Good thursday afternoon from the fox news deck. First from fox today, were expecting president obama to announce this afternoon that our attorney general, eric holder, is stepping down. He said he would likely leave sometime later this year. We just didnt know when. Now we do. Holder is the fourth longer serving attorney general in u. S. History and now folks view his now how folks view his legacy could have a lot to do with their political views. Imagine that. At as the nations first africanamerican attorney general, holder pushed policies aimed at equality for minorities. This week, secretary holder announces the federal prison population dropped fory the fit time in three decades. Last month, attorney general holder launched a federal investigation into the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man in ferguson, missouri. He also supported Marriage Equality and championed legal rights for gay couples. But attorney general holders legacy also includes controversy inch his first year on
Offardmore, oklahoma. A truck crossed a median into on coming traffic and collided with a bus carrying members of the North Central Texas College softball team. The womens team of 20 is made up of freshmen and sophomores. Nearly all of them from texas. The National Transportation safety board is launching an investigation into the crash. We are awaiting a statement from North Central texas state college. It is the news belonging to Chelsea Clinton and her husband. At 12 32 a. M. Mrs. Clinton announced the news via twitter. Mark and i are full of love and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter. Congratulations to all of you here. We turn to the latest news on the u. S. Led war on islamic state. Belgium, uk and denmark voted to join. During which president obama sought to rally more International Support for the war. The president framed the war as part of the strategy to utimately end all war but a lasting peace can only be achieved the president said if many nations stand
In the first place. Ive gone back and looked at the legal memorandum that the Justice Department drew up that said some of it was okay and some of it was not. And seems to be reasonable. In other words, shes not endorsing the program directly, shes endorsing the legal analysis of the Justice Department did of it. But she went on to say that she thinks the job of the attorney general is to tell the president when she thinks the president wants to do something thats illegal and that she will do that she will try to be independent. Shes tried to say i will work with this committee. Shes repeated that over and over. And at one point, she said im not eric holder. In other words, shes trying to say i will do things differently. I know youve had your differences of opinion with the attorney general, and lets have a fresh start. And eric holder did, indeed prove divisive. Her coming out and saying thats so explicitly is something we expected in theme. But that is a very very clear statement of
Action. This week with no more republican rivals to pick on, donald trump shifted his focus to Hillary Clinton. In particular, trump has hit on clintons comments in march about, quote, putting a lot of coal miners out of business, making it one of his primary talking points ahead of tuesdays West Virginia primary. But i want to take you a moment to play you Hillary Clintons remarks on coal country in their full context. So, for example, im the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring Economic Opportunity using Clean Renewable Energy as the key into coal country. Because were going to put a lot of coal miners and Coal Companies out of business, right, tim . And were going to make it clear that we dont to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now weve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels. But i dont want to move away from the pe
Theres no one way to be black, thanks in large part to the activism of young people like many of you. From black twitter to black lives matter, that americas eyes have been opened. White, black, democrat, republican, to the real problems, for example, in our criminal Justice System. Thats why our democracy gives us a process designed for us to settle our disputes with argument and ideas and votes instead of violence and simple majority rule. So dont try to shut folks out or dont try to shut them down, no matter how much you disagree with them. And now listen to the presumptive nominee, donald trump. So i hear that goof Elizabeth Warren and im serious, her whole career is a fraud because she goes out and she says shes a native american. I wont use the word indian because they say its not a nice word to use so i will not say indian. She is a native american 5 , and, therefore, her whole career, because she was a minority, thats a disgrace whats going on in our country. Our police in this