was lawful and, therefore, as acting attorney general, the justice department under her would not defend it. that is what led to her being fired tonight and replaced by dana boente. again, the u.s. attorney for th eastern district of virginia. we re still sort of absorbing this information. this is the first, i guess this is the first person fired on a point of principle like this of the trump administration. i think we were all expecting there would be resignations on points of principle. that s not out this went down. i want to bring into the conversation somebody who has an interesting role to play in this entire confrontation, his name is bob ferguson. he s the attorney general of the state of washington, the state of washington has just filed in federal court an effort to stop that presidential order from friday on immigration and refugees. they re seeking a national restraining order against that policy. mr. attorney general, thank you very much for your time tonight. thank you
parts of the order. the order went 0-5 in federal courts. lawsuits declaring it unconstitutional were filed by the state of washington and council on islamic relations. so there s a a lot going on. and a lot of it is as yet unexplain ed. but again, the big headline tonight, president trump firing the acting attorney general of the united states sally yates ap she refused to defend the constitutional order in court. the story broke in the 9:00 hour. and one of our guests in our 9:00 p.m. eastern hour was an investigative reporter for the new york times who was learning the news as we were as we went to air earlier this evening in that the k hour. we asked him to come back now tonight in terms of updating us on his own reporting and understanding of what s happened. thank you for being with us.
and i think it meets that standard and that s the reason this case was stayed. you have to come forward and say we have evidence of actual innocence, right? in texas, yes. how has the process for this developed? we have seen largely because of the innocence project, i have to say, a pioneering use of dna evidence. how is that affected how the legal regime across the country deals with appeals. dramatically. what basically has happened in the last six years, six states have repealed capital punishment which now makes all together 18 that say it is illegal. but there are another eight that have not executing anybody and have not giving out death sentences in ten years. governors in pennsylvania, the
shots. run back and forth, try to stay mentally and physically in shape. do you have friendships that have been born here? i don t use that word loosely. friends. friendship. i have guys that i associate with because when you go as far as making a friend, there are feeling there is that if you know what i a true friend is, you know what i m saying, and the next thing you know you know the state ask going to take them, more than likely the state will kill them. so i don t get as close as calling someone my friend. what is it like on a day of an execution? an execution day? most of those days are pretty quiet.
apartment for work. the argument is that stacey stites would have had a 3:00 a.m. shift. somehow, rodney reed, in the middle of the night was able to get into the drug, physically overcome her. drive to the scene where her body was found, rape and murder her, leave her body in the brush, and abandon the truck in the parking lot a half mile from his home. and that all happened between 3:15 or so in the morning and 5:23 in the morning. the innocence project contends that evidence in photographs and video shows that stites was killed long before the state says she left for work. what happens after you die is