public for nearly 40 minutes before authorities finally announced it was a false alarm. officials say the employee pushed the wrong button during a routine drill. he was reportedly disciplined and reassigned but was not fired. jon: president trump pushing back on reports he tried to fire special counsel robert mueller last year according to the new york times the president ordered the firing of mueller in june but backed off after white house lawyer don mcgahn threatened to resign over the issue. the president denies the claim calling the report fake news. he also slammed mainstream media coverage of him in general while attending the annual world economic forum in davos. president trump: i ve always seemed to get for whatever reason a disproportion nat amount of press or media and throughout my whole life. somebody will explain someday why. i ve always gotten a lot and as a businessman i was always treated really well by the
and obviously more has to be done. i think you have to have one standing. first of all, the police that brought in freddie gray did not know his arrest record. they didn t even have a charge on him. there is he should have been arrested. but we live in new york where you had the mob. we ve never seen mobsters who were supposed to run organized crime treated in the way we ve seen civilians treated. so at some level police are dealing with high crime area but another level, they deal with criminals another way. you have to have one standard for every. reality is you have a disproportion nat amount of crime in communities of color. therefore you have more police in those areas and more police contacts. that s where problems a rise. and i think we have to also address that disproportion
a new report released from the southern poverty law center made the chilling finding that there is more to fear than just hateful comments on the internet s largest white supremacist forum. the report titled white homicide worldwide found that users of stormfront.org which i was talking about which advocates a white power ideology have been responsible for nearly 100 murders in the last five years. the report s findings also connected storm front users to a disproportion nat amount to some of the deadliest hate crimes since the site s finding in 1995. richard cohen is the head of that organization who compiled the report. also joining us now is dafna linzer, the managing editor of msnbc.com. so i want to ask you, richard, because we ve been talking maybe in a way that s a little bit messy here about both the sort of white supremacist aspect of violence and what we saw with mr. bundy, just kind of
we have just to find some sort of public policy. i m not blaming democrats or republicans. as a society, what are we going to do? great point. if you look at the oregon shooter, the naval shipyard, the other shooter, they had voices. you watch that special on 60 minutes when they talk about the fact we are dealing with our mentally ill and putting them in jail because it s no longer the right way to do to put them in institutions. so now they re in jail. so we have an inard nat amount of people in jail. because the health care system or whatever else doesn t allow them what about families? the father of her child, who was unfortunately in the car with her that day, has tried to get custody of the child and has been very concerned about her health and has voiced it. so you re wondering in these situations where the family members are. because i ll tell you, if my family thought i was unstable or thought i was taking medication and some guy at what point do
we have just to find some sort of public policy. i m not blaming democrats or republicans. as a society, what are we going to do? great point. if you look at the oregon shooter, the naval shipyard, the other shooter, they had voices. you watch that special on 60 minutes when they talk about the fact we are dealing with our mentally ill and putting them in jail because it s no longer the right way to do to put them in institutions. so now they re in jail. so we have an inard nat amount of people in jail. because the health care system or whatever else doesn t allow them what about families? the father of her child, who was unfortunately in the car with her that day, has tried to get custody of the child and has been very concerned about her health and has voiced it. so you re wondering in these situations where the family members are. because i ll tell you, if my family thought i was unstable or thought i was taking medication and some guy at what point do