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pledging to begin that process of disbanding the police department. at a minneapolis, the mayor asks questions about this idea of defunding the police department. he talked to protesters gathered outside his house. you can see that this morning. you saw this effort start in los theles a few days ago with l.a. city council introducing a motion to reduce police funding as calls to defund the lapd echoed at protests. you can even see it played out in portland, oregon. a decision by leaders in that city, the superintendent of schools saying he will discontinue the presence of armed police officers at schools. if you want a working definition , one is being offered by georgetown law. she has this is a working andnition, saying defunding abolition mean something different than what you are thinking. for most proponents, defunding the police does not mean zeroing all budgets for public safety and police abolition does not mean police will disappear overnight or perhaps ever. the pol
joining us. lillis joins us. what does congress have to make sure these provisions do not expire? a tough issue for congress. they tried to get it done in december and could not reach deals. they still haven t reached any deals. it is crunch time. everybody is getting a little anxious as to what this deal may or may not be. strangee of those fights. it puts strange alliances together. you have liberal supporters of civil liberties siding with libertarians. they want reforms to restrict the fbi power of surveillance on u.s. citizens. more moderates, institutionalists, mitch mcconnell is one of those. barr is general william one of those. they like to leave the powers intact. extend the role as it is. to make any tweaks internally. attorneyternally general was talking to lawmakers. is his position the administration s position? we authorize those provisions? those reauthorize those provisions? trump said, i want reform. if he is at odds with his attorney, what is the final
announcer: this week on q&a, helen andrews discusses her first things magazine essay on online shaming, called shame storm. brian: helen andrews, in january of 2019, you wrote for first things magazine something called shame storm. what is it? ms. andrews: i noticed that it seemed to be happening just somebody,y week that even a famous person or an ordinary man on the street was getting subjected to social media condemnation. they found themselves in the middle of a shame tornado over for some kind of misbehavior, pileonst these were bigger than they had ever been in human history because of the internet and this was a massive social phenomenon that was creating casualties left and right. a lot of people are worried about this effect that is having both on the victims and the rest of us and the voyeuristic appetite it is creating. i have my own particular perspective on this phenomena because back in 2010 the same sort of thing happened to me. this was very early on in
launched his campaign, he kept talking about his book. he kept saying we needed a president who could write a book like this. it sort of embodied who he was. so i figured i would read it. i never read art of the deal. i learned he had written many books. his advice books, even a golf book. so i decided to pick a few of them. brian: why did he interest you, other than the obvious? pros: a lot of politicians memoirs tend to be sort of formulaic. they are prescreened and scrubbed. they project sort of this plan wholesomeness and all americanness. trump wrote his before he intended to run for president ever. the first was when he was 41 years old. i thought they would tell me something about him. i thought he would be more interesting than reading all the other sort of long-term politicians, which is the same reason i ended up reading ben carson s book to book, too. what is the reason candidates write these books in your opinion? carlos: there is probably a lot of reasons. the