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Maybe something more, violence of some sort, who here in this room feels comfortable picking up 911 and dialing the cops? whoa, whoa. and how many people -- how many people dont feel comfortable? can i talk to you for a second? >> sure. >> tell me your name. >> dimitri roberts. >> you were a chicago police officer for a while? >> i was, many years. >> i thought what jamal said was interesting. one of the things that ends up happening when these conversations happen is you watch the resources flo...

Up 911 and dialing the cops? whoa, whoa. and how many people -- how many people dont feel comfortable? can i talk to you for a second? >> sure. >> tell me your name. >> dimitri roberts. >> you were a chicago police officer for a while? >> i was, many years. >> i thought what jamal said was interesting. one of the things that ends up happening when these conversations happen is you watch the resources flow towards poce departments. righ i think, frankly, police departments that ive covered around...

Said, we need to find 21 s century solutions for 21st century problems. i have probably about four or five different ways to communicate without going through a phone company without doing total encrypted messages and literally, we have law enforcement and intelligence operating in the dark. we have no idea if these guys were communicating through different apps that makes it impossible to the law enforcement to find and i think the fbi had been advocating to find a solution to this. unfortunate...

Area that didnt support policing goes to the war on terror. this policing problem affects every single politician republican and democrat. >> but i want to lay the blame a little bit more at the front door of the clinton white house because it wasnt just an ideological question there were structural incentives to cities to police in this way. >> absolutely. >> and i think that gets lost in our sense of like were they good or bad mayors well they were mayors looking for revenue. as we saw in the ...

Eastern. join jimmy kimmenlkimmel seth myers, in a special hosted by our own jake tapper. cnn special report david letterman says good night, tuesday night 9:00 p.m. eastern only right here on cnn. over the past few weeks no story has dominated the headlines more than the issues of police shootings. our next guest says this is not on african-american problem, this is not a policing problem, this is an american problem and we need to do something about it. well talk to him about it next. the wo...

We have seen the federal government demand and get progress on major racialized issues like immigration, affirmative action and others. consent decrees have been critical to "forcing polices to jet jettison -- now if more than 20 major police departments have had to come under federal monitoring then we know we have a massive nationwide policing problem, but we also have a federal government thats fighting to make change. its heartbreaking to see so many examples of racist policing and heartbrea...

This would seem to be a time, perry, where you could go and look at senator cardins bill or say on the hill, lets have up or down votes, particularly as we discussed, as the nation saying, what can be done? >> one thing dana milburn wrote is a crisis often creates an opportunity. this should be the time where congress really says, do we have a policing problem and can we do something about it? think about someone like rand paul, for instance, whos talked a lot about how he wants to be a lead oth...

General eric holder just last night night, the nations top cop basically saying that ferguson is just the beginning of a bigger policing problem across america. but my next guest says that could not be further from the truth. david clark is the sheriff of milwaukee county, wisconsin. good to see you tonight. you made headlines not long ago after eric holder came out and claimed that hed been the victim of racial profiling himself and was pretty tough on the cops, and you said, you know what? don...

That was sufficiently terrifying that we thought it deserved discussion. youre talking about hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more of hezbollah agents inside the continental united states prepared to attack us in the event of an armed conflict between iran and israel. >> well, thats certainly the risk here, megyn. we have to be careful about use of the term "agent." these are people who know how to get cars, know how to get cash, they can get access to weapons, they know how to move people kind o...

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