than two dozen recommendations that present joe biden is calling for legislative reform in congress. alex? he sure is. okay jesse, thank you for that. so, paul what do you believe are the most egregious actions by a minneapolis police restarting the doj s report? alex, word even start. you watch everything the cops did to george floyd, they have done too many other people. the report says that they fired their guns at unarmed people who were just calling 9-1-1. police used deadly force against people who were committing suicide, they refused to provide medical assistance to a diabetic woman who they arrested. she was lying on the street, crying in pain and they put her in a restraint jacket. the last five years, media plus has paid more than $70 million in police misconduct settlements. that was a stunning figure
right there. so quickly fall, you think the doj findings have a broader implication for other police departments across the country? definitely. when there is a systemic problem of police misconduct, the justice department can take over the local departments, so consent decrees help reduce police misconduct in the short term. they are expensive, they can take a lot of time, sometimes the improvements only last as long as the federal oversight lasts. but there is success stories. like in baltimore, 227-page detailed comprehensive plans but alex, last year shootings by police officers in baltimore were down almost 80%. okay. all right, thank you for that point. jesse, thank you as much. paul, i m gonna ask you to stick around because i would talk to you a bit more a minute. after a rough week for the former president, two new headlines that will likely give him a headache. we re gonna show them to you next. connect your business,
democrats with a third party presidential run in 2020. for the group no labels has come under heavy criticism for plans to back a third party candidate, but now, one of the national chairs tells the organization will end its efforts if joe biden s way head next spring. back, with me robert, gibbs fara white house press secretary, and elise jordan, former aide to the george w. bush white house, state departments both mc political analyst. , elise this third-party business goes beyond no labels. but overall, how does the prospect of a third party affect the 2024 race? when you know, alex, just to, start you have to give no labels props. they ve been around for over a decade. and what exactly do they do? they ve managed to raise a lot of money. so you gotta give them props for. that i, near the third party, the bid is an organizational
someone we hardly welcome back to the podcast. it s congressman swalwell right. how do you interpret these attacks to the doj? absolutely, alex, it s great to see. you but one of the things i want to make clear is the party of law and order is now saying, hey defund law. enforcement the party that backs the blue is also the party that was bashing the blue on january 6th. i need people to see the hypocrisy that is continually permeating this party. and honestly, if you are a real republican, like old school republican, you should be offended in saying, hey i want nothing to do with this. because this is in the republican party. this is something completely different. this is far reaching, it is definitely tearing us apart. it is already starting. and we know that they do not believe in law and order. do you get a sense any of
florida governor ron desantis, robert. look, these trump numbers feel stunning in that they have not dipped. determine brett sphere trump winning the nomination for a, the sake of the country or be, do they want him to make it because they think he is an easier general election opponent? how about c, all of the above, alex. i do think in some ways that there are democrats who believe that the easiest opponent for joe biden to beat is don t trump. obviously, what happens if we saw this in 2016, if you are the republican nominee, you ve got at least you have a 50/50 chance of being president. i don t know many democrats that want to go back to 2016 and to what happened obviously in that election. i would just the one thing i would say about the national polling in this, and i ve said this a lot before too, this race is going to change a lot of the republican side based on what happened in iowa and new hampshire.