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It does seem there was an administration legal effort to keep this information from getting to congress and the public. >> that's the sort of subsidiary scandal to the major scandal. which is there does appear to be a justice department and white house collaborative effort to try to keep the whistle-blower complaint secret. and it might have succeeded but for the inspector general of the intelligence community who said you have to turn it over to congress. i mean -- and you know, there's so many interesting ironies here. if attorney general barr had said, you know, this is potentially a crimin...

Hope the united states has their back. he has said in the past the united states does have the back of the baltic states and other states in eastern europe. but they're going to be concerned about the idea of a white house meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. because one, it diminishes the isolation that's been sought by europe in these last couple weeks after the poisoning in britain. these three baltic states all expelled diplomats, as well as the united states. to them, to have president putin show up at the white house if that would actually happen would seem to undercut tha...

Chairpeople of it, along with my head of public safety. we have community leaders. we have ministers. we've got law enforcement. and we came out with a unanimous recommendation to create a statewide policy on the use of deadly force, and examination of recruiting and hiring practices, and now what we're doing, jake, is what's really critical, really critical, that the community can understand the challenges of police, and that police can understand what is going on inside of the community, a collaborative effort. and this moves forward in our state. and as you know, we've done a lot of things ...

I'm just pleased that people are giving me some recognition that i hear them, i care about them, and i want them to rise. >> there are democrats in your state, as you know, pushing legislation that would require all officers to wear body cameras. would you sign such legislation? >> yeah. first of all, we have to see what passes. but i'm open to anything that's going to improve practices. but, jake, we have to realize, there's a balance here. there's a balance. so that the community has to realize that there's a family at home waiting for an officer to come home at night, and they don't want to...

Federal agents are joining the baltimore police homicide unit trying to help them fight the unprecedented level of violence in that city right now. according to "the baltimore sun," there have been at least two murders already this month, 45 murders in july the most in any month since 1972. in total this year of 191. cnn's boris sanchez is following the latest from baltimore with me here. it's incredibly disturbing especially considering what that city has gone through in the last six months. why the decision to bring in federal agents from so many different agencies? >> partly because the num...