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He thought that the shelby decision was good news, who has been silent on things like criminal justice reform other than to say im opposed to consent decrees. how do you support somebody like a jeff sessions where he represents a state where 25% of all of his children go to segregated schools, but hes okay with that because the funding formula is fine with him. how do you support a person whos not an advocate and calls himself the attorney general of the united states. if that is what we can exp...

Is unnaug rated. >> thats right. thats the beauty f theof these orders. i think senator sessions, he understands, too, that the most important function of the justice department is to protect civil rights and to guarantee constitutional protection for everybody. i think thats the very glory fide history and truth about the department. i think with that background and with good people like rob rosen stein working with him, the benefit and how these decrees and how these orders and programs have w...

Nominee for attorney general expressed skepticism about such decrees. >> the transition is coming in washington, but the departure of one or two people and yes, the top two at the department of justice move on, this agreement is not dependent on one or two or three people. >> bodty camera, new training and more oversight are more practices the mayor believes will make for a better police force. >> those are all things officers themselves have asked for and we havent done our job both as the lead...

Monitor moving forward. i will say this and ill put a plug in. baltimore, we hear maybe the next deputy attorney general, hes a colleague of mine, there maybe have been other questions about nominees. you dont have that with rod. hes a solid guy. he understands the department. he understands what its like on the street. he understands the value of working with the police departments. i think when you have people like that leading the department, officer s can feel good that the department of jus...

>> i want to talk about one specific area that ive been following myself for a book i wrote and something you and i have spoken about, which is policing. particularly because this justice department under president obama i would say, particularly in the second term, has played a muscular role in the civil rights division in patterns and practices investigations of cities from chicago to cleveland to baltimore to ferguson and consent decrees that are federal efforts to reform policing externally ...

Particularly in the second term, has played a muscular role in the civil rights division in patterns and practices investigations of cities from chicago to cleveland to baltimore to ferguson and consent decrees that are federal efforts to reform policing externally for localities that have proven to be unable to do that for themselves. heres what senator sessions had to say about those consent decrees today. take a listen. >> its a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justi...

Holder/lynch leadership always would be expecting to end these decrees at some point. so i just wouldnt commit that there would never be any changes in them and if departments have complied or reached other developments that could justify the withdrawal or modification of the consent decree, of course, i would do that. >> well, usually consent decrees require when -- when they end, it is because they have complied with the provisions of the consent decree so im just trying to get a simple answer...

>> those decrees remain in force, until and if theyre changed, they will be enforced. the consent decree, itself, is not necessarily a bad thing. could be a legitimate decision. there can be circumstances in which police departments are subject to a lawsuit which is what starts this process. ultimately ending in a consent decree. but i think theres concern that good police officers and good departments can be sued by the department of justice when you just have individuals within a department wh...

Consent decrees, which allow the justice department to hold law enforcement agencies accountable when they have engaged in predatory plitsing, the same kind of predatory policing we saw in ferguson that the department of justice used to hold that department accountable. he is opposed to those kind of decrees. he has to address the record. >> if he addresses all those, will you support him then? >> based upon the record, we cannot support him. so in other words, we do not take our opposition as a...

There are instruments you can see, feel, touch, measure, weaponry. weve had demonstration a long time ago of the impact of nuclear weaponry, and that is what crees bot the physical substance of deterrence as well as the psychology. and the problem with the cyber domain, its not -- it is not -- it doesnt have those physical dimensions that you can measure, see, feel and touch as we do with nuclear deterrents. >> so let me give you an example. help us understand had the supposed invasion into the ...