gun, anyone, you see the list of things it patrol special has, handcuffs, a baton, has to have unimpeachable, unassailable credibility. we talk about that. people feeling safe. i think we have an obligation to look at really what happens. what we have is a patrol special who is not authorized as a peace officer. does not have that status. attempting to, based on the specifications, represent themselves by word or by deed as a peace officer to get a glock 15 rounds. if you looked at the guns, i agree with strong advocacy on behalf of mr. silver but the facts are not in your favor. it is very clear what guns that are able to have. it is like a .38 and .357 magnum. i think the risk to get a weapon at the regular public cannot get is serious enough to warrant termination. >> if i might. to clarify the motion as i understood it. based upon the fact that the current -- vice president marshall: aye. commissioner dejesus: aye. commissioner chan: aye. commissioner turman: aye. commissioner loftus: aye. president mazzucco: motion passes, 5-0. >> i need to talk to the city attorney but there are instru

as the new attorney general, i have today named elliott richardson, a man of unimpeachable integrityigorously high principle. i have directed him to do everything necessary to ensure that the department of justice has the confidence and the trust of every law-abiding person in this country. i have given him absolute authority to make all decisions bearing upon the prosecution in the watergate case, and related matters. i have instructed him that if he should consider appropriate, he has the authority to name a special supervising prosecutor for matters arising out of the case. whatever may appear to have been the case before, whatever improper activities may yet be discovered in connection with this whole sordid affair, i want the american people, i want you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that during my term as president, justice will be pursued fairly, fully, and impartially, no matter who is involved. this office is a sacred trust. and i am determined to be worthy of that trust. looking back at the history of this case, two questions arise. how could it have happened? who is to

that thought, then we're going to get to -- >> -- that john dean testimony became solidified as unimpeachable. >> there are people in this audience who think of fred thompson as a dramatic performer in "law & order." for historians, fred thompson's greatest role was when he asked a particular question to alexander butterfield. would you please set that up? because that changes the whole investigation. maybe also his life, i don't know, but certainly the whole investigation. so senator, tell us about asking alexander butterfield the big questions. >> this was a monday. the friday afternoon before, staff had come to us and said, we've just been interviewing a guy by the name of alexander butterfield. and there's a taping system in the white house. we immediately went to urban and baker and over the weekend they decided to -- that we needed to immediately, you know, get in before the cameras. so that happened monday. >> and wereou