that's what the justice department is encouraging. that raises a specter around racial profiling and violence ortims not reporting crimes domestic violence or of being thrown into the immigration them. that is a very different proposition. law enforcement needs to comply with 1373. these policies are going a step further and creating a specter around undermining crime-fighting and the ability of law enforcement to have the trust of victims. host: this is that he from new york. hello. caller: i want to talk about the trump administration and i want to tell her something about civil rights. trump is a rude man. humble and tell everybody that he does not know nothing about being the president and ask for help. i'm glad shawn quit. host: the question of civil rights? went tojeff sessions the jail and was talking to somebody. the called them dirty. that hurt me. you don't call people third. -- dirt. think our elected officials need to show respect to everyone who is in the criminal justice system. i don't know much about that specific inci

this justice department is switching positions. every time they have done that, the career lawyers are not cosigners. i think that exhibits a dangerous sign about the politicization of the work. that is a grave concern. host: you mentioned voter purging. they are requesting information from certain states and what is the main concern? guest: risk kobach who is one of , they aresioners trying to establish a phantom voter fraud it. seeking veryon is sensitive data from voters all of the country to create a national database. they want to find out if there are double voters. he has a long agenda for undermining democratic participation. organizationd an that is so rife with errors. florida and oregon have pulled out. about voteroncern purging. he is been held back i several courts and been sanctioned for behavior in litigation. there is a real concern that out of this effort which was marginalized has become central. it will result in hundreds of thousands of voters being removed from voter rolls. host: the information they are asking

as to the business ahead here at the justice department tonight, this is what we can tell you.eing told this is a three, pronged investigation, this will be the justice department's civil rights division, the fbi and this will also be the us attorney's office for the western district of virginia. the attorney general, jeff sessions, he was out on every broadcast morning show this morning and his message was this. he said on cbs this morning that in his opinion, the victim in this charlottesville violence this weekend, who lost her life in session's opinion, had her rights violated. >> protesting racism and bigotry, she has right to do that. this individual had no right to drive car into them. and kill people. and killing her. justice will be done. we're coming after these people. it will not be tolerated. it cannot be tolerated in america. >> reporter: and jim and sarah the helicopter you hear still continuing to monitor the protesters as they move around pennsylvania avenue this evening, what we're hearing from civil rights organizations about this justice department probe is

action with the justice department, you attack voting rights with the justice department, you attack police brutality with the justice department, and then for good measure, you back it up with your own words by saying that a little police brutality is okay. so i think that these things that affect black and brown communities in addition to him trying to pardon joe arpaio, who has been someone who has been against latinos and really has racially profiled them for years with impunity, i think all of those things really speak to where he really is on the issue of white supremacy. >> sure and just to clean up and just being precise, you know, police brutality, i don't think he ever said it's not okay but i know what you're referring to on long island. >> he said, bang the head against the car. >> i hear you. so, matthew, to you, just respond to solomon and also, i think, david's point that he's undermined his attempt to clean up this controversy over the weekend. has he in the last 24 hours? >> you know, i think he has been the donald trump that we sort of expect, and i know that that i

under obama the justice department moved aggressively in support of gay rights. now the justice department argues that civil rights law does not protect gay people at all. and tonight we have this new reporting that the justice department intends to use resources from the civil rights division to go against affirmative action. check out the timeline here. the memo calls for lawyers who would like to be involved in the anti-affirmative action project to submit their rÉsumes by august 9th. joining us is charlie savage, the "the new york times" reporter who broke this story tonight. mr. savage, thanks for your time. this directive that's coming out to switch sides on affirmative action, it talks about going after universities. in your reporting, are there specific universities in mind or are they talking about actually suing colleges and universities over their policies? >> they're definitely talking about suing colleges and universities, but they're also talking about first investigating them. that could have a chilling effect as the universities don't want the wei

what will the justice department do? the supreme court said affirmative action is legal, they put limits on it. of this willh focus on whether colleges are abiding by these limits. onre's a particular focus asian american applicants. there was a case that upheld affirmative action policies and another case out of michigan which upheld a ban on using affirmative action. race-based consideration. delineate where the law stands. guest: in michigan, they are banned for plan and upheld another plan. the supreme court has said that diversity is legitimate factor for consideration. everest the enhances the educational experience of all. this a colleges have to study the demographic and situation and consider race to achieve diverse the big -- achieve diversity. the university of texas had a lot of research and they were able to show that they would have it a significant drop in dutch would have had a significant drop in diverse they would have had a significant drop in diversity. critics say they are not really doing that, but

i think that this justice department and the leadership of this justice department does not have the track record or the history of prosecuting civil rights violations, standing up for minorities, and protecting equality. so i have a real concern with jeff sessions leading this investigation. i testified against him at his confirmation because i thought that he would be weak on ensuring equality and protecting civil rights, so he will have a very clear test right now and we will continue to monitor it, we will continue to play a big part in holding his feet to the fire, but i do have real concerns on how vigorously this will be prosecuted and to what extent that we will look at how the initial rally got started, who are those people affiliated with, so it's more than just the driver of the car, it's a whole movement out there that i think that the department of justice should be looking into because i think that this is not going to be an isolated event. i think they will use the confederacy, robert e. lee and other things to gather together and create terror within communities, and

we are here because it doesn't look like hour justice department is trying to do that. lately, it seems like our justice department is working overtime to close those gates and to barricade them shut. to lock the gates to the voting booths. to lock the gates of private prison after filling to capacity, they want to lock the gates to this country, to lock the gates to our hospitals and clinics. today i stand with my brothers and sisters, people of faith to say when our justice department closes the gates together we will push them back open. let me hear you say it, open the gates. if they punish sanctuary cities then we will open wide the doors of our sanctuaries to welcome those afraid. if they ban transgender americans from defending the value of this country then we will defend our values by standing with them in solidarity. say it with me. open the gates. if they're going to send about the devastating destruction in texas, we're going to send food and diapers and things for people to build. if they're going to build walls, we are going to have to lift each other up h

she joined the obama administration's justice department in 2014, just over two months after michael lled by a police officer in ferguson, missouri. as the head of the civil rights division, she led the probe of the ferguson police department. under her leadership, the civil rights division went on to negotiate twenty-four agreements with law-enforcement agencies to reform their practices. gupta also emerged as a fearless and consistent advocate for transgender and voting rights. she is now the president and chief executive of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. we welcome you to democracy now! if you look under jeff sessions, can you assess what has happened? a great deal has happened from just oversight of the police department around the country , while yougotiated were head of the division. rights, etc., talk about what has happened? vanita: in the last six months, it jeff sessions has certainly implemented an anti-civil rights agenda at the justice department, targeting some of the most hop high profile areas we have been engaged in. this enforces all of the civi

that question just ahead on fox 5 local news at 6:00, come on back. ♪ ♪. >>> here in dc, the justice departmentil rights investigative unit is centered on events they say strike at the heart of america. tonight as the attorney general promises justice will be done, pcivil rights groups are urging him to widen the probe. fox 5 tom fitzgerald is at the justice department, tom, just how broad is this investigation at this point? >> reporter: we're getting an outline about how big this will be. consider this, you have the justice department civil rights division. you have the fbi and you also have the us attorney's office for the western district of virginia. now, the attorney general himself, jeff sessions went on every single morning newscast this morning and what he said in his opinion, the victim, the injured in sessions's opinion had their rights violated. >> heather heyer was out protesting racism and bigotry, she has right to do that. big bigotry. this individual had no right to drive car into them and kill people and killing her. justice will be done, we're coming after these people. it wil

getting ready to sue the justice department.s placing sanctions on grant money requiring stipulations that federalize local detention facilities and violate the fourth amendment. the trump administration threatening to cut off funding for sanctuary cities like chicago. last year chicago police received $2.3 million from justice department assistance grants using the money to buy s.w.a.t. equipment, radios and tasers. >>> excessive corrosion caused a fair ride to malfunction last month at the ohio state fair. the interior gondola support beam eroded so badly over 18 years it caused a catastrophic failure. the ride broke apart, launching some people 20 feet through the air. the fireball had been checked several times in the days before the accident. a new inspection protocol has been developed by kmg to prevent similar incidents. >>> a nationwide manhunt underway for an ohio man who overpowered a sheriff's deputy last week after a visit to a psychiatric hospital. 32-year-old brandon lee powell of antwerp, ohio, a rape suspect, was

the bush era justice department did investigate it. they cleared mcnally and decided nobody did anything wrong. a decade later now the whole thing is still remembered as a bizarre spectacle. but edward mcnally landed on his feet. he's now a partner in this guy's law firm. he's a partner in mark kaz oh wits's law firm. mark khas represented the trump organization for years on everything from the multimillion dollar fraud case that trump lost about trump university to trump's efforts to keep his divorce records out of the public eye, to the pseudolegal threats to make complaints against everybody from the u.s. "times," to women accusing donald trump of sexual harassment. they maybe are even representing the president in the ongoing issues related to the russia investigation. edward mcuntil lay is a partner in the kasowitz firm. the top candidate for the eastern district of new york. the eastern district of new york is based in brooklyn. one of the highest profile law enforcement districts in the country. they're known in particular for t

"the times" says the justice department sent out an internal announcement looking for lawyers to lead up, quote, "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions." quote. the susupreme court has upheld e constitutionality of affirmative action policies, which take race and ethnicity into account in college admissions in efforts to address centuries of institutionalized discrimination against people of color and women. the naacp legal defense fund promised to sue the administration if it attacks a friend of -- affirmative action policy, saying, quote, "we will bring the full force of the law if this justice department attempts to resegregate our institutions of higher learning." on tuesday, the senate confirmed former justice department lawyer christopher wray as the new fbi chief, nearly three months after president trump fired the agency's previous director, james comey. five senators voted against wray -- the most votes against a nominee for fbi director in u.s. history. before tuesday, only one senator had

in fact, if you look at the office of pardon attorney website in the justice department, it'll say aouple things that are important as it remits to this case. first, it says, normal ly, you wait five years. they want to see what the behavior of the person was after the sentencing was issued or if he got to jail after the jail term was over. they want to see contrition and acceptance of responsibility. they want to be able to ask the u.s. attorney who prosecuted the case, what's your opinion about this, how will this impact your community? they want to ask victims of the illegal behavior how this impacts them. then that's all put into the mix, e evaluated, make a recommendation that this is in the interest of justice to do or not to do. none of that process followed here. i think that's what is most defensive from a legal standpoint. i don't have a position on the politics of this, but from a legal process point, i think it is a slap in the face of law enforcement, of the u.s. attorney, and of the people in the police force who are trying to abide by the fourth amendment and other rig

matter who was headed for personal bankruptcy, who was being prosecuted by a very political justice department. they wouldn't have done that. because they don't have the kind of guts to do those things. they're against anything donald trump does. >> let me raise this business about this was a crusade from the obama justice department. this contempt was initiated by the judge in the case. that's who brought this case. the idea that this was some kind of vendetta from the justice

secondly, i directed a national security division of the department of justice and our u.s. attorneys to prioritize cases involving unauthorized disclosures. the department will not hesitate to bring lawful and appropriate criminal charges against those who would abuse the public trust. third, we tripled the number of actively investigations. in response, the fbi has increased resources devoted to leak cases and created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these cases. simultaneously, this department is reviewing policies that impact leak investigations and i've listened to our career investigators, fbi agents, and others, and our prosecutors about how to most successfully investigate and prosecute these matters. at their suggestion, one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas. we respect the important role that the press plays and will give them respect, but it is not unlimited. they cannot place lives at risk with impunity. we must balance the press's role with protecting our national security and the lives of those who serve in the in

host: will you have a justice ace with the department? guest: we will, we will. probably next month, we suspect. of journalists and lawyers, reporters committee will be coordinating on our side and we believe we'll have a with the meet department attorney general and staffers of the justice epartment to have a guide dialogue. host: bruce brown, freedom of the press, executive director, >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, judges, journalists, and former law clerk's review the past term, looking at the effect of justice gorsuch, and predicting might -- what might lie ahead for the high court. here is a look. >> it is remarkable -- most new justices, when they first join, will say it took me three or four years to know what i was doing. he shows none of that. he has been extraordinarily assertive. i am trying to come up with a confident.ective -- people call him aggressive. a statistic i saw from the university of textbooks -- -- texas, in justice kagan's first two years on the court, she wrote seven separate opinions. neil gorsuch wrote that many in his first two and

host: will you have a justice ace with the department? guest: we will, we will. probably next month, we suspect. of journalists and lawyers, reporters committee will be coordinating on our side and we believe we'll have a with the meet department attorney general and staffers of the justice epartment to have a guide dialogue. host: bruce brown, freedom of the press, executive director,

a job ad over at the justice department, basically a help wanted ad. saying they wanted to hire more lawyers to deal with a new project that was going to be investigating this termination in the college admissions process. "the new york times" got a copy of that help wanted ad, and then extrapolated out and they are reporting, that somehow this was going to be president trump investigating claims that there is antiwhite bias in the admissions process of colleges and universities. this, as you can imagine, ignited a firestorm. democrats including former president obama's defense educan secretory was disheartened. the job for lawyers to work for attorney general jeff sessions did not refer to antiwhite bias at all. sir huckabee sanders set at the white house podium that it would be investigating potential biased against all races, not specifically against rights. this evening, the justice department came out and in much stronger terms denied the story, saying in fact that the lawyers were being hired specifically to hire complaints filed by asian america

ghnvstnanrat to the event, thega last evening, or-r this mornicang, by the justice department that will make a dermination about whether it's appropriate to charge this as acts of terror. i have great confidence that they will investigate it with enormous rigor and get to the right outcome. >> dickerson: what's your personal view of this? i mean, if terrorism is using violence to send a political message, do you think that's what this is? >> yeah. i think it's best for the cia director to leave this to the justice department. >> dickerson: let me ask you, when you were in congress in october of 2016, three men were charged with trying to attack muslims in your state. and this is what you said about bigotry at the time. "we should deal with it quickly, hashly, and ensure it doesn't grow." that was very specific and tough. >> yes, sir. dickerson: should the president have been that specific yesterday? >> i think he was just as specific. he saidgo bi hatrtred is unacceptable, in any form, whether i was referring to the day in kansas, yesterday in charlottesville. the president was unambigu

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mahler because of the way the justice department depth. appointment process worked up. the firing of. archibald*. during the war so called saturday night massacre was really the turning point in the presidency of of president nixon. and that's what led to the momentum for impeachment investigation. one of the things that i found most remarkable about the last week or so perhaps since the collapse of the. obama care repeal and replace a policy was that more and more republicans and including some of the conservative republicans. have been willing to distance themselves from president trump. so i think if pete and david in in fact signaled that they would not take kindly. to any attempt to. to sack. bob muller so i think if the president tried to flex its muscles and and. removed. mister muller from office at this point he might very well. view find himself at the beginning of the end of a presidency that he very much cherishes. well i want to ask a quick question about leaks can the department of justice actually do anything about them briefly. our only leaks of classifi

from the justice department. our first guest said there are already clear trails to the leakers but no political will to do a real investigation. joining us, lieutenant colonel tony shaffer, senior fellow with london center for policy research, good to have you with us. this has to be encouraging to all who are dismayed at what has become a national capital. that reveal the classified information. >> i disagree with do doug on oe point. this is in. could is like blood, it flows, you can trace where it goes. one notable thing about this, is you know better late than never. i think it is great we're finally stepping up to do this. some of the place places he haso look is fbi. i was told by an fbi insider, one of the guys they know who has been leaking is their attorney. that would be one of the first places you go, great guns. other thing, lou, i am sorry, you know, i respect john kelly, i think he will try to do a grit great job, but less than two days after he is there, you see likes of very conversation that pre

. >> "the new york times" is reporting that the justice department is planning to take on affirmative action in college admissions. >> the justice department is working on a plan to investigate and potentially sue universities for admission policies that are found to discriminate against white applicants. >> trevor: finally! you know how many times i go to colleges in america and say, "hey, where's all the white people?" ( laughter ) if american colleges were any whiter, john snow would build a wall to protect us from them. ( cheers and applause ) "they're all coming. so many of them!" "they've got magic and hacky sacks." ( laughter ) now, if you're confused about why this is happening, welcome to the club. jeff sessions and his justice department have decided to get serious about racism against white people, which i didn't think was a priority, but, apparently, it is. because according to one poll, 54%, or more than half of trump supporters, think white people face more discrimination than black people. yeah. no, no, no. look, i know, a lot of white people have real problems. but to

nearly 2 dozen republican are calling on trump justice department to appoint a special counsel.o investigate the number of scandals involving hillary clinton and the obama administration. tonight i'll talk with one of them congressman ron desantis and senate judiciary committee has given the justice department until this thursday, to disclose whether it is investigating alleged collusion between a democratic national committee operative, and ukrainian government officials. republicans on the house judiciary commit latest week, they voted to demand fbi documents pertaining to clinton e-mail investigation. specifically they want former fbi director james comey's conversations with obama administration officials and journalists, perhaps lawmakers should pay closer attention to white house press briefing. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today laid out the clinton a troubling ties to russia. >> you are focused on a meeting that don jr. had no consequence when democrats actually colluded with a foreign gust like ukraine. took money from russian government and created phony doss

live at the justice department, tom fitzgerald. local news. >>> now on the top story, man accused of plowing his car into a group of people against that white supremacist rally was in a charlottesville courtroom today. his name is james alex fields. he's charged with second degree murder, malicious wounding and hit-and-run in connection with the incident on saturday. fields grew up in ohio and a high school teacher who knew him said fields would often express his support for hitler and the into a nazi movement >> i knew he had that stuff going on i never knew he'd go to such a next level. when you initially try to kill people because of your views. >> the teacher said the fact he couldn't get through to him and help him change his views, in his word he has a sense of failure. >> a woman hit and killed in the car attack was 32-year-old heather heyer. she's from the charlottesville area and came out saturday to protest against the white supremacist groups. her friends say the fight against inequality started at a young age. heather's

i don't believe any such justice department data exists.in the wake of the president's claim, i requested from the justice department under the freedom of information act, any data and co correspondence. i didn't get a response so late last week i filed a lawsuit. >> do you have standing for the lawsuit? explain that to people. >> oh, because anybody is allowed to make a request under the freedom of information act to government. and anybody who makes a request and who whose request is either denied or not acted upon within a specified period of time has standing to bring a lawsuit under the law. so there's no serious standing question here. >> so part of it is they won't give the information i want so i'm going to sue. the second part is the substance. why do you believe the president was making a false statement which i believe in specific would be that the majority of terror related crimes committed in the u.s. are committed by people from outside the u.s. you say that's wrong. >> right. first of all, the justice department data ha have

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host: will you have a justice ace with the department? guest: we will, we will. probably next month, we suspect. of journalists and lawyers, reporters committee will be coordinating on our side and we believe we'll have a with the meet department attorney general and staffers of the justice epartment to have a guide dialogue. host: bruce brown, freedom of the press, executive director, rcfp.org, the website. thank you so much. until 10:00. if you want to call us, 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. at c-spanwj is the twitter. we'll take calls when we return. is remarkable, most new justices or justices of the about when they first joined and will say ttook me five years to seem like i knew what i was doing. he shows none of that. has been extraordinarily upertive, i'm trying to come with a neutral adjective. confident, people call him aggressive. i think this came from steve latik, university of texas, in first two years on the court, she wrote seven separate opinions. know, opinions. eil gorsuch wrote that many in his first 2-

to pick up on because this also is what, was another piece along the way that weakened the department of justice which is this emphasis on collateral consequences. can you talk a bit about how that got embedded and the prosecution policy for the department of justice and have a shared overtime depending on who was second in line under the deputy attorney general? >> guest: yeah. so there's a member they come from that other than eric holder when he's the deputy. the deputy get to attach their name to the memo at the department of justice pixel eric holder is the deputy under -- >> host: right now, the current deputy attorney general is rod rosenstein. even though it's the second line sometimes they have a big public profile when it comes to this prosecute drug memo. the name on. continue with that. >> guest: so holder outlines and share nyman is with the author of this, after they do the -- mary jo white center down to make sure that washington doesn't screw up this memo and the come up with these principles for how to prosecute companies. and holder puts his name on it. the memo essentially say

sanders: i am not aware of that. >> can you explain why the justice department is -- sec.ders: it is an accusatory question, but i will respond. in your times article is based entirely on leaked information. while the white house is not confirm or deny the existence of potential investigations, the department of justice will also -- always review discrimination on the basis of any race. i've nothing further on that. amy: your response. nikole: it is important to have an understanding of what affirmative action is supposed to do. it is not disadvantaging white students. it is a program designed to address where century -- for centuries the students were denied hireling. -- higher learning. a quote from lyndon johnson -- you do not take some of that has been hobbled, liberate him, bring them to the starting line, say you are free to compete with the others, and still believe you have been completely fair. we know that elite colleges black americans make up only 5% of students enrolled with affirmative action. so, it is hard to prove that large numbers of white americans are

now, in a statement, the justice department says the job posting refers to a complaint filed by 64 asianamerican groups in may 2015. it added that the department has not received or issued any directive, memorandum, initiative or policy related to university admissions in general. anthony? >> mason: jan crawford. thanks, jan. in afghanistan, two american service members were killed today by a suicide bomber outside kandahar. the taliban claimed responsibility. neither american was identified. they were part of a nato force training afghan soldiers. for a second time, police officers in baltimore are suspected of planting evidence in a drug case, and once again they were exposed by their own cameras. here's don dahler. >> reporter: body camera video from last november shows baltimore police stopping a vehicle... >> reporter: ..and searching the car for drugs. at first no drugs are found. the public defenders office says the officers then turn off their body cameras. when they begin recording again, one of the officers is seen squatting next to the open door of the car. he stands up and mo

and you can refer to the fbi, you can revert to the justice department.bviously where it involves classified information, it ought to be investigated. but the key to preventing leaks is to create a sense of teamwork with in the white house, within the staff so that they feel loyalty to the president of the united states. >> sandra: it seems everybody agrees, richard, these leaks are bad. something must be done. will they be called? >> richard: i think they are really bad, the ones coming from the white house, the intelligence leaks are bad, but the ones from the white house are more, because they are coming from presidential staff, people who worked in the campaign and their leaking, scaramucci who is now fired, but when he fired somebody for leaking, he was talking about getting to the bottom, i think he was right. it hampers the president's ability to get things done, whether you like this president or not, when he leak stuff about who is in and out coming leak stuff about jared kushner is out this week, that is bad. >> sandra: many national security se

. >>> not a fishing expedition is the message from the number two top official at the justice department about the special counsel's russia investigation. defending his department, their work and his decision to appoint bob mule tore take over the russia probe. >> the special counsel is subject to the rules and regulations of the department of justice. we don't engage in the fishing expedition. it doesn't detail who may be in the investigation. we don't reveal that publicly. bob mueller understands and i understand the scope of the investigation and so, no, it's not a fishing expedition. >> this comes in the face of continued attacks from the president himself that it is a hoax, a witch hunt and fabrication. the special counsel is following the trump money trail, looking into financial crimes, some connected to the 2016 election. the president warned, of course, digging into finances crosses a red line. now what? susan is here, a former nsa attorney. michael zeldin is special counsel to robert mueller at the justice department. great to see you. thank you so much. matthew, the deputy att

justice department. i reached out to volkswagen in the united states book could not get anyone to comment -- but could not get anyone to comment on the verdict. we have to understand the scandal is not over yet and there is still a lot at stake for the company. anchor: thank you. southeast texas is gearing up for a potential monster storm due to make landfall later. hurricane harvey is packing winds of up to 160 kilometers per hour. forecasters are warning of life-threatening and devastating flooding. it is expected to be the fiercest storm the u.s. has seen in more than a decade. reporter: the first sign of hurricane harvey along the gulf coast of texasas. rising t tides and deteriorating conditions havave forced offffis to a ask those in low-lying ares to leave their homes. >> you need to strongly consider evacuating because here is what is going to happen. you may think the initial search -- surge is something you will be able to deal with. what you do not know and nobody else knows right now will be