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Found that the chicago police department engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force including deadly force and nondeadly force. this pattern includes, for example, shooting at people who present no immediate threat and tasing people for not following verbal commands. this conduct doesnt only harm residents. it endangers officers. it results in an avoidable deaths, injuries, and trauma. it erodes community trust, trust that is the cornerstone of public safety. we found this pattern...

Temperature fundamental reason that the framers and traditionally the belief in the united states is that civilians control the military. its an important cornerstone, isnt it? >> absolutely. before his -- general mattis confirmation hearing, you heard sam nunn, the republican from georgia, speak about this very issue. he said this team is not asking for a blanket change to the issue of civilian control of the military. they say even if general mattis does not remain the full defense secretary f...

Officials sassisted in this investigation. we found the department engages in pattern of using -- this includes shooting at people and tasing people. it erode police commute trust, trust that is the cornerstone of public safety. we found its largely attributable to systemic deficiencies within the cpd and the city. we found cpd does not adequately train its officers to use the appropriate amount of force opinion we observed training on deadly force that used a video made decades ago with guidanc...

>> president obama bidding fairwell to the fashion in an emotional speech from chicago. the city that launched his political career. obama addressing a cornerstone of our democracy. take a listen. >> the peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to the next. i committed to president elect trump my administration would ensure the smoothest possible transition just as president bush did for me. >> joining us now, cnn political commentator, you see very moved by what you heard la...

On. >> he was pretty clear earlier this week or last about the fact that he will jump in if donald trump is going to send 800,000 children back home. he talked about it, and saw in sessions hearing, would be willing to abandon that. talked about the policy points in which he would come out. but two things that are cornerstone of our democracy, played out by jack and is interaction, not only be willing to challenge and talk about things that make our democracy the most amazing thing in the world ...

>> thank you, mr. chairman. and again, mr. tillerson, thanks for your willingness to be patient and answer the questions as you have with candor and appreciate your willingness to serve. one thing we didnt talk about this morning in my questions was the middle east, and i know youve had a lot of experience in the middle east, particularly you have done business in many of the arab countries. we talked about this a little in our meeting, but this relationship we have with israel is a special one,...

Thank you mr. tillerson for you being being patient and answering questions with candor and appreciate your willingness to serve. one thing we didnt take about this morning was the middle east. this relationship we have with israel is a special one and a cornerstone of our strats strat. and one true democracy. i want to talk to you about your views on israel and one important issue for me is the issue of boycott of it is a global movement targeting israel. i have been concerned about this for a ...

Constructive criticism. >> does that take shape? >> literally, the strategy was going to be that we willow be t obstruct, where trump has ideas that make sense that we can work with him on, we should. but i will tell you this, he ran a campaign whose cornerstone was bigotry, based on sexism, racism, and xenophobia, and on that issue i personally will not compromise. he ran a campaign which denied the reality of climate change, at a time when virtually all the scientists who studied this tell us ...

Accomplish anything. where trump has ideas that make sense that we can work with him on, i think we should. but i will tell you this. he ran a campaign whose cornerstone was bigotry, it was based on sexism, racism and xenophobia. and on that issue i will not compromise. he ran a campaign which denied the reality of climate change when virtually all the scientists who have studied this issue say we face a planetary crisis. we have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy eff...

These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back on to the battlefield. that sounded like it was a direct message to the sitting president of the united states, president obama dont even think about releasing any more of these inmates, at gitmo, who was your reaction? >> theres only one president at the time in this country and while president elect trump has done his best to try to assert himself, he doesnt have that role until january 20th, president obama has made this a co...