The technical charges are abuse of official capacity and also coercion of a public servant. If convicted of these felonies, governor perry faces a maximum prison term of ten years for the coercion charge, and a range of five years to 99 years for the other felony charge. Now, these charges center on rick perrys public efforts to remove from office a democratic elected state official in texas. That democrat is named Rosemary Lehmberg. Shes the District Attorney for Travis County, texas, where the state capital of austin is located. Of course, texas is a red state, but austin and Travis County, thats a blue dot in the middle of red state texas. Those places lean democratic, both the county and austin itself. And that actually ends up being potentially a really important part of this story. Because when you are the District Attorney of Travis County, as Rosemary Lehmberg is, youre not just the d. A. For that one county. Travis county is where the state capital is, and the d. A. For Travis
Republican governor, rick perry. Hes charged with two felony counts of abuse of power. The technical charges are abuse of official capacity and also coercion of a public servant. If convicted of these felonies, governor perry faces a maximum prison term of ten years for the coercion charge, and a range of five years to 99 years for the other felony charge. Now, these charges center on rick perrys public efforts to remove from office a democratic elected state official in texas. That democrat is named Rosemary Lehmberg. Shes the District Attorney for tav Travis County, texas, where the state capital of austin is located. Of course, texas is a red state, but austin and Travis County, thats a blue dot in the middle of red state texas. Those places lean democratic, both the county and austin itself. And that actually ends up being potentially a really important part of this story. Because when you are the District Attorney of Travis County, as Rosemary Lehmberg is, youre not just the d. A.
Ground. Wolf blitzer is off. Im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. City leaders in ferguson, missouri, issue an urgent plea for quiet and reconciliation follow another night of violence, gunshots, firebombs and clouds of tear gas. Hear the latest developments. The city of ferguson is urging people to stay home tonight and allow peace to settle in and let the justice process run its course. 78 people were arrested last night and jail records show many of them came from out of state. Authorities and protest organizers are blaming the violence on a small number of agitator. Theres also been another Police Shooting near ferguson. St. Louis Authorities Say officers shot and killed a young africanamerican man who allegedly advanced on them with a knife. The police are now moving the media out of our broadcast location there in ferguson. But our correspondents are analysts and guests are standing by with complete coverage. We start with cnn National Correspondent jaso
And thank you to martin. Great to see you. Youll see him tomorrow. Thank you so much. Have a great day. 11 00 eastern hour. Newsroom starts right now. We begin with breaking news. Police have charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group. They have identified the second person present at the subway attacks in brussels. Police also carrying out new raids today in the brussels neighborhood. Dozens of Police Officers moving into the area as residents are evacuated. This comes a day after the arrest of six more suspects in the brussels and paris attacks. We have full coverage at the scene of the raid and our terror analyst is also standing by. Let me begin with you at the scene. What more can you tell us about the charges and the raids . We certainly found out more about what the raid was about. One of the things the police have told us is that the raids took place on the third and fourth floor of the building that you see there behind me. We have spoken to residents an
Making sure we are not making a mistake. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as attorney general, you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last, let me just say in my six years here, in addition to not working with us on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform, you have been one of the few senators to the president were to attempt to overriled that, what actions would you take . On your previous question, i would note that federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more per krenltd and will drop another 10,000 this year. What is happening is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And that represents the most serious on finders. Our federal dea and u. S. Attorneys are prbting more serious cases. Prbting more serious cases. With regard to the torture issues, i watched them for some time. And have been co