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The lines are divided for republicans and democrats. We also have the independents line. For missouri residents, weigh in, 2025853883. The president took the cameras yesterday to talk about events in iraq and also in ferguson. Here are comments from yesterday. When Something Like this happens, the local authorities need to be open about the death and how they are protecting the people in the communities. There is never an excuse for violence against police or those using the tragedy as a cover for vandalism and looting. There is no excuse for police to use Excessive Force against protesters or throw them in jail for exercising their rights. And they should not be arresting journalist trying to do their jobs and report to the American People what they see on the ground. We need it hold ourselves to a High Standard particularly those of us in positions of authority. Host the president from yesterday holding a News Conference in marthas vineyard. The state senators weighing in today. Mccaskill said we need to demilitary the situation. I respect the Law Enforcement rights but my people are allowed to have peaceful protest and the police need to respect and protect that. And roy blunt, republican from missouri, weighing in saying i spoke with the attorney general about the continued investigation and i continue to monitor the situation. A young man lost his life and i support local and federal officials to conduct open, transparency and peril investigations of what happened. Michael Browns Community and family isnt served by more violence. The best way forward in ferguson missouri for the next 45 minutes. Paul, republican from pennsylvania, what is the best way forward . Caller good morning. Thank you for taking may call. Ferguson is just one town across the nation this problem exist. It is ongoing and getting more serious each and every day. I think there has to be a committee of nonpoliticians put together, an Ad Hoc Committee if you want to call it that, and sit down and figure out what can be done. I thought i was looking at the 82nd air borne when i looked at the police line. That program got way out of hand. There is so much excess in the military they are just pouring it into the different towns and Cities Police force. That is not the answer. Host you are talking about the pictures we saw of the streets filled with police . Caller that was shocking to me and concerns me because it brings on more trouble than it solves. For me personally, if i am looking at that, i am going to get a little rowdy because they just got way out of hand. I think the governor should have been down there a little earlier. But he did get there and his fix on it was the right one. Host these photos were from the violent protest. Caller from tennessee, dianne, democrats line. Caller i think the governor and it senators took too long to get out there and talk about the situation. This is what has been going on in america. Now it is out so everybody can see. It is due to race. We have some good white police, some good black police. But the situation is people should understand that when a person is walking around, minding their own business, all right. You tell them to stop, they stop. But to raise your hands up in the air and stop and they will shoot you anyway . But the number one thing with this situation right here everybody is seeing what is going on in america around the world. Iraq, benghazi all over the place it was shown. Host so the previous caller said a commission to look into what happened as a way to go forward. Do you have thoughts on what should happen . Caller everybody should get together and talk about this. Republicans and democrats should get together, black and white and hispanic, a commission of people, get down and solve the problem. The problem is it is hatred. Number one. We have to stop all of the hating. We are all human beings and american. That is the number one problem. Host that is dian e from tennessee. Lester from detroit michigan is up next. Caller this problem has been going on too long. America has had its head in the sand about this problem. Race has been a factor since the beginning of america. The problems we have in america cant be solved unless we recognize there was a problem. There was an eye opening picture of the snipers aiming at the crowd. I thought i was seeing a news story in iraq or afghanistan. This couldnt be america where we are supposed to show the world we are living free and clear and america is free from democracy. We need to Start Talking about host who takes the lead in talking about the issues . Caller our leaders. We elect our leaders to lead us. And that has been missing in action in washington. They have been missing in action in washington, d. C. How can you solve anything if you are not discussing anything . They have been alienated from the president and any discussion. You cannot solve the problem unless you come to the table and it seems like america is afraid to come to the table. Caller the president spoke about this yesterday. Should he say more . Caller i believe so. And it is all of the legislatures responsibility. Even on a local problem. This was a local problem. The situation will not get better unless we talk about it on a local level. Host lila from the democrats line go ahead. Caller thank you for take talking my call. This is a National Problem and we need national law. We have localized Police Departments throughout the United States and they do violate the rights of africanamericans. It has been going on since the time of slavery. It is time it stops. We need National Laws from the congress so the Justice Department the United StatesJustice Department has National Laws on which all Police Jurisdictions can be held accountable and when they violate the rights of citizen and kill them when they are unarmed they should be subjected to criminal and civic penalties and that includes prison. This has to stop. I hope eric holder, president obama and the legislature will do something about it. This has to stop. They have to stop killing our boys and our men. And then they complain we have no husbands and fathers and our population dont grow because they kill these young boys before they get a chance to reproduce and live their lives. Host there is a line for mose in missouri to give their thoughts as well. And we have the republicans and democrat and independents lines open as well. Senator rand paul of kentucky had an opted in team saying we must demilitarize the police. Given the developments it is almost impossible to not feel like the government is targeting them giving the racial disparties and system it is impossible for the africanamerican to not feel like the government is targeting them. This is part of events outside of st. Louis, missouri and what citizens of ferguson feel when there is a shooting like this one. Anyone who thinks race isnt skewing criminal justice isnt paying enough attention. Our prisons are full of black and brown men serving inappropriately long sentences for things from their youth. The best way forward in ferguson, missouri is the question for this morning. Beverly from chicago, illinois, democrats line is up next. Caller i wish you would go in your archives a couple months ago. When the militias have guns strapped to their shoulders, pointing guns toward the Police Officials and telling the Police Officials if they come closer they would shoot them, did you see any police on top of trucks and cars like they were on wednesday . No the Police Stepped back. So there is racism in the country. These people were standing with their arms up. This man grazing on the grass and these guys come out with guns. Go in the archives. You usually pull up stuff. Show the difference between bundy and what they did out here. Host with that in mind, what is the best way forward . Caller rights got the right, we got the rights. We are all gods kids. Stop making the difference and telling us nothing is wrong because there is a black president in the whitehouse. He is sitting there but you will not let him be president. The man cant come out and speak on stuff like this. I noticed where you were going who should speak out . The president and every elected official should speak out. The people in missouri should have came out before the president. Host tyrone from peach city, george. Good morning. Republican line. Caller i think the way forward is to weed out the race baiters who come in and exploit these situations. It is a tremendous tragedy this young boy lost his life. But we are in america and have to let the Justice System work. People rush to judgment. I dont see the correlation between the tragedy and people coming in stealing rims and tires and burning businesses. It is absolutely ridiculous. And it is very indigant. It is time to sit down and discuss these problems. Lets talk about the blackonblack crime in chicago. Lets go to those areas. Host david, johns island, south carolina, republican line. Caller they need to shut up and let the investigation go on. Get their facts. And about the gear they were using most of that is supposed to be intimidation factor to get the people in the crowd that are not nuts to think about what they are doing and leave. The fact president obama comes out and all of this stuff you remember, the republicans were the enemies and they need to be stopped. Host the Financial Times picked up a bit on the investigation of the shooting itself saying rage erupts in the United States but the police not to release the name of the officer is causing mistrust. It was said quote if they dont press charges there is going to be a war in st. Louis. Federal authorities have launched investigations into the shooting but the history of racial strain in st. Louis goes back a generation. Ferguson is a suburban town with a few black people in 1970 and now they comprise 70 of the population. Wane from washington. Caller we need to start loving the country more. We are allamericans here. We worry about our children more than anything else. If you can turn that mirror around and see it isnt about a color when you fire a bullet. It is about how a father or mother feels when you kill a child. We are in a melting pot. We are all about to let money control this country a little bit too much so that means morals are being changed. It seems like why did we even go through, you know, why did we go through wars if we are going to bring the wars here to this country . Host so what is one solid way to change the situation and start turning the things around in missouri and nationwide . What is one solid way in your opinion . Caller i see the only solid way is jobs. I mean it is the only thing most of these people going through this stuff they are not working. The majority are in an uproar about a lot. But when you lose a child, are not working, people are bitter. A lot of people are bitter. This president , i am a republican, and this president i dont know want to say i am racist on this because he is not doing his job. He is not for everyone and that is the problem. He is not opening his mind for clarification for the whole country. He is opening his mind for businesses and that can not be. Host independent caller from pennsylvania. Caller that is the problem right here. The last caller talking about the president isnt for everybody. Where does he get this stuff . When you have divisiveness on radio and tv constantly on fox news and msnbc they are divisive you are going to have a divided country. It isnt just divided because of the president. It has always been divided. We have been looked upon as secondclass citizens and people are tired. They looted one day. They needed to do more than that. What are you going to do when people start shooting back and killing the police . Then we will be crazy black people. We need to get together. We did get together. I dont know what needs to happen. The elephant in the room is racism and someone needs to speak on it. Host who is the someone . Caller regular people. You cannot get the politicians because they are scared theyll not let reelected. It is hard to say. I speak out about it and then you have someone in Middle America is what they call it and they are talking about white people. Get one of the Middle Americans and a regular guy that is in a segregated northeastern town it is hard to say. You cannot get someone to speak out. Al sharpton is a race baiter they say. You killed our leaders. Malcolmx, Martin Luther king. You killed them or put them in prison prison. It is hard to say. Host there is a story in the Washington Post showing pictures you have seen about the militarystyle gear of helmets and flares and knifes and weapons there. There is a federal program that arms or gives the localities some of this equipment. It is written in the pages of the Washington Post. Here is a little about the program. One program is a source of military resources deployed by Police Department is the Defense Department excess Property Program or the 1033 program that gives equipment to Law Enforcement agencies, transfers to the programs have increased in recent years. In 2006, it made 34708 transfers. And last year it grew to 51, 797 transfers valued at 420 million dollars. Through april of this year the agency made 15,000 transfers and that is worth 206 million dollars. A press briefing yesterday and some of the conver dealt with this program. Here is the comments there is a Law Enforcement support program that the Defense Department of minister provides to Law Enforcement agencies surplus military equipment gears, arms, ammunition, and vehicles. This allowed for the reuse of military equipment that would be disposed of that can be used by Law Enforcement agencies to serve their citizens. So the program serves a purpose. That said it is up to Law Enforcement agencies to speak to how and what they gain through this system. I am not going to inject the pentagon into this discussion. How the equipment is used to serve local citizens is up for local Law Enforcement agencies to speak to host if you want to see the full briefing or the comments from the president go to our website and watch that on the video library. Mike from North Carolina we are talking about the best way forward in ferguson, missouri. Mike is on the republican line. What were you thoughts . Caller good morning, pedro. Host good morning. Caller i am not sure what the best way forward is but it will probably have to be driven at the community level. I dont think washington or the Justice Department unless there is agregious civil Rights Violations which we are not sure what happened here. Here. What i see happening here is a confluence of factors. I am a child of the 60s. I watched the race riots in the vietnam protest. Are, almost 50 years later, after trillions of dollars were spent on the war on poverty, and to deal with their blighted urban cities and to try to help the people of color. What are we . I am looking at the pictures and people are saying they are saying iraq or