Americas newsroom. Great weekend. Really one that is resetting. Making sure i put my shoes on the right feet to get this week started. Bill good start. Dana a lot happening. Bill we shall get to it. President biden starting his first full week in the white house. He is about to sign a slough of executive orders. Dana including a made in america order to increase federal support for u. S. Manufacturing companies. Bill team fox coverage. Marc thiessen and mo elleithee, we begin with Kristin Fisher on the north lawn. Bill were on day six of what this white house is billing as 10 days of action during President Bidens first week and a half in office. He has signed more executive orders than any of his recent predecessors. Todays executive order is all about trying to make good on his buy American Campaign promise. The same promise that his predecessor former President Donald Trump accused him of plagiarizing from him. Changing rules so that more of the manufactured goods component originat
Riley. Former president andf current member of the american Writers Union Chicago Council. This event unaware the Chicago Council essentially a board of established professionals whose sole job it is to be ambassador of museums, help raise awareness, speak locally and nationally and also raise critical funds for museums for education initiatives. Im very excited to be here tonight. With kate as most people call you. Both work. Give it your background just as im going to try to give a brief overview. Kate is a former prosecutor, p a former fbi special agent in Senior Executive within the bureau. Former director of Global Security for Live Nation Entertainment adjunct law professor for nepal and i could go on and on. I think what brought about this book is you are tagged by the fbi to create the active shooter program. So very excited to be speaking with you. Just one quick housekeeping item before we start, there will be q and a after our discussion. If you have any questions please hol
Nothing to do with the honor of or memory of george floyd. 800 cops hurt, some died. We know one is probably on life support for the rest of his life. Now by the way, we go to the city of atlanta. Last friday night a 27yearold man named Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by an Atlanta Police officer. The officer involved in the shooting, garrett rolfe, was fired immediately. Its just breaking, some 19 atlanta officers have now resigned after what has happened in this case. We will have details in a minute. The other officer on the scene was placed on administrative duty. There are growing calls for rolfe to be charged with murder, very different than what happened with george floyd. Well go through it in great specificity. Also yeah, to become a more perfect union, reforms are desperately needed, way overdue. More training, mandatory cameras, more nonlethal options for the police must be made available. We can do it will have more on that and once again we need to put all emotion asid
Weeks ago and riots that had nothing to do with the honor of or memory of george floyd. 800 cops hurt, some died. We know one is probably on life support for the rest of his life. Now by the way we go to the city of atlanta out there last friday night 27yearold man named Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by an Atlanta Police officer. The officer involved in the shooting was fired immediately. Its just breaking, some 19 atlanta officers have now resigned after what has happened in this case. We will have details in a minute. The other officer on the scene was placed on administrative duty. There are growing calls for rolfe to be charged with murder, very different than what happened with george floyd. Well go through it in great specificity. Also yeah, to become a more perfect union, reforms are desperately needed, way overdue. More training, mandatory cameras, more nonlethal options for the police must be made available. We can do it will have more on that and once again we need to p
A former Michelle Obama aid and chicago prosecutor. All charges were dropped. Ive been truthful and consistent on every level since day one. I would not be my mothers son if i was capable of one drop of what ive been accused of. Do i think justice was served . No. Where do i think justice is . I think this city is still owed an apology. This is without a doubt a whitewash of justice and sends a clear message that if youre in a position of influence and power youll get treated one way. Other people will be treated another way. There was no justice that happened today and it is a disgrace. It is a disgrace to the Police Officers that worked so hard. Bill matt finn starts our coverage live in chicago. Said to be an airtight case, matt. What happened . Bill, cook county prosecutors claim this is not an exoneration. There was no deal. They say dropping the case was just punishment instead of taking it to trial. Prosecutors say they reviewed the evidence and took into consideration the fact