scenes trying to help us. i really, really, and my parents, my family, we all really appreciate what you ve done. well linda, we are so happy to see him free. thank you so much. and joining me from havana, new york congressman charlie rangel, but phone, he s been traveling, on camera, congressman, thank you very much. good to see you, tell me about your reactions in havana today. the people in havana are so excited. i m so proud to be an american. they re happy that this is going to allow them to become closer friends of america, and i m happy because it means that we ll have a stronger country with the support that cuba can give us in the hemisphere. and we ve heard from critics, marco rubio, mendes, what do you sty some of your colleagues in the house and senate who are going to fight this so hard? there s a lot the president can
or is it cool so far? no violence. a little hotheaded. anger and aggression toward the police but nothing violent. thank you so much. take care of yourself. joining me now, u.s. congressman gregory meeks and charles rangel. thank you for staying over tonight. congressman rangel, i ve known you forever. this reminds me of the old groucho marx thing, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? this picture is so stark and nothing in it suggests anything that mitigates against bad police work and in fact, lethal police work that shouldn t be the case. let s get away from all this legal thing. people think it is too complicated or we shouldn t talk about race. let s just try on talk about common sense. this one guy is the victim. he is dead. he is saying to the peel who asailed him, i cannot breathe. a group of people around him are in uniform. the man that died was, it was called a homicide.
prosecutors prosecute. both this case and ferguson, the one similarity is it looks like, i m not sure, that both prosecutors didn t want to prosecute. they didn t believe there was even probable cause anything was done wrong. how do they explain their behavior in this case? in both cases? i think that has to be part of the federal investigation also. because clearly, the d.a. controlled the process. as mr. rangel has indicated. we re both former prosecutors. when you re in with a grand jury, you present your witness. generally when you allow someone to come in to testify who is the defendant, it is really to get a transcript so you could use against him or her at trial. so, afterwards, you ask the grand jury for an indictment. we do need transcripts. i would like to know whether mr. donavan asked for an indictment after the conclusion of presenting the case to the grand jury. it seems to me something is wrong and peculiar here. so i think as part of, we will
conference that we had today. we had not only members of the congress tal black caucus there but we had others who were not members. joe crawley, others showing that we have to fix this problem as americans. i want to be a little morement on miss particular than mr. rangel. everybody sing more liberal than their parents. their kids are more liberal than they are and better on race. i can see it tracking. in three generations of my family. kids, our kids are who have are 20 years old. they don t even think about race. it never comes up them date across racial lines. i guess i m more hopeful about you than this. i m hopeful as hell. we ve come a long way since slavery. in just 50 years, it took 200 years, they gave us the voting rights act, the civil rights act. all deliberate speed. we re not saying that america is racist. it is probably just a handful of
it is a multiracial and mumt ethnic crowd that s out there. just as the new york city press conference that we had today. we had not only members of the congress tal black caucus there but we had others who were not members. joe crawley, others showing that we have to fix this problem as americans. i want to be a little morement on miss particular than mr. rangel. everybody sing more liberal than their parents. their kids are more liberal than they are and better on race. i can see it tracking. in three generations of my family. kids, our kids are who have are 20 years old. they don t even think about race. it never comes up them date across racial lines. i guess i m more hopeful about you than this. i m hopeful as hell. we ve come a long way since slavery. in just 50 years, it took 200 years, they gave us the voting rights act, the civil rights act.