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Former deputy director, and laurie segall and on the phone former new york police detective harry houck. lets talk, laurie, about these protests. because really, for the international audience, for our entire audience, we have to understand, there was a background here of tension, not just in the city, but in this nation when it comes to law enforcement and in particular two recent grand jury rulings. one of them out of ferguson, missouri, and the other out of new york, pertaining to the deaths ...

Sense the emotion that must have been so powerful in that room. >> its just an enormously painful day. yes, in that newsroom, around the country right now, all eyes on what has happened in new york city. this, bringing to light about how a lot of -- this is the second attack in a month. just a month a e ago, that hatchet attack. today, two police officers shot and kill ed two police officers. now the question has to be raised, can more really be done in order to warn police officers in this case...

The police and say, i think this persons crossing the line. i think this person may be intending violence or intending harm. on one side or the other. and, you know, thats necessary in every type of investigation from terrorism to any kind of crime that might occur. so i think that, you know, the notion that the police can track every one of these is just not out there. and, again, if this person -- the shooter in this case posted on instagram, you know, what time it was posted, who saw it, who ...

Forcement around the world, basically, but in america that someone would come in. an assassination like this. youre talking about having information about an assassination and could this have been prevented? this is the element of surprise. this guy intended how to kill these guys, what he was going to do and where he was going to do and killed himself. so he had no fear of what he was going to do. its not impossible to stop these guys, because, you know, you had some kind of evidence ahead of t...

Forth between police departments, alerts through a variety of systems that can go interstate, police-to-police, or department-to-department or, just in general, to everybody. in this case, they had information from what they were hearing, probably from the girlfriend or their mother, that he may have had intentions to go to brooklyn, which is why they centered the fax to or the cable to brooklyn, n.y.p.d. in bro brooklyn. but, again, you know, id like to hear a police officer in management posit...

He is behind the police officers. and it seems he is just behind the demonstrators, and theyre going on -- and, you know, the fact theres only 25,000 demonstrators on the street, or we have a population of 8 million people in new york city. thats less than a 30% of people. >> and so then your feeling is that by not solidly being behind police he could somehow be, what, indirectly encouraging this? >> well, i dont think, you know, hes indirectly encouraging it. but you always -- if youre the mayo...

>> really? >> millennials, god bless them, theyve got a lot of great things going for them. i understand all that type thing. but these are kids whose parents let them stay home from school because they were stressed. the parents were like, you can just stay home today, you can take a personal day. >> what about a dog day? what about an issue with the dog. >> can you imagine paying for law school and paying for this and all of a sudden the kid saying, i cant show up for -- >> i cant do it. youre...

Said, businesses and corporations dont create jobs. remember that? >> we played it quite often. >> heres an example of someone in her case whos trying to play it right down the middle. it started with her book, there was in that book that was either way, she always tried to find the middle ground. she got out there and she got asked some tough questions and she wasnt prepared for them and she stands behind letting everybody else talk. being a front-runner for 24 hours is tough. >> the clintons s...

Almost a tangential suffering. >> by proxy. >> suffering by proxy. >> and no one they knew, no one at the school. two things, maybe it was a test. maybe the law professors are saying, lets see who actually takes off because of the eric garner case, and were not going to pass them, were going to keep their grades low. its obviously not the case, but youre creating a nation of wusses. you remember the book "the firm." >> john grisham. i remember your first year or second-year law firm, youre wokki...

>> really? >> millennials, god bless them, theyve got a lot of great things going for them. i understand all that type thing. but these are kids whose parents let them stay home from school because they were stressed. the parents were like, you can just stay home today, you can take a personal day. >> what about a dog day? what about an issue with the dog. >> can you imagine paying for law school and paying for this and all of a sudden the kid saying, i cant show up for -- >> i cant do it. youre...