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Reprimands. he told me i didn't have to sign them. it was up to me. and i read them out loud. i realized they were bogus and i stood up and asked, can i talk to my attorney, and he said, no, you need to sign these. or no, he said, are you going to sign these? excuse me. i said, no, sir, i'm going to talk to my attorney. he said, your service is then no longer needed, turn in your badge and your keys. so i turned in my belongings to the officers. and i left. >> representative smith, is there any recourse here? do you have any doubt why the police chief was fired? >> i don't have any doubt. i be...

Community there, because she's done a wonderful job. and she ought to have these protections. they ought to be in place. and she ought to have an action to pursue. but i believe her 100%. >> thank you chief moore, and thank you, representative smith. i'm glad the council had the response they did last night and we'll continue to follow the case and stay in close touch. thank you so much for being with us today. >> thank you, ma'am. >> thank you, andrea. and to baseball, it is the national pastime. making wrigley field one of our most treasured national monuments. the historic ballpark is cel...

These are not things that tend to slip through the crack. we have $397.5 million in fraud, waste and abuse in the florida system alone. these are big items. >> yes ma'am. one of the biggest things is last year alone there was over 33,000 fraud investigations within the state of florida. florida is really i think leading the nation on trying to fight this. i've been working with d.c.f. since being elected and will continue to work with them to fight fraud, waste and abuse. the key thing is to increase penalties and make sure we provide the personnel that do the fraud and investigation so we can...

Whatsoever on a consistent basis. >> colin, let's talk a little about this new legislation. obviously it's passed the house. i am heartbroken for you that congress is as dysfunctional as it is. it seems like the kind of thing congress normally should agree on. and it would, as i understand it, give the secretary of state and the president kind of some additi additional tools to be able to help you get your kids back. tell us a little bit about it. >> yeah, it does. it's a bipartisan bill. representative smith from new jersey has been working with david goldman for a number of years. david and ...

Religious belief or nonbelief. in gratitude and love, in compassion, let us work together for a better arizona. thank you. >> that prayer got a rewrite the next day in the arizona house by republican representative, steve smith, who said that representative mendez's prayer was not a prayer at all and so he asked the house to join him in a second daily prayer that day. this one in repentance for the atheist, nonprayer that the house visited upon the house of representatives the day before. but not all republicans thought that repentance was necessary. the speaker, the republican speaker of the ...