credence to the testimony of j christian adams the first whistle-blower. this is about much more than the dimissal of the black panther, it s about the alleged policy of not enforcing the voting rights laws where the victims of voting rights intimidation or other misdeeds are right. can you frame up where we are right now with this investigation, and what could potentially happen here to the department of justice? thank you, megyn. what we have now is a situation where we have our second witness to come forward. the first witness was forced to actually quit his job as a trial attorney with the department of justice. this second witness was felt compelled to invoke the whistle-blower protection in order to testimony. about a philosophical struggle within the civil rights division. according to his testimony today and adams testimony earlier you have some people that
investigation began. it began because the bush administration filed charges against the black panther party for their conduct in philadelphia in front of a polling booth. the judge entered a default order. when the new administration came in they simply walked away from the case. so we ask a basic question, why did you walk away from the case? the testimony we heard today, and the testimony we heard from mr. adams earlier both demonstrated that the factual basis that they provided by way of an explanation simply doesn t make sense. what makes sense is what they described as a philosophical struggle within the division as to whether or not the laws should be applied equally. megyn: let me ask you this mr. yakki. i understand you dismiss both men s testimony because you think they are conservative ideologs essentially i m paraphrasing. what if they are right, what if you re not right to dismiss their testimony. what if fernandez did sit down
from their homes. it s because of heavy rainfall. lindsay lohan back in jail. a judge throwing the book at the actress for failing a drug test. she is going to jail without bail until her next court appearance next month. back now to our top story. dramatic testimony from a current department of justice attorney. after 12 months almost of being ordered to ignore subpoenas, longtime doj attorney christopher coates today defied orders from his boss and made powerful and stunning allegations, offering evidence and a firsthand account that race and politics are driving decisions at the department of justice about which laws get enforced, and which do not. here is just a sampling of some of the back and forth between attorney coates and the commissioners. in the reluctance to enforce race neutral laws against minorities is it your opinion that we re talking about afro
them, too. let s start with colbert. we ve been watching this all morning. i m giving testimony, we figured out from our brain room, loosely, this costs $125,000 a shot, so what do we make of it, funny or a farce? funny but not the right time and place. i feel like congress got punked and it s no surprise that luv again is up for reelection. lofgren is up for reelection. i feel like this is a stunt to get attention. megyn: who s going to vote for her? put some decorum on the capitol. i didn t think it was that fun kwrefplt he s a funny guy but at the not at that place and time and immigration is a serious issue and no offense, we re short on dollars these days so let s stop clowning around. this fits perfectly what the democratic congress is about. it s clowns. john conyers had to shut it down. i m listen to go colbert. being on capitol hill, i
conviction. here, the relatives, trying to hold it together, after hearing the graphic details of the day a mother and her two young daughters were killed during a home invasion. laura ingle is covering this trial live from new haven, connecticut. i just want our viewers to know, this is a graphic case, and there are some disturbing details about sexual assault and the murders themselves. so just as a warning before we listen to laura. but this has been such a tough week for the family. they ve already been through so much, but now they had to sit in the courtroom and listen to the worst. what happened there today? reporter: hi megyn. indeed they not only had to listen to a lot of the testimony here that involved the very grim and graphic details of what happened to their loved ones, but yesterday, autopsy photos were shown and they did have to leave the courtroom. but let s get to today. we re talking about basically a dna lesson inside the courtroom for jurors, a state forensics ex