ferguson. mr. ferguson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and their remarks include extraneous material on house concurrent resolution 35. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. ferguson: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ferguson: house concurrent resolution 35 authorizes the use of the capitol grounds for the annual national police officers memorial service and the national honor guard and pipe band exhibition. these events are held each year as part of the police week to honor the men and women who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. this use of the capitol grounds is a worthy recognition of the honorable sacrifice for our nation's brave first responders and their families. 234 fallen officers will be honored, which is 100 more than last year. this is a clear reminder that men and women in law enforcement put their lives on the line to maintain safe communities f

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so we dubbed this the ferguson effect. foeverybody talked about the ferguson effect for a while, right? then nonchalant quite academics went to milwaukee for two years, this is what they did. they went to milwaukee and they gathered all of the 911 calls, one year prior to the death of a young black man at the hands of police and one year after the death of a young black man at the death of police. they took their dad and came back and realize that the real ferguson effect was actually that fewer people were calling 911 immediately after highly publicized that of the black man on the hands of police. so the communities were afraid that if they called the police into their neighborhoods, someone would end up dead, right? in total over the difference in calls the year prior to the incident to the year after the incident was 22,000 calls to 911. ferguson effect. >> that made me think. >> the fundamental issue, the fundamental question i ask is so what is the function of police in society? that's what i'm just thinking of liste

ferguson police officer. the incumbent seeking three more years to lead this deeply scarred city. >> i think ferguson needs to make sure we continue you to have steady leadership moving forward. >> reporter: why is it not time to turn the page? the police chief is different, the city manager. >> i think you said it. we did turn the page. >> reporter: jones, a former business woman, elected to city council right after the unrest, a more diverse council in a city with a majority black population. along with a new city manager, police chief and chief judge. >> ferguson needs a mayor who cares about all people, not some of the people. >> reporter: deep mistrust of the police still simmers. last month anger flared when some claim video of michael brown newly made public proved police had hidden evidence. police said the footage was irrelevant. a department struggling to recruit more officers, down about 25%, and carry out court-ordered reforms like more cops on the street, after the department of justice found it

congressman ferguson represents the third congressional district. >> congressman drew ferguson, you are from west point, georgia, born and raised. what is west point, georgia like? congress and ferguson: it is my hometown, something i am proud of the progress it made. we are a community that lost our manufacturing backbone. we were one of the largest textile companies in the world, and we watched some pretty bad policy out of washington, d.c., so we lived for a decade and a half. it was a tough economy. we saw a generally fall into poverty for the first time in the community's history. advancedo bring capturing back. we landed in motors manufacturing plant in north america. it has been a remarkable turnaround for our community. we have learned that jobs are so important. >> you were a dentist for 20 years before you entered politics. is that why you wanted to run for mayor, because what was happening in your community? >> i was content capturing dentistry. family see some local prosperity. but what we realized it was, because of the changes going on economically in our community, we had

this the ferguson effect. they went to milwaukee and gathered all of the 911 calls one year prior to the death of a young black man on behalf of police and one year after the death of police. they came back and realized that the real ferguson effect was that fewer people were calling 911 immediately after a highly publicized death of a black person at the hands of police. the communities were afraid that if they called the police in the neighborhood someone would end up dead. in total it was 22000 calls to 911. >> the fundamental issue is what is the function of police in society. shortly after a young man named robinson lost his life. it makes us question if this can be reformed he walked through how their training officers. if you encounter someone who has a knife and get them to defuse the situation, these two ground officers walk and talk this guy into a corner and he eventually put the knife down. normally they come in. this is beginning to have a a fact. now you want to kick in the door. if it's to maint

he dubbed this the ferguson affect. everyone talked about the ferguson affect for a while. academics quite went to milwaukee for a few years and this is what they did. they went to milwaukee and they gathered all of the 911 calls one year prior to the death of a young black man at the hands of police and one year after the death of the young black man and the death of police. and crunched their data they came back and realized the real ferguson affect was that fewer people were calling 911 immediately after the highly publicized death of a black person at the hands of police. so, the communities were afraid that if they called the police into the neighborhood, somebody would end up dead. in total, the difference in calls the year prior to the incident to the year after the incident was 22,000 calls to 911. so, ferguson affect. made you think. it took me like an hour and 15 minutes. [laughter] greg: the fundamental issue we have to ask is, what is the function of police in society? that is why i have been thinking on this thing and the conversation you have laid out. i was i

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so he dubbed this the ferguson effect. so everybody talked about the ferguson effect for a while, right, then to, you know, nonchalant, very sort of quiet academics went to milwaukee for two years. and this is what they did. they went to milwaukee and they gathered all of the 911 calls one year prior to the death of a young black man at the hands of police and one year after the death of the young black man by the hands of police. then they went and crunched their data, and they came back and realized the real ferguson effect was actually that fewer people were calling 911 immediately after a highly publicized black person by the hands of police. so the communities were afraid that if they called the police into the neighborhood, someone would end up dead. right? and in total, over the difference in calls the year prior to the incident to the year after the incident was 22,000 calls to 911. took me, like, an hour and 15 minutes. >> no, because -- no, because the fundamental issue, the fundamental question we have to ask ou

james knowles was the face of ferguson following the death of michael brown. the democratic challenger was elected to city council after the unrest. the candidates for mayor are split over how much progress ferguson has made since the shooting. >> person needs to make sure that we continue to have steady leadership moving forward. >> reporter: why is it not time to turn the page? the police chief's different. the city manager, council's different -- >> i think you said it. we did turn the page. >> ferguson needs a mayor who cares about all of the people. not some of the people. >> again, voters in ferguson will head to the polls tomorrow. >>> 4:5 6 on this monday. philadelphia native darrell hall is suing a venue with maximum allowing 120 fewer people to attend shows there. hall has filed suit to block the move. the dispute is happening as hall is negotiating to build an outdoor stage at darryl's house. >>> time to play ball for the phils. great. >> thank you. >> we're ready to go. the team opens the 2017 season against the reds in cincinnati. >> coverage star

in the case of ferguson, missouri, it was found that ferguson police practices were racially biased against african-americans who made up a disproportionate number of vehicle stops, citations, and arrests. it also highlighted several racist and offensive emails of amongst city officials and they targeted black residents in attempt to raise revenue for the city rather than public safety needs. even if some of these consent decrees are rolled back, do you expect to see officials continue to move forward for police reforms were they see it necessary? guest: i think when they are under pressure, they will respond. mcdonaldr the laquan video came out, they prosecuted the police. the officer involved in the shooting lost reelection. i think, when they are under theysure, the duke act -- do act to perform the police department. voters have to exert that pressure. if the mayor and police chief art committee to perform, then they will move the department improved direction. if they're not committed to reform, the federal intervention will be just temporary band-aid solutions. ends,federal interventi

this is ten minutes. >> congressman ferguson, you are from west point, georgia, born and raised. what's west point, georgia like? >> it's a remak mark able community and it's my hometown is something i'm very proud of, the progress that it's made. and we were a community that lost really our manufacturing backbone. we were the home of one of the larnlest textile companies in the world and we watched some pretty bad policy out of washington, d.c. force those jobs overseas. and so we lived for a decade in a half in a pretty tough economy, saw a generation fall into fof verty for the first time in the community's history. and it was very refreshing to see our community pull together and lead an effort to bring advanced manufacturing back in the form of the automotive industry and we loaned the kia motors manufacturing plant in north america and it's been a remarkable turn around fot community. the thing that we learned is the jobs are so important. >> you were a dentist for 20 years before you entered politics. is that why you wanted to run for mayor? because of what was happening i

congressman ferguson represents the third congressional district. >> congressman drew ferguson, you are from west point, georgia, born and raised. what is west point, georgia like? congress and ferguson: it is my hometown, something i am proud of the progress it made. we are a community that lost our manufacturing backbone. we were one of the largest textile companies in the world, and we watched some pretty bad policy out of washington, d.c., so we lived for a decade and a half. it was

what i say to you, neil ferguson is, come home. [laughter] [applause] come home to the liberal international order that has been so good to you and that will be so good to your son, thomas. [applause] >> we've had two fabulous debaters on stage. we are now going to move into two rounds of bottle. you'll each have three minutes on the clock, uninterrupted to react and what you heard in the opening statement. neil, europe first with your first rebuttal. [laughter] >> now he has crossed the line because he is my children into it. you should not have done it. that was not smart. you are going to regret it. so franklin roosevelt had a vision, but was the reality? the reality was that that the united nations was permanently gridlocked because of the veto exerted by members of the jersey council. and practice what the u.s. did was that mantle other people and then build one of its own, with i think it's fair to say, mixed results. i don't think we should fall into the trap as we said earlier believing that the relative peace in 1945 had a

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gary ferguson's brother martin has previously been critical of the priests —— police effort in myanmar. he said it was going too slow and not enough had been done to find harris binotti and he called on the foreign office to help in that case. today on facebook he said that his family were very relieved that harris binotti had been issued with a red notice by interpol and he said after such a long and hard fight, "i am in tears to announce that harris binotti has been put on interpol‘s list of wanted persons. he can now be arrested internationally". teachers claimed children as young as four are suffering from mental health problems such as panic attacks, anxiety and depression. research by the nasuwt union claims pupils and teachers are both struggling to get enough support to deal with the issue. dr patrick roach from the teaching union told the bbc a lack of experts and counselling to help children with mental health needs is a major factor. what we are finding, teachers are reporting rising concerns about children's mental health and the lack of support for those children if thei

what i say to neil ferguson's, come home. [laughter] come home to the liberal international order, come home to the order that has been so good to be so gets your son thomas. [applause] >> we have fabulous debaters on stage and we will now move into two rounds of rebuttal. will each have three minutes on the clock on directed to react from what you heard and opening statements. neil europe first.ur [laughter] now he has crossed the line because he has my children integrated you should not have done that. smart, you're going to regret it. w so franklin roosevelt had a vision, what was the reality? united nations was permanently gridlocked because of the exertion by members of the of t security council in a practice what they did was dismantle other people's empires and then built its own with i think mixea results. so do not think we should fall into the trap of believing the relative peace in 1945 had anything much to do with institution that franklin roosevelt discussed after that rotini with mackenzie king. on the contrary,

two years ago people though there was a problem in ferguson, they didn't think there was a problem in america. it took two years of seeing this is actually close to you, this is your neighborhood too. the police killed three people a day in this country, this is very close to you. if you get killed in america and the newspaper doesn't write about it, you're not in the data set, that is wild. so, we pushed people for two years. i think we successfully got them on the other side of the awareness battle. people generally, whether you like us or not, whether you like the movement-- - everybody knows you, there's no question about that. - people get it. and i think that's huge and i think this is the moment though where movements die, is that they change the language and then you're like, what happens next? there's this false idea of what it means to work inside and outside the system. i think that what is real is that systems break in pieces. and part of our work is to think about what are the pieces that we take down and how do we rebuild them. that there's this idea, you know king said

you got ferguson, "black lives matter," bring back our girls. >> ferguson, mike brown getting shot, i knew about that before it hit the news because i was seeing tweets from st. louis and ferguson his body hadn't been picked up yet. >> movements that would have taken weeks to mobilize can be organized in ours. >> george zimmerman wouldn't have been tried at all if not for black twitter. >> if dr. king had twitter he would have gotten more accomplished. he wouldn't have been -- maybe he would have been arguing with tolls. >> come to bed. i can't. >> within black twitter you still have intellectual twitter, academics, hotep quitter. >> hotep is loudly, conspicuously and obnoxiously pro black. that's a little harsh. i prefer to call the brothers blacken enthusiasts. be black, do black, shop black, buy black, date black, smoke blacks and you got the bay hive. one of the twins isn't even jay-z's. >> who's talking about beyonce? >> no beyonce slander, child. survive. she represents joy for so many people, particularly black women. she's on the wall with martin, malcolm, barack, beyonce. >>

. >> congressman drew ferguson sat down with c-span for a freshman profile interview. the georgia republican represents the third congressional district. before being elected he was a dentist and then the mayor of his hometown of west point. he talked about his family, his legislative goals and how we got lucky and picking his office on capitol hill. >> congressman ferguson, you are from west point georgia, born and raised. what is it like. >> it's remarkable community. it's a mountain town and something i'm proud of and the progress it's made. we are a community that lost our manufacturing backbone. we were the home of one of the largest textile companies in the world and we watched some bad policy out of washington d.c. force those jobs overseas so we lived for a decade and a half in a tough economy. we saw generation fall into poverty for the first time in the community's history and was very refreshing to see our community pull together in an effort to bring advanced manufacturing back in the automotive manufacturing. we landed the kia plants. it's been a remarkabl

>> reporter: today i find myself in cities like ferguson. show of hands if you've ever been stopped by police, treated unfairly? baton rouge. my hometown of baltimore. asking the same questions. 25 years after l.a. like most reporters in the nation's attention, i get to move on. but for those who lived it, it's far more complicated. >>> coming up, we talk to some of the people who took up arms in korea town to protect their american dream. one survivor breaking many years of silence. life. y so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine. i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment with breo. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo is specifically designed to open up airways to improve breathing for a full 24 hours. breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma

last week we interviewed ella jones, a council woman in ferguson, missouri, who was running for mayor. on tuesday she lost. mayor knowles was reelected with 57% of the vote compared to jones' 43%. but voters also approved a proposal to add strict police body camera requirements to the city charter. let's hope the town of ferguson continues to recover from the trauma three years ago of the killing of michael brown and some form of justice comes to that family. >>> coming up, she's still young, and she's still in college, but is running for public office. that's next on "politics nation". imagine if the things you ughtvery day earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you'll get a free checked bag, 2 united club passes... priority boarding... and 50,000 bonus miles. everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. the united mileageplus explorer card. imagine where it will take you. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. -sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. i'm actually a deejay. -[ laugh

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particularly since the shootings in ferguson and other places. there has been much more public demand for a police body camera. e one of the first to have a product that could be rolled out. they have a division that makes police body cameras and all of the associated cloud computing software to manage the digital footage people have. that has been the fastest-growing part of the company. they see it as a way to expand. changed the company name. they see the future of the company, they are committed to the taser the weapon, but they see a lot of their growth potential to be from the body cameras. management ofal evidence and the digital life of a police officer. oliver: this is very interesting. there are very few instances of a company with a product everybody knows. it is a fairly ubiquitous idea. thatwas it along the way made them change? their stockatching jumped after ferguson as they started talking about body cameras. where's the impetus for the change? tase me, bro, is how they got into the body cameras three they were facing lawsuits. th

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ferguson, consent decrees. we have an attorney general that has suggested that consent decrees decrees will go in and help the police do better, not break them up, do better. everybody needs a teacher to help them do better. i'm not going to do that. that's not something i want to do. do you understand? we need to be able to say we are all in this together. dr. governor, yoff, just about thoughts and mr. you would answ, thank you. i want to be part of helping the ju dish area commdiciary commit conyers. we're going to do something. i just need to hear from you. dr. goff, do you want to go first quickly. and i yield. >> i want to be mindful of everybody's time. so the idea of mandatory accreditation and deescalation, there's good scientific merit for that. obviously you can't manage a problem you can't measure. so we've always been in favor of data collection, whether it be done in public or whether it be done by private researchers first as sort of an entry point, it doesn't matter to us. we're in favor of more

explosion of black lives matter activism and what happens in baltimore but when i started covering ferguson and then baltimore that was the sort of catalyst as i was thinking about where the country was at and what was it about this moment that was producing this kinetic reaction and started thinking about why we built the system we built. the project in writing it and trying to get to the bottom of policing and criminal justice. >> in your book, you come back to ferguson quite a bit. it had quite an impact on you? >> yeah. you know, i grew up in bronx and new york city in the '80s and '90s when the city and borough were more dangerous and higher crime. i always thought about these issues about police and policing as big cities and it struck me in that everything that was tense and fraught about policing was in this small place and boiled down into this incredible essence and there is something about the intensity of it that struck me. >> you take on -- are you a fan? >> part of the problem with community policing is the term gets really stretched. broken windows get stretched too. what bro

as i began going to places like ferguson and baltimore in chicago at the height of their urban uprisings, and then doing a series of popular pieces about why all these cities were now on fire, why there was so much insurgency in the cities, for me it meant having to sort out in new ways with the connections were between urban rebellion and policing, between policing and mass incarceration, and between mass incarceration and urban rebellion. has ledactually what me internally profound ways back to detroit and back to the rebellion that rocked the city in july of 1967. it has caused me to think a lot again about why that rebellion happened in the first place. i think this panel has really made clear that the roots of the rebellion were deep. i want to shout out maguire for this deep type she's doing into the algiers motel murders. book,sentences in my 2001 and i just sense they were something so profoundly important about the story. her book is going to eliminate and is beginning to illuminate that for us. shout out to rodney spencer and our moderator. their new books have really shown aga

congressman drew ferguson and a house financial services committee hearing on the consumer financial protection bureau. >>> housing and urban development secretary ben carson talked about low income housing programs at a conference in washington, d.c. and the need to make hud programs more efficient. this is 40 minutes. >>> okay. good afternoon. welcome back for our afternoon session. i see everybody's gotten their lunch and is settled in, so perfect. we appreciate you being here and we appreciate dr. ben carson being here. and it's my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce him and to welcome him to our annual policy forum. i expect he needs to introduction, but i will give him a brief one. dr. ben carson is the 17th secretary of the u.s. department of housing and urban development for nearly 30 years, secretary carson served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at the johns hopkins children's center and at 33 he was the youngest person to ever serve in that position. he's received dozens of honors and awards in recollection of his achievements, including the presidential met

. >> ferguson when i grew up there ferguson missouri,. john: you dropped out of your school when you were a sophomore. >> it was a rough school with a lot of fights. john: you might have gone on welfare. >> i might have. >> i might have been said that i started by reading a lot of self-help books and finding out who i was and i had a knack for inventing better reflected that act over and over again. i invented a lot of things that weren't subtle. john: you invented a headache relief and what sounds like quackery so glad i wasn't successful. cell phone. cell phone ads that block callers. >> too many cell phones applications across to many platforms of that failed as well. john: a battery-operated shoelace, shoelaces. >> the reason they failed is the chinese knocked us off to. john: they sold well but you got ripped off by imitations. >> you can find the magnitude of them and you them and you see them and retail chains as well. john: you started submitting ideas to companies. >> i did; but a lot of no letters and i'd pin them on my board bu

. >> ferguson when i grew up there ferguson missouri,. john: you dropped out of your school when you were a sophomore. >> it was a rough school with a lot of fights. john: you might have gone on welfare. >> i might have. >> i might have been said that i started by reading a lot of self-help books and finding out who i was and i had a knack for inventing better reflected that act over and over again. i invented a lot of things that weren't subtle. john: you invented a headache relief and what sounds like quackery so glad i wasn't successful. cell phone. cell phone ads that block callers. >> too many cell phones applications across to many platforms of that failed as well. john: a battery-operated shoelace, shoelaces. >> the reason they failed is the chinese knocked us off to. john: they sold well but you got ripped off by imitations. >> you can find the magnitude of them and you them and you see them and retail chains as well. john: you started submitting ideas to companies. >> i did; but a lot of no letters and i'd pin them on my board bu

louis, one of our great cities, ferguson. but the arch is in there. expresses that well. this painting should not have been removed. congressman clay is right to stand up for the first amendment and for his constituent. and i urge my colleagues to help restore this painting to its rightful place in the cannon tunnel and allow people to see it and make their own decisions and with that i thank you and appreciate being a part of this. mr. clay: let me also thank my friend from tennessee, who happens to be a member on the house judiciary committee. as he stated, we are working together on police reform legislation. and i appreciate your service. mr. cohen: i'm an art critic. mr. clay: you are an art critic. mr. speaker, at this time i would like to yield to my friend, a constitutional scholar and professor, mr. raskin from aryland. mr. raskin: mr. speaker, mr. clay, thank you so much for convening us this evening to discuss this very important matter. why is it so important? well, we live in a time of rampant official lawlessness and disrespect for the constitution of the un

ferguson, consent decree. we have an attorney general that has suggested that consent decrees are to help the police do better. not break them up, do better. everybody needs a teacher to help them do better. i'm not going to do that. do understand? able to say, we are all in this together. your thoughts about those points. and mr. jenkins and mr. boldin , if all three of you would just answer that. and i thank you so very much. i want to be part of helping under the judiciary committee with the leadership of john connors. we are going to do something. we are going to do something. i just need to hear from you. so the idea of mandatory accreditation and de-escalation, there is good scientific merit for that. you cannot manage a problem you cannot measure. we have always been in favor of data collection, whether it be done in public or by private researchers first as a sort of entry point. doesn't matter for us. we are in favor of more data. one thing i would like to bring everyne's attention to, police departme

congressman ferguson, thank you for your time. the ninth district of indiana, what did you do before coming to congress? renovated and repositioned old manufacturing facility. taking the wrestling old facilities and turned it around, readability -- rehabilitating this. >> we are leaving this, the live event at the center for national interests, their discussion on the influence of russia and u.s. russia foreign policy. >> very accomplished quite ,nowledgeable experts on russia a variety of institutional perspectives. the second question which we are asked in -- asking, what does america need? conversation this what america needs is defined

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ben ferguson is with us host of "the ben ferguson show." good morning. >> good morning. what a war of words between those two. >> yeah. so let's start there with this twitter back and forth here. now a mash is using this as a fund-raiser. to go after its own party so early in the administration, a conservative, nonetheless? >> yeah. i've said this for a while. when you come into washington you got to understand the landscape and realize you may not be friends on one bill but might need that vote on another bill and if it becomes personal it's hard to count those votes. this twitter war is probably going to help this congressman more than it's going to help the white house because he is liked in his distribution and hard-core conservative and say he stood up to the establishment and i think that really both sides here, the freedom caucus and the white house would be advised to dial it back a little bit. otherwise, the democrats are going to be in an amazing situation where you actually have to go and recruit some of their votes to get any of your legislative agenda done.

., was ferguson ix snatny or butt more i can see the complicated nature. how this person is arrived from a circumstance. because they are human being. >> i hope, at the same time, benefit breaking if you don't see yourself in other the loss of the response. i don't want to i think there is a lack of empethetic that should be the take away. the most unthose who walk in of all the people to introduce, that could -- >> that is the central challenge, the we can get to charity, we can never this in the old days, it would lie rite a letter, now, there is aump a we may have continues, there is a rush. there is a rush. not to indict social media. whatever, as opposed to any thoughtfulness. back in the day ux there were gate keepers. >> oil fillers. >> now, when you swing the gates open, you know, somebody else said, it wasn't our knee. the problem was inviting everybody, the problem is everybody shows up. >> point well taken. >> what is funny for me, i have known for a long time. the brilliant, thoughtful. prestigious work you were doing. you are being the guy tha

there has been known so-called "ferguson affect." to last monthback in richmond, virginia. >> many of you who are law enenforcement t leaders have t s that in thisis age of viral vids and targeted killings of police, something has changed in polilicing. sosome law enforcement personnel aree more reluctant t to get ouf their sqsquad carars and do o te proactive,e, up close e police t builds trust and prevents violent crimes s and saves lives ofof innocent people. in some cities, arrest have fallen as murder rates have surged. amy: that is attorney general jeff sessions, former seattle police chief, norm stamper, your responsese? >> our responses, he is clearly in lockstep with his boss, the president. he is clearly an apologist for the worst kind of policing in this country. he is pandering to police unions. he is saying things that he thinks thehey want to hear. he needs to visit baltimore and seattle and pay attention instead of mouthing slogans. he needs to sit down and listen to the officers themselves. want toerrilyn ifill, i ask