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Got your attention, didnt i? mayor elect bill de blasios office released a five-minute video of his 19-year-old daughter. thats her there in the fuchsia dress and the flowers in her hair hugging her father on election night. in the video, she talks about her past substance abuse and battle with depression very candidly. >> ive had depression, like clinical depression, for my entire adolescence. so thats been something that ive always dealt with or not known how to deal with. it made it easier, l...

Think theyre completely unrelated to one another, that can getting sober is always a positive thing. >> now, chiara goes on to say its not easy to get sober. she had help of her therapist and a treatment center here in the city. she says it was the hardest thing shes ever done. >> i mean you can imagine and shes got this tremendous story to tell. margaret, the mayor elect and his wife have been very supportive of this public message from their teenaged daughter, havent they in the. >> right. chi...

Officers and put them where the work is. sounds like a no-brainer, but its not done in other places necessarily. operation crew cut that i told you about has worked very well. were using technology. we put in a real time crime center. doesnt exist anywhere else. >> do you fear incoming mayor de blasio will reverse a lot of these policies? >> i dont know. i simply dont know. its fair to say that a lot of things are unknown about the mayor elect. so well find out. >> does new york city become a mo...

Tom cochran, all of them have somebody coming at them from the right before they even get to the general election. and about it does hait does hav making them much less useful in the senate. >> i disagree. i think in that race his famous line was built the dang fence. we need border security. he wins the elect and he becomes a spoken so you of this comprehensive immigration reform which you would not have guessed he would have done during that primary. so i think hes been more flexible than most...

And our bully pulpits to try and move forward sensible gun control legislation, because until we do that, theres too many dangers out there. thats where people are focused. >> reporter: new york city mayor-elect, i should say, bill de blasio there describing the scene as president obama received a note telling him that this had happened, but we are told, jake, that the president at this point has been briefed and this is from a white house official saying the white house will remain in touch wit...

Delegate, the candidate. youve called yourself the bill de blasio in the race for governor referencing the very progressive mayor-elect of new york city. i think its probably safe to say you are both progressives, but when you talk about things like legalizing pot to pay for pre-k, is that a platform that will win for you? >> people are excited about my candidacy in maryland because i am an unapologetic progressive. i am not only promoting that we have universal pre-k in order to eliminate our a...

You should know. former new york police commissioner bill bratton is returning to the post he held two decades ago. mayor elect bill de blasio says bratton knows how to keep new york safe and is the right man to reform the citys controversial stop and frisk policy. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren says shes not running for president in 2016. many believe warren could mount a progressive challenge to the expected democratic front runner hillary clinton. those are a couple things we thou...

Find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of womens groups and said, can you help us find folks? they brought us binders full of women. >> binders full of women caused him some grief out there. how serious is the gender gap problem for the republicans right now? >> reporter: its a huge problem. mitt romney lost with the women vote 11% and its not new and not just about mitt romney. its been like that for republicans for years. and...

This is nature valley. nature at its most delicious. photography a changing of the guard at nypd or return of old guard. this morning mayor elect bill de blasio named bill bratton next new york city police commissioner, a post he held nearly two decades ago under mayor rudy giuliani. under de blasio one of the top duties will be to repeal the controversial stop and terrific policy. >> bill bratton knows when it comes to stop and frisk it has to be used with respect and used properly. >> in this ...

Thank you, congresswoman. >> we get over the debate by getting the public engaged. >> thanks for that. were seeing that today around the country. and in new york, new york city incoming mayor, mayor elect bill de blasio has made what could be his most important appointment. hes named bill bratton to be his police commissioner, a return to the post for bratton, nypd in the 90s. credit i had with crime fighting techniques that made new york the safest big city. led police force from 2002 to 2009. ...