before taking any action against syria. i m joined by the democratic leader, congresswoman barbara lee of california. so nice to have you here. my pleasure. good to be with you. so in your response to president obama this week, you urged him to lean on his own doctrine and to avoid further military entanglement. how confident are you that this administration is going to practice restraint in this case? i think the president has been very clear, first of all, that he does not intend to send our brave young men and women into combat operations. having said that, movement of our military assets into the region concerns me for many reasons. one is if, in fact, air strikes are conducted, we don t know what the unintended consequences could be. we saw back when president bush authorized well, when congress authorized and president bush engaged in shock and awe what happened.
if you were wrongly accused, you could imagine dna as being the key to your freedom and in fact, dna has been the basis of exoneration in 316 convictions through the innocence project, a nonprofit founded by barry scheck, a member of o.j. simpson s defense team. i wanted to talk about dna in the context of race, because as we were just talking about, race is a social construct. it is not biological. yet in this case, that issue of dna and like the production of bodily matter became central to a race story in such a way that it ends up actually providing justice for hundreds of people of color through the innocence project. like biology that had always been bad for black folks ended up being good. exactly right. even if you believe o.j. was guilty, he was a sacrificial lamb. thousands of others benefited from the mistake made in his case but because dna stood for
states. joining me now is lead co-counsel in the case, marcellus mcrae, who joins us from los angeles, california. also with us in long island, new york is randy winegarden, president of the american federation for teachers. so nice to have you both here. thank you. good morning. let me begin with you. it s been reported there is likely to be a lengthy appeal process. is that also your understanding, and how do you see this case moving forward in that case? i think in the next couple weeks, what we re going to see is a finalization of the judge s decision and as far as the appeal process, that could obviously take anywhere from months to years, but obviously, we re going to do everything in our power in order to expedite that process. okay. let me suggest that as i read both the ruling of the judge as well as the initial lawsuit, it seems kind of clear, no one of good faith could argue that there isn t a problem of inequality in education and in educational outcomes and opportu
have. i agree with beth. i think cameras should be everywhere. i think the united states supreme court should allow cameras to see oral arguments. federal courts, they still don t allow it in federal trials. i don t think it s inherently prejudicial. it s transparency. it s both. i think he is exactly playing to the jury but he understood the jury was beyond those 12 men and women. he understood the nature of the case involved millions of people who felt that their lives were at stake as well. so he s playing directly to them but he understands he s got a mass cloud of witnesses out there who are hanging on his every word and johnny cochran was the supreme manipulator of american theater and a great rhetorician. you saw that brilliance coming through there. stick with us. as we talk about this question, the language you use, i don t think i have ever heard someone use it to talk about the o.j. simpson trial which is to say it unified us. it is true that it was this mass cultural ex
when it came to our schools, we eliminated teacher tenure to improve education for our children. to get tenure in louisiana out you have to be ranked in the top 10% for five years. we now have teacher tenure reform in new jersey for the first time in 105 years. when i first stood before you in 2011, i said the single most important factor in student learning is the quality of teaching. since that time, we eliminated teacher tenure. hm. this week, tenure took center stage in a big way, when california judge rolf traio released his decision in a case, a decision declaring five california statutes that protect job stability for teachers unconstitutional. those statutes included a permanent employment statute, dismissal statutes setting the procedure administrators must follow to dismiss a teacher, and the last in, first out statute