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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to federal, state and local law enforcement officials about sanctuary cities and efforts to combat violent crime, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to federal, state and local law enforcement officials about sanctuary cities and efforts to combat violent crime, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016 file photo, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens talks to reporters about three inmates who escaped the Central Men's Jail, background, in Santa Ana, Calif. Officials Tuesday, July 12, 2017 conceded that inadequate staffing and management of the jail played a key role in the brazen escape of a trio of inmates last year. Hutchens recently said she agrees with a grand jury panel report that found jail staff ignored security rules and took shortcuts in counting inmates. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP, File)/The Orange County Register via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2016 file photo, Orange County sheriff's deputies investigate after three jail inmates charged with violent crimes escaped from Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. Officials Tuesday, July 12, 2017 conceded that inadequate staffing and management of the jail played a key role in the brazen escape of a trio of inmates last year. Hutchens recently said she agrees with a grand jury panel report that found jail staff ignored security rules and took shortcuts in counting inmates. (AP Photo/Kevin Warn, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2016 file photo, Orange County sheriff's deputies and a search dog investigate early after three jail inmates charged with violent crimes escaped from Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. Orange County Sheriff's officials Tuesday, July 12, 2017, conceded that inadequate staffing and management of the jail played a key role in the brazen escape of a trio of inmates last year. A sheriff's department document shows since then officials have hired nearly 22 new deputies at the jail. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens recently said she agrees with a grand jury panel report that found jail staff ignored security rules and took shortcuts in counting inmates. (AP Photo/Kevin Warn, File)
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Jabbar Washington, 43, center, hugs his daughter Jasmine, 21, while listening to his lawyer Ron Kuby, far right, during a press conference at Brooklyn Supreme Court, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars for murder, was set free after prosecutors abandoned his conviction, acknowledging jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Jenyse Washington, left, applauds as a judge exonerates her husband Jabbar Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars on a wrongful murder conviction, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Washington was set free after prosecutors acknowledged jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Jenyse Washington, far left, watch as her husband Jabbar Washington, 43, center, hugs his mother Martha Washington, second from left, and daughter Jasmine, 21, second from right, at a press conference at Brooklyn Supreme Court, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Jabbar Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars for murder, was set free after prosecutors abandoned his conviction, acknowledging jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Jabbar Washington, 43, second from left, is surrounded by family including his mother Martha Washington, far left, daughter Jasmine, second from right, and son Jabbar Jr. far right, during a press conference at Brooklyn Supreme Court, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Jabbar Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars for murder, was set free after prosecutors abandoned his conviction, acknowledging jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Jabbar Washington, 43, speaks during a news conference at Brooklyn Supreme Court, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars for murder, was set free after prosecutors abandoned his conviction, acknowledging jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Jabbar Washington, 43, center, hugs his mother Martha Washington, left, and daughter Jasmine, 21, before a news conference at Brooklyn Supreme Court, Wednesday July 12, 2017, in New York. Washington, who spent 21 years behind bars for murder, was set free after prosecutors abandoned his conviction, acknowledging jurors got misleading testimony from an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2011, file photo, John T. Coli Sr., president of Teamsters Joint Council 25, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Coli faces federal charges for allegedly threatening to harm a local business if it didn't pay him $25,000 every quarter. A statement Wednesday, July 12, 2017, from the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago says the attempted extortion by Coli started in 2016. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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A light rain falls on Swanson Funeral Home on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, on Martin Luther King Avenue in Flint, Mich. The state has shut down the funeral home, saying maggots were in a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were being stored. (Terray Sylvester/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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A light rain falls on Swanson Funeral Home on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, on Martin Luther King Avenue in Flint, Mich. The state has shut down the funeral home, saying maggots were in a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were being stored. (Terray Sylvester/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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Connecticut Sun's Jonquel Jones (35) reaches for a rebound in front of Seattle Storm's Breanna Stewart in the first half of a WNBA basketball game Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Acting U.S. Attorney Loretta Radford speaks to the media outside the Federal Courthouse after Benjamin Don Roden made his first appearance in federal court in Tulsa, Okla., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Prosecutors say Roden, 28-year-old man facing federal charges in a pipe bomb explosion outside an Air Force recruiting center in Oklahoma, left that branch of the military when he couldn't complete the training required to become a certified electrician. (Stephen Pingry/Tulsa World via AP)
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Acting U.S. Attorney Loretta Radford speaks to the media outside the Federal Courthouse after Benjamin Don Roden made his first appearance in federal court in Tulsa, Okla., Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Prosecutors say Roden, 28-year-old man facing federal charges in a pipe bomb explosion outside an Air Force recruiting center in Oklahoma, left that branch of the military when he couldn't complete the training required to become a certified electrician. (Stephen Pingry/Tulsa World via AP)
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In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 photo provided by the Tulsa County Sheriffs Office, Benjamin Don Roden is pictured in a booking photo. An arrest report shows Roden faces federal charges after a pipe bomb explosion blew the door off an Air Force recruiting center in the Tulsa area. The report says Roden faces counts of possession of explosive materials and destruction of government property. He was arrested Tuesday, but hasn't been formally charged. (Tulsa County Sheriffs Office via AP)
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Gregg Shore, First Assistant District Attorney for Bucks County, Pa., walks down a driveway, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Solebury, Pa., as the search continues for four missing young Pennsylvania men feared to be the victims of foul play. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Investigators gather under tents as they search a property, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Solebury, Pa., for four missing young Pennsylvania men feared to be the victims of foul play. (Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
