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For me. i remember when journalism and the news divisions at the networks didn't have to make money. they just had to go off and do good work and win awards and that kind of thing. but when the networks were bought by different companies like ge and now nbc universal and maybe comcast, everything changed, and the news division was just like any other division and it had to have a bottom line that it met. you can't cover news that way with a budget that says you spend one day on a story and that's it whether you've got the story or not. so if the bean counters are the ones that make the decisio...

If you look at it the way racial bean counters look at it they deduce because of the number of minority people arrested because -- >> what about that? so let's say that was all schemed by eric holder and mission accomplished. it happened. when he went into ferguson his defenders say he found it. if this had been a legitimate police force not discriminating against african-americans, he wouldn't have found the numbers where we saw 93% of the arrests were black people but only 67% of the population was black and so on. >> megyn they don't control for the only thing that matters, which is offende...

The individual incident on the basis of the law. but they use it as a pretext to go in and do what they call a pattern or practices case against the police department. and that's basically rigged to connect up with the law that was passed in 1994 that allows them to come in and do this hocus hocus pocus to make a long story short does a statistical analysis ofarrest. if you look at it the way racial bean counters look at it they deduce because of the number of minority people arrested because -- >> what about that? so let's say that was all schemed by eric holder and mission accomplished. it h...

Pretext to go in and do what they call a pattern or practices case which to make&í a long story short does a statistical analysis of all the arrests and if you look at it the way racial bean counters look at it, they deduce that there must be racism becase of the number of minority people arrested compared to the number -- >> well what about that? >> let's be totally clear. communities have a right to educate their kids and police their own neighborhoods and communities. right right? the federal government is trying to take over law enforcement, turning it from a local responsibility to a fed...

Sound like a lot to some folks, but you talk with the bean counters at any airline, and they say $100,000 per airplane, get out of here, get serious. so i got to tell you, money is a major issue. >> but -- yes. but if you look at the amount of money that they're going to be sued, for which they'll be sued, i mean, jeffrey, why are airlines willing to spend money on wi-fi, they're willing to spend it on live tv, other creature comforts. but not on potentially life-saving technology. it just seems counterintuitive. >> look, indeed, don. of course, one of the reasons is it's not mandated. now, on...