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Illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a crime. here is pete holmes. >> if we start to learn and understand that one of those institutional causes of racism is actually in the criminal justice system itself it's our obligation as prosecutors, as members of the bar to address it. >> reporter: so, jenna pete holmes is saying sut lee there are racial injustices built into the system. we need our police officers and prosecutors to take that into consideration. when we apply our laws this one officer pete pomper says we need to be color blind and apply the law equally to all. jenna: dan spri...

Jon: we are track being the developments on capitol hill as your legislators try to hammer out a deal to avoid a government shut down four days from now. i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. what is going to happen? step at democrats are close to backing a plan by the gop to extend a budget making a government shut down less likely, at least we offer this disclaimer for now. jon: the budget battle is all about politics. so if the government would stop running, which party might voters hold responsible? most people blamed the republicans for the last shut down but the hill has a new poll that s...

Senate democrats to return, then the $165 million debt refinancing issue comes due. that is what the governor has connected to some layoffs out here, some 12-1500 layoffs of state employees. the governor's office says they want to delay these layoffs as long as possible. tomorrow, the governor, set to give a budget address at the same time. so we'll see if he connects these layoffs to his budget address, anticipated for tomorrow, jon. jon: mike tobin in madison, wisconsin outside that controversial capitol. mike, thank you. >> i've walked the picket lines before. i've got some comfortable shoe...

Years in the milt east what do you see coming out of all this turmoil? >> reporter: i think we can be optimistic. it's a little bit like what happened in latin america, some people stayed democratic, some like in venezuela did not. i think it will hard to say everyone will go in the same direction. they are looking for the kind of democratic structures that we stand for and have in the united states. i think this turn away from democracy is a really healthy thing. jon: your evaluation of how the white house is handling it. >> reporter: day late dollar short. they've awfully slow. slow in egypt...

Proceed qaddafi folks really dugging in and are using an exceptional amount of violence. they are trying to come up and come into tripoli. earlier today i was at one of those bases, i talked to a soldier who decided he was going to defect from the libyan army to the rebels. he said to me he was willing to give his last drop of blood to finally kick qaddafi off after 41 years. this is going to be a possibly very long and bloody fight, back to you. jenna: leland vittert showing us brand-new images from eastern libya, thank you. jon: it was two years ago that president obama promised a group of 9...