this is normal. because this is normal. and let me point out what you said, so much of what s boarded up and broken isn t as a result of the rioting, this is the way it looks. this is the way it looks every day before it happened. this is the way it looked. and every day people are trying to earn their place. sometimes justice is not the way you see it. and sometimes it looks different. and sometimes it doesn t go your way, but it doesn t mean that the system didn t play out. right. we are patient people. uh-huh. pardon me for saying this, but we are religious people also. and so we understand justice and when it should come. many of us expect that justice is not immediate. we expect it to come when it comes. that s our faith, that s our culture, frankly. councilman carl stokes, kind enough to invite me live on the
there have been so many series of incidents going on in our town. we had a talk yesterday about the word thug and how it misrepresents because we re talking about people who have been underprivileged, undereducated, and really been given a rough go. right. and these are the same people, we re not expecting to understand a very complicated justice system. right. justice doesn t always go your way. and that doesn t mean justice doesn t happen. how are you going again. that s an insurmountable task, how are you going to get that information to people that they need to be patient, need to wait for investigative work to actually happen before they demand heads on a stake. i think people are more tuned than we may give them credit for. i think that people do understand. first of all, that s why they came out originally. they understood, they didn t come out wild and crazy and because freddie was murdered. they re mad. huh? they came out because they re
mary, thanks. this is cnn s breaking news coverage of hurricane irene. i m martin savidge at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i m keira phillips. thanks for staying with us for the hurricane coverage. a massive category 1 storm is what we re talking about, slowly churning up the east coast. it it s large, dangerous and relent areless. at least nine deaths are now blamed on this hurricane, more than 1 million customers have lost power. right now irene is closing in on ocean city, maryland. like every other beach resort along the mid-atlantic, it is just about deserted. winds have decreased slightly to 80 miles an hour but it remains a hurricane as it it pushes north toward new york. irene is especially dangerous because it s moving slowly. we ve talked about this all morning, all afternoon. it s almost certain to create a tripling storm surge. as you just heard mary mention, new york transit officials earlier today shut down the city s mass transportation system
for it, and if we re going to go down that road, in my opinion at least, we re going to be spending hard-earned taxpayer dollars in a time of budget crisis in this state. i couldn t justify doing it. let me ask you about an argument that i will admit to having just made fun of, the argument of virginia attorney general, ken cuccinelli, he is claiming that his lawsuit against the federal government to overturn health care will only cost $350. because that s what the filing fee is. to me, as you could tell in my introduction, i find that ridiculous. but as an attorney general of a state, does that argument from him make any sense to you? we filed a lot of lawsuits in my office. we ve defended a lot of lawsuits in my office. it s impossible to have a lawsuit where there are no inherent costs. every time you are pulling employees away from their appointed duties to file a lawsuit and to engage in this kind of activity, there is going to be cost. lawyers don t work for free. not even la
appointed duties to file a lawsuit, there s going to be cost. lawyers don t work for free. not even lawyers who work in house. so i m not aware of any way that a lawsuit can be filed, even if we do it in house, where it doesn t cost the taxpayer some money. we could have our lawyers off engaged in other areas that are going to be critical to the budget of this state, to talk about teachers and education. any of those areas where we could have our lawyers applied would be a better use of the employees and the staff. but i m not aware of any way that you can do this without there being some inherent cost. me, neither, and i m not a lawyer. mr. baker, let me also ask you about something that broke today that was new in this whole debate, that s that the attorney general of the state of oregon announced they will not sue the federal government over health reform, but that, rather, they will proactively defend the health bill in court. i wonder, if given your stance, if the oregon officia