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Burger king was the hero of the laquan mcdonald case. is video enough to bring about accountability and justice? i think we have seen video, just hasn t been police video. that s what we saw with walter scott. i think if you want to hold police accountability with video, the answer isn t, you know, lobbying for buying body cameras, it s protecting the rights of citizens to film the police. then we don t have to have this year long legal case. we don t have to be playing political football over who deserves right, it s my video, we re releasing it, that s it. frustrating about this is the way we position grieving hurting people as the people who are responsible for bringing justice. i was watching the clip of ronald johnson s mother. i m near tears. she has to take on the responsibility of making sure that justice can be done. and that s what s unfair. that s what should challenge us. we were talking earlier about prayer, right, that s where we have to say it s enough. ....
It should not be the responsibility of a mother who has just lost her child to have to pursue this to the ends of the earth, whether it s through the body cam or whether it s through bystander video. where is justice for her and why is it on her grieving body? i thought about this is often when all of us of course fell for the vice president when he talked about the grief he had and how difficult it was to think about running for office. while feeling that, i also thought about all the other mothers who lost children and immediately found themselves, not public people before that, suddenly basically having to run political campaigns in order to just get justice for their kid. you talked about not only stopping wrongdoing but beginning right doing. it seeps part of what part of what we re saying is it seems to be police officers most interested in the question of justice, most interested in being sure when they are policing that when they are engaging they are, in fact, protecting and ....
The debt crisis to raise taxes instead of viewing it as an opportunity to rein in spending. unfortunately, after weeks of negotiations it became clear that democrats in washington did not view this crisis as an opportunity to rein in spending. instead, they saw it as an opportunity to impose huge tax increases on american families and small businesses. president obama is simply too committed to the european style of big government that his policies have set in motion. to democrats in washington, the answer isn t to cut spending, but to raise taxes and keep on spending. democrats claim they would only target the privileged few, but behind the scenes, they argue for much broader tax increases. jamie: now, we re keeping an eye on both the house and senate and fox is the place to be. you will not miss any of the action as this all moves forward. the senate is expected to vote early sunday morning to cut off debate on its own debt ceiling plans. keep it right here, kelly. ....
what could be the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. good morning to you all. thank you for spending part of your weekend with us. i m t.j. holmes. we do need to start with a debate that was supposed to be over already. we are less than three days from a possible u.s. default. this clock is still ticking and a deal is not done. we are expecting a lot of action on capitol hill today. both houses in session, but whether there s going to be any real progress, that s anybody s guess. this is what we ve got going on today. the house starts debate at noon with the likely vote on a democratic proposal expected some time after 1:00 p.m. not expected to pass, however. then over on the senate side, they kick off debate on the democratic proposal around 1:00 eastern time. they could be debating that for up to 12 hours before they even vote on whether to vote. kind of a procedural vote would take place, possibly around 1:00 a.m. we did hear from president obama this mo ....
Republican address and accusing the democrats to use the debt crisis to raise taxes instead of viewing it as an opportunity to rein in spending. unfortunately, after weeks of negotiations it became clear that democrats in washington did not view this crisis as an opportunity to rein in spending. instead, they saw it as an opportunity to impose huge tax increases on american families and small businesses. president obama is simply too committed to the european style of big government that his policies have set in motion. to democrats in washington, the answer isn t to cut spending, but to raise taxes and keep on spending. democrats claim they would only target the privileged few, but behind the scenes, they argue for much broader tax increases. jamie: now, we re keeping an eye on both the house and senate and fox is the place to be. you will not miss any of the action as this all moves forward. the senate is expected to vote early sunday morning to cut ....