Holder: Study Showing Exposure To Violence Among Children A "Wake-Up Call"

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refers to a National Survey on Children’s Exposure to Violence conducted by his office as a "wake-up call." The study concluded that 60 percent of children nationwide had been exposed to some form of violence within the past year. The study also found that almost half of those questioned were assaulted, 1 in every 10 suffered abuse or neglect and in 1 in every 16th was victimized sexually. (0:35)
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Eric Holder on Law Enforcement: "We are all really one family"

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

Attorney General Eric Holder tells the crowd, including the survivors of the fallen officers, at the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, what he has learned from this year's Police Week. (0:50)
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Eric Holder: "Heroes Never Die"

By Courtney Ann Jackson-Talk Radio News Service

Keynote Speaker for the 28th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, talks to the surviving families of fallen law enforcement officers. He describes that their legacies will live on forever. (1:32)
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Obey: Prosecutors Should Focus On Justice Not Victories

Representative David Obey (D-WI) complements Attorney General Holder for the hard-work he has done to re-establish due process, and also explains how he believes that being a good prosecutor "is not about wins and losses, it is about doing justice."
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Holder: I could hang with Obama

During a brief moment of levity during Barack Obama's attorney general nominee Eric Holder's confirmation hearing with the the Judiciary Committee, Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) brought up Holder's basketball skills, inquiring how a match up between the President Elect and Holder would play out. Holder responded that he did not believe he could beat Barack Obama, but with proper training could possible 'hang' with him (0:40)
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Leahy: Marc Rich pardon a question for Clinton, not Holder

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) held a press conference today to support Obama's Attorney General pick Eric Holder. Holder has recently come under fire from Republicans for being linked to the pardoning of controversial financier Marc Rich during the Clinton administration. Leahy defended Holder saying the pardon was Clinton's, and not Holder's (0:30)
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