Conservative groups. Wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticuts Capital Preparatory Magnet School on educating children. Thursday the House Budget Committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. Friday night native American History. On cspan2 this week booktv in prime time. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Up next its todays edition of washington journal. We kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the Republican Party could woo africanamerican voters the next election. This is just under 15 minutes. Host lets begin with a look at some of the headlines on this monday morning. From the union leader and New Hampshire james foley is free now. Free Funeral Services, Memorial Service held yesterday in rochester New Hampshire for the american journalist who was killed by isis. From the boston globe, militants for u. S. Rider held in syria. That is from peter curtis was released. It was a ransom paid,
To go. To end it, above all things, i think prosecutors and perhaps Police Officers have to understand that with all the we have, and its enormous, there has to be a goes along with exercising it and an toerstanding that we want make sure that we have tried to facts and tothe not conclude simply because we firmly thatthing that shouldnt be questioned. And i think thats kind of self awareness and self analysis in all of us and maker office is going to us do better at conviction integrity. I think well bend a note of humility and thank the panel. They have been terrific. [applause] on cspan, a look at the role of the Justice Departments in theights division ferguson, Missouri Police shooting. Science related to native American History, followed by todays washington journal live with your phone calls. Risen on how the u. S. Government waists millions waraxpayer dollars on the on terror. Stuart bowen was the only who really tried to investigate what happened to all the money that the unite
Deputy assistant general and members of my staff. They are overseeing the federal investigations into the shooting of Michael Brown as well as the investigation we are doing of the Ferguson Police department. I would emphasize we have two investigations ongoing. As i have said many times before and reiterated in my Statement Last night, the departments investigation will continue to be thorough. They will continue to be independent. They remain ongoing. They will be conducted rigorously and in a timely manner so we can move forward as expeditiously as we can to restore trust, to rebuild understanding, and foster cooperation between Law Enforcement and community members. Host joining us to talk about this issue on our set, william yeomans, the former Deputy Attorney general and former acting attorney general for civil rights. He is also a professor at the American University Washington College of the law. Thank you for joining us. Guest it is a pleasure to be here. Ost why two investiga
Wage, a discussion on that next with the Eisenbrey Economic Policy Institute and Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute. Also, two federal investigations currently going on in light of the shooting death in ferguson, missouri. Theill hear not only about investigation being done by the Justice Department, but also how they are conducted, what they do with evidence, what the end result might be when it comes to these types of investigations. Our guest will be william employee, former doj has handled these matters before. First, i want to let you know about our newsmakers program. Our guest is the usaid administrator. The status ofbout u. S. Forces and efforts to fight ebola in west africa. Here is a bit from that interview. Usaid has the responsibility for coordinating the response in africa. If you look across the three endemic countries in liberia, guinea, sierra leone, we have seen real signs of progress over the last three months but we also know this will be a longterm fight to keep
One year ago tonight, the Trump White House started shedding its first highranking officials, just 24 days into the new administration. One year ago tonight, the departure of michael flynn, who has since fled plead guilty to lying to the fbi has has become a cooperating witness into the special counsel investigation into the russia attack. Tonight one year on we bookend that achievement with the news in the New York Times that the president s personal lawyer says when it came time to pay a porn star right before the election to say that she didnt have an affair with donald trump, he found 130,000 in his own pocket and he swears it didnt come out of the campaign or out of the Trump Organization. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. We have just stepped into john edwards territory. This is a third party making an expenditure for the benefit of the campaign to keep a w