Dr. Carson im probably never going to be politically correct because im not a politician. Gwen fiorina. Carly we know the only way to reimagine our government is to reimagine who is leading it. Gwen and Huckabee Mike government in washington is dysfunctional because its the roach motel. People go in but they never come out. Gwen while the leading democrat weighs in on immigration secretary clinton we cant wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Gwen leaving her husband and daughter to defend the work of their family foundation. Covering the week pete williams, justice correspondent for nbc news, pierre thomas, senior justice correspondent for abc news, jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for cnn, and Laura Meckler political reporter for the wall street journal. Announcer awardwinning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. Live from our Nations Capital this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. 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Thats section 215, which allows the government to gather phone records en masse and store them for later search. A federal court says its illegal. But is it . Here are the facts. Your Grocery Store collects 10 times the amount of data that the n. S. A. Ever thought about collecting on you. Theres a big difference between the n. S. A. And your Grocery Store. The n. S. A. Doesnt sell data. Your Grocery Store does. Gwen what congress thinks is important, because thats where this will end up. But first, what was the courts reasoning, pete . Pete this is the Second Circuit court of appeals in new york and theyre talking about the authority to gather all this bulk data. This is the socalled metadata, who you call and how long the call lasts not the call itself. The court said they were given this power under the patriot act to sort of act like a grand jury and investigate but it has to be going after something relevant in an investigation. The government says we are, were investigating the war on terrorism and need to store these records so we can look at them later. The court said the patriot law just doesnt give the n. S. A. The authority to do this. The court did say, you know, maybe the government is right and maybe they ought to be able to do this is, but if thats the case, congress has to give them the authority to do it. Gwen so then this lands in congress lap . Pete its definitely in congress lap because you mentioned the authority for the patriot act expires june 1. The court did a very interesting thing. They said were not going to blow the whistle on this program, even though we think its illegal. Well send it back to the District Court and see what congress does. So the court did not slut it down . Pete right. They said its definitely illegal and has to be fixed but they threw it back into congress face. Laura what are we expectling from congress now . Theres such an odd collection of people, an Unusual Coalition of people. Pete senator mcconnell would just like to flat reup it, turn it back on again with no changes for five years. That seems pretty unrealist. Hes willing to entertain a short term so they can debate something later. 9 house has a different version that basically says the government cant collect anything. The phone companies would collect it and when the government wants to go diving in for data, they would have to have a specific court order for it. If it disapeered disappeared, what would happen . Pete what they do is they find a terrorist somewhere in london anywhere, you a as you know and look through the terrorists cell phone and say this is who the terrorist called, lets dip into their data and then they go up one more hop and can go investigate. You were there talking to the f. B. I. Director this week and said what happens if they lose this . He said its a tool and we like if have all the tools we can but if at the lose it well continue right on. I think the intelligence community, given the choice of what to throw overboard, who choose this. Gwen maybe its classified and they cant say this but wouldnt the smple defense be to say heres how it helped, here are the number of cases . Pete you way may remember this didnt work so well the last time when the n. S. A. Director came up to the hill and the story kept changing. Its a difficult thing to quantify because you never know precisely how important it was. It doesnt appear to have been hugely successful but again, in the war on terror they want to have every tool they can possibly have. And if, even if the congress does come up were a fix, what the court said was even if the Congress Gives them the tort authority to do this, thats only half the battle because then well decide whether its constitutional or not. Gwen the new attorney general has said theyre backing down on it too . Pete the torge already said it should not be reupped the way it is now. Gwen first they delayed her nomination. Then they confirmed her. Then the hard part began. Just days into the job attorney general Loretta Lynch has been confronted with National Security challenges and domestic unrest just up the road in baltimore. Today she announced she would launch a federal civil rights probe of the Baltimore Police department. Attorney general lynch it was clear to a number of people looking at the situation that the communitys rather frayed trust, to use an understatement, was even worse and has in effect been severed in terms of the relationship with the Police Department. Gwen the Justice Department has also investigated Police Practices in ferguson, philadelphia, and cleveland. What does this one look like pierre . Different or the same . Pierre the sail. They will look at does this exist a pattern and practice of Excessive Force . Do they do lil yell searches and seizures . Theyll be look at how the Police Department conducts investigations. The investigation will also look at the nature and makeup of the leadership of the department, were told and also they will look at the department in terms of how it disciplines itself. Its a very he sweeping investigation and shee shows shes got to get this right because that city, as you saw last week, is a finneder box. Gwen does it make a difference that the mayor and police chief actually welcomed this asked for the investigation . Pierre theres a spirit of cooperate it seems between the mayor and Police Department and Justice Department but once the Justice Department gets in there and starts gig digging around they may find some things that are unflattering. Then the question is will you will you agree to any reforms the Justice Department recommends . Because it they dont, they can then go to a court and force you to comply. Pete you both were reporters in baltimore, on the sufpblet it did seem like the attorney general today was not sort of arms akimbo like going into furg ferguson but very much with the hope that this will not only answer the civil rights question but also really a healing thing. Pierre i think she does believe that this could help. The community is looking for somebody outside the city of baltimore to resolve the issues and i think the feeling is the Justice Department stepping in, sort of in the way it did in the 1960s to deal with a controversial issue, could be healing. Laura whats going to happen . Its easy to talk about healing if he front end of an investigation but if they come out with all sorts of unflattering things about the police gwen or say the Six Police Officers are not charged or indicted on or convicted ultimately . Pierre shes got two tiers going on right now. There is is the Justice Department investigation into what happened to mr. Gray. In is again looking at the pattern and practice of the Police Department. There are a couple of vaff avenues to resolve it. You saw in ferguson they didnt get a charge against the police get but the Justice Department went in and said your Police Department is pretty foul in the way it treats africanamericans so you have to make commaze. Jeff what are her other agenda items in the short time she has left in the administration . Pierre i think the biggest agenda she has right snow terrorism. We heard this week how isis is usualing social media in unprecedented ways to leverage people inside the United States and he talks about the fact that they are not only recruiting people using social media, theyre also telling them to, quote, kill kill, kill. It was a pretty com somber moment in the interview yesterday, again a small number of reporters pleeting with the f. B. I. Director and he started speaking in those terms. The concern is that people following them on twitter online could suddenly act in the way you saw in texas last sunday. Pete could i just ask one other question about the civil rights investigation. Dont you get the impression that sometimes Police Departments are happy to have the duss Justice Department come in . That they could end up making changes they couldnt on their own . Pierre exactly. And they can use these investigations to get rid of rogue officers. The one thing im picking up on from Police Officers around the country is that they now know because so many have cameras, that had the rogue officers get caught on tape its going to be seen. Week now see what happens when ugly activity gets caught on tape by Police Officers. Gwen is it that stakeholders are more interested in cooperating with Loretta Lynch than with her predecessor . Pierre its going to be interesting the shes got a honeymoon period jeff and when the honeymoon is over, the administration will be over greg thats crew. Gwen thats true. Lame duck status. Thank you. Well see. Gwen as the republican political field continues to take shape, it was generally agreed that this was a longshot week where three new candidates, two of whom have never held elected office, decided why not . But are they really long shots . Each has a message he or she believes will work. Carly fiorina not Hillary Clinton. Shes a hardworking, intelligent woman, but shes also a personification honestly, of the professional political class. There are republicans who are members of the professional political class. But Hillary Clinton will be the nominee for the Democratic Party and she is who i, if i am the nominee of the republican party, will run against. Gwen Mike Huckabee not from washington. Mike i dont have a Global Foundation or a taxpayerfunded paycheck to live off of. I dont come from a Family Dynasty but a working family. I grew up blue collar, not blue blood. Gwen and ben carson, not a politician. Dr. Carson i dont want to be a politician because politicians do what is politically expedient and i want to do whats right. We have to think about that once again in our country. Gwen and then there were six. How does the field look now, jeff . Jeff crowded. And were only halfway there. There are so many more announcements to come. Lets start with Mike Huckabee. Among republicans hes definitely the most well known of the three. Hes been on fox news every night on his show and he actually won the Iowa Caucuses in 2008. Its always helpful to be running a second time, i think. The biggest question is if he will be able to stand expand the you have universe of people who supported him last time. He won because of social conservatives. He was surprised he won the Iowa Caucuses. He did not have any money. Mitt romney was spending all this money. But hes a very good speaker. He went after one every one of his republican rivals there, and of course, i am not a blue blood i wonder who he is talking about . Maybe jeb bush . Interesting race and i would not write him off the gwen Carly Fiorina has run a big business successfully, some say not so successfully. Where is her support . Jeff she dwrarn ran for senate in california against Barbara Boxer a couple years. She has was the c. E. O. Of hewlettpackard and had to lay off 300,000 people in her tenure. One of them happened to remember this and he happened to take ownership of the web site carlyfiorina. Org and he put all these grievances he hads. So they she was dealing with that this week. But her entrance in the race may take gender off the table a little bit and sleel be an interesting figure in the race but she doesnt have the experience to be president. Gwen did she lay off 300,000 or 30,000 . Jeff i believe 30,000. Gwen wour. Well check that. Laura going back to hawk bee, he does seem to be the most viable. Can he expand beyond his core group . And is there more competition for those voters this time around . Jeff great question. The lane is so crowded there. Rick santorum is in there as well. But one thing going for him is the primary calendar. If he happens to win iowa, he goes on to south carolina, a primary state and then at the beginning of march is the socalled s. E. C. Primary, all these southern states. He thinks that is his entryway. Im not sure he can raise the money. Pete are they talking about anyone other than hillary . Jeff not a lot. She is the best way for them to get on television. She definitely is a punching bag but Mike Huckabee is one exception. He was spaking speaking this pop ulist message and thats what were hearing from both sides. Pete other than huckabee are the other two in it to win, like carson, in it to win or to change the fombs the issues . Jeff i think hes in it to well, why not . Why not run for president . Hes constitutionally eligible and hes the newest person in politics. Hes a brain surgeon by training. He was speaking at the National Prayer breakfast in 2013. President obama was a few feet away and he gave a very impressive speech but he also said some pretty outlandish things. That obama crear was worse than slaferey. Gwen he likened the president to a psychopath at one point. Laura would he make some of the other candidates seem more moderate perhaps . Jeff perhaps but once theyre on the debate stage, the fear from the republican establishment is what effect will he have . Gwen are these three watching and making decisions are we watching rick snider the governor of michigan, saying hes not going to run. Do they say, if he can run, i can run . Jeff not necessarily because many are sitting governors and they have other things to do with their time. These people are generally just running for president. We have three senators. Marco rubio, rand paul, ted cruz. The others coming up, jeb bush, scott walker, and a couple others, thats probably what the field is going to look like. Gwen very interesting point. I heard Governor Jindal is going to announce after his louisiana General Assembly session is over. Thats because hes got a job the jeff and jeff rick perry. We always forget him. Gwen right. On the democratic side of the 2016 equation so far its all about Hillary Clinton. And no one appreciates that more than the former secretary of state. So she has talked about criminal justice and gay rights and, this week, immigration reform. Secretary clinton make no mistake, today not a single republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status, that is code for secondclass status. Gwen much like the republicans itching to run against her Hillary Clinton is on fast forward to the general election. But first, she has to compete against herself. Is there a method to the her policy strategy madness, laura . Laura i think there is both a primary election and a general election strategy. We saw her talking very strongly about immigration. You remember that executive action the president put in place that hes being sued over . She said yeah, ill keep it good ill look to expand it. Shes wrong about there being no republican who suportss it. Lindsay graham, who we didnt mention before has been a clear and consistent supporter of a path to citizenship. But putting that aside, she is absolutely positioning herself to appeal both to latino 02 voters who have had skepticism about her over the years and are used to getting shafted politically, honestly. Jeff with the changing demographics of the country, how will this helper her . She was making that speech in neff. Coincidence . Laura i do not think thats a coincidence. Nevada has 18 of its eligible voters latino. It is one of the states thats been competitive the last several times tanned that the hispanic vote really matters. She really is looking ahead to that and the republicans are in such a mess over immigration, they know they have to improve their standing with the hispanic voters. Mitt romney did very bl with white voters but it wasnt enough to overcome how poorly he did with minorities. There is so much hostility that is viewed against anything that is viewed as amnesty that they dont feel they can really fully come out for it. She has to constantly keep answering these gezz questions about the Clinton Foundation and the money. Is she lucky that this book came out now . Will anybody remember it in november . Laura im shall i suppose in some sense its better for it to come out now than later. Basically its a lot of inwendoo did innuendo, you have a lot of foreign donors giving money to the Clinton Foundation and of course shes secretary of state. There hasnt been any evidence of a quid pro quo and thats what her campaign is emphasizing. But does it look good . Im not sure it looks real good and weve got 18 months for this to germinate. Im not sure its ez necessarily an openandshut situation. We saw this week, bill clinton in africa, theyre talking to reporters, looking to highlight the good work of the foundation which he did some of but he got questions about the contributions and stumbled a little bit i think. Has she weathered the email controversy . Laura i dont think its ever going to go away. I think at some point it gets baked into the cake and people are going to make their assessments gwen isnt she going to have to answer questions about it . Laura yes, before the special Committee Later this month. Well see what comes out there. Its hard for me to imagine a lot of new information coming out of that hearing either about the emails or the underlying benefits aggie benghazi issue. Gwen before we go tonight, we send condolences to the family of jim wright, the former speaker of the house, who passed away this week. Like many of the texans who came to washington, he was a larger than life presence. He was elected to the house 17 times before resigning under a cloud in 1989. Jim wright was 92 years old. We have to go now. But as always, the conference continues online. You can find the Washington Week webcast extra later tonight and all week long at pbs. Org washingtonweek. Where, among other things, well talk about how isis is using social media to recruit young americans. Keep up with developments with me and Judy Woodruff on the pbs newshour and well see you here next week on Washington Week. Happy mothers day. Good night. Announcer Corporate Funding for Washington Week is provided by we asked people to tell us something that happened in their past and something that might happen in their future. 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