lawrence?lawrence: i'm glad that heroes are being celebrated, thank you so much, lauren, happy new year. they shouldn't surprise anyone. "the new york post" summing up how a lot of us feel today with this coverage. good riddance to a terrible 2020. a fox news poll finds the record number of americans think this year, stocked it to high heaven. 67% saying 2020 was a bad year for them personally and 78% saying it was a bad year for the country. wow. let's bring everybody in. the final show of the year, they dagen going to you first, the pulling speaks for itself. we all feel the same way. >> i don't know about that, i feel very differently i think. i look back at the last year and i think this year shows the resiliency of america. more than anything. exquisitely, illustrated. our ability to care for one another, lift each other up when times are their toughest, pushed through the worst of times. people were willing to put their lives on the line, put their health at risk to provide us medical car

thank you rachel. >> thank you lawrence. >>> dr. lance dotis has warned us for four years that donald trump is unfit to serve as president of the united states. he will join us again tonight at the end of this hour to consider what risks the madness of donald trump presents in the final days of his presidency, and how his mind might handle being banned from twitter as he enters a life of golf and appearances in court. he will get tonight's last word. incitement of insurrection is now the title of the draft article of impeachment the democrats in house of representatives began considering today in hours long discussion that speaker pelosi called sad, moving and patriotic. said if he's not going to resign. privileged resolution for impeachment in a taped interview with "60 minutes," the speaker said this. >> is anybody running the executive branch of the government? who is running it? >> sadly the person running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. and only a number of days until we c

. >> lawrence: definitely.ris, congratulations on your new show. >> harris: thank you. >> lawrence: i don't know what people expected when you had the rhetoric coming from the now vice president -- i'm sorry, president-elect, essentially encouraging people to do justice. it's no secret, i've said this before, both political parties could solve this issue. neither one of them want to solve this issue because they would prefer to run on this in the next election. you listed out with the president-elect plans on doing when he is sworn in, and i agree that something needs to be done, but i would talk to him and say, "read the room, man." we played some sound in the beginning of the show on "fox & friends," where these guys said, "look, as soon as we get here, we want to go back to work." we are dealing with a crisis right here at home of american citizens that want to go back to work. so, is this really the time? is the country really receptive to any immigration reform right now where they are not going back to he

>> absolutely correct, lawrence. the vote today was a kind of technical rehearsal and it perhaps was a reflection of how senators would vote on that constitutional issue and on the merits of the impeachment trial. but what really i saw, as i looked across the chamber, was for profiles in courage, and for senators who would stand up and speak out and say, we should proceed with this trial after an armed insurrection that was designed to stop counting votes and, in fact, assassinate members of congress and the vice president. and unfortunately, only 4 to 5 of my republican colleagues were willing to take that stand. so it's a technical issue that was in the point of order, but i think it is a reflection of the silence and spinelessness that we've seen over the last four years. >> well, just to work through for the audience what would have happened if the motion to table did not succeed, we then would have had on the senate floor a debate about this constitutionality and then there would have been a vote on the constitu

now it's time for the last word with lawrence. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. take as much of this real estate as you want. we're going to continue our year of the senate coverage which you started so well last night with majority leader schumer. there are so many -- i think people learned about budget reconciliation and all that stuff about ten years ago with obamacare suddenly, parliamentary procedure. rachel, i think we're going to have to know a lot more based on what i saw on the senate floor today. so we'll be doing a little more of that tutorial, but people, it should take it easy. you can always rewind this video and kind of go over it again, you know, what was that that they just said? and i have a feeling we're going to be talking about this stuff all year. so you don't have to learn it in one night. >> well, i feel like we have the big advantage over everybody else trying to explain this stuff because we have you and you're the only person who can explain the senate stuff like it's an episode of "law and order" where you're hanging on every word to f

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good evening lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. there's a bunch of 10-month-old babies thinking, we've only seen one. you just have to be older than ten months to have seen your first impeachment trial already in this country. this is where we are. >> true, true, true, true. >> rachel -- >> yes? >> fascinating to hear you with michael cheryl talking about what she called a possible reconnaissance mission in the house. and to realize she's using the term professionally. she doesn't throw that word around as i would as a air force veteran, former federal prosecutor. stunning information she was delivering. what i've been trying to track out is what records might there be of the names of people being given those tours by republican staff or republican members. and apparently there are some ways they could have slipped past having their names recorded as having entered the complex. but most people, almost everyone, has to get a record of their entry into that complex at this point. but who knows what happened that day? >> right. but it

>> thank you, lawrence. and i'm honored the speaker has the confidence in me and the team, but watching mr. schiff and his leadership and the team there, it's that they warned us that everything adam schiff warned us that donald trump would be if he was not removed from office has happened and now to take that case and make it clear that he must be convicted and he must suffer the consequences of being removed if it can happen that quickly, and certainly never serve in office again. >> the house is working tonight and it almost seemed like a procedural thing all the way through, which is this vote on asking the vice president to activate the 25th amendment. vice president pence wrote a letter to the speaker hours ago basically taking the drama out of this vote by saying he is not going to do what this vote tonight will ask him to do, which is to use the 25th amendment. he said he does not believe that this is the time for that. he said all the usual rhetoric about further dividing the nation. all that sort o

>> well, so, lawrence, well, sort of.so developing a protein vaccine that's being scaled to a billion doses in india right now with biological e and being tested across india, so, it's clear that the existing vaccine in the long run won't be adequate for the south african variant. it will give partial protection, some protection to varying degrees, but we're going to have to make two vaccines. and so how do you handle that? what it means -- there's two options. one, you now administer a combination vaccine, what some people call a bivalent vaccine, or you move out the existing vaccine you have, knowing that you still have some time and down the line you're going to give a boost corresponding to the new south african variant. and i think that's going to be the more common option. so, it's not terrible news. we still have time. but this is going to be something to watch very closely, that we're going to have new variants and the south african one looks different enough from the existing one that we're seeing lower level of

karnow joins us with the latest lawrence, it's only going to get worse.h, this is really going to get going as we head through the night tonight so stay with kron 4 going to be tracking the storm system all night for you in checking out that radar has really tell the story now we've got the rain out there all around of course we've the roadways get wet out there without toward sfo everybody seeing a pickup now most of

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. if you asked me yesterday about impeachment, i would have said i don't know but i don't think so. if you ask me now, especially after hearing adam schiff, the chief prosecutor of donald trump at his impeachment trial minutes ago with you, it's happening. >> yeah. >> adam schiff is telling the world on your program this is really going to happen. >> yes, that's exactly my impression as well. i came into the show thinking this is an option, i wonder how long they'll dither. and it seems to me, my impression as well, this is going to happen. >> and the question that mitch mcconnell raises about needing unanimous consent to proceed to this before january 20th, i can't find any hole in that. and so it may be that the house impeaches and there isn't a senate trial before donald trump leaves office, but professor laurence tribe is going to join us tonight and explain why you can have an impeachment trial of donald trump after he's left office and that there is a value to doing that. so this

screen green yellow and orange which indicates more severe rain and our kron 4 chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. >>has the very latest information on all of this active weather activity going on active weather activity. described really simply amazing. >>it is so active around the bay area want to give you an idea some of the winds been rounding up some of the numbers usually we start talking about all these gusty winds over the mountain tops we have 1680 mile an hour gusts across some of the >>down where we live where matters most how about richmond they had a gust of 61 miles per hour berkeley augusta 56 happen bayh 54 miles per hour oakland, a 49 mile per hour at the airport los gatos 63 mile an hour gusts there in san jose 47 miles per hour. snake imagine why a lot of trees coming down and debris all around the bay area today certainly the rain also the other story. run over 2 inches almost 2 and a half just over that number in tehran over an inch and a half napa almost 2 inches of rain san francisco downtown almost an inch of rain san bruno over an inch and a half and then moment. s

>> thanks for having me, lawrence.epublicans are planning on turning out tomorrow. through all the disinformation and all the conspiracy pedaling their party has been up to, their voters have been a little bit dubious about voting by mail and voting early, so they're very much planning on voting tomorrow. if they didn't get their absentee ballot, if they got damaged, coffee got spilled on it, they can go vote in person, cancel that ballot. and it's just been a remarkable 24, 48 hours as i've been listening to your guests and at the same time my team is live texting updates from this horror show of a trump rally that just wrapped up, lawrence, during your show in north georgia. and the thing that struck me about that, no mention of coronavirus. he's literally in a state where we have 2 of our 14 health regions over 100% icu capacity. right now tonight in georgia in two regions of our state the icus are so full they've got beds in hallways and in the patient lobbies. i mean, this is a painful, epic crisis and that's why

lawrence: what a great point john . we are really fighting in the moment and until we get the vaccine and some really good treatment. were really siding with 19th century tools. or quarantining in contact tracing. we do not have a vaccine. were knocking down the cities . i'm going to get the lockdowns little bit later. let me start now . like to drill down a little bit into your wonderful book targeted you talk about the police powers. the police powers sound really quite honest. it conjures up a police state per unit you point out that is not the case . tells about that john: think the police power is misunderstood peace in american history. there's been some historians . that worked with for a couple of decades known to try to tell the real story of the police power . they don't have anything to do with anyone in uniform . is not about the state troopers on the cops . is essentially the basic fundamental power of the collectivity to look out for its members. this will were talking about. the authority of local and sta

you are going to want to see lawrence this next hour. among other things he's got president biden's new white house chief of staff here live. it's inside the biden agenda, and it starts right now. >>> tonight we are going inside the biden agenda with white house chief of staff ron klein, and the next secretary of transportation pete buttigieg. we'll also be joined by members of congress to consider the biden agenda's reception legislatively in congress. if you're having a liberating feeling right now you're not the only one. here is what dr. anthony fauci said today after his first meeting with the 46th president of the united states of america, joe biden. and dr. fauci's friend ron klein who will be our first guest tonight and who worked with dr. fauci when the obama-biden administration met the challenge of the ebola virus. >> you know, actually, i mean obviously i don't want to be going back, you know, over history. but it's very clear that there were things that were said be it regarding things like hydroxychlorquine and other things

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. i have two questions for you, if you have 30 seconds. >> okay. >> by the way, these are questions to which i did not know the answer when i woke up this morning. i had a feeling about one of them and then the other one, answer completely shocks me. on pardons, can donald trump issue secret pardons? >> yes. >> by the way -- >> but. >> okay, okay. >> if -- i think yes, but if that person tries to use the pardon to avoid being prosecuted for something, they have to make it known to the court so it doesn't stay secret forever. i think that's the answer. i'm not a lawyer. i don't know. >> well, we're going to deliver the answer later in the hour. then the other one is, is there a form, is there a particular form the pardon has to take? i mean, for example, could donald trump just sit at the desk and hand write it out himself, that would be okay? >> probably. >> i didn't know the answer to either one of these. >> i don't know. >> okay. stick with probably. don't -- you're on solid ground th

now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. great interview. this is a complete surrender by mitch mcconnell and i was struck by the strength of what leader schumer had to say about this point before we knew that he had won. >> yeah. >> and i'm wondering how much of your interview mitch mcconnell saw before he surrendered because chuck schumer just kept saying, we're not going to do it, you know, we're not going to go along with it. every member of the democratic senate agrees with this 100%. you could see he had that strength of every member which he's not always going to have. there are going to be some nights when he doesn't have every member, he won't be able to say that, and when you have every member like that, the other leader hears that and realizes there's no way around this. >> yeah. >> but it was quite a dramatic standoff and it is a huge win in that building for chuck schumer. not out there in the world, not out there to people who don't care and don't know about sena

lawrence, that's exactly correct.t's the reason why i double-checked with general perna last night and then again this morning. in the beginning, when there were not quite confident that the flow of doses that would be coming out from the two companies would be able to guarantee that you'd get a second dose, they held back what would be the second dose. so if they had 50 million doses that went out they would keep 50 million doses. after a couple cycles, it became clear that they were quite confident that the companies would be able to keep up with the steady flow. so what they would do is essentially vaccinate everyone who has all the doses that were available. and when the next flow came in, the first preference would be to guarantee that people would get their second dose. and then everything else above that would go to the first dose to the next group. and on the next cycle the first doses that would come out would be garptsed to those who got the first dose so you can now give them a second dose. so it was a matt

yeah all right lawrence, thank you. >>in national news now and ominous warning from homeland security today in the wake of the season the u.s. capitol back on january 6 it issued a rare national terrorism warning catherine heenan is here to explain what's going on catherine yeah, boy if anybody had expected threats of domestic violence to fade away after the inauguration. that certainly has not happened. >>the last time a warning at this level was issued it was a year ago it focused on for terrorism. today the department of homeland security says this january 6 siege on the capitol this has motivated extremists to continue to mobilize with plans to commit more violence doesn't help that rioters made the breach look disturbingly easy that day there is information that there are ongoing plans to again target elected officials and government facilities homeland security these are among the trigger issues motivating extremists coronavirus restrictions, the 2020 election results. police use of force strong opposition to immi

lawrence: that is it for us. happy new year. zone. >> it was the year at dutchess escaped the royal clutches. everyone learned the wonders of the great indoors and two men well past retirement age thought for the same job, the 10 most extravagant, exotic, celebrated, male mating, infectious, outrageous, fascinating stories of the year. who could forget 2020?

now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, i'm sorry i took up too much time with this breaking news from the "post." >> i'm so glad that you did, rachel, because i was going to read it if you didn't. the good news in it is the fbi knows everything these people are up to at the moment. and seems to have a good eye on them. i think their possible success at their schemes is probably close to zero at this point with the amount of attention they already have from the fbi. >> yeah, i was also interested to see, and this is a rare thing that you don't see papers don't say very often, that the "post" says "withholding some details outlined in the intelligence report at the request of the fbi to avoid revealing intelligence-gathering methods or specific security vulnerabilities." so the fbi is going to the "post" and saying don't report this stuff, it's going to let them know how we're surveiling them. how we know what they're doing. that's a sign of active investigations. >> yeah, it reminds me of the arrests of the gang i

at equity management associates lawrence welcome back if you mess there is the phrase be really sell me. but a tweet from a guy about grier it's of gold switzerland dot com said recently in a tweet there can't be any clearer sign that prices sky raise a possible this totally fake paper gold market whilst fake paper gold is trading 70 trillion dollars a year annual mine production is a mere $213000000000.00 and your thoughts just go through point i mean i wanted to know that the gold market is not a real market. you know it's essentially playing tool and you can see that they bombed at certain times and you know no price discovery or no person who's interested in real price discovery sells the way they sell it or she points in time so i completely agree with you interesting thing which i'm sure you will certain talk about a lot on your program is that you know because somebody votes you know when you know they're hyperinflation rather blatantly and you know there's nothing they can do to control it. you know they go real problem here you go crackers and they go out and i need to share

i'm not a part of that state, lawrence. so, i think it's important that, you know, folks who have a moral compass that's working -- maybe it's these newly woke republicans can all agree that we have to have a basis in truth and facts and also condemn white nationalism and white nationalist terrorism wherever we see it, even if it's people we see as part of our so-called political coalition. >> donald trump was able to keep republicans in line because they feared being challenged in a primary on their re-election campaign by someone more supportive of donald trump. that's what was their biggest fear prior to now. now they're afraid of being murdered by supporters of donald trump. is this something they just woke up to now as a possibility? >> it seems as though some of them have just started waking up to this possibility. and i think i will say that there is still, i think, politics at play with people still worried about the politics of going against president trump and his supporters. but when i saw that siege on capitol h

at that's generally a bad sign lawrence yes very much so i mean if you look at history all countries that have gotten into position you know unless they're able to quickly balance their budget which aggressive we're going the exact opposite direction. at least through some of your currency debasement a replacement to me only question is just going to come how fast is it coming how bad is it inflation is growing or nukes are the alternatives place very collapse of the thirty's and then a recession that's entirely possible but i don't think they're going to do that what i find most interesting though max what's going on right now is how trendiest people are they know that it's route they know they're in a pickle and so you see what are coming out you know you see and never bitcoin you know say it's right there and you see yellow and you know then you see. a roast roast off i think it was or professor curt broke off camera guy off road off army yeah you see all those guys know now and you know they all are in trouble i mean they know they've got a failing system and you know it's got a

>> good evening lawrence.as you point out, like a really small role. but the leaders in this, governor inz lee, making shoe we had supply, making sure we had the right policy in place so people could sign up, those that are 50 in multigenerational house holds and older action for example, those 65 with pre-existing conditions, you name it. we needed the right leadership. virginia mason making sure we had the right health care personnel. making sure we had a sign in place, i.t. infrastructure in place, and amazon providing the space and logistics, lawrence, to operationalize what i think and my colleagues think who were there on sunday was a very, very effective proof of concept of public-private partnerships getting mass vaccination sites up and running and successful. we actually exceeded the number of people we thought we would vaccinate after that day. so, it's a credit to everybody, governor inslee's team and the amazon team and health care as well. >> i think anybody who hasn't gotten the vaccine and does

well i think that what you have seen from lawrence a 2nd ago is precisely the issue that we're facing in this country what is just said here is that these travel bans are probably pointless but nonetheless let's do it that is the story that we're hearing right along there's been all of piety within british governance when the matter how crazy the idea is somebody comes along and says they want an even more crazy and draconian group rules and the fact that matter is there is a narrative that is being built up here that the reason for the coronavirus is that sad british people are ignoring the rules let me be clear cut the target virus was caused by the chinese communist party's behavior secondly the solution to it is to vaccinate older vulnerable people and to reopen the economy we've now been told that schools will not open certain leads march the 8th in reality chris would say the medical advisor is telling the british government that there should be a lockdown every single christmas from now along we have let these people run absolutely right and what has happened with our public se

brown in the role of lonnie lawrence but a moment in the book when lonnie lawrence -- where he finds out about this african-american motorcyclist who at first it was believed or they were told was killed in an accident when his motorcycle crashed after a police chase, but slowly it is revealed as a result of edna's -- i should say an anonymous tip to edna and her intrepid reporting he may have been actually beaten to death by police officers and there was a moment when lonnie lawrence learns about that, that it's just absolutely -- you could just see the scene playing out sin mat include. can you tell us who lonnie lawrence is and that moment in the story. >> lonnie lawrence was black police officer, miami native who was part of something called the progressive officers club, basically at the end of the '70s didn't matter if you were black and passing the exams, you just weren't getting promoted, and it was no hope. so they launched this club and he eventually -- the county manager listened and they fired the county sheriff and bring a much more progressive sheriff and lonnie is prom

karnow lawrence yeah, it's bearing down on the bay area now we've already seen that rain kind of picking up as we head into the afternoon and really became a steady shower now the rain developing in now. >>going to start to get some of that heavy rainfall around the bay area we've already felt the winds have been whipping outside in fact some of those gusts over 4050 miles per hour now so certainly getting gusty in spots watching out for some trees to come down some power lines and some expected power outages looking out toward the bay bridge, let's get fierce out there now with the flags just within the wind and the rain out there as well for the golden gate bridge, the rain also coming down you see the sheets of rain begin to move in across the bay area now as we're getting ready for this major storm, the most significant storm of the season easily as it's approaching the bay area you can see all that rain moving in some thunderstorms have been detected also along the front as it begins to push in a little bit closer right now you see all the rain outside most that has been fairly just

that was written by william lawrence.o he is there for all of the testing, and i wish my writing were as good as williams is but you get to read some of his in the book. then he is brought to the ibis was there with the crew. he's not allowed on the first flight because it's obviously the first flight and they just had 12 men and they were not going to spare an extra seat but he does in that going on the second play, the nagasaki flight so he is there and describes as a first-person witness the detonation of the second atomic bomb in warfare, and he's a great character and it's a delight to read -- think about,, how do you describe the first atomic bomb blast? how would you describe the tasks? having to describe scene and atomic bomb take out the city? he doesn't masterfully. >> sure does. the surprising thing, it's almost like a postscript that you wrote about, chris, was that i guess there was a movement several years later to pull the pulitzer prize from him and the "new york times" because of the arrangement that had

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i'm with my friends joy reid and lawrence o'donnell. first, i went through half a box of kleenex just in case. >> i have to tell you, i was a bit worried about this inaugural having a feeling of just being the resistance to what we saw on 1/6, just being an answer to that and sort of being defiant. you know, i was sure it would be, in being this sort of attempt. we talked about it earlier, to sort of grab back, you know, the traditionalism of an inaugural. but what the organizers of this event managed to do is that they gave us that which we needed, right, we needed an answer, we needed that resistance. but they also gave us joy. they gave us fashion. they gave us celebrity. they gave us hope. we had an incredible inaugural earlier in the day where we saw the first black woman, first asian american woman, first woman, period, vice president, you know, do the walk, get sworn in, do all of that great stuff. we saw joe biden, who has lived his whole life for this moment. look at all he has lost and all he has sacrificed to get here and hav

all right lawrence.nother we're covering for you the scope of the massive unemployment fraud in california man it just keeps getting worse. and officials say the state's employment development department. >>has paid out more than 7. let me correct that 27 billion dollars in fraudulent claims this comes as many californians with legitimate claims are still waiting on their money the edd. >>is facing a backlog of nearly 1 million claims a recent audit found a series of inefficiencies and missteps within that agency helped create this overwhelming workload and fraud at a hearing today state lawmakers say it's time for a change. >>still very heat ad that is creating this havoc in their lives. ad should have been part of the solution. and now for 2 and half million california just likely. they will continue to be the problem remain as fierce and dedicated. >>the circle the well-being of the people we serve as i have ever been. >>analysts did note in today's hearing that fraud is not unique to california. but

>> i don't yet, lawrence. you know, i do know that we started off with 13 or 14 senators and now we are down to what i believe is six. and you're certainly correct that without a senator, the objection goes nowhere. but look what had to happen to get to this point. we have known for weeks now that donald trump was basically inciting violence, inviting people to basically by any means necessary to not let this happen, to not let the election, the results of the election, the will of the people, those votes to be certified. so we knew this was coming. did we have to have a breach of the capitol, people terrorized, somebody dies, people threatened, destruction of property for the senators to come to their senses? the american people deserve better than what we have seen. and the fact that they are still, even six, however many want to object, is just absolutely shameful. so mitch mcconnell did what he should have done weeks ago, and that's put an end to this foolishness that is taking place. >> congresswoman val

so let's check with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow lawrence, know just a week or so ago we'reking all that sunshine saying oil which would rain and now folks are saying well i wish the rain would stop and certainly it has been coming down on believable amounts showing up in the santa cruz mountain of the peace the santa cruz mountains now over 10 inches of rain. >>and still coming you can see the showers out there right now in the low pressure center and that whole trough of low pressure camped out along the west coast and that is cranking these storms up. >>and rolling them back into the bay area another some sign now we're going to start to see this begin to move out you see all the orange color that atmospheric river continue to drag a little further to the south a little really pummeling parts of the south bay today you see those cells moving in right there some very very heavy rainfall moving through that area now looks like things are going to start to quiet down a little bit you're seeing some of that on the doppler radar right now you see the showers out there the nort

to edward lawrence. our edward lawrence is inside the capitol building which is locked down. edward, what have you heard, what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: yeah. we're in the capitol complex, and this is all happening inside the u.s. capitol as well as on the house side many those buildings. the house buildings, the support buildings for the u.s. capitol on the house side, have been evacuated. the capitol building itself has a shelter in place order telling people to move away from the windows who are working there, also stay out of the hallways, stay where they are. capitol police are inside the capitol. there are protesters that have gotten into the house chamber. in fact, there was one protester at the dais where you normally see house speaker nancy pelosi, hands in the air saying president trump won this election. capitol police are inside the building trying to figure out how to get this situation under control. they do not know how many folks possibly have weapons inside or how many people are spread throughout that building. there's a lot of small hallways th

thank you lawrence. it was a less than normal year for california lawmakers, the pandemic forced the senate and assembly to shut down their sessions twice the first unexpected work stoppages and 158 years yet to lawmakers still managed to pass hundreds of bills. >>372 of them were signed into law by governor newsome from the pandemic to law enforcement or aleister takes a look at some the new laws of 2021. >>2020 saw a national reckoning over racial justice and policing some of those issues now reflected 2021 state laws. there are several laws that are taking place this year are designed to make it a criminal justice system more for one california's attorney general must now investigate when an officer involved shooting result in the death of an unarmed civilian rather than the local prosecutors to put this law together so there's a conflict of interest between basically law enforcement policing law enforcement so district attorney's police officers working hand hand on daily basis police officers can no