the news continues so let's head over to michael smerconish and "cnn tonight." >> thank you very much, wolf. welcome to "cnn tonight." is another poll populist about to face a threat from the democrats? representatives greene, gosar, now boebert, have found themselves at the center of a growing capitol hill storm as progressives put pressure once again on speaker pelosi to strip a republican of their house committee assignments. this time it's colorado congresswoman lauren boebert, under fire for islamophobic remarks against congresswoman ilhan omar. boebert called her a member of the jihad squad and is, worst of all, unapologetic. every time i hear one of those "to the extent i've offended anyone" apologies, tune it out. that's not heartfelt. there's been no apology to omar herself. today a group of house progressives, led by ayanna pressley of massachusetts, introduced a resolution to remove boebert from her committee assignments. >> it is shameful that we have had to wait this long for meaningful action, for meaningful accountability, but here we are. for a member of congress to repeatedly and unapologetically use hateful, racist, and islamophobic tropes towards a muslim colleague is dangerous. words have consequences. we must acknowledge that and respond with action. >> but will these calls result in action? speaker pelosi is holding her cards close to the vest. >> i'm ready -- when i'm ready to announce that, i'll let you know. >> gop leader kevin mccarthy seems to always leave it to democrats to discipline his own, a reluctance he does not seem to have when displeased with his own moderates. there are very few in the gop willing to call out crazy these days. usually that's a task left to adam kinzinger, maybe liz cheney. perhaps now you can add congressman dan crenshaw of texas. >> there's two types of members of congress. there's performance artists. there's legislators. every single time we were voting on donald trump's agenda, who do you think was at the top of that list voting with trump and who do you think was at the bottom? everybody at the freedom caucus was at the bottom. all of them. what you hear so often is not true. it's not true. we have grifters in our midst, even in the conservative movement. lie after lie after lie. >> he's referring to members of house freedom caucus, a group that includes boebert, gosar, and greene, when saying all they want is attention. case in point? it's this. congressman thomas massey, republican from kentucky, puts out that holiday photo of his gun-toting family soon after four teenagers were murdered in a school shooting. then after that caused a storm on the internet, congresswoman boebert decides to piggyback on it in a show of support with her own family firearm photo. look, there are lots of amateurish, bad actors in washington. but we need to stop rewarding them with the attention they crave. to be clear, lauren boebert deserves punishment like gosar and greene. but not censure or loss of committee assignments. these efforts may carry weight in congress but for the average person they just ensure the offender becomes more relevant. in the cable world and a punch line on late night tv. censure is not as severe as expulsion but it's stronger than a reprimand. censure used to mean something and be feared by members. like when in 1983, representatives gerry studs and daniel crane were censured for having sex with 17-year-old congressional pages. yeah, that happened. in 2010, representative charlie rangel, then the chair of ways and means, was censured after having been found to have committed multiple violations of ethics rules. for rangel, that was a big deal. giving censure to boebert or greene are like handing car keys to a teen who just misbehaved. it presumes these members are there to legislate, which they are not. today, they are there to evoke passion and raise money. the best punishment for that trio is to ignore them. make them the voldemort of the u.s. house. the names that will not be uttered. additionally, if democrats continue to single out every act of egregious conduct, get ready for republicans to respond in kind should they retake the house next year. you remember kevin mccarthy's speech when gosar was censured? >> rules for thee but not for me. >> the members he singled out included representative omar, the very target of boebert's insults. it was omar who tweeted it was israel who hypnotized the world and said it's all about the benjamins, baby, in reference to a pro-israel lobbying group. at least omar issued a robust apology then. nevertheless, should republicans take the house in 2022, how long before it's omar on the receiving end of censure finished by house speaker kevin mccarthy? sometimes the silent treatment is the worst punishment of all. that's my take. reach out to me via social media this hour, whether you agree or disagree and i'll share some responses during the course of the program. let's bring in a democrat in congress, representative conor lamb from pennsylvania, now running for the u.s. senate. congressman, thanks for being here. you heard what i just had to say. what's your response? >> i think the first thing to point out is that we, democrats writ large, are in no way eager to go around, you know, doing these resolutions, stripping people from their committees, taking these kind of actions. we would prefer that things like this were not necessary. that's why we're not rushing in response to representative boebert's horrible comments about one of my colleagues. i think the speaker actually had it right when she said it's on the house republicans to take some responsibility for their own members and she's trying to give them time and space to do that. this isn't why we show up in washington, we would all rather be talking about the results that we're delivering for the american people. but we've tried to draw a line somewhere around the issue of violence. and unfortunately, this year, 2021 began with an example none of us will ever forget about how the right wing megaphones at this point in the country are capable of causing actual deadly violence in our country. we can't forget that. i think if you were a member of representative omar's family, if you were her mother or father and saw the comments that were made, you would be afraid about what would be facing your child at that point. and you have to think about it from that perspective too. >> right, but as twisted as it sounds, you make these folks fundraising superstars when you do single them out, right? they're all the stuff of cable television. i'm sure somebody's going to tweet, hey, michael, you're talking about them right now, but i am, to make my point that i think we need to ice them out because all it does is -- look, congressman, they're not there to do what i think you're there to do, which is to accomplish things. they're there to stay there by getting oxygen on public television, terrestial talk radio, and fund raise. >> that's true, but part of the reason these people get so much attention is because they are fundraising superstars already. they are taking these aggressive actions because they feel like they already know who their audience and their base is. so the decision for us is to consider whether we still have faith in the broad american public's ability to understand our ethics and our reason for acting and why we would try to draw a line at the causation of violence or the encouragement of violence against any member, by the way, not just against democrats or republicans but against any of us. you know, we had multiple colleagues who had death threats, very realistic death threats, just for voting for the infrastructure bill. i mean, something that would never have happened historically. that was republicans that that happened to. that's why we have to take this so seriously. like i said, no one is really going in search of these fights, we would much rather be talking about other things. but i think we feel some responsibility to try to protect our own members and promote some reasonable standard of conduct toward how we treat each other. and we're hoping that the house republicans in this case will step in and take care of their own side of the street. >> you heard the speech from kevin mccarthy that i cited briefly, rules for thee and not for me. and he rattled off i think five members, five of your colleagues. what of the prospect that sudden it would be democratic behavior that's under a microscope and perhaps some of your colleagues in your caucus will then be censured? >> leader mccarthy deals in false equivalencies on a full-time basis. that speech was rambling and incoherent. my assessment of him is he will do whatever he wants and whatever he feels will deliver him short term power and satisfaction. to begin with, what we have to think about is the fact that the lauren boeberts and marjorie taylor greenes of the world speak to a well-armed, animated, angry audience on a day-to-day basis through their social media and we have to try to limit their damage to the extent possible. so again, this isn't something that we are eager to do, most of us. but we will do what needs to be done to protect our members, whether they look like me, whether they are women of color, whether they are muslim or christian or nothing, they all deserve to be able to do their job without getting death threats. and we have to do our part to try to make that possible. >> quick final question. you have to survive a tough senate primary in order to get to a general election. should you do so, maybe you face dr. oz. what do you make of that prospect? >> i would certainly look forward to that debate. i mean, he doesn't seem to have any connection with our state that i know of. and he's sort of typical of the modern republican, which is that they are much more loyal to donald trump's brand and agenda than they are to the place that they seek to represent. and that's true for a number of candidates in this race. and i think that's going to be a lot of what the general election is about. i'm a democrat, but i have consistently talked about being a pennsylvania democrat, putting the interests of pennsylvania first. our jobs, our economy. the issues that are specific to us. and i've lived there almost my entire life, so i have a pretty strong basis for saying that. >> even before he got in, i've been telling anyone who will listen that all eyes will be on pennsylvania. and we've got the hottest senate race in the country coming up next year. and you factor into it. thank you for being here, congressman lamb, i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me, michael. >> what are your thoughts the women tweet me @smerconish. smerconish, how should they handle the far left? that's a bigger problem but you are on cnn so i don't expect any balance. i just made the point that ilhan omar herself has unclean hands with tweets that i regarded as being as anti-semitic. to be fair i also need to point out she did what boebert and gosar and greene never do which is to offer a forthright apology. so i'm not afraid to call out any of that conduct or i wouldn't have referenced that at the end of the commentary, would i? next. what do we have? smerconish, we should laugh at them and treat them like the clowns they are. what we shouldn't do is line up the squad to throw a collective tantrum every time they get trolled, that never works. james, you get my point. you know, click around and listen to alternative media sources and see the kind of play they get. this is exactly what they want to do. all they want to do once they get to dc is stay there. and you heard my pitch maybe on monday night, right? old school was, you came to washington, you were a back bencher, you bided your time, you achieved seniority, got a choice committee assignment, then a chairmanship, and tried to get things done. one more. the far right in congress is counting on the far left in congress being too busy putting the nut jobs in the corner for a time out. can i just say this, benjamin z. firestone, and i should have made this point to congressman conor lamb, any time this is gathering oxygen, what's not being discussed are gas prices. grocery prices. all those issues that steve bullock, the former governor the montana who was my guest two nights ago, and he said democrats, get out of the city. the issues that people are focused on don't get any attention and that's not in anybody's best interests, republican, independent, democrat. keep that social media coming because i love responding to it. to america's growing crime crisis, next. what's behind the biggest spikes in murder ever more in a dozen major cities and why does the d.a. in my hometown of philadelphia deny the violent truth? 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>> certainly both. you look at jurisdictions where progressive prosecutors have common to an office like philadelphia and you do see record homicide rises, u.s. said, you see drops in felony conviction rates. a study found 20% fewer felony convictions in progressive jurisdictions. and you see fewer police cases getting solved because police have to work hand in glove with prosecutors. and you see record numbers of the kind of seasoned, experienced prosecutors whom you want in a prosecutor's office because they have that sophistication to handle murder and gang violence and rape, leaving in record numbers because of such an inhospitable environment and an office in which the prosecutors have lost sight of their primary mission and mandate which is to represent the people against criminals and keep us safe. and your former mayor, michael nutter, said it so well. >> okay, but these individuals were all elected. i don't know what happened here. i came of age politically in an era where the way to get elected as a district attorney was to thump your chest and promise everybody that you would lock up the bad guys and throw away the key. that's no longer the formula. talk about larry crassner, he was just reelected. to be fair to him, all these issues were just litigated in the election and he was successful. so what explains it? >> you know, i think a lot of people don't realize the impact of prosecutorial policies. very few people vote in these elections, voted in the reelection for crassner. and there's a lot of funding by people for whom they want to see the kinds of prosecutorial policy, they want to see a lot of crimes not getting prosecuted like gun possession, like shoplifting. and they realize that if you put the right prosecutor in office, you can sidestep the entire process of having crimes, you know, having laws put into place by legislatures. it's much more effective to simply fund a prosecutor into office and effect that kind of change. and voters so far have not i think realized it enough to come out and change it. >> hannah, quick response if you're able. the pandemic. i mean, come on, we live in strange times. doesn't the pandemic explain some of this? that's what a critic of your perspective would say. >> sure, and people have been asking that. but when you look at the types of crimes that are going up, gang violence, the type of organized shoplifting that's in san francisco, that's led to the 500% rise in shoplifting, where you see organized rings going and cleaning out stores, fencing those goods and using it as part of larger gang activity and violence -- >> chasa budin faces a recall. do you think he'll be recalled? >> i hope so. certainly what we've seen, the waukesha massacre, the shooting of the university student recently. >> horrible. >> gut-wrenching. it's a failure of those prosecutors and they respond with this kind of oops-a-daisy. >> such a sad story. hannah meyers, thank you. the former mayor of philadelphia, michael nutter, who i just mentioned, will be here tomorrow night. tweet me @smerconish. what do you have to say? why are you giving credibility to something the right wing echo chamber just made up? how about talking more about the real link between the number of guns and shootings? hey, just because the crime issue gets a lot of play in other quarters, and i see it, doesn't mean it's not a worthy or legit issue. do we have the ability to put back on the screen right now the spike in crime and the pew data? vaughn, can you put up any that have to respond to this individual? okay. it's numbers-driven. this is not -- okay. take a look at the u.s. murder rate. and now tell me i'm just falling into some right wing echo chamber. i would be derelict in my duty if i didn't discuss this. what's the next social media? smerconish, the question seems like one that can be answered definitively with data. when that is the case, seeking opinions is kind of pointless unless the goal is to highlight political divisiveness. that's not your goal, is it, michael? no. i think i asked the appropriate questions, what's the impact of the pandemic, is this correlation or causation. what question would you have asked of my guest? because she has a perspective, i'm not supposed to bring her on? come on. is social media hazardous to the health of young users? instagram's chief got a grilling on capitol hill about that. what will his company do to make his platform safer for children? did his answers satisfy? i've got the expert on kids on the web, next. ♪ healthier is getting all the stuff you may need to feel better get the door! ♪ ...from the comfort of home. ♪ this is what healthier looks like ♪ [coins clinking in jar] ♪ you can get it if you really want it, by jimmy cliff ♪ [suitcase closing] [gusts of wind] [ding] want to save on your home internet? 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i don't know if you can see this, but it's pretty alarming. i've drawn a red line in the year 2012. and you can see an enormous drop in progress, going out with parents. let's do the next one. less dating. again, an enormous decline. the third one, more likely to feel lonely. that escalates in 2012. losing sleep. same type of escalation. what does this have to do, in your opinion, with 2007's introduction of the iphone? >> so the end of 2012 was the first time that the majority of americans owned a smartphone. it's also right at the time when social media use among teens moved from being optional to virtually mandatory. it was around the time you got about 75%, 80% of teens starting to be on social media every day. so if you weren't on it, you were left out. if you are on it, as we know from facebook's own research, there are all these consequences. >> pretty convincing, then. i see causation. do you still use the word "correlation"? >> i do, simply because from a scientific point of view, it is very hard to prove causation when you're thinking about generations and change over time. but i can ask this question. what else changed teens' lives so fundamentally around that time, and then kept going through the present time? and the answer is nothing. >> so today the head of instagram testified, i guess the big question to ask you is, what's to be done? >> right. so, you know, what instagram is suggesting is, they're trying, but it's too little, too late. they say they want instagram and the other platforms to be safer for teens. but they don't verify age. you're supposed to be 13 to have a social media account. and there's 10, 8, 12-year-olds on these platforms all the time. plus 13 is probably too young. so we want to have a safer platform for, say, 13 to 17-year-olds. and they say let's have parental controls and do all these things. none that have is going to do any good if you don't verify age. it's like, i don't want my parent to control me online. they just put in a different birth year. >> right. >> it's crazy. >> my takeaway from reading your book, which is excellent and alarming, is that too many young americans are spending time behind closed doors trying to create some portrayal of a normal existence instead of leading one. >> that's exactly right, that there's all this time and attention put into it, i'm going to take the perfect selfie, i want to make sure i get the likes, that i get the followers. instead of actually going out and experiencing life, actually spending time with other people face-to-face and developing social skills and those emotional connections. this is what we've become. and teens are on the front lines of that. >> dr. twenge, i know you're raising children of your own. any tip for the rest? >> my number one suggestion is no phones in the bedroom overnight. that at least we can protect sleep time from being disrupted by notifications, by kids staying up late or staying up all night trying to see if their instagram post got enough likes. get enough sleep. that will at least help some with mental health. >> thanks so much for being here. >> thank you very much. >> jean twenge's book is called "i-gen." why is one government agency trying to ban employees from wearing certain masks on the job? does it violate free speech to ban face covering than say black lives matter? we'll talk to an attorney representing the workers' union representing the workers' union in court, next.ed. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ [♪♪] did you know you can shorten your cold with cold-eeze® lozenges? cold-eeze® can shorten your cold by 42% try cold-eeze® the number one best-selling zinc lozenge. and try new cold-eeze® ultramelt™ chews in a great-tasting orange flavor that quickly dissolves on your tongue. if you take mass transit in pittsburgh, you rely on the pittsburgh port authority. that agency is fighting to reinstate a ban on black lives matter masks for its workers. they argue uniformed employees displaying political or social protest message could open a can of worms for other causes. but that stance is now sparking confusion because the agency has itself embraced the blm movement in the past. we have one of the attorneys who argued the case on behalf of the transit union in the third circuit on tuesday. his name is joseph pass. counselor, thank you so much for being here. from reading about the argument that you just participated in, i see that opposing counsel said, well, what happens when somebody wants to wear a confederate flag, what's the answer to that? >> the answer is, which we gave to the court, was confederate flag symbols violence. it symbols the trying to separate the states. it was a cause of a war, a war that killed many people. black lives matter is a peaceful demonstration that doesn't advocate any violence whatsoever. in fact it advocates less violence. it advocates for the treatment of people of color the way they should be treated, like all other americans. so there is a big distinction. they also, i might say, in their brief suggested that the swastika would somehow be compared to the black lives matter, which is ridiculous. the swastika -- >> is this another of those potter stewart pornography, i know it when i see it? or can you articulate a standard of what should be permissible on a municipal employee's mask or not? >> well, the courts have said that the municipal -- that a public employer can do some restrictions on the public employee's right to speech. the public employee has a right to speak on matters of public concern. and once that happens, the employer has the obligation to try and show why that speech would be disruptive and why that speech would somehow harm the employer. and that's the problem. how do you define, as the court said, how do you define what they can and can't do? and i think it is something, as potter stewart says, i can't define pornography but i know it when i see it. >> i'm sure you came prepared to play the hypothetical game. how about a maga facial covering? >> interestingly enough, that's what was going on for the last 50 years. they've had a policy for 50 years, and i was involved in the policy when it first got started, that long ago, which banned political and social causes, buttons and other emblems putting on your uniform. the district court judge did an excellent job going through all this and pointed out, there were people wearing maga hats -- >> so you're cool with that, that's fine? >> that's fine, that's somebody's right to speak. >> how about blue lives matter? >> indeed, we even had the witnesses who were african american, and they were asked that very question, and the one gave the best answer you could give, he said, i don't like it, but they have a right to say it. and as long as it's peaceful and respectful. >> one more. white lives matter. >> there's no harm with that. that same question was asked of all the african americans who testified at this hearing. >> okay. so i'm hearing from you, confederate flag no, pretty much everything else, as long as you don't think it incites violence, is okay? >> i agree. that's exactly right. that's what free speech is about. advocating something that is going to stir violence is a different story. i can't imagine why you would say wearing a peaceful mask of black lives matter while you're operating a bus or rail car on public transit is going to cause any kind of disturbance whatsoever. you find people that don't like it, absolutely. but that's part of our society. differences of opinion. and differences of opinion erupt. but it doesn't necessarily lead to violence. >> it was interesting to read about the argument. i can't wait to see what the third circuit does. joseph pass, thank you so much for being here. >> you're more than welcome, thank you. a prominent republican in congress about to make a major career change and it has some wondering why devin nunes would do so when he could take on a very powerful position if his party wins back control of the house. a reality check on his choice to start serving former president trump instead of the people with john avlon, next. vazalore... is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. try new vazalore. aspirin made amazing! is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? 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[coins clinking in jar] ♪ you can get it if you really want it, by jimmy cliff ♪ [suitcase closing] [gusts of wind] [ding] after 19 years in congress, california republican devin nunes was essentially next in line to become chairman of house ways and means, the oldest and arguably most powerful committee in congress. but this week he announced he's giving it all up just so that he can go to work for donald trump's new media company. what should that tell us? john avlon is here with our reality check. >> lemmings in suicide vests. that's what devin nunes called fellow house republicans. the same guy who warned against the crazy in his party ended up enabling it. and so a man whose leadership of the house intelligence committee provided a portrait of hyperpartisan hackery, a man known for filing frivolous lawsuits against critics, including a parody twitter account purporting to be his cow, is now going on to his great reward. not the chairmanship of the powerful house ways and means committee for which he would be next in line if the republicans won the midterms, but instead resigning to serve as ceo of trump's phantom social media business. which is already under federal investigation by the securities and exchange commission. but the absurd art of devin nunes is showing how it has perverted inside the in his decision to bail on congress after nearly 20 years reflects his bet that the real power inside the gop is being in trump's orbit, not doing pesky little things like legislating. it also reveals the real electoral weakness of being a trump toadie. he won by over 70% before trump was president, but he squeaked by with 52% of the vote in 2018 midterms and 54% in 2020 despite raising millions. and faced with redistricting, which looks likely to bring more democrats into his district, his suckup act was going to be a tough sell to swing voters. but all right, just how big a prize is being ceo of trump's new social media platform? well, itbris more right-wing celebrity and at least the promise of sweet, sweet cash. the fact that nunes who was elected to congress before he was 30 has never run a tech company or a business of any kind beyond having a hand in his family's dairy doesn't seem to be a downside for the donald, but hey, only the best people. am i right? that's one of several absurdities behind the trump platform, which is not at all ironically called truth social. the company currently has a market valuation of $1.6 billion despite having no product, no users, no revenue. and its business plan projects 81 million users and 3.6 billion in rev by '26. sounds legit, right? totally. but their mission is almost as revealing. it's dedicated to the free flow of ideas and expression without censorship. this is fundamentally at odds with true social's own terms of service which states that users cannot disparage, tarnish or otherwise harm in our opinion, us and/or the site. this is a perfect summation of the trumpist attitude towards free speech. anything goes as long as you don't disrespect the donald. don't strain yourself looking for consistency of principles, but do recognize the trumpist rallying cry of free speech is a self-serving fig leaf to cover up their own inner snowflake, hypocrisy and greed, grift and grand standing, they all go together. there's a tragedy in here somewhere as well. the dissent of devin nunes shows how corrupting the current incentive structure can be inside a party that has become a cultive personality. the man who once derided lemons in suicide vests ended up becoming one himself. that's your reality check. it's flooring, you can be the next -- let's be fair, he's got a real shot had he stayed of being chair of ways and means. it gets no better, nor powerful, in a bygone era, you'd work and pray your whole career to get that gig. and instead in this era, no, i'd rather take this media flier. it says a lot about where real power rests. >> that's exactly right. it's about power. it's about propaganda, and it's about profit. it's not about public policy. >> wow. nice work. >> thanks, man. >> we'll be right back with more of your social media reaction. vazalore... is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. try new vazalore. aspirin made amazing! why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis under control? 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here's what you're saying via social media about this evening's program. what do we have? smerconish, here we are on twitter where you get bashed regularly, what is your advice to teens who get bashed online? indiana amy, i'm glad that i didn't grow up in the internet age. i mean, in my era the most trouble you could get on was sitting on a xerox machine. this sort of stuff follows you around and nobody ever gets beyond it. i totally understand how so many kids are shut-ins today trying to create the perfect life instead of leading one. we've raised four. i hope we've done a decent job. i'm addicted to this thing too. next, what do we have? smerconish, maybe we let the masks do their job, which is to protect us against the virus. who cares what it says. you know, ms. daisy, do you remember there's a controversy, it went through the federal system, i think all the way to the supreme court where in a new jersey school district kids started showing up with bracelets that said i love boobies and it was actually a breast cancer awareness campaign, and the school took them on, so of course people fought back and they litigated all the way to the supreme court, i think. fact check me on that. my position is they should have ignored it. it would have gone away. i'm not say black lives matter should go away. you've got to pick and choose your battles. fight over something that's really hateful, not that, but we'll see what the third circuit resolves. what else? a long one, yeah, so the cities that have very conservative harsh punishments have lower crime rates? nope. would progressive d.a.s or judges allow men convicted of serious crime like rape off the hook with probation, no prison time, nope, but we've seen conservatives do just that. something's gone on here. the nation has a mind-set that we went too far in terms of an era of mass incarceration. i think there's probably truth in that. but i also remember a friend of mine, the late john timidy who was the police chief in philly. he was also the number two here in new york and the number one in miami, and he once said to me about philadelphia -- and he had data to back this up -- he said we have 5,000 bad guys and they commit all the crime, and we let them out and they commit more crime and more crime. now it's become a battle over bail. some among us have got to stay locked up. that's my view, and it's gotten completely out of control. others have had unjust sentences, and somewhere in the middle as is usually the case lies the truth. thank you for watching, i'll be back here tomorrow night. don lemon tonight starts right now. >> i have a nostalgic story about john timiny. i remember i was in rittenhouse square covering it was the south side rapist, i believe. >> it was a jogging rapist. >> no, no, it was the one who was in doing it in rittenhouse -- i forget, center city, the center city rapist, and john was doing a live shot and he walked right up during the live shot and i got this great exclusive. but he was great. he was very open to talking to the media. >> good guy. left us too soon. good friend. >> yeah, absolutely. great stuff. i'm glad you're brave enough again to read those comments. i would never do it but more

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