of courses. the second thing you see a lot, particularly outside the justice department is the import export model. employ a computer scientist to spend two years at a government agency. they will hire some permanent staff to be more specific. and they have a program where they have a chief technologist, they have a small unit that grows every day and made up of hybrid lawyer technologists. both of those, teach a man to fish and hire a fisherman would be the metaphor. happening and vitally important, but both very difficult to scale up. havere always going to that issue, how can you continue establishncoming lawyers -- how can you ever keep up with the size of the workforce? >> you mentioned you are almost to the point of do no harm. has there been harm done when it comes to technol

the second thing you see a lot in particularly outside the justice department is just the import-export model so we invite computer scientists who spent two years at the government agency and hopefully while they are there they will build something and they will hire some permanent staff said to be more specific i worked at the federal trade commission for when you recently. they have chief technologist, they have a small unit that really is made up of hybrid lawyer technologist and so both of those higher fishermen i guess would be the metaphor. they both are happening and they are both vitally important. also a little bit scaling up. you're always going to have that issue, how do you continue to teach incoming lawyers, establish lawyers who have been around, how can you ever keep in touch with the workforce? >> host: you also mentioned that the point it did no harm. has there have been harm done in technology? >> guest: you know there are lots of stories that people have told about so for example government hacking. this is very much in the news and something i've thought about my res

justice department.hat's about half of what was originally reported and what spooked the markets several months ago, 14 billion. as you can see, italy strong this morning, up a percent after another step closer to the world's oldest bank. bmps troubled bank getting an italian bailout. german dax flat right now. the ftse 100 in the uk is the underperformer. as for the currency market, the dollar's march higher has continued this week. it's pulling back a bit this morning. euro 104.51. dollar/yen 117.55. fractional moves in currencies looking for direction with the pound also unchanged at 122.75. home sales today, and a read on u.s. consumer confidence. no earnings report of note. >> absolutely. let's turn from the markets now to a different side of the politics side of things, this morning most of us associate president-elect trump with extreme wealth. but today we're taking a sneak peek at his childhood home which shows that he actually came from more humble beginnings. here's robert frank. ♪ >> reporter

i know that people ask about how the department of justice will change or shift. every a.g. and every administration sets their own policies and priority, but there is a beating heart of this department that's composed of career people who are dedicated to its mission, who are committed to justice, who are committed to independence of the department of justice. within any administration, and they stay on. they stay on and they guide the ship, so i have great faith in them. i have tremendous faith in them, but i have tremendous faith in the american people. people come to us and they raise issues and concerns and they say , we want doj involved in that i and i take that trust seriously that won't change. people have come together over issues in ways we haven't seen since the civil rights movement of the 1960's. we've not seen, in my recollection, the diversity of people protesting various issues that we've seen. people who are marching in the streets whether it's a policing issue, whether it's in support of a proposal, the groups are young, they are old, they are multiracial.

this was looked at by the justice department four or five times. in fact, prior to them making the decision it wasn't torture the last time they did it. i water boarded two attorneys, one of whom was an assistant attorney general of the united states. how many attorney generals do you have to water board to get a straight answer? i suspect it was one. >> and yet some of that which took place offended your sensibilities, al-nashiri was the master mind of the bombing of the uss cole. you didn't like what you saw. i watched the chief interrogator use a variety of physically coercive measures that i believed were not on the list of approved techniques. they included the two stress positions discussed earlier. dousing al-nashiri with cold water while using a stiff bristled brush to scrub his ass and balls and mouth and blowing cigar smoke in his face until he became nauseous. so what is it about that that you regarded i don't know if you would use the word as torture but that crossed the line and yet your own water boarding was within limits. distinguis

someone that worked in the justice department.ne of the things i learned is yes, the fbi director is independent, as is the attorney general. but he is also supposed to follow the rules. the fbi director is not exempt from the rules that say if you're not going to charge someone, tonight pass judgment on their conduct. is he not exempt from the rules that say you do not do anything publicly that could tip the scales of an election within 60 days of the election, let alone 11 days out. yes, is he independent, but there are rules that have been put in place because the fbi and the department of justice has so much power to unfairly tarnish people's reputation they are supposed to follow rules and that's exactly what he didn't do in this case. >> i mentioned the justice department in part because john podesta, we both though know him well the former campaign chairman for hillary clinton. he has been vocal on sunday shows and op-ed recently suggesting the fbi is in disarray. he charged james comey spent far more time on the email serv

he insisted justice department cases politically motivated. >>> former illinois c guilty to corruption charges. at today's arraignment prosecutors say the 35-year-old republican use government and campaign money to subsidize an extravagant lifestyle. bhajans abhi sparked in part by words that he be decorated his congressional office in a lavish style of "downton abbey". he said he made an honest mistake. >>> the united nations sworn in and new secretary-general. former portuguese prime minister will take over for ban ki-moon on february 1. he was elected in october as the ninth secretary-general in the united nations 71 year history. >>> loretta lynch president of virginia mosque today amid a spike in hate crimes against muslims. she spoke at an interfaith gathering at the all dulles area of muslim society and called on citizens to come to defense of their neighbors and promised the justice department will prosecute acts of hate. the fbi said hate crimes against muslims rose by 67% highest level since after the september 11 terrorist attacks.>>> michelle obama helped spread holiday che

having it start there as well is at the higher levels of the justice department of justice is key. >> key in the sense that it makes it sustainable even if there is active resistance. >> and you get more support. and you reach out and you garner more support. one of the things i think that has been tremendous over the last couple of years, i've been doing a lot of work, as you know, on policing issues and the issues of the relationship between law enforcement and the communities that we serve. and i've been traveling the country on a policing tour and talking to community groups and kids and law enforcement. and when we look at this issue today, look at the protests even, for example, just to get a snapshot of it, look at the diversity of the people who are engaged on that issue alone, this issue has become more than just one cabined off into the minority community. similarly lgbt issues, muslim american issues have become issues larger than just those limited to those communities. because people are contributing and they are joining the movements. that's different. and that's a posit

>> guest: after i graduated from law school, i became a criminal prosecutor at the justice department, so i was in a unit called the computer crime and intellectual property section, and it's funny because now i'm such an old man that this was really a half generation ago where we were just beginning to deal with hackers and viruses and all sorts of emerging challenges online. and at the time and probably more so today, it was really a challenge to kind of figure out how to take these very old tools we had and adapt them to something as new as kind of exciter hacking. computer hacking. and so it is a constant struggle of reeducation and trying to keep up. >> so is part of the problem here that lawyers who go to law school and then go into government, they aren't science and mathematical in nature? those types of folks maybe would go to engineering school or medical school, so they're coming at this from a disadvantage, and do we with need to focus on retraining them more? is that the collusion? >> guest: so both halfs of what you said are definitely true. we could definitely stand to

to justice the, independence of the department of justice within any administration. and they stay on. they stay on and they guide the ship. so i have greast great faith in them. but i have tremendous faith in the american people. people come to us and they raise issues and concerns and they say we want d.o.j. involved in that. i take that trust very, very seriously. that's not going to change. people have come together over issues in ways we haven't seen since the civil rights movement of the 60s. . have not seen the diversity whether it's a policing issue, in support of a proposal. the groups are young, they're old, they're multiracial. so we've seen a greater level of understanding and empathy in this country than we've had in a long time. that is a very powerful tool. that is a very, very powerful tool and it can be used to make people's voices heard. that's what people have to do. every government has to be held accountable. this administration, myself in clusive as well. i also tell people don't forget the local level. alk to them. everyone has a right to partic

i have sent letters to the justice department saying why aren't you doing anything about this?he justice department when it comes to elections protects their friends and ignores their enemies. that's why this guy is not getting justice in chicago. >> so there is no federal investigation into the tape rejust showed that you are aware of? >> as far as we know. we have gotten no response. public interest legal foundation sent a letter to the voting section and criminal section in the civil rights division. the same people who rushed to any other event. but we have got none response. >> who argue that your opinions are making me feel, quote, unsafe, okay. here you have a guy getting kicked in the face on the ground for voting trump and because set wrong skin color and they are not doing anything? >> yeah. >> it's hard to believe that. >> they are specifically yelling he voted trump. imagine if it was right outside pittsburgh in 2008. obama wins the election and people are dragging people out of cars who are african-american saying he voted for obama. everybody watching knows what t

i believe that he'll straighten out the department of justice to be the department that it should be, that we all want it to be, and i think it will elevate the department of justice in ways that just plain it hasn't had for many of the years that i've been in the united states senate. that is not to denigrate everybody who has served in the department of justice. but let's face it ... it has been used politically by both parties at times for no good reason. i tell you this: jeff sessions will make sure that that's not going to be the case. that's going to be a pleasant change from what we've had in the past in some administrations, republican and democrat. i have a strong knowledge of his background. i have a strong feeling about jeff as a person. i believe that he'll be a great attorney general. and i hope our colleagues on both sides of the aisle treat him with respect, as he goes through this nomination process. and if we do, we'll be able to walk out of here at least with some sense of pride that we did what was right. and i think you'll find, as jeff serves -- and he is going to

tryingere parallels for to block online innovation and video, and the department of justice clips and degree -- department of justice consent decree said they would defer to the fcc for action in most, nearly all instances. dualone of those involved agency action with a reliance on industryor the deep expertise. mr. chairman, you had raised the section 5 issue. i want to point out that we believe the court decision was horrible and needs to be repealed, but there is a gap tephensonlieve mr. s mist, which is that if they purchased time warner and have content, the fcc can only regulate their common carrier business. they are restricted by congress to only look at common carriage assets, which i do not believe these assets would be. there is a gap there that i think is significant. i'm nothenson: knowledgeable enough of that particular area, particularly as it relates to content, to refute that, but i think it points out that there is a need to get clarity around the regulations over these issues. sen. franken: are we going to do a third round, or can i complete my questioning? >> you c

this is not something that goes to the justice department. ethel rosenberg was not guilty and therefore she doesn't need a pardon. what we're asking for is a presidential statement that in effect nullifies the guilty verdict and states that her execution was wrong untilful. -- wrongful. >> [ inaudible ]. >> given one of the principle architects was cohen who president-elect trump has said was his mentor, the chances of trump doing anything that would cost -- would put his mentor in a bad light strikes me as nil and, therefore, this is the time to do it. if we don't get obama to do it, we are virtually certain that trump will not. that's another reason for doing it. >> on "60 minutes" the chief prosecution lawyer said it was roy cohn who physically came to him and said, your wife has just told us something new, ethel rosenberg typed stuff up. david green admitted he had no memory of her having typed it up. he says he doesn't even know if any typing occurred. he committed perjury to support his wife and that roy cohn was the architect of that p

justice department sued barclays for fraud over its sale of mortgage bonds.hey said investors were deceived about the risk of the securities. they rejected the government's accusations and saved said they will vigorously defend the complaint. guy? guy: thank you. we have some data breaking out in france this morning. the final g.d.p. for the third quarter has come in at 1%. .1%. not a great number. could be worse. could be a lot better. of course france is going to theyont and center in 20 will choose new leaders in france, germany. particularly in greece. concentration on the ballots. it is the employee probability he pen. of marine le pen ch >> when you look at opinion polls they are hugely underestimating the french election. that was very much the lesson. guy: why do you think that? because of what we have seen this year? >> i think it is, yeah. when you look at this year, opinion poll have said consistently wrong. i think part of it is that pollsters, when people go to pollsters, they don't give the right answer. that is the big potential impact when you

justice department and vowed to defend itself. it is understood the lawsuit was filed after settlement talks between the u.s. government and the british lender broke down. let's talk a bit more about all this. chris wheeler is a banks analyst from atlantic equities. he's with us. good morning. good to have you with us. deutsche bank, they're agreeing to a settlement, credit suisse is settling. barclays not so at the moment. what are your initial thoughts? >> the initial thoughts on deutsche bank, it's good news that the issue has been dealt with. similar story with credit suisse. barclays is more interesting, i'm wondering i would they're pushing back. if we look at european settlements, they are substantially bigger than the u.s. ones in terms of the amount of issuance those banks carried out, and maybe they feel they're being too unfair to the european banks, i wonder if they're also including lehman brothers issuance in this settlement given that barclays did not buy lehman brothers until january of '09. maybe barclays feels th

it just disappeared into the black hole of the justice department. we never got a single call from them. they didn't prosecute it. felonyere 278 potential voter fraud cases that could have prosecuted and they did nothing about it. host: go to jerry in florida. good morning. caller: i would like to invite to takeleman prosecutor his database to case western reserve university statistics department. where i work. and show your database which has been proven to be completely just like your statement that you are a conservative organization not a republican organization. you know that's false. and you know your database is false. the things that you are discussing right now could not live in the light of day of science. thank you. host: we will get a response. our database is a listing of court convictions. in each case you will see the either a newspaper article discussing the conviction of an individual in a court of law for committing voter fraud or actual court documents. is somehow at it false database, all the source material is there. a sampling o

he was in the office of the pardoning attorney in the department of justice.will get your questions. he is earning a law degree from north carolina school of law. (202) 748-8001, the line for republicans. (202) 748-8000, if you are a democrat. we also have a line for independents, you can also reach us on facebook. i want to ask you about a political story in illinois, the former governor who tried to get early release from his prison sentence, a story from the chicago sun-times. he had speculated whether he could grant a pardon to the former governor who was charged with trying to sell barack obama's senate seat in 2008. guest: keycode. the governor was convicted in federal court for that conduct, so it is a federal offense. the president, notwithstanding any rules, has the unfettered authority to either pardon or commute the sentence if he chooses to do it. frankly, i do not have inside information, but i am assuming his lawyers are trying to press the white house to do that thing. ist: if that assumption true, what do they tell you and what is the case to t

justice. i need to keep you at the department of justice.my immediate response was of course i was disappointed. it would have been an honor to be the first hispanic on the supreme court but my response was fairly simple which was u. owe me nothing, i owe you everything. i'm grateful for the appointment of the attorney general and i look forward to getting your nominee confirmed. i left and i remember that day the story increased about me possibly going on the court. becky and i met for dinner that evening and i said i've got something to tell you. the first thing i said was i'm not going on the supreme court and in a sense there was somewhat of a relief. to leave washington, d.c. hopefully to come back to texas and it freed me up to do my job as attorney general, not having thathe pressure of possibly beig the nominee. but then i gave her the second bit of news and i said tomorrow i'm going to iraq. she said what and of course we minimized the number of people that know about the kind of travel because of security reasons. i think she proba

we understand $7.2 billion settlement with the department of justice. credit suisse coming through as well. this this was half of the amount that was put on the table in the opening -- from the department of justice. does it help us move on through the story for deutsche bank? does it help john crier to get this one out of the way? >> i think the settlement is a good thing because it ends uncertainty. the headline number is quite high compared to what i was expecting or the market was expecting probably a bit less than that. as was mentioned before, the details on how this amount will be -- will be channeled the retail -- the retail people that was affected is -- the effect of the overall payment meter means that the heat is not going to be as hard -- the hit is not going to be as hard in 2017. overall it should be taken positively by the market i guess. manus: thank you so much for joining us this morning. c.e.o. in milan. it has just crossed 7:19 in london. breaking headlines from barclays this morning. the department of justice in the united states in

if there is criminal wrongdoing involved, that goes to the justice department and the justice department prosecutes and tries people, as they prosecuted the congressman -- what is his name? the member of congress just prosecuted and sent to jail. generally, if there is actual corruption involved, it comes out, it goes to the justice department, and this person goes to trial. of chris, the trial happens, as other tiles have rights. congressional oversight, it may turn up corruption or criminality, but congressional oversight is a broader and more fundamental process because that is this department or agency doing what it is supposed to do? is it having the outcome it is supposed to have? . situation, for instance, people did lose their job in the situation because of wet they did in the v.a. as heard, they were not treating people according to the timely schedule, so people did lose their job for that. is different from oversight and that actually goes to the justice department and often does. host: shock sentenced to 10 years in federal -- sentence to 10 years in federal for benefiting h

covers abuses at the department of justice. ino joining us michael moore the u.k. on what it means for barclays and deutsche bank. the bloomberg managing editor for finance and investing in the region. carrie, quickly, the fine substantially smaller than the opening bid. how this is broken up is quite significant. basically, these are civil penalties for every single bank on wall street is dealing with these has settled on this. jpmorgan, bank of america, morgan stanley, everybody settles. typically split up in different ways for the most of it goes to a penalty paid to check theust write a never see it again. a lot of it is done on consumer release. basically, that is ways to provide consumer relief to people that have mortgages during that time. it is not directly related to the securities that were sold but a way to try to deal with some of the domestic issues. jonathan: the way the market should view it is one is an upfront cost and the other will be spread over time. yes, it is not all cash. jonathan: in london, michael moore, barclays saying we won't play bal

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deutsche bank is being investigated by the justice department. so when president trump appoints an attorney general, that attorney general will be taxed with investigating those issues. it's not a good look that when a president that owes $30 0 millin there are to a bank, he is being cast as a major appointee. >> it's just so obvious. the justice department is either going to be tough with deutsche bank, or they're going to be easy with deutsche bank. there is no way for anyone to say, well, it has nothing to do with a $300 million loan. it may well not. but the appearance of conflicted interest renders any decision suspect. that's why people have had, p presidents have had, in the minor era, blind trusts, so their personal interest cannot be bound up with what the government does. >> what has been the response from the trump campaign? have you gotten any with regard to this? >> they said they're going to do their best to avoid conflicts, flush out as many as they can. we haven't received those details yet. >> are they saying something and doing

my sense, having been at the justice department and worked in the intelligence community, is lit being fbi-cia sp emphasized in the report over the last couple days is perhaps being a bit overplayed. fbi versus cia narrative is convenient, and i would argue a bit lazy. that is where the reports automatically go. intelligence assessments are based on the information available. the cia obviously has come to whatever is its assessment. very -- in this in various reports, the idea that corebi has to adhere to a level of evidence is not reflective of what they do on the intelligence side. the fbi has a dual role. it has a traditional law enforcement function that is carried out through which criminal investigative divisions. then it has a national security function. is national security branch part of the intelligence community. 11,icularly after september the fbi has gone through a significant transformation to enhance its intelligence and security capabilities. the workforce looking on intelligence assessments, bigger picture issues, and not gathering intelligence for a crime. i view thes

i know people ask about how the department of justice will change her shift. every administration sets their own policy and priority. there is a beating heart of this department and people who are committed to justice within any administration. they stay on and they guide the ship. i have great faith in them but i have tremendous faith in the american people. people come to us and they raise issues and they raise concerns and they say we want doj involved in that. i take that trust very seriously that's not going to change. people have come together over issues in ways we haven't seen since the civil rights movement of the 60s. we have not seen, and my recollection the diversity of people protesting various issues that we have seen. people who are marching in the streets, whether it's a a policing issue or in support of a proposal, the groups are young. there multiracial. we've seen a greater level of understanding and empathy in this country than we have had in a long time. that is a very powerful tool. that is a powerful tool and it can be used to make people

>> look, i think, i don't want to speculate on that issue, what i will say is the department of justicehas a history of independence that is longstanding, it is cherished by the career people who are the heart and -- beating heart and soul of that department and who take that independence very, very seriously. and who are never shy about making sure that senior leadership, regardless of what chairs we sit in or whether there's a "d" or "r" in front of our name keep that in mind and keep that at the forefront of what they do. but as i said before, this is also the responsibility of everyone. to watch what's going on, to raise issues, to raise questions. i know the press will continue to raise questions about all of the branches of government. you know, it's happened to me. i welcome it because it's part of what holds us accountable and keeps us accountable to the american people. that's a very important role to play as well. you know, i think that, you know, people have concerns, but, and i know that they do, but what i would say is as i've said whether it's a situation of a terrorist at

a civil penalty from the justice department for deutsche bank, with a provision for consumers. meanwhile, the justice weretment suing barclays allegedly deceiving investors who bought mortgage-backed andrities between 2005 2007. it alleges the bank repeatedly deceived investors about the quality of the loans. 's offer of aid to the --est bank monte dei paschi the bank has confirmed it will continue to seek assistance after a failed bailout. global news 24 hours a day powered by the more than 2600 120nalists in more than countries. this is bloomberg. let's get a check of the markets for you. before the long christmas weekend holiday, here is how we are trading in the morning session -- we are seeing this across the board, asia-pacific shares down the last day before christmas. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> welcome to the best of bloomberg markets middle east. the world bank approved a new loan to egypt worth $1 billion. it will help create thousands of new jobs. we spoke to an investment manager about the implications for markets. that is coming up. havehree qatari banks announced they

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surely that was the most extraordinary task of any justice department in american history. i found many of the senior appointees, presidential appointees in the justice department in shock and understandably rather jumpy. the most important assistant attorney general's position, certainly at that point, was the one in charge of the office of legal counsel. having to navigate through the watergate reeds. he needed to be replaced. we wanted a brilliant lawyer with steel nerves. i was charged with finding a successor. a list of candidates was compile. the first person i interviewed was antonin scalia. he occupied a quasi-academic role as chairman of the council. i have never been so impressed. i immediately offered him the post subject to approval. white house approval in those days was perfunctory given the president's weakness. scalia was nominated by richard nixon but appointed by new president gerald ford. almost immediately, nino was plunged into the most delicate tasks. i had stopped the white house from allowing the moving truck from carting off the former president's p

the justice department says the rule is necessary to keep up with criminals as technology advances. >>> a cruise line trying to cut costs will now pay even a record $40 million fine. the justice department says five princess cruise line ships were dumping waste into the ocean and lie to cover it up. at least one case dates back to 2005. it was all exposed by a whistleblower who told a special pipe to dump oil waste into the water. princess cruises calls it -- calls it an excusable. >>> talk about terrifying. get this. a man finds an eight foot long cobra, a cobra inside the toilet in his apartment, in south africa. welcome to the wild. and in case you are wondering, yes, they are extremely venomous. >> it is a monster. >> he is still going, he is still going. oh, he just bit. >> did he say, he is still growing? it does not get much bigger than that. we have not even reached the truly terrifying part. the handler lost his grip on the snake and it got back into the sewage pipe. >> no, way. >> they still have no idea talking about using hot water to take care of that snake. are you kiddi

my expectation was when we announced this deal and is today that the department of justice will be the one reviewing this transaction and making the determination whether it's competitive or not and is it competitive under the law so our expectation is to present our facts. we believe the facts will be compelling and good that this is pro-competitive and pro-consumer so i'll leave it at that. >> mr. bewkes? >> yes, and i entirely agree with what mr. stephenson just said. in terms of the independence of our journalism, and i hope all the or journalistic owlets, we have always vigorously defended that for decades, whether when we were at time inc. or whether we had cnn, and we're going to continue defending and being an independent journ lalistic voic. everyone that watches us may have their own opinion about whether we succeed in being objective. we try hard everyday and we're going to continue to do that. >> you understand that what troubles me is that the president-elect has said that his justice department will enforce a different standard of law depending on what kind of coverage hi

because it is treacherous to try to oppose the department of justice. >> almost 2%, pairedon have closed for trading. did the department of justice overreach in its settlements, or attended settlements, with deutsche bank, with barclays here? they have not been able to get anything going. you figure a lawsuit is probably not the way they wanted to go down. >> not necessarily. there is a big question as to whether or not these numbers the department of justice asked for i got from other banks, $15 billion per bank is too much. debated been hotly whether the department of justice was too aggressive about these mortgage cases. a lawsuit -- not for this particular type of class, when you have a lawsuit like this you see this in antitrust cases and so forth. and is a way to negotiate possibly settle, or you have a judge rule on it. it is a path to settling. when you look at what the path could be here, some of barclays sued in boston, federal home loan bank was offered $6 billion, at mbs, both parties -- mbs, both parties walked away from there. what is the case that barclays ma

that's the statutory department of justice oversight. officer of director national oversight.that's the most regulated area, and so i think that that is -- the area that folks should really be the least concerned about. if you want to talk about areas that i would find common ground on, and where i think there should be kept a watchful eye, it would be if the new attorney general decides to reopen fbi investigative tbliens for domestic operations and lower the standards for investigating americans. that's an area to keep an eye on. if you want to talk about an area that should be of concern or to civil libertarians, it's the proposal that i have not heard from the president-elect but that i have seen so i want to qualify that. but that i have seen in some reports about maybe things that are of interest to some of his advisors would be the proposal to eliminate the director of national intelligence. director of national intelligence creation was the single most important recommendation of the 9/11 commission to improve the workings of the intelligence community, and in the post

jonathan: the justice department is filing a lawsuit against culpeper county. they say the county try to block the construction of a new mosque. tim barber joins us from the live desk with the latebreaking details. tim? tim: the federal complaint says this is all about religion. one county official says it is not. lawsuit against culpeper county, claiming county leaders violated federal law by blocking the islamic center in culpeper from building a mosque. community feels this is an act of discrimination. tim: according to the lawsuit, they refused to grant the construction permit, saying that was discrimination. since 1992tion sat and never denied a permit for commercial or religious you since then. >> we think the reason they voted against them was the religion. tim: why are you so sure of that? >> we have seen cases nationwide. tim: the board of representative said the vote had nothing to do with religion. >> it's not fair to the neighbors and it's not fair to the roadways. tim: they say they deny the permit for other churches on the vacant property. a piece

women in particular were so important to the history of this place, means a lot to hear the department of justice is on your side. it also feels like the department of justice may not necessarily still be on their side in the next administration. do you -- do you feel like you can really say history's on your side, things are bending in your direction? >> well, i think that, look, obviously a lot of things change with the turn of the electoral wheel, but history is bigger than just the electoral wheel. history is bigger than any one administration or even one attorney general. history encompasses all of the change and the progress that we've made and history is on the side of marginalized people who speak up for themselves, of people who feel isolated and left out, who speak up for themselves. it doesn't mean that there won't be challenges but i will tell you, rachel, this work has always been hard. there have been times when the structure of government has been more opposed to different groups than it is now. we have had state-sanctioned discrimination in this country for years and the civil rig

of justice, vanita gupta, karol mason, assistant attorney general, department of justice and jenny yang, chair of equal employment opportunity commission. they are an extremely tal ebited group and we're extremely fortunate to have them with us. as a time when the domain has about this ideological, policy is of especially great importance. we at the hamilton project are committed to carrying the flame for serious policy discussion during these times. i would like to recognize the extraordinary efforts of our managing director kristen macintosh and the rest of our talented and hardworking team at the hamilton project for pulling together the logistics for today's discussion. now i will turn the microphone over to roy austin for his remarks. thank you. >> so thank you very much kristen, i appreciate it. i appreciate all of you being here. i see a lot of good friends here in the audience and this panel is really just -- i really gathered together my best friends is what i did here. people who i have worked very closely with over the years. so let me just kind of frame, and i thi

. >> president obama's department of justice, with a little encouragement from the republican congresss served notice on sanctuary cities like philadelphia that they are not in compliance with 8 usc 1373, and, therefore, justice department funding, which they have been receiving, will be cut off in fy 2017, the current fiscal year. we all know that the incoming administration has promised to cut off even more funding. but the justice department funding, their on notice is ending. >> all right, larry. >> monica, this weekend was pennsylvania society in new york, and hopefully it'll be the last one in new york. waldorf astoria is closing for three years for renovations, and governor rendell has said this is the perfect opportunity for his long-stated idea of moving it back to pennsylvania, pennsylvania and philly in alternate years. governor wolf agrees, and didn't go to pennsylvania society, went to an alternative thrown by millennials last night. >> they say it's six weeks of networking in three days, so people understand what it is. all right, go ahead, ed. >> for the third consecutiv

have the justice department is different under different administrations.ason they opposed it was because it was that for the consumer. it will not be different based on who is in office, but the approval of these things might a different. >> we just heard him talk about the way media companies responded, some of them offering skinnier bundles, not 100,000 channels were auctions. is that catching on? gerry: we are seeing more and more of that. just recently at&t direct -- $135 ford directv now, 100 channels, but the price goes up. it remains to be seen how popular these are, but if they do catch on, there is a real threat to the smaller cable channels. the media companies have more than 20 cable channels, and a lot of them get little viewership. if these packages caps on where there is only 20 or 30 channels in them, we will see marginal channels potentially it shut down. >> we will see a few of those names next year, cory. matters from the editorial standpoint. on the news basis, we want lots of news writers, not a few. , not a few. on netflix we have seen

and that's why the department of justice has moved to prosecute the actions that are demonstrated by this ignorance and by this fear and by this hatred. that's why i'm blaesed benits gupta is here today. she leads the civil rights department, an outstanding group of dedicated professionals who have given most of their time, they work all day and well into the night defending the rights of every american. [ applause ] i'm also so pleased that my u.s. attorney from eastern virginia is here because dana and so many other u.s. attorneys work with the civil rights division to defend the rights of all americans, but particularly where we are seeing this increase in hate crimes. the civil rights division has recently convicted a connecticut man for firing a high-powered rifle at a mosque, shooting at a house of worship. how un-american is that? we recently convicted a florida man for threatening to fire bomb two mosques, and to shoot their ko congregants. in missouri man and a north carolina man sadly from my own home state who yelled at a young woman and tore off her hijab on an airplane, w