were shot and went down. i walked up tiffin hill all the way up this hill, greta it s at least 200 yards to go up this hill. that would take a rifle, most witnesses said they heard three to four shots ring out. but, again, this is not a random shot, one would surmise having been in several war zones because that s a long shot. that s a difficult shot. and obviously they hit, not one, but two officers from that distance. we also know from a little perspective they were suggesting maybe from rooftops. but some of these businesses do obscure it. so it was perhaps more of a direct shot down this street right there where that happened, if that helps a little bit for the viewers to get some perspective on, perhaps what the lay of the land is here. griff, thank you. and you heard the police chief say the two wounded officers are lucky to be alive. both were released from the hospital this morning. and joining us is police association president gabe crocker. good evening sir. hi, greta.
regulations, if you are suspected driving drunk by uniform secret service officers you should do a sobriety test and shouldn t let those agents continue driving if they are drunk. it s one of the big questions that elijah cummings and i have. we re united in this and frustrated these people were allowed to go. if it s true the officers had suspected that these people had alcohol on their breath they were driving, that they impeded and got in the way of an active investigation, a potential bomb on the white house grounds, and the supervisor decides to let them go this is what is so terribly frustrating. then it begs the question wolf about what is the new secret service director doing about it? i think we re worried that he s not necessarily doing enough. that supervisor who let the two agencies continue on one of them by the way the number two agent on the president s personal security detail the other one a supervisor himself, the supervisor who said get out
newer pure ambush. this was not someone trying to bring healing to ferguson. this was a damn punk punk who was trying to sow discord in an area that is trying to get its act together and trying to bring together a community that has been fractured for too long. reporter: and the president of the united states also weighed in on the ferguson shootings on twitter. mr. obama wrote violence against police is unacceptable. our prayers are with the officers in missouri. path to justice is one all of us must travel together. that tweet was accompanied by the president s initials which means he authored it himself. i m sure he s very very angry as is the attorney general of the united states. joe, thanks very much. the shooting of those two police officers is adding to the tension that already has been quite extreme in ferguson over these many months. joining us now is jeff rohrda with the st. louis police
has the authority. but the problem is that you could have achieved it by putting a letter in a newspaper for instance, or making a statement from the floor. now you have got ayatollah khomeini saying signs of disintegrations in washington. mostly a propaganda play. you have brought them in sort of our dirty laundry sort of in a sense that, you know, it doesn t show sort of strength in numbers. now we look weaker than we might have looked. i don t really agree with that with all due respect. i think it was important for the ayatollah, who is a religious zealot with innocent blood on his hands. i have no respect for him or his regime. they are destabilizing the whole region. they have killed americans. they are trying to build a bomb not a nuclear power plant. they lie. so at the end of the day. i want the ayatollah to understand that our president doesn t have the ability on his own to waive congressional sanctions without our input and he is claiming he has that right. this is a cons
on the fire in the way they released the justice department report. i want your reaction. you are the president of the national urban league. so i think that s just another indication of people in ferguson being in denial. the attorney general and the justice department have a sworn oath to uphold the law and the constitution. under the 94 crime bill they have a right and obligation to investigate where there s a suggestion of a pattern and practice of constitutional and civil rights violation. they did their job. when they do their job, they are not pouring kerosene on anything. it s the denial it s the on few skags, the obstinance of the ferguson police to make this difficult. the right thing to do is indicate publically and very