evening of the announcement that the grand jury wouldn t indict, my first thought is this is not a local issue that the president should be speaking about and it does seem as lou points out, when the president injects himself like he did the first time, it only made things a lot worse so i think a lot of people are wondering, what s the point of having federal intervention in a local issue? a lot of people don t want the feds. they can handle it locally. the only thing is if the officers are calling for more equipment and they need that in order to keep the communities safe at a federal level, then i m all for that, spending my federal tax dollars on keeping our officers and our community safe. something has to be done. we were reporting this morning that a man was killed, an innocent man was killed by four guys with hammers in st. louis. what has happened to our country? it s just all of this unrest is getting out of hand and something has to be done. the mayor of ferguson appears
to have lou on the couch is a bonus. is the baby here yet? not yet. early january. you look great. you do. today at the white house, it s all ferguson. president obama meeting with his cabinet, civil rights leaders and law enforcement officials to discuss the unrest in the missouri town one week after a grand jury decided not to indict officer darren wilson in the shooting death of michael brown and two days after officer wilson resigned from the force, his attorneys saying threats were made against him and his colleagues. this as protests, again, flared up in ferguson and across the country over the weekend after we saw a lull on thanksgiving day and for the third day in the nation s capital, protestors blocking traffic on a busy d.c. freeway. all right. so today, lou, president obama is going to host civil rights leaders. he wants to get into a couple of different issues, one of them he s going to review federal
now of the grnd jury, f.b.i. interviews and all of that and having been a prosecutor for 13 years, i don t see how this case normally would even have been brought to a grand jury. this is the kind of case had it not been had the racial yoefr overtones and national publicity that a prosecutor would have come to the conclusion there s not enough evidence to present to the grand jury. all right, sandra. rudy giuliani, former federal prosecutor and he said, look. this shouldn t even have gone to a grand jury, let alone have now action on a federal level with eric holder contemplating what to do as his role as it s a reasonable point to be making and i have to respect his opinion on that. but when he doesn t say that had there not been the racial overtones that a prosecute would have deemed not enough evidence, that s an obvious statement based on what we know today and brought forth.
this is before a local grand jury. how quickly could we hear about possible charges? that s an excellent question. it could take a while. they are still conducting the investigation. any time we put a grand jury together for a case like this, we are presenting the evidence as we get it to the grand jury. so that could take anywhere up from a month to 3 months, shannon. but again, the important thing here to remember is that the detectives for some reason or another, really have a lot of evidence or some evidence that would or could implicate the husband as maybe being a person of interest. and the detectives have never, shannon, called this guy a suspect. retired detective rod wheeler, thank you. coming up, is donald trump looking for a new aprebtis? why he is taking on the women of the view. [ male announcer ] at home, you play a lot of roles.
this is before a local grand jury. how quickly could we hear about possible charges? that s an excellent question. it could take a while. they are still conducting the investigation. any time we put a grand jury together for a case like this, we are presenting the evidence as we get it to the grand jury. so that could take anywhere up from a month to 3 months, shannon. but again, the important thing here to remember is that the detectives for some reason or another, really have a lot of evidence or some evidence that would or could implicate the husband as maybe being a person of interest. and the detectives have never, shannon, called this guy a suspect. retired detective rod wheeler, thank you. coming up, is donald trump coming up, is donald trump looking for a new [ male announcer ] at home, you play a lot of roles.