max, different than anywhere else in the western democracy world. i don t know if i were facing that decision whether i d prefer i think i would like to live and i think that this edge is spiritual but as long as there s life, there s possibilities for redemption and growth and coming that sort of that sentence doesn t leave room for redemption really. if this 22-year-old man never going to have physical contact with another human being. not in the eyes of the law but the deep spiritual sense that he could come to terms to what he did. feel genuine regret and ask for forgiveness. that is sort the terms which i think about it in a personal matter. from the policy perspective, should we have super max? unclear to me that we should and super max, in the sense of like a security issue? like that s not really what is happening here. it is punishment for the sake of that kind of punishment. very complicated thing here
hours ago in her first congressional testimony as attorney general loretta lynch promised a swift decision whether to launch a civil rights investigation into the baltimore police department. we re currently in the process of considering the request from city officials and community and police leaders for an investigation into whether the baltimore city police department engaged in a pattern or practice of civil rights violations. and i intend to have a decision in the coming days. testimony came one day after the city s mayor, stephanie rawlings blake, made a public plea to look into police abuses and days after lynch s most visit to the city. but baltimore isn t alone. trying to come to terms with the history of abuse within the ranks of law enforcement. yesterday, the chicago city council passed a rare
and i think if i was a defense attorney, i d talk about at a super max, he s never going to see anybody, talk to anybody, not unless you want to. jackie what do you think about our ability to sort of i think navigate the nuances of this particular part of it which is really the whole, there was the guilt trial but i think the sentencing phase brings to the fore these moral conundrums around this act. we haven t really had a societal debate about the death penalty for a long time and i think it brings that up too. and to your point about seeing things either black or white or shades of gray i think it s a lot easier to see things in black and white and not have to think about, you know, that someone can do something horrible and not be a totally horrible person. i don t envy those jurors. they have a tough decision. what jackie just said it occurs to me we have had a lot of debates by the death penalty, they ve been procedural logistic, been about innocence,
most it s a swift decision by the president. it s definitely decisive. it definitely communicates that he s serious about this, but he was not the guy in charge of the irs when all of this went down. no. a bush appointee, doug shulman, was, and miller was fired. there s no two ways about it. they fired him. the amazing part of this is, lois lerner, she s the one who was in the loop. she s the one who bungled this. the irs confirmed to me tonight she has not resigned. that is absolutely appalling, and i will be very surprised if 24 hours from now ms. lerner has not resigned. if she hasn t, i think that would be very dishonorable of her. and you say that because as far as we know from the i.g. report, reporting that s come out, the furthest up this really went was to lerner. she was the furthest up in the chain who really knew what was going on as it was playing out.
independently wanted these changes. that s just what they told us in this private briefing. there s no evidence of that. and these e-mails, they believe the white house and state department played a significant role in this process. not surprising critics still believe that. i ve reviewed some of them, and what strikes me is what you have is a situation of a white house trying to referee a whole herding a whole lot of cats that have different stakes on this issue and what ultimately happens in any of these situations if you ve ever been part of collaborative process, cooperation, where everybody s got a veto is you go to the lowest common denominator, which is to say the least amount possible, which is what it looks like to me from going through the e-mails today. david, i want to turn to you on the question of the irs and steven miller s exit. my understanding is steven miller was not the guy overseeing the irs when any of this happened, so it doesn t necessarily seem like the mos