going to continue to sue no matter what trump does with regulations, they re going to sue the epa with more regulations, remember when howard baker with the riverboat gamble a gamble. steve forbes has deviced something that s really clever, really putting congress on the spot. if it s going to cost the economy more than $50 million, 1$100 million a year, it has to go before congress, not just veto it but pass it so they take responsibility for some of this nonsense instead of saying, oh, it s out of my hands. accountability that may slow down the regulatory process. i think we should go further, let s repeal free federal statutes for every new one. so some hate crime legislation
the physical pieces of evidence will be huge in breaking this case. thank you. we have more breaking news. prosecutor in south carolina says the state will seek the death penalty against the alleged church shooter dylann roof the man prosecutors say admitted to gunning down nine people inside a historical black church in charleston. roof who s white facing 33 federal counts of murder including hate crimes. let s bring in phillip holloway. explain what needs to be argued in court to meet the death penalty standard in south carolina, phillip. nice to be with you, ana. they filed documents that said this crime meet it is definition for death penalty litigation in that state, specifically that more than one person was involved. i have said all along, i think back in june, i wrote an op-ed for cnn opinion on this and said, look, south carolina despite the fact of no hate
country. enough is enough. 60,000 police office ears salt aid year. that s not what they sign on to do. they soon to protect life and property. and they re, not out there to be assaulted by the general public. hate crime legislation to add us to that protected class would allow the american people to understand that the asass nation of a police officer is a biased event. and that they deserve that protection. sheriff, sorry, sonny, the sheriff in houston raised a lot of eyebrows, got a lot of support as well for saying that sort of heated rhetoric from members, some members of black lives matter movement has made it more difficult for police officers and linked it to the killing of this deputy though the sheriff admits we don t know exact low whly what the motive person was. that is being investigated do. you think a linkage can be made? inappropriate to make it so quickly? i do.
labeled sort of as a group under that particular statute. but to be clear any one that shoots an officer typically in each and every state that is a first degree murder charge. and so officers do get special protection under the law there is no question about that. i don t think it is appropriate to sort of ex-tetend that to ha crimes. would it be a deterrent? or just send a messmessage? send a message as hate crime legislation was originally designed to to do was to allow people the understanding that there are certain classes of individuals that are protected because of status for ethnic sexual preference, in these particular cases, the assassination of police officers is on the rise. nine last year. four this year. they re a protected class the they need to be protected. our police officers are out protecting the citizens of the
legislature and say we need hate crime legislation introduced right away. there is legislature, what can be done there and also on the ground level as far as the investigation goes i was reading that they are working with officials to investigate so therefore you would have the possible hate crime. looking at the surveillance video at the federal level. but where does the investigation stand? have they i.d. these people? i m not sure. i have been moving around doing the incredible work that ebenezer does all the time and i haven t spoken with law enforcement officials today. hopefully these individuals will be apprehended. after charleston you have to take this kind of thing seriously. we re not preoccupied by it but i hope they will apprehend them so that perhaps i ll get a chance to talk to them. after all, they came to the right place. they just came with the wrong message and maybe we can help