Excellent to a good job, 44 have participated in some form of protest theyve given money. Theyve actually marched. Theyve signed a petition. Still 100 days in on the line what does this tell us about where we are . It tells us more about Chester County than it does about donald trump or anyone else. It just happens to be a very divided place, and, look, this is a vast continental nation. If you go through it, you will see tremendous cleavages. When you look at the way in which congress is organized. Mmhmm. And theyve managed to vacuum up votes for each side of the political aisle, so youve got a very partisan divided institution, and whats happening in Chester County is just a reflection of a very divided culture right now. Its interesting that you say its just Chester County, cause i feel like whenever i watch congresspeople or senators go back to their districts right now, youve got auditoriums packed full of people yelling at each other. It sounds to me like Chester County is pretty typical at the moment of what were seeing. I think it is, but i think you have to put it into context. I think hillary won Chester County. Dont quote me, although im gonna quote this number. But i think it was in the 20,000vote range. So, if you think about how a republican county by the way, the county that produces the new chairman of the republican state committee, val digiorgio a county in the fivecounty southeastern pennsylvania that was the most republican, and only and that hillary own, and 49 of the people are happy with trump . I would say thats an improvement for trump, cause he didnt lose with 49 of the vote. Its interesting you point that out, because it said that they thought some Republican Voters who were maybe put off during the election, they called it coming home. They come back to him. But the pollster said, but he hasnt expanded. So i wonder what that meant for the future. Hes pulled back republicans. Is that enough, or does he need to work on expanding . I think theres a question of if you ask a general question, what do you think . How do you like him . And the number seems to be a lot higher at 49 , once you start getting into some of the questions around job performance, thats where you see that the numbers are lower. So i think, again, how people are reacting to him in general may answer that question that people are coming home to support their party. But i think when you look at some of the individual issues, youre still seeing a huge divide. Its funny that she says issues, because on issues, the people were not necessarily happy with policies like building the wall, changing healthcare, getting out of trade deals. He barely eked over with people saying they were openmined about the travel ban. But it doesnt feel as though the policies are necessarily pushing them toward him. Right. I think a lot of it is personality, and trump himself said during the election he could shoot someone in times square and wouldnt lose a vote. I think theres something to be said for that. I think there are people that and theres a core, hardcore group of people that just like his style, and they like his pugnacious way, and they like the way he takes on the media. But they dont necessarily agree with him on the specifics of his program. You know, you have to go back to reagan, i think, to see that kind of a disconnect, and reagan of course was, in my opinion, much more charming than donald trump, but he always polled higher in terms of just do you like the guy . As opposed to his actual policies. Well, you know, jim, i think you could say the same about barack obama. Barack obama was personally popular, but when you got into the question, do you like obamacare . Do you like the policy visavis iran . When you got into those things on policy, he did not do well, but personally theres a certain charm and magnetism that was appealing to people, and he wound up doing much better. If you see Chester County as a microcosm of well, it used to be called rockefeller republicanism its sort of the east coast republican and obviously chester we call them eisenhower republicans. Eisenhower republicans james eisenhower. Is that why youre a democrat . [ laughter ] what you see is that over the last two or three weeks, as this poll was probably conducted, trump has come more to the centrist, traditional republican foreign policy, healthcares complicated. Theres just a lot of change from that rhetorical bombast and outrageousness. Weve seen less tweets, so that may be alluring to Chester County republicans. The press likes the 100day benchmark. People this weekend are hearing about it over and over again. Is it a fair benchmark . No. Its three months. I dont think its really difficult to sort of say, whether its 100 days or 120 days, but i think people believe that you have a lot of Political Capital the first couple months that youre in. This is the opportunity for you to really bring big ideas to the fore and be able to get some action on those ideas. And unfortunately, i think this administration has started slow. We continue to hear about all the positions that havent been filled, and so i dont think that the 100day mark is gonna mean a lot for this administration. I think the 100 days never mattered before franklin roosevelt. I may be wrong, but im a student of history. And in that situation, you had the country on the brink of economic collapse i mean, the worst disaster other than the civil war. So you had and a president wanting some action to at least lets try to stem this tide. And then every president after that has felt he or she or he, only he. Mmhmm. Had to match it. Im not sure it is something you have to match. It is an artificial deadline. Nevertheless, i agree that it does seem like the administrations off to a very slow start. Other than executive actions, the president s really accomplished very little. Lets talk about this lets turn to immigration. The chief justice, stuart rabner, of new jersey sending a letter following up from the chief justices of california and Washington State saying, immigration agents, i. C. E. Agents, in the courthouse, he said, is causing a chilling effect. Theyre worried that people wont come to court, they wont get the help they need, or they wont help with cases. Moving forward on it a little bit, theres certain sensitive places that agents tend to try not to go hospitals, schools, places of worship. Is it worth thinking about whether or not the courthouse should be one of those . Its complicated. The courthouse is ultimately the center of Law Enforcement and justice, and to say that you cannot apply Law Enforcement in a center of Law Enforcement is a tough position to take. On the other hand, the center of Law Enforcement ought to be a place where a defendant can come unburdened emotionally beyond the case that theyre dealing with, and the thought that you could go into a court and youd be arrested for something would be an inducement, i think, to stay home. Yeah, and i think, as a lawyer, officer of the court i think youre looking at just the functioning of the system, and there seems to be some evidence of not just defendants, but victims, witnesses, people who are owed restitution are declining to participate because theyre concerned that somehow theyll be vetted, and while theyre doing their duty to testify in a case or testify against someone because theyve been attacked or stolen money from them, that somehow theyll get in trouble because they dont have their papers in order, and i think thats why youve had a number of judges make this kind of comment. And i think this is why you continue to hear the argument that trying to figure out a commonsense way of dealing with this issue makes sense. I mean, when you think about the fact that were talking about parents who have children who are citizens here. You have Law Enforcement officials, Law Enforcement chiefs who are saying, were really concerned about our towns and cities, that people arent gonna come forward when theres a crime, when they need to be a witness, and so the idea that we are just sort of vilifying a whole group of people and not really trying to come up with a good solution doesnt make sense. To be fair, i. C. E. Will say look, were trying to get them where we can get them. In many cases, weve tried other places, and we know theyve got to go through magnetometers here. We know they dont have a gun. This may be the safest place to get them. Is there bearing for that argument . Well, no. I would argue that police are going after and finding people who are committing serious crimes. The idea here is that were trying to now find anyone whos not legal, even if they havent done anything serious to cause trouble in our society. Lets quickly try to get through a couple of other ed you sighed. You were sighing. Is there something you want to say . Ive come loaded for this. Okay. Very quickly the g. A. O. , government accounting office, did two studies that are sort of the benchmark on the question of the tie between those who are here illegally and crimes committed. They found in 2005 that 27 of all federal prisoners were here either illegally or they were foreignborn. Now, the percentage of foreignborn in the country is 9 , so thats three times as many as basis of population. But the 2011 report found they looked at 55,322 illegals 459,614 arrests, an average of 8. 3 per individual, almost 700,000 criminal offenses. Heres the takeaway yes, because my head is swimming with numbers. Yeah, thats a lot of numbers, and im the numbers guy. Heres the takeaway well, this is the government accounting office. Okay, well, do we trust those numbers . But theyre saying that theres a strong correlation between those who are here illegally committing crimes in larger numbers. To jims point, you do want to protect those who are stepping forward to testify, but the problem is we do have a problem with illegals committing crimes in larger proportions. But if the chief judge of a state is saying, look, this is a problem. I have people who are not dealing with domestic issues, criminal cases, children. Do you have to take that into account . Yes, you do, but you cant lose these mindnumbing numbers. And i cant lose that doesnt speak to the question of whether this location, a courtroom, a courthouse, is the place where you know youre gonna lure people, and then youre going to arrest them, because you will undermine criminal justice in this country if you do that, and you can expand that to virtually anything. Lets quickly talk about some other races that are going on, because we got the primaries coming up next month. Ed rendell has come out for Rebecca Rhynhart against Alan Butkovitz to be controller of the city. How important is that . Before he had backed up Alan Butkovitz, now hes saying im throwing my hat over here. Thats a big endorsement. You mean the highturnout city controller p. A. Race . For the 10 people who will come vote, does it make a difference . They do watch this show. Yes, they all do. I think it is significant in this regard money. It is a lowturnout race and not a lot of attention is focused on it. Ed rendell still remains a formidable fundraising individual, and he has a whole group of people around him that look to him to, you know, who is a good candidate for us to support here . So for him to sort of give her the seal of approval i think is a tremendous plus for her campaign. Absolutely, but the fact of the matter remains that this is a committeemans election. It has been, and it will be, and the question will be are enough people in the democratic infrastructure upset with the choices of auditing targets that Alan Butkovitz has chosen, and i would venture to say that most of them havent given it a second thought. Katie mcginty signed on this week with a lifesciences venture firm. Do we feel like shes done with public life, or this is just a holding spot till she figures out the next thing to run for . I dont think shes done with public life, and i dont think she has to be done with public life, but she does have to become a better candidate if shes gonna have a public life. I think shes a really smart lady, and she obviously has an incredible background in technology with the environment. The transition from Environmental Science to life science is not easy, but its certainly navigable, and im sure her assets to a company will be considerable. But the Winning Strategy in my opinion for a democrat in pennsylvania is bob casey. Its a centrist democrat. Its not what we now call the progressive democrat. You know, if you look at josh shaprio and joe torsella, both of them hugged the center, and thats where you win elections in pennsylvania. Lets talk about delaware for a moment. We had the prison riot back in february. The family of the slain guard, five other guards who were involved have come forward to put in a lawsuit, and they are suing former governors, theyre suing former budget directors, and also the current and former corrections commissioners saying, you created this situation. It was unsafe. We couldnt make this work. We want a jury to come up with how much money we get. Does this have legs as it goes forward . Well, legally very difficult hurdles to get over because theres a standard immunity. Individuals who are Holding Public office normally, the law does not allow them to be sued for things that are within their official actions, cause otherwise youd be having constant lawsuits brought against the mayor because somebody tripped on the sidewalk. There are ways to get over that, but the way to get over it is an extremely High Standard of recklessness. And i dont know enough about this case specifically, but i think that official immunity will be a major issue in it. But when they make the case that the governor said, wed rather youd enforce overtime rather than hire people is there any sort of workplace case thats able to be made . I dont see that as i may disagree with that decision, but i dont see it as reckless. No. As a reckless decision. But i do think bringing the issue to the public, and im certainly not a lawyer, so i step aside on the legal questions. But i think if you look at the story and you look at the issues that have been brought to the fore, whether or not there were enough people there, whether or not the facility itself was getting the kind of investment that it needed in order to be safe, i think those are really serious questions, and im hoping that the attention that is brought here by the families in this very tragic situation will help to make sure that people improve. When you create these rules and regulations and arrest and put people in jail, you still have to take the responsibility of making sure its a safe place for everyone. All right, well take a break, and on the other side of the break, well talk about committing crimes on facebook. Are people doing performance crimes, and so what should happen to it for other people who just want to do regular Facebook Livestreaming . Well be right back. Inside story is presented by temple university. Remarkable change isnt easy, but for those who take charge, it comes naturally. Explore temples impact. Visit temple. Edu impact. Welcome back to inside story. This week, we saw a terrible, tragic story on easter morning. A man in cleveland decided he wanted to execute somebody, found an older man named robert goodwin, and did so on facebook live. It took the Socialmedia Company two hours to figure out what was going on and remove that video. It has created a lot of debate around whats called performance crime. Are we having more and more people do things because they know they will be seen in real time on facebook, and have we gotten to a moment where something that was meant for us to be ourselves in the moment has to be changed . Tv and radio have fcc rules. Do we need some sort of rule for facebook . Thats a really good that last statement is really important, because what facebook has become is a media outlet. And unlike wpvi or abc, this is a media outlet that operates without regulatory oversight. So if youre going to be a broadcaster or a broadbander and youre gonna operate without the same set of rules as everyone else who is presenting media material, then you have a economic advantage, but you also have a responsibly to oversee what would not be eligible to be broadcast, cause theres a sevensecond delay, because somebodys watching it. Whos watching this stuff . Obviously, the size and girth of facebook would make an editorial Oversight Board interior to facebook, hundreds of people would have to be on it. But it has reached a point where theyve overstepped the boundaries that weve allowed them to have. Is it possible, and would it be censorship . People like facebook because i can just post whatever. Would they want to go through a gatekeeper . But you cant yell fire in a movie theater. There will have to be some boundaries between what my expression is and how im ultimately hurting other people. I mean, this is an absolutely horrible situation, but theyve had situations where theyve actually had someone raped. Yeah. On facebook, or a young person who has been actually taken and tortured for hours that has gotten posted. No, i really do think and im the last one to say that i know what the answer is, but i dont think we can just say, oh, its just okay, and we just have to sort of live with this. Theyve also been criticized for the fakenews phenomenon during the election itself, and i think zuckerberg came out after the election and said they were gonna try to police that, because i dont get my news off of facebook, but a lot of people do, and with no regulation, some people put up things on facebook like, obama has outlawed the flag, and people believe that, and they form opinions based upon that. Or someones running a ring in someones pizza parlor somewhere, okay, where theyre actually trafficking human trafficking. But people might say, i have a right to say things, and you can sue me for libel later, but i have a right to say them, and can you legally take away that place for me to say it . Yes, but back to sams point, you have a right to say it, but it doesnt mean that we have to allow the infrastructure that is public space to be employed to allow you to do reckless things. To amplify it, right. Zuckerberg has said, weve got a. I. , weve got human teams, and people flag things. We may just have to beef these up. But he thinks the company itself can get ahold of that. Is he right, or does the government kind of need to step in and say, we think theres a Regulatory Agency role . Theyre in the communications business. Theyre in the fcc business, and as much i do not want to see the internet become so overly policed that it loses its value or it stifles innovation, the fact that they can broadcast stuff that you cant and wouldnt think to makes them subject to oversight that they dont now have. There should be some level of federal intervention, because this is only gonna proliferate. This is gonna be copycatted, this is what crazy people do, and crazy people have a right to be and murderers have a right to be on facebook but we have to limit that, because this is going to create, i think well, it already has created a storm of protest and anger. Quickly, sam, we got a minute. I want to come back to something that was your inside story last week. You were talking about the gpcc and trying to shut down maybe the levysweeney rule. Theyre trying to get an injunction on the pay equal pay between men and women. Theyre supposed to be there to kind of make the city a Better Business environment. Are they taking the right actions if you want women to make more money, if you want taxes to come down for business and wage . Is this the right thing to do . What bothered me about the chambers position against the constitutional amendment to change the way that property taxes and all taxes are administered, which is a requirement that they be equalized. Whats the word im looking for . In any case, there was a plan to make commercial properties accessed and taxed at a higher rate. Mmhmm. And this already moved through the legislature. This has got one more pass through the legislature before it goes on the ballot, and the chamber came out against it. We have lost jobs in the city. The growth in other cities has been phenomenal. Philadelphias flat. We have the highest poverty rate. We need jobs, and to take an action that appears at the moment not to be perfect, but to be a means to create an environment in which philadelphia can compete more effectively for employment gains and try to kill it . Thats not the way i see they say theyre working out something in the backroom with jim kenney thats better. Is that a good argument . Well, they cant work it out with jim kenney. It has to be worked out with the state legislature, and theyve already approved it. So if we lose this, because we did it to ourselves, we have no one to blame but ourselves. And ive got no one to blame when you have no time for inside stories, cause we got to take a break. We went long. Well be right back. Its blinds to gos sheer savings event. Right now take 25 off all sheer shades, our fastestgrowing collection. Classic. Modern. Beautiful. The latest in window decor. Now 25 off. Sheer savings. Sheer limited time. Blinds to go. Blinds for life. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. 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Welcome back to inside story. Time for our inside stories of the week. Jim, well start with you. Tamala, last year the department of labor passed a very simple rule. It said that if youre an Investment Adviser and youre giving advice to someone, you have to give the advice thats in their best interest, not in your best interest to make money. That rule went through the department of labor, and the Trump Administration is stalling its implementation and footdragging it. Attorney general josh shaprio and a number of others around the United States have taken action to try and get the administration off their hands and get this commonsense rule put into effect. Ed. Tam, this week, paris suffered its sixth terror attack in the last three years. The man responsible was on a watch list. Question is, why didnt they do anything about it . There are 10,000 people on the french terror watch list. There arent enough police to do what they need to, and even when they catch them, as they did with this man, the law doesnt have the teeth it needs to hold them back from violence. Sharmain. This week, we celebrated 25 years of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development corporations. There are still people in communities that are creating Affordable Housing and wonderful places for people to shop. All right. Sam, 30 seconds. Phillies owner John Middleton went on the radio, the first time i think hes ever done a radio interview was an hour long and at the very beginning of the show, he said, i expect to win a world series, and im gonna die trying, and i couldnt tell you how excited i think most phillies fans were to hear from an owner who was saying, were gonna do what it takes, and middletons a very successful and bright guy, but i got a big shine on my face, and im nydia han along with gray hall. Come up next on action news, the countdown to the nfl draft is on, that means more road closures are coming. It was a sea of red shots see how dozens paid tribute to a beloved runner in wilmington. A new museum brings live to the american revolution. Well take you inside. Those stories and more next on action news. Congressman macarthur promised to protect our health care. But when rightwing politicians tried to pass a disastrous Health Care Repeal bill that raises costs and cuts coverage, macarthur wouldnt oppose them. Macarthur wouldnt protect us from a bill that raises premiums and causes 24 million to lose their insurance. Wouldnt oppose a massive age tax on people over 50. But supported a 600 billion tax break for the wealthy. Tell Tom Macarthur stop trying to repeal our health care. Aich 23. 23 april 23. Heres some of the stories were followingen action news, septa begins new regional