that was nbc s ron mott reporting. one nypd member had his gun and badge removed and another placed on desk duty. in a statement to nbc news yesterday, the police union said, quote, not wanting to be arrested does not grant an individual the right to resist arrest. garner will be laid to rest tomorrow. gene, there s very little that we can do in this life of ours at this point in time that is not recorded. it is amazing. this recording is going to has obviously generated a great deal of unrest in new york city. no matter your race, no matter where you re from. one of the things that pops out at a viewer is the lack of response from the emts. we know what happens with the police, but the complete lack of response from the emts to a man who clearly isn t breathing at that point. i was going to say that was almost more outrageous than what the police did, but you can t
and so on that note, how is legislating in washington these days? some issues that you and i are aligned with, minimum wage, student loans, it s hard to get anything through. is it still in your soul to be a legislator in the current climate in washington? well, you have to keep you have to be optimistic, and you have to keep on working. how do you do that? the american people expect us and deserve for us to do that. but it s just a stunning thing that no matter what it is, if the president is for it, the republicans are against it, and that wasn t the way it was when we had the majority and president bush was president. we worked with we opposed him on the war in iraq and privatizing social security, but beyond that, we got many things accomplished working together. have you found any common ground on any issues in i mean, are we overstating the fact that nothing is happening in washington? no. you are not overstating it, but we did do one bill that the president is
how can you have peace if at the same time someone is incorporating the territory that is at issue, is building on it, is indicating that most of the territory will be part of israel and that the palestinians can be a second-class minority and essentially a militant israeli state? most israelis don t support that. most israelis are in favor of peace. the majority of the american-jewish community is in favor of peace. but the ideologues, hard-liners, the ones that promulgate confrontation are in charge, and that s what s so hard and so disgustingly destructive for both israelis and the palestinians. mark halperin. secretary albright, do you trust prime minister netanyahu and the israeli government, the israeli military to have proportionality in this ongoing military operation? i don t think it s a matter of trust. it s a matter of the fact that they need to understand that, in fact, they are losing their moral authority. we all, i think, believe in the
the men leading other institutions, political institutions in gaza and throughout the middle east, are any of them man enough to sit down and cut a cease-fire deal? i think there are some politicians in israel who are men enough and women enough to do that. i don t include prime minister netanyahu in that category. i think madeleine put it extremely well. the issue is larger than just gaza. the issue is peace between israel and the palestinians. the peace, if there were one, would result in a large measure of the problem in gaza. the fact is that honest, dedicated efforts to produce that peace by our secretary of state, by the president of the united states, by previous leaders of the united states, previous secretaries of state of the united states like madeleine, for example, have made that effort. it s been started by mr. netanyahu. that s the fact of the matter.
briefing peter baker of the new york times, tweeted that at the very moment he was criticizing the use of anonymous sources by the press, the white house had just e-mailed a notification of a background, anonymous white house briefing for reporters. mark, this isn t unusual. i mean, anonymous sources are used all the time. you d like to not use them if you could, but frequently you need them to get to a story. there were many people on the record in this washington post piece. including a report. i think this administration like its predecessors has just gone to reflectively make too many things on background. in the end i actually think it s a little bit overrated as a thing. the person s name doesn t matter to me all that much. it would be better if it was on the record, but i think if the it s a silly debate, and i think josh earnest did get a little bit caught in criticizing anonymous sources because he knows full well that that s the