she is joining us live also with jordan davis is dad ron davis and we're joined by marc silver the film3 1/2 minutes." so talk about that moment in the courtroom where you have michael dunn say he absolutely thought that jordan davis had a gun insisted that he saw a gun. followed by rhonda coming in -- of course, she is not hearing his testimony, she is brought back in as a witness, which is directly ask if her fiancÉe had ever said anything about a gun before he killed jordan davis. >> for me, i knew that was the bombshell, because she openly told the truth. she dispelled for the jurors in the courtroom every lie that michael dunn spoke. i actually was amazed that she did so. i always got the feeling that maybe he was the stronger person in the relationship, more domineering. i was very relieved that she would speak out. but i think it was more so because she was afraid she was going to jail as well. >> explained that. >> well, for her to basically be an accessory to the entire situation, once she really knew someone was murdered, i mean, they got in the car and drove back to satellite

host: we're talking with ron davis. the cops program. here to answer your question or comment about the program. democrats -- if you're outside the u.s. and want to contribute, you can also call in. we will show some of the stats about the funding for the cops program this year. we mention $14 billion since the inception in 1994, the budget for 2014 is about $214 million including 151 lead dollars -- 151 lead dollars the book of that for the hiring of police officers. how is the funding for this program fluctuated in receipt years, especially with budget cuts that happened in the government? guest: with all departments through the budget cuts if susan reductions in funding. this year -- last year in 2014 what is been adopted by congress this year, $208 million. in the last three to five years has been studied between that $220 million to 208 million dollars, but also reduction from the beginning of the program and even during 2009 1 we had over $1 billion. we still have a very strong program. host: when you are asking for funding each ar

attorney general eric holder and director ron davis have exhibited real leadership during this difficult time. we'd know that loretta lynch will provide that leadership once she is confirmed as attorney general. i am honored to serve this year as the president of the u.s. conference of mayors and glad to be joined on this panel bypassed president michael nutter and vice president stephanie rawlings blake. these are two outstanding leaders for our organization and their respective cities. the conference's leadership had an initial discussion on what we can learn from what happened in ferguson during a leadership meeting in sacramento in september. we discussed this further at a mayor and police chiefs meeting on the 20th anniversary of the cops program in little rock arkansas. that meeting was attended by president clinton and made possible to the -- through the generous support of the cops office. following little rock, i appointed a working group of mayors and police chiefs chaired by gary with developing recommendations for local actions and intended to improve policing in america. amo

attorney eric holder and ron davis has shown leadership and ms. lynch will provide that leadership once she is confirmed as attorney general. i am honored to serve thank glad to be joined on this panel for two outstanding leaders for our organization in respective cities. an initial discussion of what we could learn from ferguson we discuss this further at the mayor and police chief meeting was the 20th anniversary of the cops program in little rock arkansas and the meeting was attended by president clinton in a possible to the generous support of the cops office. following the little rock meeting to be chaired by a wilson charged a group to develop a set of recommendations intended to improve policing in america all laugh you were present is the co-chair commissioner ramsey in those seated to my left. our group is harder work to finalize the recommendations at the conference in a couple of weeks. so we will give you a confidential preview. [laughter] we want to present it for the first time next week the six areas are building police community tr

host: ron davis is with our community policing. come back to talk with us again. up next, we will l both are martin luther king show with representative eddie bernice johnson. she will join us live from dallas. we would be right back. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we are showing our viewers live images from the national monument, the national martin luther king junior memorial there. to wrap up our show on martin luther king junior day we will head down to dallas, texas where we are joined eddie bernice johnson. dr. king was in selma, alabama for what would be known as the beginning of the selma marches. in what place does selma occupy its place in the civil rights movement? guest: i think it was really important because it was some thing specific for a specific reason that we can relate to that reminds those of us who were living and remember that so well. we still have a lot to do. we have overcome a great deal of an obstacle because of that march. i'm able to vote. i'm able to serve in congress. there were people before me. i served with one

to work for the federal government in a high capacity in 2013 attorney general hold are appointed ron davis to lead community oriented police services and heave was the chief of east palo alto police. >> today, san francisco supervisors will hold a rare when meeting today and look at a labor dispute involving restaurant workers after the strike by a thousand food service workers across the four terminals and forces dozens of restaurants to close at the same time that a major storm stranded thousands of passengers would all needed it food. union leaders want better health care coverage and job security for the restaurant workers. >>> mayor sam liccardo laid out his vision if the city. >> last night the even began with a performance by a troupe where four members sworn in and the audience was told that the city's biggest challenge is rebuilding the police department and we need to do things that will improve compensation and create incentives for officers it stay on board and come to san jose. >> liccardo said that san jose needs to use their ingenuity to end homelessness. >> he today out bec

despite the fact that we've run over but will be resuchblmeing right at 1:30 but before we ajournal ron davis has an important announcement. any deliberations or recommendations to the president will be suspended until after lunch till we reconvene so i will see you back here at 1:30. >> we will hear from leaders from civil rights groups in a moment. the task force was established by president obama in an executive order in december after the police shooting of unarmed teen michael brown in ferguson missouri. the task force's initial report is due to the president in march. the cspan city tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history. this week we partnered with comcast with a visit to west virginia. >> i wrote these books the wheeling family. there are two volumes. the reason i felt they are important to collect these histories is because wheeling transformed into an industrial city in the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. it's kind of uncommon in west virginia in that it drew a lot of immigrants from europe here i

. >> let me turn to ron davis to find out if we need to wrap this panel up. >> it's a great panel, unfortunately, we do. >> let's thank our excellent panelists. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015 >> the movie "american sniper" has been nominated for an academy award. we'll show an interview with chris kyle from 2012. he talked about his career and his book, the all buy galaxy about the most lethal sniper in american history. you can see that on c-span 2 at 5:15. president obama gives his state of the union address to a joint session of congress. tomorrow night we'll have the president's speech and the republican response and reaction from you and members of congress. live coverage tomorrow night starts at 8:00 eastern right here on espn -- c-span c-span.org. the white house has announced a list of invited guests that will be seated in first lady michelle obama's box in the gallery. alan gross was released from jail in cuba last month as president obama announced a move to normalize relations with the country.

in thanking the cops office ron davis and his greatñ helping us in going down this road.and with that, ron, let me turn to you for your final comments. >> okay. thank you, madam chair. thank everyone for being here. let me start with something that brian said, i just want to reinforce and say time and time again, and that is thank you to the cops office staff for putting this together. obviously the president announced this december 1st. the executive order was signed, and the task force members named on december 18th. here we are today, the first the second week of january. and i think all that shows the sense of urgency. the priority the importance of it. so i want to thank my team for the outstanding work that they've done. and just to give you a sense of for those who have been here most of today, this is the first of six. there are five more listening sessions like this. and so when you think about the robust -- the testimonies the discussions, how much in my 28 years of law enforcement, now year at the department of justice, how much i learned just today, i'm really