Caught on tape. An enraged water buffalo in china. Responsible for injuring 14 people. It even damaged vehicles in its path. Police eventually had to shoot and kill that rampaging buffalo. Thats one way to stop it. Hmm. Scary stuff. Thanks for joining us. The real story with Gretchen Carlson starts now. Bye. An erie calm as that Community Phase widespread devastation following the grand jurys decision not to indict Police OfficerDarren Wilson in the shooting death of michael brown. Im fwrechen carlson. We will keep it here today to bring you the real story on this. Police cars overnight,
looters leaving two dozen businesses damaged or destroyed. Bursts of gunfire slowing down crews, fighting dozens of those fires. Meantime, Police Responding with smoke, tear gas, bean bags, and more than 80 arrests. Now local Law Enforcement and the National Guard are stepping up their efforts to try and contain the violence. Mike tobin has been on the ground in ferguson, missouri, since last night. He is there now with the very latest. Mike, what are things looking like today . Not great by your background. No. Its pretty sad. Lots of destruction, and in the face of all of this destruction, the National Guard troops are deployed to the ferguson area. That in the face of criticism that we get from Business Owners that during all of the mayhem last night, you did see some police, but you didnt see the guardsmen on the frontline. More of them are coming. Keep in mind largely what the guardsmen do is sort of a background role. Theyll do things like security and that frees up the Police Officers to do what they have specifically trained to do. All right. We also heard from Michael Browns family through their attorney today. What did he have to say . Well, the representatives of the brown family say that they will continue to press this fight, and they turn their criticism on the testimony of officer Darren Wilson. Also, the county prosecutor and his decision to use a grand jury in this process. In their opinion that protected officer wilson from crossexamination. You had to scratch your head kind of like we all did to say when is the prosecutor going to crossexamine the killer of an unarmed person . A first year law student would have did a better job of crossexamining a killer of an unarmed person that the Prosecutors Office did. Also today, we had the county Prosecutors Office answering the criticism that the announcement was made late last night. Trying to make it an easy transition into all of the
mayhem. The county Prosecutors Office says a decision was made for the 8 00 p. M. Local time announcement to give schoolchildren time to get home safe away from the trouble, give Business Owners time to shut down and make decisions about how they will protect their places of business. Also, the county pressures office said time for the media to set up and convey the message. Gretchen. Very interesting. Live on the ground, thank you so much. Were learning more about officer wilsons side of the story. Prosecutors in missouri releasing his testimony to the grand jury, describing his encounter with michael brown. Here is an excerpt. Wilson said brown looktd up at him and he had the most intense aggressive face. The only way i can describe it, it looks like a demon. Thats how angry he looked. He comes back towards me again with his hands up. Were getting a look at this new picture as well of wilson and others taken shortly after the encounter. As can you see, there is a wrus on wilsons face about two inches long. Eric guster is a criminal defense attorney and my guest on all of this. Good to see you. Good to see you. To parse this all down as to why no indictment was handed up in this case, how do you see it . I see it as a problem on the prosecutor because the prosecutor should have, number one, recused himself and allowed a special prosecutor to take this case. Why . Well, he had a vested interest in this case. Why . Mccullough knew Darren Wilson. He worked with this Police Officer, and he prosecuted cases with this Police Officer. When you have someone who works closely with someone, they should not be allowed to prosecute them. Especially Something Like this. That wouldnt change any of the evidence, would it . It could change how the case was presented because everything in a trial is about presentation. I read this information last night, and those were softball questions. Is this a prosecutors duty . I have interviewed other attorneys about this leading up to it. Is it a prosecutors duty to actually go in and present a
case or was it smart for this particular prosecutor to just lay out all the evidence for the grand jury to be able to decide knowing that he would be under high scrutiny to make sure all the people were included. Thats why special prosecutors should have been assigned because he did not want to remove himself. He asked the governor to remove him. They were playing politics with this case. Mccullough should have stepped down, allowed a special prosecutor to be asigned to this case, and allow someone with no interest to present this case. Is that your only problem with it, the fact that you dont believe he asked officer Darren Wilson on the stand tough enough
questions, and would that have been enough to have a grand jury see this differently . There were witnesses who came in who they seem to rely on just as well as the officers testimony . I believe wilson should have been charged for information and allowed for preliminary hearing. I saw everything, and in this case just like you know if you read something on paper, its about the inflexion of the persons voice. Its about how they present this evidence, how strongly they ask questions to get the answers that theyre looking for. They didnt even have to release all of this evidence. Its not typical in a grand jury situation, as you know, to release it. Im not sure that there would be a different conclusion. However, its about transparency and the ability for us and the
community of ferguson who is suffering through this to see everything for themselves. We dont know how those questions were asked. We dont know how strongly they were asked, how strongly it was pressed, and from what i read last night, i was up late reading the transcript last night, they were softball questions to wilson. That is your opinion, and criminal defense attorney. Chief washington correspondent james rosen joins us live with this interesting tidbit to this whole story. Whats going to happen with this investigation, james . Gretchen, good afternoon. The grand jury verdict that served as the trigger for last nights spasm of violence in ferguson was the outcome of an investigation by the authorities of st. Louis county. For months a much quieter probe has been under water launched by
attorney general eric holder. When i visited ferguson two weeks ago, i promised that the United States department of justice would continue to stand with the people there long after the National Headlines had faded. Today with our investigation into the Ferguson Police department and our Reform Efforts in st. Louis county, were taking significant steps towards keeping that promise. 40 fbi agents canvassed the neighborhood in question, interviewing witnesses, but the attorney general stated explicitly that that federal probe was conducted cooperatively with the counties. Not on a parallel track. It was always intended to supplement not suplant it. A fact that makes it unlikely that the federal probe will arrive at an outcome that is different from the counties. In addition, the feds interveeb in this case by commissioning a second autopsy of Michael Browns corps performed by a physician from the defense department. D. O. J. Launched the criminal
probe we just discussed. Justice has also launched a separate investigation examine whenning the Ferguson Police department has exhibited a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct, a probe whose county yut come the attorney general tended prejudge when i told an audience that wholesale change would be coming to that department. Doj has initiated and the st. Louis county Police Department has accepted a reform effort for that Department Led by Community Policing instructors. There was one other federal intervention that took place last night, by the way, when that ban was lifted at 3 30 a. M. Central standard time. Gretchen. All right, james. It will be so interesting if that dog report investigation comes back with the same conclusion. That will be interesting to see what happens in ferguson after that. James. Thank you so much. Switching fweerz for a minute here. We have an update on the story weve been telling you about here on the real story. A big victory for long island 250e7b8ger liz laverde after the School District now saying it will recognize her right to form a Christian Group at her high school. Liz applied to form the christian glee club, but the principal denied her request saying it was illegal to have a christian club, even after school hours. But when her attorneys from the Liberty Institute send a demand letter to the district and she appeared here on the real story with her attorney, things seemed to change. Well, liz can now form her club to help young people battle depression. Did a rift over the release of get month detainees play a part in secretary of defense chuck hagel having to step down from his post at the pentagon and could president obama issue another executive order to close gitmo . Is that next . Fears of a massive flood easing around buffalo, but could it be dealing with a different kind of Severe Weather . Plus, the fda dishing out a list
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before, i think theres potential for enormous cooperation between the republicans and the democrats and Foreign Policy the next couple of years. Im optimistic this will not abe thorn in the side of the relationship between the democrats and the republicans over the next two years. All right. Well, im not so optimistic. Theres no doubt, theres no doubt, that the new defense secretary wants to close gitmo, right . Well, thats a litmus test. I dont think theyll hire anyone thats not on this side of that. Did simon just say its time for a reet set button . Is that the plan . I said reboot. Reboot. Yeah. Listen, this position this is an embarrassment. Were at war. We have been at war for the last six years, and that war is escalating, and, unfortunately, the revolving door at the pentagon is a tragic situation. Theyre changing that slot out like the drummer in spinal tap, and they cant keep doing this. We need stability in our Foreign Policy, and, yeah, chuck hagel is gone because the secretary of defense, he needs to sign on the dotted line literally that they only release gitmo prisoners if they dont pose a threat to our country. Right. That aint happening under chuck hagel. The real story behind all of this is apparently he did not want to sign off on these, and he begrudgingly he put it off for the last couple of months, simon. He begrudgingly let four or five of them be released a couple of weeks ago. Going forward, im not so sure he was going to be on the same page as the president , and that may have been the final thing for him. Yeah. I would be surprised if that was a major part of what happened given all the other issues in front of us. Remember, twothirds of all the detainees at gitmo were released by george bush. There were there are processes in place that are interagency, that has already cleared another 70. Were only down to 140 or so folks left there. Right. And so i think that the point all im saying is i think there was other defense secretaries that let folks go and clearly there was some tussle here. He wasnt yet. He does need congress to do this. However, lets face it, he has been asking congress for six years. They havent done what he said. He is frustrated with him. Based on simon and other democrats who rationalize the president s actions on immigration last week, i guessed the case has been made that the president could sign the dotted line and he can close down gitmo. I would love to see him try it. Is t should be interesting. We will have to wait and see. Could be just around the corner. Simon, larry, thank you. Gretchen, enjoy your turkey, and simon, enjoy your tofu turkey. Happy thanksgiving, guys. Time for my take on this. President obama has been clear. He wants gitmo closed. He is pushing his team very hard raising the issue weekly to make sure gitmo gets done. For sure the president s next pick for defense secretary will be someone who also wants it closed. That was hagels file nail in the coffin. Will the president be willing to engage in the huge political fight that will no doubt ensue . Remember, it was congress specifically the House Armed Services committee back in 2010 that rejected the administrations plan to bring gitmo detainees here to domestic prorz prisons. Or will the president just do an endaround again like immigration, and if he uses executive action to close gitmo, where will all the detainees go . The resid vichl rate for released gitmo detainees is grim. Some 30 go back to being terrorists. With 142 prisoners left at gitmo right now, what does that mean for the safety of our nation for the future . Coming up on the real story, where is the National Guard . Remember . National guard is supposed to be called in by the governor in missouri to assist local Law Enforcement in ferguson. Remember the g declared a state of emergency even before the indictment news came in. Wild video of a dui suspect corner odd a roof top after leading cop on a high speed chase with speeds topping 100 miles an hour. How that all turned out. Plus, where does your thanksgiving turkey come from . Look at that great picture. Chances are that it came from my home state of minnesota. That brings us to our question of the day. How do you actually cook your turkey . Or do you deep fry it . Tweet me. Use the the real story. Well try to read your cooking tips coming up at the end of the show. Welcome back to the real story. Check out this bizarre display. This car chase. High speed one. It all starts with Police Chasing that white Ford Explorer down a freeway in california. At one point the car reaching a speed of up on to 100 miles per hour. Look what ends up happening . The chase finally ending with the driver pulling over an Apartment Building and running up to the roof. This comes as governor jay nixon plans to send more National Guard troops after last nights violence. Local officials and even some in nixons own administration are asking serious questions about the guards presence or lack thereof during last nightschao. The lawabiding sid zens, and the st. Louis region have a right to ask, this governor to answer some questions. Who is right here . The Lieutenant Governor questioning where the heck is the National Guard, or Governor Nixon not sending them in . I think in the story it takes it one step further. You have to go back, and peter kinder told the story earlier today on my radio show, and that is he got up this morning, and he heard a message from the ferguson mayor left on his voice mail, and it was the ferguson mayor pleading with somebody, anybody, can you get a message to the governor . We need the National Guard support. Im in the backyard of my h