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Improving the police department in cleveland? absolutely nothing. but this is the kind of talk that we are hearing. and its becoming a theme. >> what were looking at in terms of this administration, because what we are looking at in my judgment is an outright campaign against law enforcement. >> well welcome to president obamas 21st century transformation of the institution of policing. and its been a disaster. >> crime is going to go up. its going to happen in baltimore. its going to happen in ...

Helping a city out. >> a city that is still mourning tamir rice the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a cleveland police officer this past november while holding a pellet gun. the acquittal after officer brelo adds only -- only puts more pressure on an already tense relationship between residents and police. brelo was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter for his part in a shooting during which cleveland police officers fired 137 bullets into a car carrying two unarmed suspects killing them. the ...

Done in secret and no one knowing that thats what the law says could happen. sglu >> you talked about potential abuses. if in a perfect world there would be a situationabuses would it be okay with you? >> not with the constitution we have. i just think this is -- this goes into a zone of privacy that has traditionally ben respecten respected. if were not going to respect it anymore, i think thats a big decision that we ought to make country and it shouldnt be made for us. >> i think it would be ...

Relations with law enforcement. in chicago, 56 people were shot between friday night and monday 12 of them fatally. cleveland, ohio, has agreed to overhaul its police department. its part of a settlement with the justice department over a pattern of excessive force and other abuses by law enforcement officers. in baltimore, 32 people were shot over the weekend. bringing the total homicide this number this month to 35. may 2015 is now the deadliest month in baltimore since 1999. im joined tonight...

Is intrusive and not what the constitution says. >> how is it intrusive? >> doesnt the constitution protect us against unreasonable search and seizure? >> is it unreasonable for the federal government to have my phone numbers and the people that ive called on a computer that an individual never sees unless it links up with a suspect that theyre going after? >> well, i think its unreasonable. >> what is unreasonable about it? >> well, number one, there have been abuses of this data which are deta...

Can hit reliably without hitting civilians because theyve melted into the civilian population. so really inside syria, were not doing very much. kobani isis made the mistake of taking a town and isolating themselves in such a way that they could be hit. >> in the piece, dempsey basically says yeah were isis first, thats the strategy. we dont have an answer to what we do about this brutal dictator assad. did you read that as an implicit criticism of the administrations policy? >> no, what hes say...

Your life on the line every single day to protect the community against drug dealers and gangs and violent criminals, and when something goes wrong, the first reaction of your officials is to throw you under the bus. people say the police are to blame, murders, racists, the mayor calls up the justice department and calls for a civil rights investigation into a police department that is multiracial and has no signs of civil rights abuses right now. so they feel they are under siege. they are unde...

Having a shiite militia take control of a city in the sunni arab heartland in iraq and their practices in the past have raised concerns about human rights violations and other kinds of concerns about brutality and abuses so its one of those questions that i think, you know people on the ground are calculating depending on short-term versus long-term gains and costs. >> yeah and steve, the president did an interview with your publication, "the atlantic," i would ask you to read it but said part o...

Didnt go as far as some of the gulf countries wanted. >> environmental activists in seattle hit the harbor to protest the controversial oil drilling plan. about two dozen protesters in kayaks greeting a 400-foot high drilling rig as it arrived in the harbor. it is the first of two that will become the launching point for shells exploratory drilling set to begin this summer. they object saying the drilling equals climate change. >> theyre charging full stream ahead to destroy the arctic, destroy ...

In an urgent response new york governor andrew cuomo has ordered emergency measure and a brand-new multi-agency task force. governor cuomo announced yesterday that salon by salon investigations will begin immediately in an effort to combat the wage and health hazards faced by workers in new yorks nail salon industry. it stems from "the new york timess" unvarnished, a pro-part series examining the exploitation of manicurists in the new york city area. the investigation uncovered a litany of abuse...