host the media is gone, how is this community going to operate moving forward? let me say this you serve on the committee for housing it s the budget appropriations committee. the the housing development is no longer subcommittee out of the budget of budget a appropriations committee. hold on one seck. we re going to joy anne reed in a second. the blight in the city is shameful. yes, it is. that does not rest within our power. that rest within the administration. that s a question to post to the mayor s office. we ll have the mayor s conference in a moment. want to go back to joy anne reed on the intersection of pennsylvania avenue. this is a hub for people of west baltimore to gather. reporter: thomas, you were
while you put the congressman on the microphone joy anne reed, you ve been talking to people in the neighborhood there. we know there s a lot of reaction. obviously this is a different weekend than the weekend people had been concerned about with the curfew and still waiting for an answer. now they have the initial answers from the state prosecutor. joy, can you hear me over the horns there? we can see the scene outside the cvs where joy anne reed is. justin is on the phone from the baltimore sun. you ve covered baltimore for a long time. elijah cummings called this a new day. this is certainly a new way of answering what the people have been demanding. yeah i mean this prosecutor as everyone knows has been on the job four months. these are the first police officers that s been charged with the crime as far as we
said if i did what these officers did, i would be arrested. you had the congressman and state senate leader trying to explain why no arrests happened. for this to happen on a day city officials had tried to play down and say it wasn t going to be a big day i think surprised a lot of people. you ll see people as they get this news be happy. we did have some say this is step one. the officers could be quitted. they have to go through trial. for now, atmosphere is happy. they re outing on t-shirts that say change begins with me. people are happy this day has come. a big surprise to a lot of people. joy anne reed thank you very much. a very big change of mood in the crowd there. ron allen, let s talk about the state prosecutor. she s young, marilyn mosby. her parents were both police
with mr. gray and heard him banging on the walls of the van saying he was intentionally trying to injury himself. the prisoner was separateaccept separated by gray with a metal peace. there s no evidence to support that prisoner in s claims. we want to get to it for the first time. msnbc is getting a look at what freddie gray was going to be charged with. joy, you have the charging documents. what are they? absolutely. essentially one of the questions people have been asking fundamentally about freddie gray is one, why was he stopped? and is two, what was he going to be charged with? the charging document does give us the answer. freddie gray was going to be charged, according to a document submitted to the district court of maryland for the city of baltimore, with possession of a switchblade. unlawfully carrying or selling a
90% of the american people are in favor of them. it s a number of about 75% in my own state. so i think there s certain things that are going to be easier to do than others. and probably a comprehensive ban. a comprehensive piece of legislation will probably contain poison pills that will keep any of them from being enact enacted. congressman john yarmuth, thanks for joining me from kentucky. that s going to wrap up things for me, i ll see you tomorrow. independent senator from maine, angus king will join me. now with alex wag anywhener c up, a special treat for you, joy anne reed is filling in. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 seems like etfs are everywhere these days. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 but there is one source with a wealth of etf knowledge