Family. The citi foundation. Supporting innovation and enabling urban progress. Sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. Germany has accepted more than a million Asylum Seekers in the past year, and today anti immigrant sentiment was on display there in response to new years eve assaults on women, allegedly by migrants. In koln, germanys fourth largest city, hundreds protested against the new migrants and refugees, who are mostly from the middle east and north africa. Police dispersed crowds with Water Cannons after some protesters threw firecrackers and
Getting a signal from the judge none of our defense theories would be allowed. Thats exactly what happened. Our witnesses got excluded. The government had 46 witness, we had eight. Our defense theory is the most important aspects were excluded. We never had a good chance to put on a good defense the jury needed to hear. At the jury for the announcement today. Welcome, alex. Take us to the scene of the courthouse. What was that like . It was packed. It was fairly packed and theres been intense interest in the case from the beginning, part of that is due to the fact that the former state senator, leland dee was involved in this sweeping indictment that charged 24, a couple dozen people with criminal, federal criminal charges. It was a five year investigation and cost millions on in taxpayer dollars. Getting back to the chou case, 162 counts, how did that come about . Thats a lot of counts. 130 some odd of the counts are Money Laundering transact n transactions. Those are grouped in one l
Schools. Michelle obama said yesterday that School Districts that hold back on efforts to emigrate, others say success has been made. Schooloughts on segregation and if it is still an issue in this day and age. Heres how you can make your thoughts known. We divided the line regionally. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of brown versus board of education, First Lady Michelle Obama in kansas making comments that only about the state of education and her experiences, but also segregation issues as she sees that race saying raised inequality still exists and that School Districts have pulled back on efforts to integrate, even as schools are becoming less diverse. Much has been made of a study that came out of ucla this week. Amongst the study, they put several charts taking a look at most integrated states for black students. This is for 2011 and 2012. Earlier this week in the pages the wall street journal here is some of what she wrote in the wall street journal pages. Again, we will tak
Congress. The senate is mostly debating on judicial nominations. Starting at 2 15, whether to confirm john lie for the u. S. Court of appeals in the seventh circuit and a vote on advancing andre mathis, President Bidens dom knee to the 6th Circuit Court of appeals. How live to the floor of the senate on cspan2. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God, you are life, wisdom, truth, and blessedness. You are our hope and the center of our joy. Lord, the founders of this great nation walked in your guidance and rested in your compassion. Unite us so that we can do your will. Remove from us all evil desires and empower us to embrace the good. Speak to our senators so that they may understand your will for our nation and world. Illuminate their understanding with beams of celestial grace. Make us thankful for the privilege of prayer. May we never take it for granted. And, lord, we continue to pray for ukraine. We pray in your merciful name.
Mccaskill announced today shell hold a Senate Hearing on the militarization of the police next month. A response to those shocking images of officers in Armored Vehicles pointing long guns at citizens in the early days of the protests. While the unrest over the shooting of mike brown seems to be calming down, supporters for his killer, officer Darren Wilson are organizing. Yesterday a prowilson rally in st. Louis was attended by only 100 according to one report, buu so, i know the pain of that, and the fact that he was a Police Officer and killed in the line of duty had nothing to do with any of that. What it did for me, or to me, was made me, i think, a fierce advocate for victims of a÷ hes saying hes not going to recuse himself from the case, shooting of Michael Brown. He thinks that would be a dereliction of duty on his part. He says you have the authority to order him off case. I have to read you some of the quotes because hes been pointed in what what he said about you. Your refu