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Free. because he was doing positive inside chicago just like im moving back to chicago and its not just about, you know, getting on stage and being an entertainer and having a monolithic voice thats forced to be a specific party, you know, people expect that if youre black, you have to be democrat. i have a -- i have conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot of black people end up being democrat. they say, you know, first of all, its a limit to amount of jobs. so the...

Death and at least 60 others wounded. >> anthony: however much you might love chicago, want to celebrate its general awesomeness, its character, its architecture, its food. theres no getting away from the ugly fact that chicagos south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? >> webb: lets be clear, its only a few spots, it isnt the whole city. its not the whole city. >> lupe: to be h...

To protect the president, not the office of the president but the individual person. hes willing to sully the reputation of the department of justice and the fbi to do that. his process for doing that is by cherry picking pieces of information to make this can misleading claim that the fbi was somehow relying on this one piece of evidence. when you look at a fisa application, the fbi has to rely on all kinds of pieces of evidence and have to verify the accuracy of them before a judge who obvious...

50% surge in homicides. >> news anchor 3: people shot to death and at least 60 others wounded. >> anthony: however much you might love chicago, want to celebrate its general awesomeness, its character, its architecture, its food. theres no getting away from the ugly fact that chicagos south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? >> webb: lets be clear, its only a few spots, it isnt...

Ugly fact that chicagos south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? >> webb: lets be clear, its only a few spots, it isnt the whole city. its not the whole city. >> lupe: to be honest, chi-raq, is englewood. >> anthony: its a pretty staggering body count. >> lupe: the sad part is its been like this, right and the only reason the story now is white people looking at it. oh, thats t...

50% surge in homicides. >> news anchor 3: people shot to death and at least 60 others wounded. >> anthony: however much you might love chicago, want to celebrate its general awesomeness, its character, its architecture, its food. theres no getting away from the ugly fact that chicagos south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? >> webb: lets be clear, its only a few spots, it isnt...

With that chicago is americas biggest -- second-greatest city and i think that has to do a lot with it and people are just thrown to one side and left to their own devices. >> just by calling it "chi-raq," youre saying its a war zone. did you feel like it was a war zone when you were walking these neighborhoods? >> no, because the police were all around us. but my first day of pre-production, one of my -- i had to go to a funeral because one of my guys got shot. the first day of pre-production i...

And thats why we need to have the multipronged strategy, including our muslim allies. because at the end of the day, its going to be muslim soldiers in iraq and in syria that are going to ultimately defeat isis it wont be the united states alone. >> mike mcfaul, wendy sherman, thank you so much. we have to leave it there. happy holidays, happy new year to you both. coming up next, spike lee on his controversial movie "chi-raq" and the conversation he wants his film to inspire. >> i want people...

With that chicago is americas biggest -- second-greatest city and i think that has to do a lot with it and people are just thrown to one side and left to their own devices. >> just by calling it "chi-raq," youre saying its a war zone. did you feel like it was a war zone when you were walking these neighborhoods? >> no, because the police were all around us. but my first day of pre-production, one of my -- i had to go to a funeral because one of my guys got shot. the first day of pre-production i...

But its not just police shooting that spike lee wanted to draw attention to when he sat down with chuck to talk about his movie. >> who is the audience for this movie? >> everybody. >> its interest i dont go say that. >> i say everybody, you know why? >> why? . >> ive been asked many times. ive been making films since 1986 and the one question filmmakers always say, what is the take away? what do you want people to think when they come out of that theater. and you say i dont ask that question. b...