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case will be adjudicated in a court of law. white prima circumstances according to them the five african-american cops who beat him to death are racist participants in a deeply bigoted system and thats the narrative. heres the "time" magazine quote. there can be no doubt that entrenched institutional racism lies at the heart of this case. the "boston globe", "black cops kill tyree nichols. systemic racism will be the death of us all." upheld institutional and cultural racism in tyree n...

case will be adjudicated in a court of law. white prima circumstances according to them the five african-american cops who beat him to death are racist participants in a deeply bigoted system and thats the narrative. heres the "time" magazine quote. there can be no doubt that entrenched institutional racism lies at the heart of this case. the "boston globe", "black cops kill tyree nichols. systemic racism will be the death of us all." upheld institutional and cultural racism in tyree n...

Can tell you whats at our disposal and it goes beyond blocking nominees. every authorization, every one of these agencies in the intelligence community, they need a bill, us to write laws that authorize them to do this. they cant pass it out of our committee if they dont authorize that we can start fencing funding meaning they wont be able to use money even if its appropriated to them, by law, they wont be able to move monies around. they have got nominees obviously to bring before us. they are ...

Stated, to stall executive nominees. the roots of the filibuster are found in the constitution and in our own rules. >> it will change the senate forever. thats not good. >> all right. the were all pretty clear about it back then. asked today by dana bash why the flip-flop, senator reid said quote i have the right to change how i feel about things. dana joins us along with senior legal analyst jeffrey to been. no doubt hypocrisy to go around. in terms of blocking nominees is it really as bad as ...

For us. how much -- how worse is it now than it was under president bush or president clinton? >> its worse. i thought the most striking statistic that harry reid used today was one half of all the judicial filibusters in the history of the united states have taken place during barack obamas presidency. thats a lot of filibusters. president obama has had five nominees to the d.c. circuit, the second most important court in the country. four of those have been filibustered. three are likely now...