Against of michael flynn. Thanks for joining us, im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. Tonight, the white house is stem from an internal memo that james comey wrote detailing his conversation with the president teisha lewis is live at the white house with more on the report. Reporter tonight more claims about President Trumps behavior that has the white house scrambling to defense him. This one coming tonight from the New York Times saying that President Donald Trump asked former fbi james comey to turn his head on the investigation into former National Security advisor michael flynn. Tonight the white house again is denying this report. Theres a battle heating up inside the white house and there was mixed reaction outside the white house. Lets go to this tweet. This one coming from oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman jason shave its coming out asserting if there is a memo, fbi director james comey describing President Trumps request to end an investigation if it exists. H
Against of michael flynn. Thanks for joining us, im tony perkins and im shawn yancy. Tonight, the white house is stem from an internal memo that james comey wrote detailing his conversation with the president teisha lewis is live at the white house with more on the report. Reporter tonight more claims about President Trumps behavior that has the white house scrambling to defense him. This one coming tonight from the New York Times saying that President Donald Trump asked former fbi james comey to turn his head on the investigation into former National Security advisor michael flynn. Tonight the white house again is denying this report. Theres a battle heating up inside the white house and there was mixed reaction outside the white house. Lets go to this tweet. This one coming from oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman jason shave its coming out asserting if there is a memo, fbi director james comey describing President Trumps request to end an investigation if it exists. H
Called it tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. We start with chris jansing. The president is calling for new task force and federal funds for community policing. What details to you have . Reporter big focus on ferguson. Lets start with what happened in ferguson. A lot of people who at the time said, part of it is the militarization of local Law Enforcement that they get some of this surplus equipment, tanks, highpowered ammunition and guns, and programs through Homeland Security that give them funding and that it was too much. It added to the tension there and increased the level of violence. Well, we just got the results of a review of that. And the decision that is suggested is no change in the program. That the real problem is the way et cetera its carried out. Take a listen to josh earnest a short time ago. What is needed, however s much greater consistency in oversight of these programs. Primarily in how these programs are structured, how theyre implemented and how the programs
without much control by the public. i mean, privacy is a very quickly diminishing object of life. and i think the corporations and even the government have made it even more difficult. gavin, i wanted to get your thoughts on the supreme court case that ari was just mentioning, a man who posted threats against his wife on facebook, also threats against an fbi agent and a kindergarten class. essentially the question here is what constitutes a true threat when it happens online. it-s it the intent of the person who posted it or the feeling and sense this was a credible threat by the person who was the subject of that attack. and i wanted to get your thoughts. we have seen a lot of journalists, anita, one example, facing these online threats and harassment. on the other hand, there s a free speech concern here about what you can and can t post. so, i wanted to see what you thought the appropriate balance here was. well, it s difficult for me
their consent or approval, who are in no way a warranted, probable cause. in other words, they ve been spied upon and nobody knows why they re being spied upon, except the principle appears to be, by the government, that you re entitled to take the public information of anybody. and use it in any way you want. i think that s the difficulty. the north koreans don t do this on this level. they do other things that are, perhaps, just as unpleasant. but the additional problem for journalists is, what is acceptable behavior by governments? and i think for us and for certainly for the symposium we re running in london s to examine those questions, because they re quite powerful questions. you definitely have people in the thick of the fights there. there s no doubt if we expect the press it can t be under the thumb of government surveillance. gavin mcfadden, thanks for being here today. up next, we head to the motherboard of the digital action on this, yes, maybe you ve heard of it,