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Them, when he captures them. he targets latinos, they say. what does he say or do in response? >>guest: he says he has been enforcing the law against illegal immigrant. >>neil: following the federal law? >>guest: not doing anything this trumps federal law like the arizona people who crafted that law say there is nothing that trumps federal law the laws are running concurrent to federal law but what sheriff joe is saying they are on the books i am just the law enforcement officer, but this admini...

County sheriffs office over allegations of civil rights violations including racial profiling. william la jeunesse is live in phoenix with more. william? >> reporter: jenna that battle should land in federal court within the hour. the justice department claims that the sheriff is guilty of widespread discrimination against hispanics. on the streets and in the jails. punishing inmates for speaking spanish. stopping hispanic drivers up to nine times more often than whites. and that his crackdown o...

Communities, not divide them. at its core, this is an abuse of power case, involving a sheriff and a sheriffs office that disregarded the constitution, ignored sound police practices. >> now, the sheriff says he wants to see the evidence of that to generate those allegations if you will. because he believes his department is not racist. and that these are basically trumped up, political hit job. that this is based on antidotes and a few isolated examples that are not uncommon in a department his...

Require the sheriff arpaios office to train officers on how to properly make traffic stops. but the justice department lawyers say the sheriff refused to allow a court ordered monitor to keep an eye on his people. the sheriff said "we will get the facts in court." >> i believe my dedicated employees may have a tough job to do, and i am not going to surrender the office of the elected sheriff to be taken over by the federal government. >>shepard: he has been privately investigating the authentici...

Miscommunications emanating from washington. i would like to get this resolved by im not going to give under the authority of the elected authority. im not going to give up my organization to the federal government. its as simple as that. martha: hes a tough talker. now the feds want the authority to search his office for evidence. william lajeunesse is in phoenix, arizona. what is this lawsuit all about? >> reporter: if you believe the administration this is about protecting hispanics from raci...

Proven they are offensetive the constitution. and federal law. the sheriffs lawyers will move to tis miss the complaint. probably lose that motion. because on the face it makes a claim. they will get in discovery. all kind of people will testify, those who love him and hate him and then they will be in court again. good news this will not be reed before election day. the bad news is i think there might be a jury trial in this case. i dont think there is a settlement. whatever you think of him, h...

hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected its first socialist president in two decades, were looking at what it means for the united states. im wolf blitzer, youre still in "the situation room." the vice president joe biden said over the weekend hes fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is worki...

Jalalabad in afghanistan en route to the bin laden compound over the border in pakistan. they were carrying navy s.e.a.l.s, a pakistani-american translator, and a trained military dog named cairo. >> the mood was tense, but it was one that was for all intents and purposes, because of the presidents decision, it was out of our hands. so it was up to those great professionals in our military to execute this mission. >> they were accustomed to operating in the dark. they were accustomed to landing ...

accident. police finding key evidence in the instructors stomach? and also caught on tape. a scary armed robbery at a dunkin donuts, a customer trying to be a hero but ends up unconscious. how this all went down, all in matter of seconds. up first this morning, big new developments with the chinese activist smack-dab in the middle of a political firestorm. hillary clinton is scheduled to speak about chen guangcheng in about an hour. we learned that chen can apply to study abroad ac...

terrorism center at west point. theyre among thousands of documents seized by the navy s.e.a.l.s who killed bin laden last year in pakistan. well, they show that he worked until his death to organize another major terrorist attack in the united states. he is probably the most famous guy in china today and the biggest headache for the chinese government. chen guangcheng remains in a beijing hospital. he now says he desperately wants americas help to get out of china and he wants to go...