00:00Robert Lewis is here.
00:12He's late.
00:14How about I keep him waiting just for the hell of it?
00:20Nah.
00:21Let's have him.
00:27Arresting a reporter?
00:29Really?
00:31And nice to see you too, Mr. Attorney General.
00:34Have a seat.
00:37You've seen the footage?
00:39Of course I have.
00:41One million views and counting of the NYPD trampling First Amendment rights.
00:47It was a legitimate arrest, Robert.
00:49She interfered with an investigation.
00:52She was doing her job, reporting on a breaking story.
00:55She became the story.
00:56There's a difference.
00:58I don't care how you want to frame this.
00:59The press has a right to report stories that affect the citizens of this city.
01:04Press is kind of a loose term here.
01:08She's a self-appointed reporter with a YouTube channel.
01:11I'd like you to avoid the arrest.
01:15All you have to say is upon further investigation, it was determined no crime was committed.
01:20She committed two crimes, obstruction of governmental administration and criminal trespass.
01:27In this climate?
01:28Are you serious?
01:29Oh, please don't give me climate.
01:30My job is not weather dependent.
01:32She's a reporter with First Amendment rights.
01:34Which do not extend within a crime scene.
01:36She's claiming she's being discriminated against because her pieces question the NYPD.
01:41They don't question the NYPD.
01:43They condemn it.
01:44But that has no bearing on this.
01:46It has every bearing on this.
01:48Have you looked around?
01:49Your department isn't winning any popularity contests.
01:52We're not entered in one.
02:02Look, Frank, I came here as a courtesy.
02:04I could have went straight to the mayor or the DA's office.
02:09Well, they're both in walking distance.
02:13And there's the door.
02:17How blind can you be?
02:18So I met with my command staff.
02:27We came up with a game plan.
02:29Must have been glad to see you.
02:32Sir?
02:32Well, you can only delegate so much before they forget who their actual boss is.
02:38Or so I'm told.
02:40I've never been one for sitting behind a desk, sir.
02:43I like to be out in the community.
02:44The one you serve in the Bronx or the one you're moving to in Westchester?
02:53I didn't want to say anything until the final offer came through.
03:01Newcastle chief of police.
03:02Nice ring to it.
03:04Yes, sir.
03:06The schools are great.
03:07My wife, Emily, she's excited to raise the kids outside the city.
03:10I understand.
03:12I do.
03:13Lieutenant General Lloyd Frendenhall.
03:18You ever heard of him?
03:20No, sir.
03:21Can't say as I have.
03:22Well, he was famous for leading his men to the worst U.S. defeat in World War II, the Battle of Kasserine Pass in North Africa.
03:33Okay.
03:33Turns out Eisenhower paid a secret visit to Frendenhall's HQ.
03:41Found an utterly confused environment lacking in preparation, dedication, motivation.
03:49You're saying that's the 5-1.
03:53He also learned that Frendenhall had been spending a lot of his free time designing a bulletproof Cadillac, just like the one Ike had been issued.
04:08Well, that may have been the final straw at any rate.
04:15Frendenhall was out on his ass.
04:16Look, Commissioner, this last year, we've all been through.
04:27And my precinct's like a war zone.
04:30Well, I'd watch that.
04:31The punishment for desertion during wartime is death.
04:35I meant metaphorically, obviously.
04:40Yeah, well, you're dead on.
04:42This last year has been like life during wartime.
04:47For this department.
04:50For the city we serve.
04:58And you commanded a fort in the Bronx and abandoned your duties there.
05:05With all due respect, Commissioner, I don't have to take this.
05:17You might want to double-check that Chappaqua offering.
05:24They called you?
05:28I called them.
05:32You're going to destroy my career, sir?
05:35You did that yourself.
05:37Dismissed.
05:38Dismissed.
05:38Dismissed.
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