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Backward. april 22nd, 2006, westchester county, new york. trooper todd boemer is busy patrolling interstate 684. >> i was conducting radar enforcement when i saw a large limo, white limo coming northbound at a high rate of speed. the vehicle was going 124 miles per hour. >> the officer gives chase as the driver tears down the interstate. officer boemer is left to wonder why. >> in my mind, what does he have in the vehicle? who's in the vehicle? a dead body, a gun, drugs, whatever? >> in a neighboring township trooper sean kelly hears the call for assistance. >> i was in a position where i coul...

Senate. >> what the hell is dick durbin doing? >> here with reaction is my panel. when an african-american woman was up for the d.c. circuit, she waited 684 days and dick durbin voted against her, like he did condoleezza rice. >> yep. >> what do you make of this? >> he filibustered against janice rogers brown. i don't remember anyone saying it's because of white racism and obviously bigotry. imagine if the current replacement for attorney general was alan durshowitz. there are policy reasons why republicans are opposed to her nomination. and there's a big delay

Threw a racially charged comment into the mix about loretta lynch. >> loretta lynch the first african-american woman nominated to be torture isattorney general is asked to sit in the back of the bus. that is unfair. it's unjust. it is beneath the decorum dignity of the united states senate. >> what the hell is dick durbin doing? >> here with reaction is my panel. when an african-american woman was up for the d.c. circuit, she waited 684 days and dick durbin voted against her, like he did condoleezza rice. >> yep. >> what do you make of this? >> he filibustered against janice rogers brown.

Appeals for the district of columbia, a court that had never included an african-american woman judge. the senator from illinois voted to filibuster her nomination in 2003, and again in 2005, when she was finally confirmed after waiting 684 days, the senator from illinois voted against the historic nomination. i would never suggest, even with veiled red rick that that judge brown's race was the reason for his opposition to her nomination, and i say to my colleague, he should extend that courtesy to me and my colleagues. here is senator durbin's response. >> when my colleague from arizona not...

Particular need to be reminded of their own record when it comes to the treatment of african-american women whose nominations were before this body. in 2012 janice rogers brown, an african-american was nominated to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia, a court that had never included an african-american woman judge. the senator from illinois voted to filibuster her nomination in 2003, and again in 2005 when she was finally confirmed after waiting 684 days the senator from illinois voted against the historic nomination. i would never suggest, even with veiled red rick...