problematic. and we ll confirm that reporting as we speak. thank you, everybody. thank you for being with us. i want to welcome if congressman dan donavan, a republican back in his home state of new york in new york city this afternoon. back this your district, statten island. nice to have you here in person. i want you to react to everything we re talking about. do you agree there s a lack of a doctrine or do you defend donald trump and say, no, no, there is some cohesiveness to the strategy. i think this was a measured response to something we didn t predict. in syria. in syria. we all saw the atrocities during on film. children. and tre s a national security interest. isil has a safe haven in syria and if they get their hands on
more candidly about as well as the first lady just over the weekend. why? that s one question many folks have, why now in the sunset of the presidency. let s bring in nia mallika henderson. we re waiting to hear him speak in depth about the issue of race and speak candidly in light of the police custody deaths in baltimore and ferguson. and statten island. why do you think the president and first lady are taking such opportunity to speak out more now. i think partly events have demanded they do so. we ve had the last six to eight months with the events in ferguson, statten island and baltimore as well, events have dictated they respond to them. today you already heard him talk about poverty and race and poverty, so inextricably connected if you think about that neighborhood in baltimore where freddie gray lived, one in five folks there are unemployed and the poverty rate there extremely high and on that
cleveland p.d. police department. one of them is a wrongful death case and the other one is a federal civil rights case. i want to bring in two of our legal an analysts to figure out why this delay. legal analyst danny cevallos and paul callan to talk about the case. on the sur face it seems deplorable that a family would have to wait five to six months to bury their baby. is there something i m not seeing here, paul? it s absolutely shocking because most of these cases they re complex fact patterns a lot of moving parts here. this is a simple, straightforward case you can see it on the video or so it seems. so it seems. the so it seems part is that when you have a criminal investigation of police officers, they always take quite a while. look at what happened in ferguson and the statten island and chokehold case. couple months. the family has filed a civil rights action and part of that may be a wrongful death case as
excessive force such as well what was considered excessive force in ferguson in statten island, new york in cleveland. how do you explain how your community is responding? the community has responded the way that we were built to respond. we we put out the word beginning on saturday not long after the incident. that the family and the community leaders are calling for calm. the community responded by giving us what we asked for. right along with the fact that the transparency limited transparency we have with law enforcement in the beginning allayed some of the doubts and fears and apprehensions that create hostile situations. once the video was released most of the doubt, all of the doubt was taken away. thereby nobody really had that reason to be angry any more. because of lack of communication. but that did turn over yesterday again, after the press
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