using this terminology. it was the national guard. jeff using terms like enemy forces. these were americans. do you find this disturbing as all? jake i understand why it is disturbing to hear these terms in hindsight, but let s remember and i ll remind you i was a state representative at the time and briefed by the national kbard. guard. there was clearly distinction in their mind between the violent elements within the protests that were shooting at police that were flowing molotov cocktails and the peaceful protesters who they were charged with protecting. i think we re making a little too much of the use of sort of standard military jargon here. well, i mean, i was in ferguson when the people in the crowds of protesters burned stores looted threw molotov cocktails, rocks, even gun shots both last month and, of course last fall. but there were many, many more people who were peaceful
the guards lack of response. in november when two streets of ferguson went up in flames. and they were nowhere to be seen. something that angered the mayor of ferguson. did the governor do the wrong thing? when it comes to how quickly the national guard was actually deployed on the streets? i don t know who made that call. but i do believe that the national guard should have been out there much sooner. reporter: and so as you heard there, there were businesses there, really angry that the national guard wasn t out in force when all of that burning and looting went down. on the day after the grand jury decision. but the protesters say listening to this after they did hundreds of days of protesting peacefully they really, really feel that something has to change and has to change fast jake. sara sidner thank you. bring in the business manager for the st. louis police office association and a retired police officer. we should underline again this was not st. louis police office
w. today he praised the program his brother started to fight ats in africa pepfar and while he says mistakes were made in iraq when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, he s also called w. s troop surge there a heroic act. i pressed him more today on that issue. here what he had to say. are there any other problems you have with your brother s foreign policy? places he made a mistake? i m not going to get into that. that s not significantly relevant, forke issing gfocusing on the past is not really relevant. relevant is what s the role of america going forward. reporter: focused on the future and sizz the world is very different now than when his brother was president and certainly when his father was president. that s his answer so far to this question. jake? all right. athena jones in new hampshire. thank you so much. the only declared candidate on the democratic side former secretary of state hillary clinton, makes her way to the
background. cnn s ryan young joining me now. rhine, you ll try to explain this because deputy bates is insisting this accidental shooting could have happened to anyone. is that right? that s right, jake. in fact we watched that video over and over. across the country, tasers and guns are usually separated on officers and we watched that video, and he showed a bullet-proof vest usually have his taser on his chefrt and gun either here on the side or somewhere in the back. but he said in the heat of the moment he grabbed here and not up here. after intense scrutiny reserve sheriff deputy robert bates finally talks about the split-second act where he pulled his gun instead of pulling his taser. the shot he fired led to a man s death. oh my god. what has happened? the laser light is the same on each weapon. i saw the light and i squeezed the trigger, and then realized i had dropped the gun.
the tsa steadily pushed back against such notions and suggests the denver incident is an oddity. former administrators defending officers conducting by the book pat-downs as well. individual passengers may still object to that and how they do that as long as they re doing that correctly they re doing their job. reporter: still, as authorities consider charges against those officers involved the denver story is super- super-charging harrington s idea it s dill to tell where airport security ends and sexual assault begins these days. we reached out to jason harrington who wrote the provocative words and he declined to talk to us on-arab abouton-arab on-air. and several other passengers may have been groped and if we start hearing reports from other airport, you can bet, jake this story will intensify. all right. tom foreman, thank you so much. the national lead now american guardsmen, describes