Maya, as you ve been looking at the details come in, advocates call for transparency, since this happened on april 4th. but then, we get into the details. three weeks for the police to release the officer s name. just one of those. why three weeks? why are we still having the same conversations about transparency, and accountability, with cases like this? nearly two years after the death of george floyd? sadly, the problem has been that we do not have sufficient will to, actually, change our accountability structure. meaning, for example, as we know, when they tried to win a federal legislation, that would create more accountability. it was going to be so brutally murdered, and a long, and painful video. i think the thing that should concern us, in particular here, is remember, excessive force,
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Or anyone in the administration to try to go and remove the special counsel? there is no secret plan to involves me. no, senator. i would just say, no one in america is above the law, and no one in america is not faced with accountability and checks and balances. every one of us has checks and balances. the president, every member of the cabinet, the vice president, every judge has checks and balances in the system. i can t seem to understand the fascination to say we need to create some special counsel, the only person in america that has no accountability structure for anything, anywhere. i d assume everyone has a check and balance but it doesn t mean it is under consideration in the process. i appreciate you clarifying that for us. i want to thank you and the department of justice. senator warren and i do not agree on everything, but last year, we started working on a process for the department of justice to stop the slush funds in the background, where the department of justice
Be addressed forth rightly. i mean the long arc of sexual assault in this country thankfully is that it has been going down over the last three decades thanks in part to a lot of awareness an criminal justice reform. where do you expect this to go? i am so thankful that senator kirs ten jill brand has been on the horn about this. we re not sure what. we no that the air force has appointed a woman to head up the investigations on sexual assault. the fact that only 3% of the reported cases were prosecuted last year is also a huge part of the problem. there s really no accountability structure in place around sexual assault and i think that s going to change. so perry as was mentioned there are several prominent women senators a that are pushing some action on this, lawmakers pushing action on this. why don t we see more prominent male lawmakers also getting on