days is hate crimes. yes. you were at a mosque in virginia yesterday. yes. the harvey milk school for lgbt kids in new york as well as here at stonewall. in terms of anti-muslim hate crimes, the biggest upsurge since 9/11 last year. yes. i know that the whole department of justice does not turn over with a new administration. that is true. the political appointees move on. the career attorneys and staffers stay. and you have said that we should basically be reassured by that. that the department of justice even with new political appointees will continue to defend people s rights, particularly on this issue of hate crimes. how does that work? if there are career lawyer, career staffers at doj who say this ought to be prosecuted as a hate crime and the people at the top of the justice administration who come in with a new administration say we don t like that concept, how does that play out? how does that work? every administration is going to pick its own priority, an
january. how do we know those crimes will continue to be prosecuted? and how do we make people feel comfortable reporting hate crimes to federal law enforcement in the age of trump? here s what the attorney general had to say one of the things that you ve been talking about in recent days is hate crimes. yes. you were at a mosque in virginia yesterday. yes. the harvey milk school for lgbt kids in new york as well as here at stonewall. in terms of anti-muslim hate crimes, the biggest upsurge since 9/11 last year. yes. i know that the whole department of justice does not turn over with a new administration. that is true. the political appointees move on. the career attorneys and staffers stay. and you have said that we should basically be reassured by that. that the department of justice even with new political appointees will continue to defend people s rights, particularly on this issue of hate crimes. how does that work? if there are career lawyer, career staffers at
the country switching gears from barack obama to donald trump, my god, think about the transition we re about to have between attorneys general loretta lynch and jefferson bogergard sessions iii. it s less of a gentle transition, more of a wheel screaming, use the hand brake, smoke belching u-turn. it s a little unsettling. are you feeling at all unsettled? yesterday our outgoing attorney general loretta lynch visited a mosque and islamic center in virginia. today she came to new york, visited the harvey milk school. and then while she was at stonewall, she sat down at the stonewall inn for an interview with me. attorney general lynch, thank you for making time to do this. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. is this, in fact, your first interview in a bar? it is my first interview in a
iii. it s less of a gentle transition, more of a wheel screaming, use the hand brake, smoke belching u-turn. it s a little unsettling. are you feeling at all unsettled? yesterday our outgoing attorney general loretta lynch visited a mosque and islamic center in virginia. today she came to new york, visited the harvey milk school. and then while she was at stonewall, she sat down at the stonewall inn for an interview with me. attorney general lynch, thank you for making time to do this. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. is this, in fact, your first interview in a bar? it is my first interview in a bar. well, i particularly appreciate it then. this, of course, is stonewall, newly designated national monument. yes. and the what is
god, think about the transition we re abt to have between attorneys general loretta lynch and jefferson bogergard sessions iii. it s less of a gentle transition, more of a wheel screaming, use the hand brake, smoke belching u-turn. it s a little unsettling. are you feeling at all unsettled? yesterday our outgoing attorney general loretta lynch visited a mosque and islamic center in virginia. today she came to new york, visited the harvey milk school. and then while she was at stonewall, she sat down at the stonewall inn for an interview with me. attorney general lynch, thank you for making time to do this. i appreciate it. thank you for having me. is this, in fact, your first interview in a bar? it is my first interview in a bar. well, i particularly appreciate it then. this, of course, is stonewall, newly designated national monument. yes.