[ theme ] stephanie oh look whos on the big show today. Who . Stephanie tina dupuy. It is jims opportunity to make that disgusting sound he makes. Also Jacki Schechner will be there. Oh look, Jacki Schechner is here. What are the odds . Good morning stephanie actually, im wearing my elvira tshirt because she was at my super bowl party. Oh, she was . Stephanie between her and elizabeth fitzgerald, jim mostly made that sound the whole super bowl. And stared at boobs. This is why we fix it so he cant see jacki. Focus. Did you Say Something . Dont look at how hot Jacki Schechner is. Listen to the news. Good morning, everybody. President obama is going to be in annapolis today joining Senate Democrats for the second day of their issues conference. Senate republicans working out their issues in a retreat at the library of congress. Tomorrow, the two will reconvene to hopefully reauthorize the violence against women act. This wills be the first day of work for mo cowan sworn in to replace now
[ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Good to see you today and welcome to the full court press here on current tv. Were coming to you live all the way across this great land of ours on this thursday morning february 7. Bringing up to date on the big news of the day and giving. Chance to talk about it. Let us know your opinions at 186655press. Our big town hall meeting of the day here. About to kick off. And breaking news, the white house has reversed course. It says that now will release the secret memos on what guidelines it uses in deciding to kill americans overseas and what kind of evidence they demand before they target americans. That, of course, comes only after getting a lot of pressure from members of congress and from the public. So, you see, all of those phone calls really do work. Well tell you more about that and a whole lot of other stuff here on this mornings full court press but first, we get the latest, todays current news update from Lisa Ferguson out in los an
Before us and demands a reckoning. Blacks and a big chunk of White America believes what went down in ferguson the is not something they can approve. And so we asked the question tonight of an extremely distinguished panel what is ferguson . What does it say to you personally . And if you see it as a problem, what is that problem and what can we do in the near term to fix that problem . Charles ramsey is police commercialer, mayor of boston, rendell was the citys District Attorney. Eugene robinson is the pull iit prize winning columnist and editor of the Washington Post. Commissioner ramsey, what is ferguson to you and what needs to be done . Lets start with what it is. Well, i mean, its symptom attic of a much larger problem that, unfortunately, exists between police and members of certain communities, primarily minority communities, communities of color, africanamerican communities. Also, it also highlight ed a ga between police and young people. So its a combination of a lot of diff
Eugene robinson is the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and editor of the Washington Post. Commissioner ramsey, what is ferguson to you and what needs to be done . Lets start with what it is. Well, i mean, its symptom attic of a much larger problem that, unfortunately, exists between police and members of certain communities, primarily minority communities, communities of color, africanamerican communities. Also, it also highlighted a gap between police and young people. So its a combination of a lot of different factors. Let me go to gene on this. Its going to go in the dictionary, something people will be talking about weeks, months, years. You know, what i think it may come to stand for is a question whether we have two justice systems in this country. One for young, black men, and one for everybody else. And, you know, weve had the string of these incidents, these killings, Trayvon Martin and you go back and just two more recent ly, and it has a numbing effect. It happens, it happe
Our first projection of the night at poll closing, here is the threeway on the republican side. 53 to 37 for former candidate ted cruz. John kasich, we havent heard much from him tonight. We did hear from ted cruz on his way out of the race. Im sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed. Together. We left it all on the field in indiana. We gave it everything that weve got. But the voters choosing chose another path. With a heavy heart, and boundless optimism for the longterm future, we are suspending our campaign. Here me now, i am not suspending our fight for liberty. That was tonight in indianapolis. A shot time ago in new york, midtown manhattan, donald trump came forward to the microphone. This country, which is very divided in so many different ways, is going to be beautiful, loving country. We are going to take care of each other. Great economic dwempt we are not going to let other countries take it away from us. That has been happening for too many years. We are not g