incident. wait the da there is and murray xu burt, a tough on crime form robe look and who left the party during trump s presidency. she s now an independent. that has not stopped her from blaming democrats for a rise in the murder rate. just listen to her on fox in january criticizing progressive da s like alice george gascón and san francisco s chase aberdeen. if they want to dismantle the system, they try to talk tough, it s really just a show. when you actually follow them through with those cases, what we are seeing is that they are not really been tough on crime. what she conveniently did not mention was that homicides have also risen drastically in sacramento county, her county. last year, the city of sacramento saw its highest murder rate for 15 years. what is happening here is that republicans and a lot of democrats are falling back on their lazy tough on crime rhetoric and policies before progressive criminal justice reforms even have a chance to work or be implemented
investigator journalist and film maker. greg, always great to talk to you. i want to play one more clip from your piece about karen handle s role in potential ver suppression. before i do that, let s go to cut three. they did an article about karen and it says seven years ago he was chief elections officer. he was a top advocate for an innovative method of voter suppression. she even tried to prevent democratic candidates from appearing on the state s ballots. what she did is she instituted the voter i.d. law. we know in wisconsin from studies that we lost 300,000, mostly young people, poor people, voters of color. guess how they vote? in georgia it was even worse. and under her and her successor, who is running as a republican
skeptical social conservatives. i ll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of the world s most wanted terrorist. one year ago from bases here in afghanistan our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and denied a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. the trip wasn t without controversy, some critics accusing the president of playing politics with the anniversary of bin laden s death, questioning whether ro