ray kelly is getting ready to step down in just a few days. fox news sat down with new york s top cop as he looked back on an era that is about to end. rick leventhal joins us now live. rick what amazing exit interview to have. is it going to be tough for this guy who has protected and served for so long to step down? reporter: apparently not, leland. he is ready for a good night s sleep and first vacation in 12 years. being a top cop is 24/7 job. ray kelly has been commissioner of new york city police department longer than anyone else. this past year was particularly controversial with protests and lawsuits with the nypd stop-and-frisk policy which gives cops more leeway to stop-and-frisk people. kelly says it took thousands of guns off the street and potentially saving thousands of lives, making new york the safest big city in america. you ve got really record-breaking reductions in crime, particularly violent crime. last year we had a record low in
hillary and gates flew first class, every else was not even coach, i would say steerage at certain points of time. this is a trend you see in a lot of white houses. you heard a lot of similar complaints even in the clinton white house, certainly the bush white house. if for no other reason than a lot of these guys don t have to face the congressional scrutiny. was there a difference as to why hillary would fly first class? to a certain september, hillary always represented a political thread internally and there was always that 2016 time frame. the exit interview that i still can t figure out. i mean i can gates, we seem to forget back in 2008/2009 time frame, before they agreed on the afghanistan surge, there was a tremendous that was principally what voters were questioning obama on. and without gates during those two first years, obama would not
the fbi. it is his exit interview, pardon me. reporter: yeah. jenna: she did a lot of reporting on this as well, catherine herridge. you mention ad speech that anwar al-awlaki gave in the pentagon. there are tidbits and meal how the whole thing was set up you will share now. reporter: it is interesting the luncheon for al-awlaki s speech at pentagon included all things, smoked ham and bacon sandwiches. as you know pork is considered unclean in the muslim religion. somebody at the pentagon made a very, very big mistake and needed muslim outreach, or, somebody wanted to send a very strong message of protest to al-awlaki. jenna? jenna: we ll let our viewers decide what they think that was. doug, thank you. reporter: you bet. jon: right now, secretary of state john kerry holding his second day of talks with his russian counterpart over how to remove and destroy syria s chemical weapons. secretary kerry made a statement just a short time ago calling the talks productive and saying
of andrea mitchell reports. tonight on msnbc, tune in for a very special two of hour event advancing the dream hosted by reverend al sharpton. special guests include magic johnson, stevie wonder, and condoleezza rice. that s on msnbc tonight at 8:00 p.m. tamron hall has a look at what s next on the news nation. i know you re a dallas cowboys fan, but you re going to talk about a more serious topic, which is syria. indeed, luke. i ll call you to talk about football later. thank you very much. in the meantime, as luke mentioned, 96 hours. that s how long our first read team says the president has to win over lawmakers who are still undecided on whether to support his plan for military strike on syria. the president says he will take his case to you in a primetime address on tuesday. i ll talk with congresswoman zoe loftgron who is still undecided. plus, exit interview.
napolitano will no longer be the secretary for homeland security. for the past 4 1/2 years she s led the third largest department in the u.s. government. at a goodbye ceremony today, vice president joe biden wished her well by praising her calmness in the face of tragedy and saying the u.s. is safer today because of the way she did her job. then he also added this. i told the president when he asked me to do this job, on two conditions, one i m not wearing any funny hats and two i m not changing my brand. so everybody knew what he was getting. but here s the deal. i think janet should be in the supreme court of the united states. this week, nbc s justice correspondent pete williams did an exit interview with napolitano. you ve been homeland security secretary longer than anybody else. every morning hair-raising briefings about the terror threat. i assume you re not going to miss that yes. i get here early in the morning.