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Immediately after the ferguson incident, the michael brown shooting where cops were starting to withdraw from active and proactive policing because they were vulnerable to prosecution. they were subject to obama justice department, doj dissent decrees and even the city administrators were telling them to draw back or change their police practices and despite a two decade substantial decline in the crime rate, from 79.6 incidents per 1,000 individuals to 18.6 and a drop of 30% in the homicide rate, extraordinary right after ferguson there was a significant spike in violent crime. homicides went...

Gap. employers in new york city will no longer be able to ask applicants about their salary history. women earn 79.6 cents for every dollar men made in 2015, and experts saying asking an interviewee about her salary history increases this problem. more than 20 states are considering similar legislation. the law would go into effect in october. why does it change the debate to ask? >> interesting. because when you ask what is your salary history and the person says, you know, $45,000, then when you offer them a job, you offer it at 3% above $45,000. if the man is making $47,000, you're going to...

Because what they have literally done, they have attempted to -- they're scared of the policies. this is the same group, joy, that would not allow living wages to be voted on, even though 79.6% of carolinians want it to be voted on. this is the same group that kept 500,000 people from having medicaid expansion. 346,000 white people, 30,000 veterans. this is the same group that has cut off from public education. and took 900,000 people's earned income tax credit so they could give 14 families a tax break. this group has no integrity when it comes to caring for the people. this was a secret coup...

Chances of passing the house and the senate, could this gang of sex save america from default? that is the question at this hour. the plan, the basics of it it would reduce the deficit by 500 bill kwrorz. the top income tax rates would be lowered to no more than 25%, much lower than the top rate right now of 79.6% we'll have once the bush tax cuts expire. strict true spending cats and conform social security to t secure sol advance see if they've worked this out. >> reporter: there is a very strong sense in the senate that this gang of six proposal may be the way out of this debt impasse that ...