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outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. ♪ i need a hero ♪ he's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast ♪ >> yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with "politico" he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go as is. i am not going to back off the sequestration. that's the law we passed. we did it because it wouldn't make things easy for us. it made it so we would have to do something. of course we're in this position because de...

Against mr. zimmerman. megyn: that was the first prosecutor. >> the first prosecutor said no, not at this time. the governor then brought in the special prosecutor to take it out of the local area's hands and prosecutor angela corey also did not say this isn't right. what she said is investigations of this nature take generally 6-8 weeks. the sanford investigation was highly abbreviated and she is still continuing to build her case on work that our investigators did. but under the florida prevailing law she also understood why he was not arrested. megyn: you rejected the permanent resignation ...

Megyn: the city of sanford, florida and the police force under serious scrutiny since the shooting death of trayvon martin. but now a city commissioner is gang national attention after a passionate defense of her hometown and its police chief bill lee. he faced heavy criticism after his department did not avest george zimmerman on the night of the -- did not arrest george zimmerman on the night of the fatal shooting. >> i want to know how in the world you can take a man of chief lease impeccable character and experience -- this is a man who spent his life in law enforcement. 27 years with the ...

Respect to you and mr. bonaparte, this is a man who is a medal after valor winner, this man crawled through live gunfire to try to get a deputy sheriff who had been shot to safety. this is also chief that would take a bullet for anyone in this room. and i don't think we have people sitting up here with that kind of character. and i am just devastated by this. i wouldn't want to see this happen to anybody in this room. megyn: joining us live, commissioner patty maney. patty, tell us how you really feel. >> i feel the same way i felt monday night. megyn: you clearly are passionate about it. we h...

Chief said he didn't do anything wrong and says this whole uproar surrounding the death of trayvon martin were outside referring to reverend sharpton and jesse jackson who came to florida the past few yeeks. members say they have to start the healing process. chief lee, even though he has only been acting chief for less than a year or so, commissioners even the ones who voted not to accept his resignation don't want him back leading this department yet. they want to wait until the investigation into the way the department handled the trayvon martin situation they want that to continue. lee wil...