mr. steele was charged with battery on a correctional officer. >> about 90% of the staff they get working payback time. they think that badge gives them power. that badge is only an illusion of power. that power can be stripped and taken away in a moment's notice. >> mr. steele was accused of throwing a cup full of urine on the correctional officer. >> i decided to be my own lawyer. i wanted to act pro se. i wanted to ask my own questions. i wanted to do my own jury selection. i wanted to file my own motions. the judge granted it. a couple months before, a month before, i knew he was the one that was going to be gone. >> on one occasion, i did visit with him face to face, and i made him a plea offer at that time which he rejected. >> i tell him straight up, why don't you just drop this case. this case is nothing. he's like, oh, no, we have to make an example. so you want to make me the example. i want to make you the example. so i made an example out of him and showed him why he should have just dropped the charges and let me rot in peace. >> i was sitting in this chair, kind of leaning t

mr. steele was seated in that chair closest to me.jury, all rise, i saw that was my opportunity and i was going to have the element of surprise. >> i heard a bit of a shuffle from my right-hand side. i felt a punch. what i thought was a punch to the chest. >> i stabbed him in the chest. and the first thing out of his mouth was, "why?" that's the first thing out of anybody's mouth whenever they're faced with their consequences. why? why did you do this? or why did you do that? well, if you stop back and think about the actions you took to bring you to this point, you wouldn't have to ask why. >> i was walking back to the table and they said, are you okay, a.j.? i'm like yeah, yeah, i'm all right. i was probably still carrying on myself. they said, did he get you? i'm like, yeah, he punched me in the chest. they said, no, with a shank. i looked and there was a hole in my shirt and i was bleeding. it was about seven inches long. it was a toilet brush that he had broken off and sharpened up by scraping it on -- against the cinder block wa

mr. steel would you mind assisting them i'll move out of the way. >> ready? so we just want to begin by thanking you know the school for letting us do this we have a presentation for you which assists of a video that is from in it is a gram we did a campaign and did technology for several days it's ombudsman several days we got almost 5 hundreds posts (clapping.) many of which are in the room and many people across the nation and international simpleminded those results we want to share that and i'll introduce you to the film maker >> hello, i'm march a teacher at james middle school and also consider my work and it's great we had an opportunity to use in it is a gram and why it means so much to them i'm proud to present this work and glad to bring it in front of everyone today. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in with me all over the world arre with me with me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in >> (clapping.) i think it is before you because it's like learning about everyone's history this is the first step to work towards one common goal people give them a space to not only va

thank you very much mr. steel. >> yes. absolutely. >> i'm sorry on page h 62 the funds that are not coming from the qi a but from the salesforce grant and the innovation fund what is where are they coming from. >> u and i'm have to follow up on that commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> which i will. >> thank you commissioner maufas. >> thank you, president fewer not that i have many requests those days but can i get a maybe this can come in an e-mail how we have several of those the wave of the board policy maybe that's even though a coincide they're all together it looks at odd recently former employees are doing contract work that seems a little bit unusual maybe we can hear something in h.r. around that. >> thank you commissioner maufas we'll get a conceptually explanation. >> thank you superintendent. >> president fewer. >> i misread the code so it's accurate the saks code from 7400 to 74095 >> thank you any items removed by first reading. >> any items severed by the board for discussion. >> roll call vote will take plac

we'll now, mr. steel would you mind preying that bottom. >> thank you very much. we'll now continue with public comment i have 3 students from the student advisory committee (calling names). >> would you please come to the podium you have 2 minutes each please (clapping.) >> press the bottom please and identify users. >> good evening superintendent carranza and the board of education i'm a representative the advisory committee council we courage the board to finish this resolution on behalf of the any constituents it is a great opportunity a class i've take advantage of in my high school i believe it is important for all students to take it is a tree free class opened any and my peers minds to a citizen of identity and expose us to ethnic history and individuality and also put a stress on community and our fellow people this is something we have in all our schools thank you yourself time. >> yes. yes (clapping.) >> good evening superintendent carranza and president fewer and board of education my name is jonas and i'm here on behalf of the s ac c we're basically t

mr. steele has said i would have to say harry reid. what we saw through whole year. mitch mcconnell has yet to be tried and tested. he won the election but it is different when you have to deal with ted cruz all the time in the majority. >> that i think he dropped the mic on ted cruz. he basically. a week from now i'll be senate majority leader and walked off the stage. so in answer to a question -- >> that was a big moment. that was theatrical. that was there. >> again it fits that idea of why he was one of the top winners, along with the president. i think when you look at how he crafted that. it wasn't just about his election in kentucky. it was bls the elections around the country that would give him the majority. >> it was also with this devastating defeat. wipeout, how the president just came back in, just dusted jay-z style and let's go back to the mat. you had to give him that. and a lot of the winners and losers were defind by that. >> they really were. >> i think it will be a very interesting point. i think it will be more ac

mr. steele, first of all as we continues our conversation i want to roll in pictures of a protesting happeninght now in boston, liver pictures from boston a demonstration that's happening right now. you know, there was a lot of anger expressed by the police union, we just aired a bit of that moments ago about the comments from the mayor of new york, bill de blasio, the police union here in new york believes it's been thrown under the bus, that all the officers have been thrown under the bus by the mayor here. i need you to, because there were a lot of people who will feel a similar i sentiment and wonder what is at the core of this. this is an officer who says he did his job. here is the other thing i want you to take on here. what i am hearing from people who are really frustrated about eric garner, really frustrated about michael brown and others, is that the same country where the highest court in this land, the u.s. supreme court could rule a black man, we are talking about dread scott was not and could not be an american citizen. is the same country where in 2014 a black man can be beaten

mr. graham, said michael steele, his spokesman. ism from staten island expected to plead guilty in brooklyn to tax evasion and john boehner's office did not comment on when they will speak. earlier, nancy pelosi said john benner should force grim to resign. up next, a portion of today's "washington journal." host: and we are back with sharyl attkisson, author, investigative journalist. new book came out in november, "stonewalled: my fight for truth against the forces of obstruction, intimidation, and harassment in obama's washington." remind viewers why you left cbs this past year and why you wrote this book. guest: the short version is there's nothing left for me to do. we specialized in investigative reporting and in the last couple years those stores had a difficult if not impossible time off and getting on cbs news, so i felt there was no point. host: you wrote the book why? guest: a lot of people had expressed to me -- fellow journalists as well as people in the public -- that they sensed something was going on culturally in j

mr. bush was clearly moved by the exhibit. especially when he got to the last column. that's the final steeled from the wreckage of the twin towers marking the end of the nine-month recovery. the column is emblazoned with pictures of 9/11 victims as well as messages of faith, love and hope from the first responders who helped during the rescue effort. the 9/11 memorial museum sits on the site of the old world trade center. as you just noted, just a few days after the attacks, president bush stood on top of the rubbled a ground zero using a bullhorn to reassure americans. that bullhorn is also inside the museum. the former president skipped the museum's opening back in may and some analysts point out that his visit now comes less than a week after the senate released its report on enhanced interrogation technique. dick cheney has been highly critical of that report, but president bush has said very little. the last time he was at the site was when he dedicated the memorial and museum on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >> trace, thank you. and on that day, george w. bush became a wa

mr. liuzza, she got a very good look at the perpetrator. ms. kelly and other witnesses who testified they saw a man with a blue steel revolver, six feet tall with cut hair running past them. john thompson was 5'10" with a big afro. kevin freeman was 6'0" went by the nickname kojak because of his close cut hair. once all the evidence was examined it was clear beyond imagination that kevin freeman, acting alone, murdered ray liuzza. >> michael and gordon now believe they had a strong case for a new trial. >> we had an evidentiary hearing in front of judge quinlan. and quinlan vacated the death sentence but he refused to vacate guilt. >> judge quinlan refused to grant a new trial. >> we were devastated. >> it was wonderful to have john thomson spared from execution, we were still looking at a man in his 30s who was going to be facing the rest of his life in jail. >> so you're going to take the death penalty back and give me a life sentence? i was scared to death even more so now. you tell me i'm never going home again? that didn't give me no relief, none whatsoever. i was doomed. >> michael and gordon appealed the judge's decision, they knew this

mr. obama is now pushing forward aggressively on his promised agenda and ignoring his most ardent critics. joining me now, michael gibbs and michael steele. i never got the sense the president had this, if you will, bucket list. that he was moving along, step by step, incrementally, dealing with boehner and the rest of him. but he seems like he's got something going. do you sense something new here? >> i think the president made some fundamental promises, dating back to 2007 and 2008. and i think the biggest one you mentioned that's on that list that he would like to see some real progress on is closing the prison at guantanamo bay. i think you take that wish list, though, and you have to break it apart. there's half that list or part of that list you can do through your own policy, and there's another side of that list with stuff that has to go through congress. interestingly enough, some of those issues appear on both sides. you can empty guantanamo bay by transferring those that have been cleared to transfer, you can't formally close it, though, until congress authorizes you -- >> but you can empty it? >> you can. you can empty, at le

unanimous consent that the report from the -- paper from the united steel workers, be included into the record. i have here an argue from mr. mason on -- entitled "fracking." i would like for that to be included. >> these will be included in the record. also, would like put into the record a letter -- letters from the american petroleum institute, american fuel and petrochemical technology. i want to thank you for your testimony and for your patience in responding to our questions. we will have more hearings on this when we reconvene for the 114th congress. the record will remain open for ten days for additional materials. that concludes -- >> i want you to join with me in wishing everybody happy holidays. >> you think we should? >> i think we should. >> merry christmas, happy holidays and enjoy the break. that concludes today's hearing. thank you. >>> president obama holds his year-end news conference this afternoon at 1:30 eastern before he leaves for his christmas vacation. see the president live on c-span at 1:30 eastern. >>> at 8:00 tonight, interviewed with two committee chairs who are retiring from congress. beginni

steel arms. >> clearly. >> congratulations to him. >> condition grats. >> mr.e in the weather. all this warm air ahead of this frontal system. it's bringing showers and thunderstorms from minnesota all the way down into memphis, also parts of arkansas. look at the showers hanging around. can you see the arch there. 58 degrees today. that's ahead of the system. behind it, we've got colder air. we're look at know developing. minneapolis will get in on it. we'll be look at that. again, nothing all that bad as far as snowfall accumulations. generally, about three to six inches of snow back through south dakota on into parts of nebraska. one to three inches through central minnesota. that's what's g >>> good morning, a cloudy start but clouds will be thinning out. we'll see more and more sunshine, warm into the upper 40s this afternoon. tomorrow morning will get a little colder but adgot bit wa in the afternoon in spite of some light scattered rain showers. not everybody will see them on tuesday. it will clear out for wednesday. thursday gets colder. clouds are bac

steel arms. >> clearly. >> congratulations to him. >> condition grats. >> mr.e weather. all this warm air ahead of this frontal system. it's bringing showers and thunderstorms from minnesota all the way down into memphis, also parts of arkansas. look at the showers hanging around. can you see the arch there. 58 degrees today. that's ahead of the system. behind it, we've got colder air. we're look at know developing. minneapolis will get in on it. we'll be look at that. again, nothing all that bad as far as snowfall accumulations. generally, about three to six inches of snow back through south dakota on into parts of nebraska. one to three inches through central minnesota. th >>> 9:11, good monday morning to you. i'm christina loren, showing you the showers are. most of the heavy stuff pushing to the south and central valley. we're getting a break from the oranges and yellows, but we are fair game for on and off bouts of rain as we head throughout the day today. make sure you have the umbrella handy. temperatures are going to be chilly. 52 in the north bay, 55 f

mr. chairman, to include the machinist international and aerial space workers a letter in opposition to this measure. >> objection. >> united steel workers. >> objection. >> the labor international union. >> objection. >> boilermakers, black smiths -- >> objection. >> and something a lot of us belong to, the american association of retired person. >> objection. >> who say the following, in their third paragraph. the lengthy and complex proposal has not been introduced. this letter was written on the third of december. the legislation has not been considered by a committee or subject to a hearing and the language has not been reviewed by members of congress and the public and those retirees who will be affected have had no opportunity to consider the impact of this legislation. yet, the proposal may be atta attached to the fiscal year 2015 omnibus and enacted without further scrutiny. that was written on the third of december. i know they are not pres yent, so they were tracking, as others do, the progress of the legislation. i didn't include the pension rights center and i ask their letter be included as well, mr. chairman. the m

mr. chairman, to include the machinist international and aerial space workers a letter in opposition to this measure. >> without objection. >> united steel workers. >> without objection. >> the labor international union. >> without objection. -- oilermakers, blacksmith >> without objection. >> and something a lot of this belong to, the american association of retired persons. >> without objection. following in the third paragraph. the lengthy and complex proposal has not been introduced. the letter was written on the third of december. the legislation has not been considered by a committee or subject to a hearing and the language has not been reviewed by members of congress and the public and those retirees who will be affected have had no opportunity to consider the impact of this legislation. yet, the proposal may be attach attached to the fiscal year 2015 omnibus and enacted without further scrutiny. that was written on the third of december. precedent sore not press i , they were tracking, as others do, the progress of the legislation. i didn't include the pension rights center and i ask their letter be included as well, mr. chairman

steel for construction. still, their dad wasn't all business all the time. >> in the traditional motherly roles, he would definitely step up and wasn't afraid to be mr. mom. >> reporter: the mueller kids say their parents fit one another perfectly. >> he'd make a point of every night to try to do something nice for her. >> he was so proud of her, too. >> they'd talk all the time. anytime that there was any type of disagreement about, you know, who -- the dishes weren't done or some "honey, do chore" kind of a thing, they would talk about it until they were completely resolved. and then at the next second they'd be all over each other again and be perfectly happy. >> reporter: it was a happy weekend at the mueller's colorado cabin. may 3rd, 2008. now that leslie was no longer working, she was spending much more time up here. that saturday, the spring day was sunny, the high altitude air still chilled. morning began with chores. >> i think we were unloading some hay. doing stuff kind of like that around the house. >> reporter: so was this just a very typical weekend in colorado? >> yeah. >> reporter: it was just alex, then 14, up with his parents on th