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Department of justice and there are consequences to that, too. just like consequences to the supreme court. one of which is that jefferson sessions, the attorney general, would like to review all consent decrees. he has essentially said it's not the responsibility of the federal government to manage nonfederal law enforcement agencies. that is the principle he set forth. the one sort of good piece of news for if you care about police reform is that a judge, federal judge, has said, well, sorry, you have to implement the baltimore consent decree, at least, anyway. and i know that the legal defe...

Up next on thursday night, there was a near universal wave of approval from the media for donald trump's decision to bomb syria. we're going to ask, why does that always seem to happen when presidents choose military action. we will discuss the pavlovian response. before we go, and i'm sorry to throw a curveball to my team. i want to play jeff sessions' justification for why it is he doesn't think it's important to implement these consent decrees against police departments. >> unfortunately in recent years law enforcement as a whole has too often been unfairly maligned and blamed for the crime...

>> bill: u.s. department of justice ordering a review of federal reformed enacted by obama administration with police departments across the country. individual misdeed of bad actors should not impugn the work of police in keeping americans safe. >> morning, bill. >> bill: is this a good thing? >> i think it is good in that the justice department is clearly reaching out to the good police officers in the country. saying we are not blaming you for all the bad things that happened. there is a move away from this. bush administration moved away from consent decrees after president clinton used th...

To go after one department. deign there is no doubt that some these police departments did need some reforms and maybe the thought or the threat or the possibility of federal involvement was the encouragement they needed to move forward. what are your thoughts? >> they did. i think we should be clear about what these consent decrees are. if there is only an individual in the police department a bad actor and just that individual, that's a separate case. that's not when the city enters into a dissent decree with the department of justice. it only happens when there is a practice or pattern of u...

Police even though he said he didn't read it has now, through his justice department, gone to court to seek a 90-day delay in a consent decree to overhaul baltimore's embattled police department. that kind of action by the nation's attorney general is remarkable considering that baltimore's mayor and its police commissioner strongly support the consent decree, along with citizen advocacy groups. it's not just baltimore. the jeff sessions justice department has ordered a review of federal agreements with dozens of law enforcement agencies including consent decrees with police departments in 14 ...