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at the family's compound. we begin with braeeaking ne about the police officer at the center of the eric garner case. he has now been suspended from duty. this move follows the recommendation of a new york police department administrative judge who called for the firing of officer daniel pantaleo for garner's death. he's alleged for putting garner in a choeke hold. let's turn to shimon prokupecz. tell me about what's unfolding right now. >> the first step in this process of daniel pantaleo never wearing a police uniform ever again, him being fired, terminated from the job, we are in the first step of this process. the nypd police commissioner has been awaiting the recommendations from this nypd judge, internal proceedings that went on for about six days. evidence was presented and the

judge today recommending -- these recommendations are for the police commissioner ultimately -- that he fire daniel pantaleo. it's widely expected that the police commissioner will follow this recommendation. however, there's always a chance that daniel pantaleo's attorneys could make an argument -- they will have an opportunity to make an argument to follow up to appeal to the police commissioner that he should not fire daniel pantaleo. we think that decision w come within the next two weeks. that's still unclear. but there is some time before we get final word from the police commissioner on whether or not daniel pantaleo will be fired. that decision solely, solely rests with the police commissioner. we've been talking to sources familiar with the internal judge's thinking. one of the things that she found was that this chokehold, that it was improper in what pantaleo did here to eric garner. that there was misconduct, that it was reckless and that is the reason why she has determined

and recommended that pantaleo be fired. >> so the judge made this recommendation, huge development, but it's not the end of the road. we'll have to find out what's next. shimon prokupecz, thank you for breaking it down for us. elliott williams joins us. he has been a deputy assistant attorney general and former assistant director of immigration and customs enforcement. let's just break this down. explain the process. why is the judge's verdict nonbinding? the judge recommends termination but for now he's only suspended? >> because ultimately it is the commissioner of the nypd who makes the determination as to whether to fire somebody or not. the judge weighed the facts of the case, looked at the background and decided she would recommend termination, but that decision rests with the commissioner. >> this is a case that has drawn so much attention and controversy. it was just talked about a couple of days ago during the debates because in the wake of the doj's decision to not bring

charges, a grand jury declining to indict this officer, that created a strong reaction for those who want to see him be held accountable for the death of eric garner. what do you think this ruling will do moving forward? >> well, the big question is why it took five years. >> exactly. >> so with all of those steps playing out -- if they were going to make a decision to terminate him, that could have been done a long time ago. they didn't need the federal process to play out. that's the big question overall. what does it mean? if this does stand, the police union will not be happy. they have issued a number of statements saying that we're under duress and so on and that you're criminalizing police work. at the end of the day what you had was a video with an individual saying 11 times that he couldn't breathe and findings that the police officer's conduct was, quote unquote, reckless. so what it will mean is accountability. >> but you're right. five years later this has happened. >> so the --

>> why five years? >> cynically speaking, the justice department took five years to make the decision and made the decision not to move forward -- >> but that's not typical, right? >> yeah, the decision could have been made quicker. this is a justice department that i served at too. >> because i remember just looking back, you look at ferguson, for example. the justice department acted clearly more swiftly than in this case, right, with the officer there. >> again, i think we take -- we, my justice department that i served under obama should take some responsibility for the fact that this took as long as it did. it was on the eve of the statute of limitations expiring that the attorney general decided not to move. now, the state and the city held off any of their decisions while the federal cases were pending, but the problem is that meant that five years would pass before you'd have any accountability. so everybody failed here and this should not have taken as long as it did. >> now you're at a place five years later where the officer

continued to serve and the recommendation of a judge is he should be terminated. we'll have to wait and see what the police commissioner says. thanks for coming up, appreciate it. we have more breaking news. it is official, exactly half of house democrats are now calling for an impeachment inquiry into president trump. we have learned that congress mman carbahal is the 118th democrat to make the call. lauren fox is here. lauren, can house speaker nancy pelosi ignore this number? >> well, that's the biggest question. we tried to ask her yesterday as this number was approaching the more than halfway point for more democrats being in support of moving forward with an impeachment inquiry than were not. yesterday she said she would have a statement. we still have not seen that statement. but i will say just a couple of months ago, my colleague man manu raju asked her what are you going to do when this hits the halfway point. she said, look, we're not even close. well, it's only been a matter of weeks and here we are. we are at the more than halfway

point. this comes as democrats are back in their districts having to answer questions from constituents, so you can expect from moderate democrats, this is a tough question. for liberal democrats, they're getting a lot of pressure back home from their constituents who are like let's do impeachment now. so that's sort of where we're at. but we will keep you posted on specifically where nancy pelosi falls in upcoming hours. obviously all eyes on the speaker at this point. >> it was just a couple of days ago she said we're not even close to that number and you just broke it down. half of the democrats support it. i also want to look at the other side of the aisle, the republican side. this republican exodus that appears to be happening in the house. texas congressman will hurd has just become the eighth republican lawmaker to announce retirement. he is the sixth to do so just in the last two weeks alone. what impact does this have on the diversity of the republican party, lauren? >> he was the only -- >> we're going to interrupt and go to bill de blasio in the wake of this news. >> and the beginning of some

peace. but full justice means that there can never be another tragedy like the one that befell eric garner. full justice is when we never have another death. that is all of our responsibility and it requires us to change everything. for the last five years our mission has been to fundamentally change the nature of policing in new york city. after the death of eric garner, everything was re-evaluated. the entire police force was retrained. 36,000 officers retrained to de-escalate conflict, to understand the implicit bias that we all carry with us, to ensure it would not interfere with their duty.

the approach to the community is entirely different today. we have to weed out the distance and the separation that was the norm of the past and through neighborhood policing actually create a dynamic where our officers and community members got to know each other as human beings. where people felt they were on the same side working toward a common goal. and we had to change the approach on the ground. last year there were 150,000 fewer arrests than five years earlier because there were too many times when people were being arrested unnecessarily and too many conflicts that came from it. and this nypd proved that fewer and fewer people could be arrested and the city could become safer. safety and fairness must walk

hand in hand. and i hoped that today begins the process of restoring some faith and helping people believe that there actually is accountability and fairness. we have a lot more work to do. we'll be at this a long time, but we all have a sense of common mission. there can never be another tragedy like this. this city, this nation should never be put through this agony. we should never lose another innocent man or woman. we should never have people's faith undermined. it's in our power to do something better and to do something different. that is the course we set five years ago and that's the course we will stay on. few words in spanish.

[ speaking foreign language ] >> okay. we just heard from mayor bill de blasio there in new york in the wake of this nypd judge's decision that officer pantaleo should be terminated. for now he is suspended. i want to bringor some analysis this, elliott, because bill de the protester yelling "fire blasio just t pantaleo." now we're hearing from him directly. what stood out to you. >> today is not the day to think about anything political. this was about accountability in the case. the federal government passed on it. >> we're going to listen back in because he's taking questions now. >> do you agree that he should be fired? >> again, what i am talking about today is a fair and impartial process has occurred. that's all i have to say. >> have you read it?

>> no, i have not. >> do you also want to go a step further to call for congressional hearings? do you support that and what kind of changes -- >> i haven't heard what he said today. i know members of congress want to look at this issue. i certainly think it's fair to say here was a tragedy, it cannot happen again. what i would ask the members of congress to look at is the role of the justice department going forward. remember, and i said it on the radio, we had three horrifying cases that we all remember too well. in every one of them, there was prosecution either by the justice department or the district attorney. what's happened these last five years is unfathomable. there was no decision even from the justice department. that's a central question to me. that can't happen in the future. there has to be a decision on a meaningful timeline. >> what do you want congress to do when they look at the justice

department? >> i think they have to beg this very important question. the justice department has to ensure speedy justice. it's right there in the constitution. it can't be a process that goes on five years ever again. >> have you spoken to the garner family? >> i'm not going into private conversations. it's a legal matter. >> mayor, do you believe that the recommendation was just? >> i believe the process was fair and impartial. it's the first time we've seen a decision. i want to remind everyone, over five years district attorney did not bring an indictment, therefore there was no trial. the justice department did not bring an indictment so there was no trial. for the first time there was a trial, a fair and impartial trial and a result. remember that point about justice delayed is justice denied. at least there was a trial and a result. i have faith that it was a fair and impartial process. >> you said on the radio this

morning that you won't wait on the justice department again. do you regret waiting on the justice department and not going ahead. >> absolutely. i cannot understand how this happened. everything i had seen my entire life suggested the justice department believed it was its responsibility to act when other levels of government had not. or at least to make a decision quickly for the benefit of justice. it's literally beyond any -- i cannot find any parallel to what happened here, and it's an unacceptable reality. i did not think it possible honestly. i didn't think it was possible under either administration federally. but now that we've experienced it, we will never allow that to happen again. >> mayor, have you spoken to him about the judge's recommendation, and why aren't

you saying what your personal opinion is now that we have this recommendation from the judge, what you personally believe happened to the officer. >> i have not spoken to him and that is because i respect this process. i want everyone to understand this. if you believe there's a fair and impartial process, and i do, then letting it reach its conclusion beyond reproach, beyond question, is necessary. and i am talking as the steward of this city. we need closure in the city. the garner family deserves it first and foremost, but we as a city need to end this chapter and move forward. i believe my role is to respect this process and respect the state law, and that's the best way to get to that closure. >> okay. so we just were listening to mayor bill de blasio in the wake of this verdict by a judge that officer pantaleo should berom t.

right now he is suspended. he took some questions there, elliot williams. what stood out to me is on one hand he seemed to be putting the onus on the justice department. it took five years to say they're not going to recommend charges. i thought i also heard him admit he has regret he didn't acting sooner. >> both things can be true. doj took a long time but that's on a totally separate track than the mayor's ability to terminate an employee that every measure had indicated behaved in a reckless measure so he's pinning it on process and the state prosecutors and federal prosecutors when the buck stops with you, mayor de blasio, and he could have terminated the individual or sought the termination of the individual. so i think he's trying to have it both ways a little bit hiding behind process but also failing to recognize that it's ultimately the city's decision and they could have made this a long time ago. >> you can't ignore the fact that he is running for president

as well. >> yes. >> unfortunately, there is the politics side of this and the police union and so forth and so on. it's interesting to hear how mayor de blasio is handling it up there on stage in the wake of this verdict. elliot williams, thank you so much. much appreciated. after the democrats attacked the legacy of barack obama in the debate, president trump just weaponized it. plus nikki haley blasts the president for making light of the break-in at congressman elijah cummings' home. and another kennedy tragedy. rfk's granddaughter found dead at the family's compound. we'll take you there. lick fast. apply that same speed to the ford hurry up and save sales event. for the first timeget 20% s on select ford models, h pass rewards. it all adds up. don't you love math? so get here asap because tasty deals and summer go fast. get in or lose out on 20% estimated savings on select ford models,

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ends today. the u.s. will not remain party to a treaty when others violate it. russia bears sole responsibility. moscow denies the claim. democr senator jack reed of rhode island to discuss all of this. he serves on both the armed services and intelligence committees. thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks, pam. >> so how concerning is this? the big question when something like this happens is will this lead t serious question. first, there is evidence that the russians did violate the treaty byloying a system that was branded illegal by the treaty. and our european allies, our nato allies have confirmed this. but the real problem, i think, is not just the inf treaty. the major treaty, the new s.t.a.r. treaty will expire in january 2021. if we don't have ongoing negotiations, if we don't engage and extend that treaty, then for the first time in many, many

decades there will be no really arms control regime in the world at all to speak of. and that's not only a problem between russia and the united states and china and the united states, it could give the sense of a license, if you will, for other powers that have been talking about developing nuclear weapons particularly. so this is a very consequential event. i would have liked to have seen much more diplomacy applied to try to get the russians to come back into compliance, to try to extend the treaty even further. but more importantly, we have to start focusing on the new s.t.a.r. treaty and i've seen no real diplomatic activity. i'm afraid that this might evaporate because no one paid attention to it. >> what's interesting is in light of this, president trump spoke with russian president vladimir putin earlier this week and president said he didn't discuss exiting the treaty with putin, he didn't discuss russian

election meddling but he did discuss the wildfires in siberia. what's going on here? what do you make of that? >> it seems to be incoherent in terms of the dialogue. russian engagement in our election has been verified by the intelligence community with high confidence. the president should have been very clear that he cannot tolerate on behalf of the american people any interference in our elections. also this inf treaty and again, the new s.t.a.r. treaty. it would have been very, very helpful at that high level had the president engaged president putin in a discussion about negotiations of a new s.t.a.r. if we can continue and essentially what it does, it put limits on nuclear weapons for russia and the united states. without those limits, there could be an arms race. but as i said maybe even more importantly, it could be a signal to other countries, there's no limits on nuclear weapons, you can get them. that would be tragic. >> and speaking of, you have north korea carrying out its third missile test just in eight

days. and the president put out a series of tweets and they read in part these missile tests are not a violation of our signed singapore agreement nor was there discussion of short-range missiles when she took hands. he says north korean leader kim jong-un will do the right thing because he is far too smart not to and he does not want to disappoint his friend, president trump. so the president clearly downplaying this. do you think the president is strengthening kim's position? and also what kind of a message does this send to our allies, u.s. allies in the area. >> it sends a terrible message to our allies in the area because these missiles can be sort of set up for launch in minutes. they're mobile so they can't be easily detected. they can reach our bases in south korea within minutes. and they can reach japan and other places equally quickly or at least as quickly. so this is sending a message to our allies in the region that

we're not as interested in their security as we once were. that's one interpretation, which i think they'll draw. and this represents continued technical improvements by the north koreans in their whole rocket fleet, their missile fleet and their technology. and again -- >> so you're making the point even though it may not make it to the u.s., this is not something to be ignored because they're clearly making progress. >> they're clearly making progress, and that progress can also translate into technical aspects of intercontinental missiles which would affect us. but this singapore agreement was this nebulous notion that we're going to work for denuclearization. we have not yet reached a suitable understanding with the north koreans, what does denuclearization mean. >> that is still an open question, even to this day. >> they claim it means they can keep nuclear weapons, they just don't have as many as before. we say they have to give up all their weapons. we haven't reached that conclusion. >> which seems to be part of the issue with the summit previously

where they walked out and no deal was reached. very quickly, john ratcliffe obviously is the president's nominee to take over for dan coats at dni. do you think he'll face some trouble in the nomination? >> i think he's going to face appropriate concerns. the danger here is the president is attempting to politicize this office. previous directors of intelligence were career professionals or people like dan coats. they had been ambassadors. he was an ambassador to germany, long-time senator, is knowledgeable, had no political agenda. he wanted to serve and he did serve the nation with integrity and commitment. now he has someone who has very little intelligence experience, who has bought into the trump line that all of this is a witch hunt with respect to mueller which contradicts the intelligence community. and again, just in terms of qualifications as well as politicizing the office, this is a serious, serious concern for many of us. >> all right, senator jack reed, thank you very much. >> thank you, pam. >> do appreciate it. and we have some more on our

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after president obama's legacy at this week's debate. here's the president at a rally in cincinnati. >> and the democrats spent more time attacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. >> joining us, the co-chair of senator bernie sanders presidential campaign, nina turner. nina, what did you think when you were watching the debate on night two, because as we know sanders debated on night one, but is president trump right? did they spend more time going after obama and his legacy? what did you think about that? >> well, the president doesn't have a leg to stand on talking his opinion about how people feel about president obama's invalid especially the birther movement he pushed. i was stunned. i found myself it was just a hodgepodge of a lot of stuff going on that was kind of hard to piece together.

a lot of confusion. >> what about the focus on obama and his legacy? >> the focus on the president, you know, you build on the legacy of president obama. politics is not stagnant so it's okay to say we're starting from a strong position and must go further. even president obama himself has said that we need to move towards a universal health care system in this country. but i was a bit stunned that some of the candidates on the stage were invoking the president's name in a negative way. >> and let's talk about health care, because that obviously is a key issue. it was a key issue in the debates. on night two we saw kamala harris and joe biden spar over their health care plans. >> sure. >> do you think that they explained their plans well enough? >> well, we've got to keep this simple. senator sanders has certainly animated this conversation. as you know, pamela, he started this debate. the democrats wouldn't even be talking about health care had it not been for the courage of senator bernie sanders in 2016. medicare for all is clear. everybody in, nobody out. what they were discussing on wednesday night was confusion.

is medicare for all maybe. and that is -- >> well, it allows for private insurance, i believe. >> but they can't serve two masters here. either you're going to have a medicare for all system that increases the services that our seniors have right now and over a four-year period as senator sanders has laid out bring everybody in. this is not just about -- this is not about access to health care, it is about having health care. we can't continue along the same track. or you want to do it the way that senator harris wants to do or vice president, which is to have this love/hate relationship with the insurance company. we should not be -- >> so do you think it's unrealistic what kamala harris is proposing? >> you've got to make a position. either it's medicare for all or you have a -- >> so is it unrealistic? >> it's about whose side are you standing on. >> if you have a plan, what

realistic. this is not about what's realistic and not realistic. this is about giving the american people what they need. right now in the united states of america we pay more for health care than any other industrialized nation and we don't get the same results, the same benefits. we should not commodify health care and we should not worship at the altar of private insurance companies whose job it is to increase profits. >> but you look at the polls and it doesn't appear that there is growth for bernie sanders. in fact the latest poll showed him dropping eight points overall. why isn't -- >> i don't know what poll you're looking at. the emerson -- >> the quinnipiac polling the last two months he's lost ground, eight points overall. >> the emerson poll has shown the senator increase. he's number two. the hee increasing. polls go up, polls go down. when you're the candidate, if the polling is good for you, you're feeling really good, your campaign is feeling really good. if it's not in your favor, not

so much so. but the ultimate poll is the election day and that's what we continue to have our eyes on. but there are three polls that have just come out that shows that the senator is increasing his lead. he is still solidly in second. another point, pamela, i want to make. the senator between tuesday and wednesday, he raised $2 million. one-fourth of those donors are new donors. so regardless of what the polling is saying right now, the ultimate poll is from the grassroots. and the grassroots are investing in senator sanders and his campaign and his vision. >> so i brought that up because there is the question of whether the medicare for all proposal that senator sanders has put out there is alienating some of the more moderate voters, some of those who may be in the anti-trump republicans, independents, whether they feel alienated from that because they want to have the choice of private insurance. senator sanders and warren it seemed like they pass on multiple opportunities to draw distinctions between their two plans in the debate. was that purposeful?

>> medicare for all, they both agree with medicare for all. but the champion in good times and bad times has been senator bernard sanders. 65% of the american people support medicare for all program. when you distill it down even deeper when they understand that the system that we're in right now is not serving the american people, it's serving big industry, it's serving the insurance companies, it's serving big pharma. so there's no alienation here, there's going out and having the requisite conversation with the american people in the way that the senator is doing and also standing strong on this, pamela. it is the morally right thing to do and the economically right thing to do in this country to have a medicare for all system that leaves nobody behind. >> thank you so much, nina turner, great to have you on the show. do appreciate it. an ally of the president calling him out after he mocks the break-in at congressman elijah cummings' house. plus a gun store's racist billboard targeting the squad criticized for potentially

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verdict on this charge of serious assault that a$ap rocky and two members of his entourage have been facing in sweden where they have been in custody since july the 3rd. we'll get the final verdict on august the 14th. what's important to remember about the judge's decision just 15 minutes or so ago in stockholm is that they can go for now, but it has not been determined whether or not they are innocent or guilty of these charges. all three of these individuals have pled not guilty to the charges. these relate to a june 30th incident on the streets of stockholm during which a 19-year-old afghan man was attacked allegedly with a glass bottle. now, rakeem meyers and two members of his entourage say, yes, they were involved in the street brawl but they were acting in self defense. back to you. >> okay, nina dos santos, thank you very much for the update on that case, we appreciate it. former u.s. ambassador to the u.s., nikki haley, is calling out president trump for his latest attack on congressman

elijah cummings. the president tweeting today about a break-in at the lawmaker's home saying really bad news, the baltimore house of elijah cummings was robbed. too bad. haley tweeted this is so unnecessary. this is notnotable. i want to bring in david swerdlick. so what do you make of haley's tweet? she is just now weighing in after the president had been targeting elijah cummings over the last week. >> yeah, good afternoon, pamela. so i think that this is the ambassador trying to sort of split the difference. she wants to chastise the president, but she doesn't want to look like she's attacking him and that's why she used that sort of halfway joking language with the emoji. and it makes sense from a certain perspective. she's a former governor of a deep red state. she might want to run for president one day as a republican. she'll need the president's hard core supporters if she ever

wants to mount that kind of campaign. the problem, though, is that that's not really leadership. we've been going at thisthree o with the president's tweets about the four members of the squad, the four women of color congresswomen. then on to the president's series of tweets about baltimore and congressman cummings. so to wade in is a little too little and a little too late. >> so what do you think just big picture about the president tweeting about this? his home was broken into, he was apparently at home during the time -- at that time, and the president seemed to be sort of mocking it. >> oh, i think he's definitely mocking it. i mean if you look at the way that tweet is constructed, others have pointed out the president sometimes likes to tweet with just enough ambiguity so that you can't pinpoint exactly what he's saying. but look at the last sentence in there. too bad with an exclamation point. if the president was a little

more up on twitter lingo, you can imagine him saying, oh, you hate to see it, right, like the kids do, but instead he uses that sort of older guy lingo, too bad. it's obviously joking, obviously mocking, obviously taking delight and glee that a sitting member of congress' house was broken into because it helps him underscore his point, his point that baltimore is a rundown city to insult the congressman, insult the city. and as we've talked about for a couple weeks now by extension insult the fact that it's a largely african-american community. >> and yet the president claims that a number of african-americans have reached out to the white house to say they're happy with what he's saying about baltimore, yet the president has yet to provide any proof of that. david, thank you so much. we do appreciate that. >> thanks, pamela. we'll have more on our breaking news. the majority of house democrats now supporting an impeachment inquiry. we will discuss the significance of this development right after this break. ♪ limu emu and doug.

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official, exactly half of house democrats are now calling for an impeachment inquiry into president trump. a california congressman is now the 118th democrat to make the call. "washington post" congressional reporter is with me now. what is the significance of this and where does nancy pelosi go from here? clear l clearly she has said we want this to play out in the courts. >> that's exactly what she's been saying and she's been relying that most democrats were not on board with impeachment.

she had some backup to say the public isn't necessarily with idea, the party isn't necessarily with idea. her argument has been let's go methodically until we have as much of an air-tight, iron-clad decision that we can take to the public. it seems that now we've pushed this threshold. when you have the majority thinking one way, does the speaker hold her ground? how long before she makes a recalculation? >> how much pressure does this put on her and also the why? is it because of the mueller hear hearing? >> i think it's the timing. now that the mueller hearing happened, it's given latitude for members to come out. i think it speaks to a general

frustration with president trump. it's been a busy few weeks of him saying and doing things that do not seem in their estimation of being that presidential. a lot of them are looking at the growing evidence they're trying to collect and they're getting frustrated with the idea of waiting. they are now using the language of we have a constitutional duty to do this, we can't let the president get away with these things and we can define what he's under the umbrella of high crea crimes and misdemeanors. that's why you've seen such a deluge in the -- what has it been, two weeks since the mueller probe? i lose track of time sometimes. >> wow, time goes fast. thank you for breaking it down. the big question is what will nancy pelosi do next? thank you.

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you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. let's get right into it. the breaking news in this controversial police brutality case. a new york police judge today recommending police officer

should be fired for his role in the 2014 death of eric garner. nyp commissioner james o'neill must make the final decision but is expected to follow the recommendation. garner died five years ago when being pulled to the ground during an arrest. disturbing video capturing that arrest went viral and when you watch it, garner can be heard pleading with the arresting officers