general of the united states laying it out, it was scathing. i said earlier it was like if there was ever a come to jesus moment for any law enforcement agency in the country, it s this one. as protesters said and folks i talked to this afternoon said, the problem is, you walk three blocks north, you re in another municipality that looks and behaves just like ferguson. go to the south and the same thing. one more item on this report i want to take a second with. the use of dogs. there s an obvious resonance here. it appears to have been exclusively reserved for african-americans in every case, in which ferguson police records the people bit by a police dog, that person was african-american. made worse not only by the history, but the manner in which they seem to be approaching and targeting african-americans from this report. we re seeing this indiscriminate, by simply your manner of walking. the 85% of all 67% of the residents are african-american.
this case, there s part of me that thinks, there s a real transparency issue, and another thing that is it basically like this year s version of cattle futures? remember cattle futures? the hair cut? i can sit here for an hour and i was doing this in the meeting, and our staff had no idea what the heck i was talking about. that s the thing is like, it s very hard with the clintons to have any sense of proportion between the trivial and actually important. like trying to stick an arm or leg off the bed to try to balance yourself. i haven t experienced that ever. yeah, yeah. but as far as philippe being savvy, i think what he did today is incredibly savvy. we re spending a fair amount of time talking about philippe and not hillary clinton. so he throws himself on a grenade. you would say there s nothing to the madness, because clearly the e-mail exchanges are fairly odd.
briefs cited his words from that tome, and what that tome says is, you don t look at just a few words out of context, you look at the overall purpose of the act. and the sense i got today was that the solicitor general representing the obama administration was pretty forceful in making the case that the overall purpose of the act was to say to the states, look, you can make these exchanges if you want, and if you don t want to, we ll do it instead. right. and a lot of people quoting scalia today. nina, thank you very much. thank you. there s a new metric for deciding who among the possible republican 2016 contenders is the strongest on foreign relations and that is how hard they clap. t, but that wasn t the big deal. this story had 30 minutes left. the like really big deal was that he was with jessica. until kim realized that stouffer s mac and cheese is made with real aged cheddar.
safety. so the department i think, here now has its work cut out for it in ensuring that ferguson implements the 26 recommendations that are contained in the report. and they are recommendations that cut to the core of the ferguson police department. if they are implemented. and i think many of them will be implemented, they will completely restructure the department, change the culture of the department and focus much more on community policing and far less on raising revenue. let me ask you about the other part of the news today, which is the department of justice sort of officially clearing darren wilson on federal civil rights charges. we said in the beginning that it s going to be a hard case to make. that said, i mean the feds did come in in the wake of rodney king and the acquittal of those officers and they did successfully get federal charges, i believe convictions, against those police officers, on violating federal civil rights. what is your reaction to that decision based
that part of that 62% is borne of the fact that a smaller and smaller percentage of americans bear a greater and greater share of the actual fighting. absolutely the case. and we re seeing what that s doing to that smaller percentage, and the fact that we have such a high suicide rate, and post-traumatic stress rate and so forth and so on. if we want to succumb to these fears, and i agree with the way you characterized it, it is a state of fear that we ve created for ourselves, and i must say the media has exacerbated majorly, if we want to deal with that in the way that that 62% wants to deal with it, then let s have the draft back. the other thing that is striking to me is, i thought we learned back as we watched iraq develop, and even afghanistan, right, which was a far more justified enterprise in certain ways than iraq, to ask the question of what happens when we