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And save lives. >> shame on us if we dont use his tragic death to finally get the policing act passed. we told president biden that when he talked to us because, you know, he should marshal the united states senate, senator booker, senator schumer, and they should try to get the house to re-engage. if not, dana, were going to continue to see hash tag -- >> with me the executive director of the advance project. andrew mccabe, robert fox. thank you, everybody, for being here. its a difficult conve...

>> reporter: well, long story short, guys, at this point it is very, very low. and let me walk you through why that is. you remember that these negotiations, especially in the senate in february of 2021, that was between republican tim scott and democrat cory booker and then representative karen bass, whos now the mayor of los angeles. and here we stand now where both booker and scott have said they are committed to doing something. they both put out statements after that horrible, brutal video ...

It is only a department that people trust where there is a relationship to both prevent, if you will, address crime that you can get a much safer community so in new orleans in the 1990s, we were determined. i was insistent. i didnt back up. i had a great police chief and the rest i think is history so its a bit of a model for leadership, both from a chief and a mayor, that made the difference in new orleans in the 1990s. >> lets talk about potential legislation. so, in the last congress, the se...

Comes from. is there any hope that having the nichols family at the state of the union, the president will touch on it but trying to convince him to spend more time on this. maybe the president will decide to make this a constant focus. any hope? >> well, the floyd family did a lot of events and they did a lot of things with the president. but what we saw when we saw the george floyd in policing act is when it came down to congress, there was a debate that seems perennial when you have -- when y...

Grace, but we have to make her coping mechanism come true. she says thats how she copes with this, that she believes that something good is going to have to come out of this and so we have to make something good come out of it whether its finally getting the justice and police, the george floyd policing act pass that we talked with president biden about when he called them to say march it back in the united states senate, have senator schumer and booker put it back on the table and work with you...

The police chief is aware of why they stopped him of alleged reckless driving. we dont know why they pulled him out of the car immediately. normally you stop someone you ask for a license and registration. we dont know whether or not they knew each other. some prior relationship there? why once he on the ground did they need to beat him with a baton and pepper spray him and taze him. sure he ran away. he said i am doing what you are telling me to do. its disgusting. washington can talk all they ...

>> what does justice actually mean in this case? >> well, certainly, its about his family having criminal culpability and civil accountability, but as his mother says so passionately, she believes that tyre was sent on an assignment from god, and thats what she has to believe to try to cope with this tragedy. and shame on us if we dont use his tragic death to finally get the george floyd justice and policing act passed. we told president biden that when he talked to us, because, you know, he sho...

Efforts by medical staff and was pronounced deceased. as for pat tree, as you point out, she founded the black lives matter movement. of course, she also stepped down after it was revealed she went on a multimillion dollar real estate buying spree, this is her cousin were talking about here and of his death, she said he was "killed by police." laura? >> laura: kevin, thank you. now the person driving this arsonist is the subject of the real race revolutionaries. it goes back to a debate between ...

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>> reporteter: what dodo we say? without yoyou there wouldntt be us. >> this is my y legacy. these arare my legacy. >> reporter: in a male-dominated world at the time she spent years playing second fiddle to her male co-anchors. at the "today" show -- >> i could not ask a question until he had asked three. >> reporter: the situation didnt improve much when she made that high-profile jump to abc. >> i kept time on your stories and mine tonight. you owe me four minutes. >> reporter: telling friend...