philadelphia to bring a sort of libertarianish message as he likes to say to communities where he thinks it might actually have appeal. this is potentially a pig moment for him to sort of align himself with those that are concerned about this down there. obviously there s a lot of concern about it and to tout his work on criminal justice reform. remember, this is somebody who has worked actively in congress to work on drug sentencing reform, prison reform and this conceivably fits into it. he was also one of the most outspoken republicans in the wake of the ferguson incident last summer. also want to ask you here about this new quinnipiac poll showing senator paul leading hillary clinton here in the swing states of colorado and iowa and slightly trailing her in virginia. okay granted, this is still very early on. hillary, yes, she has her headquarter space in brooklyn hasn t announced yet so of course we ve got to throw out the grain of salt. we re talking about a dump truck of salt
video that s been seen by millions around the world, that does not guarantee a conviction. i want you to start by elaborating on that and why you re so convinced that what we ve seen doesn t necessarily mean that this officer is going to be convicted. you know we ve had damning video evidence in the past that hasn t resulted in any action against the people involved in the video, for example eric garner, right? we saw that as a nation and there was no indictment returned. here in l.a. a video that hits even closer to home is the rodney king beating. it saturated the airwaves for weeks and months and there was videotaped evidence. a simi valley jury acquitted the officers of doing anything wrong and led to one of the greatest urban uprisings in american history, and they were retried by another jury and convicted, but just because you have that video evidence doesn t mean that the jury is necessarily going to conclude that what the officer
are, in catching up, cleaning up our streets. so the current situation, frankly, is that in my opinion most of the main thoroughfares, main streets have been at least plowed once. many of our side streets as we speak right now, at 1:30 eastern time in new york city have not been touched, many have not been touched, so we have some catching up to do, for sure. i know one thing, that the department of sanitation, day and night around the clock, with all the manpower, womanpower they have, they are definitely working at a feverish rate to catch up. marty, if you say the response falls on all city officials, what professional responsibility are you taking in the fact that brooklyn hasn t seen clean streets? listen, we all have to take responsibility, and i m not shying away. you know, the sanitation