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Im asking everyone, across the spectrum, to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, lets focus just on these families and what they have lost. i think thats the right way. >> ads the city mournd, joining us now, an op ed columnist, the author of losing our way. the intimate portrait of a troubled america. bob, great to be here. >> great to be here, rachel. >> do you thu it is possible for everybody to bring there for a

Was made from. its the reason why i have the right to vote. its the reason we have civil rights legislation. >> was that a yes or a no? >> i think second guessing an administration is always an issue. i think that nothing is ever perfect. i think were here today, though, and taking a step back and say look well take a step back, the union reps need to calm it down, the protesters, we believe and i believe, by the way, need to stop until we pay homage to our dead officers and let the city heal an...

Supporting recent protests. >> the attack on these two officers, the assassination of these two officers was an attack on the city of new york as a whole, on every one of us, on our values, on our democracy. we cannot tolerate such attacks. anyone with the ability to help us stop them must step forward. >> and the doctor for officer lius parents say they are so devastated by losing their own child, they have not eaten since he was killed. his wife of two months was very emotional at a news confe...

Its time now for "we the tweeple" and the stories you cant stop buzz being on social media. we begin with #nypd where at a rate of over 1,000 tweets an hour, almost 440,000 tweets have been sent today. you still decry the killings of officer liu and ramos and sending tweets like this, r.i.p. nypd officers. also defending police online saying the police are the ones who wake up every morning and face local try rants to keep us safe from harm. god bless them. and protests over recent police killin...

I dont understand. i would like somebody to tell me where you can replace that word "cops" with any other segment of society, be it politicians, teachers, or any other racial ethnic group, where you can replace the word "cops" with any other group and that would be acceptable. >> but that was a tiny number of the maybe tens of thousands of protesters that uttered those ugly words. right? >> absolutely. absolutely. and it was a small radical group within that protest. and it does two things. one,...

See. this nation needs to deal with the concerns they have raised. >> well, the original fight for voting rights and to make the nation better, as the attorney general just said, is now the source for a gripping new film called "selma" set for release on christmas day. it depicts the voting rights marches of 1965 and is getting oscar buds for its leads as well as the woman behind the camera who recently sat down with joy reid. >> ava is the director of the movie "selma." thank you for being here...

Thats condoning it. who would condone killing police officers or calling for the death of police officers? but again, wolf, people do have the right, the first amendment right to protest, to peacefully protest, to assemble. and these are real issues. these arent made-up issues. yes, there are problems of police brutality. yes, there is racism in the police ranks. and those are issues that need to be addressed. >> can i weigh in on this? >> yeah, weigh in but i also want you to weigh in on what t...

Encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him. >> reporter: but perhaps what angered police here most, protesters given free reign of the city for several nights, and in one incident, several protesters on the brooklyn bridge physically assaulted a nypd officer. so upset over the mayors handling of the protests on december 12rks well before these current killings, the police ben ever length associate asked officers to sign a letter to the mayor asking him not to attend f...

Liu, who were brutally assassinated saturday while in their patrol car, gunned down over the weekend. awful, awful situation. as we mentioned at the top of the program, new yorks mayor is calling for unity and quiet reflection. >> im asking everyone -- and this is across the spectrum -- to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, lets focus just on these families and what they have lost. >> the mayor says the families of the two slain officers are in tremendo...

Mayor is absolutely right. right now is the time for the city to heal. you heard what the gentleman before me said. cities are one neighborhood. it is one community. one thing we can all agree on in the city no matter where youre from in the world is that all lives matter. and that we need to go back and say look no death of any individual is acceptable. and the city of new york will not accept it. thats part of what we do and part of our open discussion and i think thats the great thing about t...