Called it tasteless, offensive and inflammatory. We start with chris jansing. The president is calling for new task force and federal funds for community policing. What details to you have . Reporter big focus on ferguson. Lets start with what happened in ferguson. A lot of people who at the time said, part of it is the militarization of local Law Enforcement that they get some of this surplus equipment, tanks, highpowered ammunition and guns, and programs through Homeland Security that give them funding and that it was too much. It added to the tension there and increased the level of violence. Well, we just got the results of a review of that. And the decision that is suggested is no change in the program. That the real problem is the way et cetera its carried out. Take a listen to josh earnest a short time ago. What is needed, however s much greater consistency in oversight of these programs. Primarily in how these programs are structured, how theyre implemented and how the programs themselves are audited. A lot of focus youll see in this report is on training thats offered to Law Enforcement agencies and on transparency. The way in which these acquisitions are communicated to the public, at least made clear to the public. Reporter and the followup, for example, when they check on this equipment, all they look is to see what do they still have . Not, is being used properly and how is it being used. A bunch of ornishtives announced today. The president is asking for more than 250 million for new programs. A big chunk of, that 75 million would help local governments buy these body cameras. Thats not a panacea but a lot of people look at that as another piece of crucial evidence when you have these situations that escalated into violence. Theres going to be another component of that, that also will expand training. For example, something as simple as, when you get into that situation, do you turn the camera on . And then he also has appointed a task force that will look for ways for police to look at local communities. Charles ramsey, Philadelphia Police commissioner s one of the people who will be heading it, along with lori robertson. So the meetings right now inside the white house are ongoing with a big focus on how do we make sure that we minimize these kinds of incidents . Is it possible to keep ferguson from happening again, toure. Body cameras could make a dig difference. Chris jansing at the white house, thank you. Lets bring in law professor, f. Michael higenbothen and clay rogers author of the bill of the century. We have a nation where blacks and whites seem to see things entirely different. How do we move forward in a world where some believe racism is the core problem and some believe racism no longer exists . I think we move forward by making sure that ferguson is not just about the absence of violence, but its about the presence of justice. There are a number of things we can do to increase Racial Justice in this country. As you mentioned, theres already meetings going on about putting body cameras on all police officers. I think that would be an excellent idea because it would help to increase the accuracy of what we know about incidence of use of force that occur. Question also have a National Data collection. And i think third, most significantly, we can increase the racial diversity on the part of these Law Enforcement agencies so that were valuing black and hispanic life just as much as we value white life. Absolutely. Clay, over at the new yorker today theyre writing about the long history of commissions to address racial tensions. Of course, most famously after the 1967 riots, lbj had the Kerner Commission. Es anything ever come out of these commissions other than making politicians feel and appear like theyre doing something . Not not really. The Current Commission contributed mostly to the backlash against what people perceived as, you know, too far a push by the Civil Rights Movement. There was a feeling among a lot of white voters who are turning toward the Republican Party and toward people like wallace and nixon. You know, essentially the radical Civil Rights Movement that captured the government. Thats what produced the Kerner Commission report. Even though the report itself has some gracing truths in it. If you read it, it could be about ferguson in a lot of respects. Absolutely. And, i think people are very well advised to go back and read the kerper Commission Report because even though some of the details are different, theyre responding to the riots in newark versus demonstrations in ne ferguson, still, youre talking about the same Police Brutality and Community Relations, disparity that you have today. Yeah. And the question about whether the commission is appropriate response depends on what kind of problem youre trying to solve. If you think have you an unjustified shooting or you think you have manslaughter, no one in any community, anywhere in america, regardless of race, would look at manslaughter or murder and say, i want a commission. They want justice. They want action. Professor, i want to bring you in on the discussion of Race Relations which is important but seems to me to be secondary to the first question we want to answer as a nation here. Which is, whether our actual government and Police Relations here are working or not. That goes back to the what is obviously for many still a factual open inquiry because we havent had a full trial or all these answered questions, is are the police getting it right . Did they get it right in this incident . Are they getting it right in other incidents . It seems to me that question has to come first before we get into a polarized racial reaction to it. And i wonder, given your expertise on this, wry yhy you k it is we lapse into the language of Race Relationses, or to the point krystal raised, the commissions, when the first subtantive question here is, are the police getting it right . I think thats the problem. In too many instances, the police are not getting it right. At least in terms of how Many Americans view this. And so theres not only a problem with the appearance of an incorrect approach, but the reality of an incorrect approach. I think thats the real problem. Thats what we need to address in terms of increasing the presence of justice. We need we need to make sure that these commissions f thats what we create, we actually implement the recommendations in the commissions. If you look at the Kerner Commission, many of these other commissions, we didnt implement the recommendations that they made. So, i think if we do have a commission with respect to ferguson, we need to be serious about implementation of their suggestions. Clay, what this has done has brought to the surface the deep divide that exists in many places around the country. The question is, how many of us in this nation move on and how do the people directly involved move on with their lives . Darren wilson sat down with George Stephanopoulos last week and george asked him moving forward, what do you fear most . Heres what he said. Are you still scared . Of course. Whats your biggest worry . Someone hurting my family or another officer getting hurt. Hes not going behind bars. How does he move forward . Ask he move forward . Can you live a normal life . I think thats up to him and how he decides to move forward with his life. Theres a broader question, is this something the nation does together or thousands of different local racial issues. I think when you look at whats happening in ferguson, you look at, say, the bronx or different parts of new york, there are specific issues and confess. Thats the diltd of having a National Conversation. In some ways have you to have a lot of people talking about it at same sometime, and thats the difficulty. The people in ferguson will continue to talk, but will the rest of the country listen . I think thats the issue. It seems frustrating every time we have one of these moments, we have a National Conversation and nothing actually happens. We dont actually go anywhere. Professor, clay, thank you very much for your time. Up next, ray rice back to the field . The nbc news exclusive interview with janay rice that has a lot of folks talking today. Plus, congress is back on the job. 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Guaranteed sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep sitting today with the today sh shows matt lauer. Ray joins the conversation tomorrow. Hes been allowed to join a team. It remains to be seen whether any team is willing to sign him. Here is matt and janay rice on what the past six months have been like. Hectic, to say the least. Shocking. Do you have remained silent. Has it been hard to not speak out about this . Yes. Thats been the hardest part. Is having so much of your life made public and have it all be negative. Thats the hardest part. Not having control over anything that has to do with you. Its a national thing for a human to want to come out and say, no, no, thats not me. No, thats not true. Its like a battle we just cant win. Its been the hardest thing ever that ive ever had to gone through in my life, to watch my daughter being trashed and to see what has happened to her on all over, national television, everyone talking about her, everyone making statements about her. They know nothing about her. What were we going to do . You cant fight everyone. It all started on the night of valentines day after what janay admits was a night of heavy drinking, the couple started to argue. And then they stepped into that elevator. I guess it was about four days or so after the incident at the casino the first tape came out. The one that was taken outside the elevator. Had you seen the tape . I saw the first one. Did you see it before it was released to the public . No. We just knew about it. You knew about it. Yes. Were you dreading the moment that tape came out . Yes, yes. We knew that it was going to happen. We didnt know exactly when it was going to happen but there was no preparing us for that at all. When i saw that, it was horrible. You cant make excuses for anything. We were highly intoxicated. In the moment youre not thinking, im on camera, inside an elevator. So, of course, people are going to read at everything and pick at everything about the situation. We understand that. Have you seen the second tape . No. I refuse. I refuse. Im not going to let the public bring me back there, huhuh. Mom, youve seen it . Of course. I didnt want to see it at first. It took me a while, but i did, because i had to. Thats my child. If something happened to her, i dont care what it is, i want to see it. Can you tell me the reactions of what you had when you saw it the first time . I was kind of sick. Uhhuh. I was. How can you not be . I was sick to watch it. Did it change your view of what happened in any way, or was it what you expected . Kind of what i thought, uhhuh. Kind of what i thought. When that second tape came out, your daughter became the face of Domestic Violence in this country instantly. I know you dont think thats fair. No. No. Not at all. I appreciate that. I know i understand, i totally understand how people look at that and think that thats who she is. But i know her, we know and shes not. Let me ask you directly and bluntly. Prior to what we have now seen in that elevator, was there ever any incident of violence in your relationship with ray, or has there been any incident of violence since that elevator incident . No. No. No, theres no way. He knows what he would have to deal with. You know, if this was something im not going to sit there in silence and let something happen to me and, you know, god forbid in front of my child. And just like, let it happen . Theres no way. Joining us now are espn sports Business AnalystAndrew Brandt and sports columnist for bloomberg view. Her latest column points the finger at ray rice and for the nfl for what went down. Well get to your column in a moment but as a woman who lives and breathes sports, what is your reaction to that interview, to janay . Did she appear stronger than you expected or did she appear a victim of Domestic Violence whos living in denial, trying to justify her life at this point . I dont know if those two things are mutually exclusively, frankly. Janay said we revictimized her by making her relive what happened that night by scrutinizing her husband. While its our job, i think its absolutely true that its very difficult to be a victim in these circumstances, whether or not she considers herself a victim in the same terms we do. I guess thats really up to her. She obviously seemed as strong as one could expect in that interview. And i think the way that she has kind of parsed the blame to go around from the nfl to the ravens, has been very interesting to see. Kind of cemented our suspicions of what actually happened. That said, she said you dont see a video like that and dont expect to have that happen and think about the video thats happening. But, you know, everyone else around her from the moment that happened was thinking about that video more than they were thinking about her. She didnt even look at the second video. Watching that interview, you just feel the sadness and theres layers to that. Andrew i wanted to ask you about the arbitration decision here. No one comes out looking that good in this whole thing. But you read this decision and you see goodell going downhill more at this juncture than others according to the arbitrator saying basically, you had the info all along. You had the internal notes up. Knew what you knew. Rice didnt actually mislead you and you made what lawyers call an arbitrary decision, which is why it was turned over here. What do you make of all of this on that piece, that you actually have something that would have surprised people, i think, when we were covering this a few weeks ago, which is a criticism of goodell coming down hard on rice because of the way he did it and that he knew earlier when he failed to act . Yeah, i think its even greater than a criticism. Its a rebuke. Its a repudiation. Roger goodell has obviously made conduct his priority but shes reading the case, it almost the decision by judge jones, it almost is asking, why didnt you guys take this very seriously in that video came out . What were you doing . You had this hearing and, unfortunately, spent a lot of the appeal figuring out what happened in that hearing because there was no transcript, there were no notes, there was no audio recording of it. So, they had to piece it together and ray rices teams notes were much more detailed. It had he hit her into the notes. League notes talked about bottle service, very vague, almost as if they were condescending towards the whole thing. It just seemed to me it was a rebuke of roger goodell. The question then becomes, where do we go from here . He obviously was scolded by an independent arbitrator. The only reason there was one because he abdicated that specific power for this hearing because he was a witness. Im not sure thats the case going forward. I want to get your thoughts on a similar thing. I mean, the way i look at this is that this is the wrong result in that ray rice should not be allowed to return, but its the right decision. Roger goodell screwed this up from the beginning. You dont get a doover because the public is outraged. He should have handled this differently from the very beginning and because of the collective bargaining agreement. You cant go back and have a second bite at the apple here. Right, absolutely. I think no matter what hadh happened, this would have been very unsatisfying for us. This isnt an easy case to have a black and white opinion on. The judge basically inside her ruling, an arbitrator would be hard pressed to find an indefinite suspension the first time, would have been outside goodells powers as stated in the cba. The question becomes, why didnt he do that . As we notice with all the vaguene