senior officer for civil rights? can you talk about that, what we might see? that was one of the recommendation that the task force made to the mayor early on. clearly one of the thing that s we have to wrestle with and we ve already started that process is better and more proper engagement between the police democrpartment and the c and the citizens it s sworn to serve and protect. that is mission one. at the end of our process, if we haven t set the foundation for trust and accountability and transparency so that people in the neighborhoods, people who are affected by policing every day have confidence that when they call for police they re going to get somebody who understands who they are and is respectful and is discharging their responsibilities in the right way, if we don t accomplish that, then we will have failed in our mission. i am confident that we will get there because we are going to be addressing fundamental issues, accountability, supervision, training. we are going
enforcement officials who told cnn it does not appear there are any indications that there is somebody outside, a terror network or individual, who intentionally may have given money to farook and malik in order to finance the terror plot. but, as you mentioned, the finances are still something they re digging into so they haven t drawn any conclusions just yet. but they are looking very closely at a former neighbor, right, a former neighbor of the male shooter a man named enrique marquez. why are they still so interested in him? reporter: well, he, again, is the person who they ve now tracked a couple of the weapons to. he purchased two ar-15s that were used in the attack. what we ve learned about enrique marquez is he used to be the next-door neighbor to the farook family. in fact, we were out in that neighborhood yesterday talking with neighbors who say that they did see farook and marquez working together on cars in farook s family garage. now, marquez apparently has been talki
top of the ticket down or all democrats. and that has nothing to say about the merit of the judge, the experience, the wisdom. that s why it s a broken system. accountability doesn t work in this context. what was your experience like when you ran for the high court there in the lonestar state? it was not good. if there s a silver lining, it was that i got to meet people all around the state. but there are 26 million people in texas. and there s no way you can reach all of them or even a good proportion of them. and then you have advocacy groups who come to you and say, we want you because we want you to vote this way. yeah. which represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what judges do. bert, we should note here that this has not always been the case in this country. this is a somewhat recent phenomenon over the last few decades. how did we get here? the big bang was the year 2000. that s when money really began to flow in nationally. we d seen it in a couple of states