and this injustice has to stop. >> karen powell, mildred powell, thank you. i appreciate you joining us. it took a lot of strength for you to do this. if you ever need anything, let us know. >> thanks, don. >> and thank you very much as well, jermaine wooten, the attorney for the family. i want to bring in judge greg mathis to react to all of this now. he is the host of tv's judge mathis. you just heard from the family there. what is your reaction? >> well, let me share my sorrow with the family, first of all. but my reaction, don, is much of what we've heard. and that is that the police could have used less -- they could have restrained themselves more so than the restraint of the victim. in this case the victim was some 16 to 20 feet away from them when they began shooting. we were told something different early on until the videotape came out. i think there needs to be a thorough investigation first in terms of what the police chief said, what the police officers told their chief, and what we saw on videotape. and secondly, i think there could have been le

adam powell was no exception to that. until the united nations that young people were able to see on television people are black and beautiful. the criteria a beautiful had always been european beauty -- of beautiful had always been european beauty. the resident -- president was greeted by a black mother and her son and the son looked up and said, good i rub your hair, mr. president? he looked up with pride said, mom, the president has hair just like mine. you cannot put into emotions what that means. malcolm x took it one step further. you should not be a shamed of the way you look. you should be proud. it depends on how far you have to go in order to get people to realize that god has given them the same genetic ability to do what anyone has done. as an opportunity. when i talk about education, i'm talking about releasing millions of people with potential from jails they wouldn't have been in it they had ability to do something positive. country thatbout a really leaves they can go beyond where they are. .'m talking abo

powell was the exception to that.t wasn't until the united nations that young people -- people were black and beautiful. the criteria of beauty has always been -- i said, "what is beautiful?" what contributions have you made? what are you proud of? even today, when the president was greeted by a black mother and her son, and the son looked what contributions have you up and said, "can i rub your hair, mr. president?" he put it down and looked up with pride and said, "the president has hair just like mine!" you can save what that means to people. malcolm x to go one step further, in terms of saying that you should not be ashamed of the way you look. you should be proud of the way. you can overstate it but depends on how far you have to go in order to get people to realize that god has given them the same genetic ability to do what everyone has done. the opportunity just need to nudge. when i talk about education, i am talking about releasing 2 million people with potential from jails that they never would have been in

for more on this developing story, let's go to connor powell who's live in jerusalem. >> this appears to be a u.s. residential diplomatic compound, that was evacuated in late july, when the violence in tripoli was starting to heat up. today a commander for the dawn of libya militia told the associated press that the islamic group took control of the vicinity, that group even posting a video online of its fighters playing in a swimming pool in that come pound. the u.s. ambassador who is not in country right now, said the video appears to show the u.s.

i was one of only 13 republicans who voted to seat adam clayton powell. purely on a constitutional grounds. only one of 13. i may be one of less than that tonight, who knows. and more than that, who cares. i'm doing this the way i think it should be done. this is the way i believe i pledged my oath of office. there were only 13 republicans who voted to seat adam in the united states supreme court but only 13 republicans were correct. because they reversed the congress and seated adam. now for the first time in my life, i have to judge a republican, a man who holds the most -- and make no mistake about that. i look back over history and i try to judge what i should do here. this is the most important thing i shall ever do in my whole life, and i know it. it's far more important than whatever happens to me as a result of this vote. and i know history tells me that 107 years ago the country was thrown into a fit of hysteria. in less than three, president johnson was impeached during that fit of hysteria. that has dpoen down in history as one of the darkest m

ca jeem me powell is sen her in a convenience store surveillance tape. 911 call from the store said he stole items. minutes later another call to 911. >> a young man with some some khaki pants and blue hooded shirt. >> this time describing a weapon. >> he had a knife in his hands. >> authorities say he then stepped towards police holding a knife and the police shot and killed him. the whole deadly confrontation takes fewer than 20 seconds. powell standing here tells the officers to shoot him, to kill him and makes his way up here to the parking lot where he begins to make his way directly towards the police officers. it's at approximately this spot where he is shot and he lands and stumbles down onto the ground and lies dead here. the question is, just how far was he from the police officers, what kind of threat did he pose to them? and this is where our amateur absoluting falls short. we don't know exactly where powell was standing when shot and we don't know the exact location of the officers. but just to give you an idea of zonss here, we believe he w

less than 9 o minutes after kajieme powell was shot by st. louis police officers, less than an hour and a half later, the st. louis city police chief was out there a the site of the shooting giving an official police account of what happened and he immediately thereafter took questions. >> so what we know right now is that we have a suspect who was involved in a theft, who was -- department was contacted. acted erratically. armed with a knife. police officers responded. when they responded, the suspect did not respond to verbal commands to drop his weapon. he approached both officers. when he closed within three, four feet of the knife, in what was described as an overhand grip, the officers fired their weapon. any questions? >> again, that was less than 90 minutes after the police shooting. now that this video has emerged, there are empirical questions to consider about whether or not the police chief's description of how the shooting happened comports with the video evidence that we now have in terms of, for example, how close the young man

let's go back to business school with kelly professor phillip powell.rofessor powell, welcome, good to have you with us. >> hi, tyler. >> you're the faculty chairperson for kelly direct which is the school's online program ranked number one by u.s. news. we celebrate disrupters in business. i know in business schools. but i've got two questions. >> sure. >> is online education the future of higher education in america? and specifically business school education? that's number one. and number two, do your fellow professors at indiana celebrate the disruption that online education will bring the way we typically celebrate disrupters? >> well, tyler, we've been teaching online for 15 years. we were early in this marketplace, our faculty quickly embraced it because we live and die by innovation. we have to practice what we teach. and we teach our students to be disruptive in order to beat their competitors. so, if we're not going thdoing don't embrace that, we're not being true to our mission. absolutely, that culture of disruption defines who we are at the

we turn to john powell in detroit.fessor of law and african-american studies and ethnic studies at university of california berkeley. director of the haas institute for fair and inclusive society. welcome to democracy now!, you have been listening to the broadcast from the streets of ferguson, missouri. your thoughts? is, myirst thought condolences for the family and the community. ands a difficult situation also one that comes up to frequent. frequently. you mentioned the kerner commission 50 years ago, we are still dealing with the same issues. we avoid the hard issues, the structure, the system, the continued neglect of poor people of color across the country. obviously, the police do not community with people. the police do not know the people. the kerner commission noticed this in 1968. part of the problem was the police did not have a relationship with the community, a trusting relationship. the black community has been over policed and unprotected. not a concern from a number of sources is how do we protect the

general powell agonized with the north carolina effort asked the following question.ow can this phenomenon of voter fraud be so widespread and at the same time so and detected? -- undetected. when we get our case in texas the record demonstrate over a ten-year period i needed one hand to count the documented incidents of alleged voter fraud. and when it went to the one hand, actually it ended up being at most once, that i needed to document the so-called voter fraud for which this was the solution. voting is a most sacred right and we should be working to expand the right of eligible voters to vote. you been working on that. that's never been a partisan issue, and it shouldn't be a partisan issue and that's why people like colin powell and john lewis speak up about these issues. and so we continue to move to make progress that we have a lot of unfinished business. we have a lot of unfinished business in the area of economic justice as well, it starts with minimum wage. nobody who works a full-time job in this country should have to live in poverty. and what we see all

where are the colin powells in this administration? talk about a strategy dealing with weapons, the president needs to step up and show strength. >> i think colin powell said on a report before that the nation is in a vacuum and we saw who fills the vacuum with what happened at the u.s. embassy compound in tripoli. >> that compound has been abandoned for more than a month now, and the way the u.s. secures its embassies in countries, we actually lease that from the local governments, which in libya there isn't one and it's controlled and guarded by a local guard force which are locals there no matter where it is, whether it's tripoli, benghazi, cairo, they're all local guard sources. they have a civil war there now, and they let the compound go to militias earlier. >> where did the civil war come from? >> it's the vacuum that occurred after the overthrow of the regime there, and they have been in strife ever since then. they've never been really peaceful since then. i think we've been pulling staff in and out of that embassy since 2010.

powell in his tracks. >> the officers is fired till they thought the aggression was over. we're reviewing had case, we have a criminal investigation going on and an internal affairs investigation going on to see if any protocols were involved. we want to get to the bottom of it too. >> you understand there are a lot of people who see this video and i understand the video doesn't show all the facts. it compresses a lot of the space and doesn't tell the details of the knife and the rules that police are supposed to, they're taught to follow. but can you understand why somebody would see that and aceh god, there must have been some other way to defuse the situation other than killing him. >> absolutely. i understand we would say that. we attach a open hand techniques, but we also teach to be able to protect yourself and your life. use the least amount of force necessary to overcome the

powell is dead. he'd apparently walked towards the officers and repeatedly yelled shoot me. the officers opened fire. we will not show you that part of the video. want to point out that the person filming along with the other witnesses and bystanders is in disbelief. in particular, because of what had been happening in ferguson for more than a week after michael brown was killed by a police officer. >> shoot somebody at a time like this. >> thet sh shooting of powell happened 2 1/2 miles from where brown was shot. there was calm. things there were the way they usually are when the police use deadly force, on average, at least 400 times a year. some of the difference may lie in how the police reacted. not the ferguson police or the county police we've seen in ferguson began speaking to the community almost immediately. within an hour and a half the st. louis police chief sam datsun was holding a news conference at the scene of the shooting. powell was brandishing a knife. that's not completely clear i

this is lake powell.using the formations of the lake powell to jet ski through them and maneuver. >> looks like it was meant to be done. >> greatest thing is how still the water is in front of them and looks like it's a mirror. you can see clearly the reflection of the rocks around and above it, and it looks spectacular. >> oh, don't go right there! >> oh, man, there's areas where it looks like he will not fit. >> a nail biter. you think he will get stuck in the rocks. >> i think it's the reflection of the water and the rocks, there are really narrow areas, but i don't think he's ever in an area that's too narrow for him to cross because he goes right through all of them. >> it's like an optical illusion. >> right. >> check this other day on the track. this one at coldwell park. they are riding fast on the track. we see something like this before, but today you see the track is pretty wet, and a few times as the riders are going on the track, you see a number of puddles, for the most part, get over them o

-- colin powell.e asked how the phenomenon of voter fraud to be widespread and undetected. case in texas, i needed one hand to count the documented incidence of voter frauds. when i went to the hands, it ended up being a thumb that i needed to document the voter fraud for which this is the solution. voting is a sacred right and we should be working to expand it to eligible voters. you have been working on that and that was never a partisan issue. it should not be a partisan issue. reason why howl and lewis speak up on these issues. and lewis speak up on these issues. we have unfinished business. it starts with the minimum wage. nobody working a full-time job should live in poverty. we see, all too frequently, people working hard and falling further behind. people have to make choices between having to pay the mortgage, the rents, or medicine . those are choices we should never have to make in america and i applaud san diego and other local councils who are tackling this will stop 13 states in the last

i want to start by commending sidney powell for writing this book.d to her that there are lots of lawyers who see injustice in matters they have handled and they deal with it by going out and having a drink, and what sidney has done in writing this book, is taking her passion for justice and putting it out there for the world to see as a judge, and it requires great discipline to write a book like this. it's a very detailed book. 400 pages, me and deserves great credit for bringing her concerns to a wider audience. having said that, i want to say that my reaction to the book is somewhat mixed. i think that there are overall themes in the book that i agree with. and i'll speak about those, and i think -- deserves great credit for highlighting those things and publicizing the problems in the criminal justice system. at the same time i find her indime, if you will, of the prosecutors in the case she handled, the prosecution of mr. brown, to be ultimately uncon veining -- unconvincing. let me speak first about thele overall theme is very much agree with.

powell, was mentally challenged. let me run the tape again. i want you to look at exactly what happened. at first, police said powell had the knife raised up. but later acknowledged that wasn't accurate. so watch the rest of this. >> drop the knife. >> oh, [ bleep ]. >> drop the knife. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> now the fact that it was caught on camera helped to clarify what happened. does this speak to the need for things like body cameras on officers, mark? >> all of that would be helpful, rev. additional training and even tactical training in a case such as that where you are talking about -- officers are trained across the nation about covering concealment, increasing your zone when a person encroaches upon it. use are of nonlethal weapon and the more progressive agencies incorporate some psychological training. if you are on the scene and confronted with a person who is obviously psychologically unstable, there are tactics and things you should do and things you shouldn't do to avoid exacerbating the situation that could then lead to a lethal e

the reaction of both o'neill and powell, they're startled. o'neill sort of summed it up. bush basically saying i want to overthrow saddam. find me a way to do it. not if, how. >> saddam hussein's past use of chemical and biological weapons and the prospect of him developing a nuclear weapon make him a prime target. as does the liberation of what iraq has under the ground. >> in the first meeting rumsfeld says, imagine, imagine if iraq was essentially a client state of the united states. imagine how that would look. if they were a friendly state. if we had primacy and access and maybe control of their oil fields. and rumsfeld is pointed about this, in first meeting, in fact, oil fields. oil fields that will be essentially our oil fields. >> as the national security council trains its focus on iraq, that same week president bush also directs vice president cheney to head up a high-level energy task force. its operations are run out of vice president cheney's office. >> there was a highly secret operation and it was arranged to be that way. they tasked these people to hide a

for more on this developing story, let's go to connor powell who's live in jerusalem. >> this appears to be a u.s. residential diplomatic compound, that was evacuated in late july, when the violence in tripoli was starting to heat up. today a commander for the dawn of libya militia told the associated press that the islamic group took control of the vicinity, that group even posting a video online of its fighters playing in a swimming pool in that come pound. the u.s. ambassador who is not in country right now, said the video appears to show the u.s. fighters roaming around the u.s. embassy an necks area. it also appears the compound appears to be being safeguarded. that's according to a u.s. press reporter who was in that building. the building has some broken windows but it's still intact. all of the valuable and sensitive information would have been removed when u.s. officials fled in july. there are some computers there, but all that information would have been wiped clean. now there are still some troubling questions, of course, when the building was aban donged by u.s. officials

kajemi powell was killed tuesday a couple miles from ferguson. police say powell walked out of the convenience store, had energy drinks and doughnuts they say he didn't pay for. police say once outside, he came at them with a knife and in less than 20 seconds after they arrived on the scene, they opened fire. they killed him. so we have that cell phone video of the shooting. it is very graphic. so we have chosen to freeze the footage right before powell is shot. but the audio continues. so you can still hear nine shots being fired. >> the police are going to pull up. y'all are from the police? they're ganging up. they've got a gun out. >> get your hands out! >> shoot me! >> oh [ bleep ]! oh [ bleep ]! oh [ bleep ]! they've got their guns out. >> damn! >> oh, my god! >> let me bring in jake tapper, host of "the lead" joining me from ferguson. jake, i know you went to the scene of that shooting. what did you find? >> well, it's interesting. i think the knee jerk response of most people who are not familiar with police work at all is, oh, my god, th

traffic volumes blaifing as they should. 80 at powell, traffic moving nicely.ay bridge toll plaza stacking a but again the cars starting to fill up the metering lights around the bay bridge toll plaza. mass transit on time frp bart, muni, cal train, and vta. that's the latest in traffic, now back to you. >> thanks. >>> scott's valley now selling recycled water to people living outside city limits. it comes a as way to share the city's excess waters to others. according to the sental, the recycled water, treated water from sewers, would be used for things like irrigation and construction. money from water sales would go into the city's general fund. >>> it is 5:49, today a rare albino mixed redwood tree will be moved after people in the community raise enough money to pay for it. the mutant coast redwood will be dug up and replanted. the tree was blocking a construction path for a new smart railway and it's too close to passing trains. transportation officials wanted to cut downtown tree but residents weren't happen. arborists say it's the tallest tree of its ki

msnbc has decided not to show the cell phone video of the killing of kajiemi powell. the tragedy coming on the heels of michael brown's death illicited anger in the community. they chanted hands up, don't shoot. and many questioned why police didn't use a taser on him instead of killing him. one thing that is clear officials have learned lessons after what happened in ferguson. the mayor of st. louis orchestrated an impromptu jobs fair at the site of the protest, that resulted in 85 signups, the mayor spoke with powell's grandmother to personally offer his condolences. joining me now is the mayor of st. louis. why did you decide to release the video? >> well, first, i just want to make sure we -- as we approach this, we're sensitive to the fact that a young man lost his life. and was shot by a police officer. that's something that does impact our community tremendously, as we go forward, wen watt to make sure we do everything in a sensitive way. sensitive to the fact that a young man's life was lost, and sensitive to the context that this has happened. particularly on

conor powell has the latest for us. hi, conor. >> hi, patti. benjamin netanyahu said today the conflict will continue but they are redoe employing many israeli troops from gaza back into israel. that's because prime minister netanyahu saying tonight the task of destroying many of those underground cross border tunnels that hamas has used to attack in israel is almost done. they identified about 32 of these tunnels and say they've got about 31 of those tunnels already destroyed. the last ones will be destroyed here in the next 24 hours. that's allowing israel to pull out many of its troops from gaza. but netanyahu also said that they will continue to strike at hamas's rocket infrastructure and that the war here is by no means over. they'll continue to fight hamas. we're seeing many troops here in the northern part of gaza have been pulled out but there's still very heavy fighting in the southern part. that's also because the missing israeli soldier who israel says was captured by hamas, lieutenant 2nd lieutenant hadar goldin is still missing. he

two lanes closed between the powell streets.ou can see the delays due to some of that east bay construction. we'll keep an eye with weather and traffic together. back to you. >> thanks so much. >>> nearly a year later, busy fremont street will finally open monday. the opening comes as construction wraps up for bart's extension project. project that will eventually bring bart to silicon valley. nearby restaurants, residents, businesses, excited for the rope to reopen as many says the closure, it lost money from. the road we're talking about is warren avenue. commuters use it as an alternative to mission boulevard to get to 880 andful 0. >>> up next, "today in the bay," ebola takes center stage in washington as medical experts trying to convince congress an outbreak is unlikely. >>> lottery chances increasing? >>> you're watching "today in the bay." >>> welcome back everyone. taking a beautiful live look outside. look at the bay bridge, illuminated, love the new additions to our bridge. how beautiful it is. this early in the morni

powell's opposition to the war had been widely leaked but he didn't say anything publicly.egroponte did. he gave an interview to a reporter for the "washington post" in which he said that if it were up to him for nationbuilding would be no part of the united nations program and his experience suggested that it wasn't very easy. but of course that viewpoint was disregarded. he was successful and it was an achievement getting the unanimous resolution of the united nations authorizing ordering of the iraq east to permit inspections and he would have favored the resolution brought forward he would have favored giving the iraq he is moreastmore time but the folks n washington had planned an invasion and didn't want the troops sitting around during the summer was a poor excuse and we all know what happened. negroponte while at the un had two other significant events. one was the adoption by the un of the resolution governing the intervention in iraq which recognized the right to tell the troops to withdraw which ultimately is what happened. and the second accomplishment was the a

joining me now is colin powell's former chief of staff, retired colonel lawrence wilkerson.ou spoke to secretary powell about that famous quote and his recollection of that conversation with president bush. give us your interpretation of that conversation as it happened back then. >> i think the expression "if you break it, you own it" characterizes at least one major part of secretary powell's advice to george w. bush at that time. he never mentioned pottery barn. that was tom friedman i think in an op ed in "the new york times." it isn't, as you pointed out, pottery barn's rule. it's actually against the law to be a rule for any retailer in america, if you check it closely. what powell meant by that was, of course, if you invade, you're going to have to stay and you're going to have to at least for a time look after these 25, 26 million people. that's what we did obviously. we didn't do it very well. that's why we are where we are today. >> colonel, how much of what's playing out right now in iraq will be blamed on president obama and how much will be blamed on the bush ad

kajieme powell is seen here.s. >> he got drinks and do nuts. >> minutes later, another call to 911. >> a young man in khaki pants and blue hooded shirt. >> this time describing a weapon. >> he had a knife in his hands. >> he then stepped towards police holding a knife and the police shot and killed him. >> reporter: the whole deadly confrontation takes fewer than 20 seconds. powell tells the police officers to shoot him, to kill him. then he makes his way up here to the parking lot where he makes his way directory towards the police officers. i's at approximately the spot where he is shot and he lands and stumbles down on to the ground and lies dead here. the question is just how far was he from the police officers, what kind of threat did he pose to them. and this is where our amateur sleuthing falls short. we do not know where exactly powell was standing when he was shot and we conot know the exact location of the officers. but just to give you an idea of distances here, we believe he was shot somewhere around

westbound eastshore freeway buchanan to powell.ad three lanes blocked until 5:00 looks like on our sensors nice speeds this morning. so taking 80 to the bay bridge so far, so good metering lights are offer. clear ride to the toll plaza no delays into san francisco. 880 also roadwork northbound washington to davis southbound jackson to embarcadero, looks like those should be in the clearing stages, as

is a great neighbor, and none unlike walgreens ha has a pharmacy in it and has a liquor license on powell street. but i do ask you to approve cvs getting their liquor license, they are a great neighbor, and i like the stores a lot, thanks. >> thank you very much. >> is there any... >> okay, mr. nolty. >> michael nolty and i will start with ditto, but actually if you recall that i had a large issue around walgreens and i think that sometimes there was a point when david chiu was going to actually start the legislation to ban additional alcohol permits to pharmacies. but then, again, you have to also look at the big picture and that is we are losing our small pharmacies and then we have the big pharmacies and of course, obviously, walgreens has become the biggest on every corner kind of a thing at least in the district six. and i think that it is great to see a competitor come along and knock them down a couple of pegs and i have to be supportive of cvs and i think that they listened to us a couple of times and on the suter store they chose to do what they did there and when they did there

we went into iraq and as general powell said, if you break it, you own it. what happened here in syria, as well as iraq, splinter groups have sprung up, we're having to bear with the cost of very unwise decision to go into iraq now. we can do this by different means today because the technology of our military has hans formed over the last decade. it doesn't mean we're going to be successful of eradicating them but with the intelligence and ed, this includes the nsa, we can gain the intelligence to do circle strikes and eventually close down the money that flows to them. i think when saudi arabia and other countries like that and kuwait, that initially funded isis begin to understand the dangers against them, then we can cooperate and close them down by other means. this is a fight. i don't think the global war on terror has ended. >> okay. this is got a lot of dynamics to it no doubt. i want to go back, admiral sestak to your previous comment about the kurds. how good is the kurds when it comes to military resource and operations and how would you pair them

it also shows police shot powell within about 20 seconds of arriving at the scene. the shooting happened about three miles from where michael brown was killed. has continued its assault on the gaza strip following the collapse of the latest cease-fire. three senior hamas commanders have reportedly died in an airstrike on the gaza strip earlier today to the southern town of rafah. the strike came one day after a failed israeli strike targeting hamas's top leadership. the airstrike missed one big killed his young son. press, at least six palestinians, four of them children, were killed in israeli attacks overnight in the northern town of beit lahiya and in gaza city. -- anotherr israelis four palestinians died in an airstrike on a graveyard in gaza city. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu got to continue the assault on gaza. >> i will continue to operate with firmness in insistence. operation protective edge is not finished, not for a minute. we're talking about the continued campaign. than 2000 palestinians, most of them civilians and hundreds of them children

." >> if it makes you feel good, there is a great story that colin powell tells, being at a church with the national security advisor, and an aide comes during the service, this ceremony, and says, "there is an urgent phone call for you," and, boy, everybody's eyes follow the national security council director as he leaves the church, and he comes back 10 minutes later, and alma powel says, "what is going on?" and he says, "there has been a coup in x country," and she says, "oh, i heard that on cnn already." [laughter] >> what makes the presidency what it is is that every single day is filled with -- i guarantee you, when we were running for president, we didn't talk a lot about pirates. that was something that came up later. all of the sudden, you know, the president has 10 minutes to decide whether or not he should give the order to try to take out captain phillips' captors, and he had snipers bobbing on a boat, and thought pretty sure they could get them, but they could have gotten captain phillips, or like when you're dealing with a financial crisis or a war, and they tell you we mi

louis city police release add video of a shooting on tuesday, by a man, police say that powell movedards officers with a knife and showed it them to shoot me already, powell died at the scene, but the vid seems to undercut can part of the con tex that he was either lunging at police, or that he was right there up close next to them, there you see the shooting of him, and certainly died right there on the sidewalk. powell was suspected of stealing donuts and energy drinks from a nearby con can screenent store, there walking and he essentially screams shoot at me already. and then he walked up on to that ledge, and the officers say that he was being threatened, that they weren't sure if he had a gun, so they opened fire. st. louis has said they have released the video to provide transparency to the community. the rise in foreign fighters in syria, one of the more frightening challenges facing organizations around the world. police say thousands of fighters are leaving europe and going into syria, along with a growing number of americans. joining us more on all of this, is richard murph

[applause] >> booktv continues down the former federal prosecutor sidney powell. he talks about prosecutorial misconduct and what can be done about it. this is about 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome to the cato institute. my name is tim weich. today we want to examine some distressing legal trends that are at work in the criminal law area. our guest speaker today sidney powell is just written a new book entitled "licensed to lie" exposing corruption in the department of justice. and the book recounts several cases in which ambitious prosecutors used illegal and unethical tactics to win their cases. before we get to our panel of experts i want to take a minute or two to lay something of a foundation for the discussion that's going to follow but before he do that let me ask those of you who came with cell phones if you would just take a moment now to quickly doublecheck and make sure that they are turned off as a courtesy to our speakers. it includes our panelists. [laughter] okay, thank you. the first that i think needs to be understood is that there is then