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I may not be able to see my son graduate from high school. saturday night those fears were realized. and they were realized in part because of the hate-filled speech aimed at cops over the past four months. st. louiss finest deserve better. new york citys finest deserve better. so do police officers all across america. maybe now they will get it. maybe now well reset the conversation. and maybe now well have an honest discussion about how we balance the right of all americans and the safety of t...

Stop-and-frisk that you think is anti-police. >> yes. a lot of the rhetoric was. at a time when the police had a 70% approval rating. obviously thats not the case now. during the de blasio administration. >> the president released a statement saying theres no justification for what happened calling for unity and joe, ill turn it over to you. what were your thoughts when the news broke? >> well, you know, mika, sadly this tragedy -- these assassinations were too predictable. you know, we have see...

Between the views of law enforcement and the responsibilities of law enforcement. i think the mayor, mayor de blasio really has a lot on his shoulders now to try to bring the city together because of the act of one crazy guy. the relationship is out of balance. >> mark halperin lets talk about out of balance too as i talk about responsible words. i understand the anger, and the rage going through a lot of police officers on saturday night after being assaulted verbally over the past four months ...

Concerned that the president of the united states takes this so lightly. i mean, terrorism maybe? it is terrorism. i think the president can say that. its cyber terrorism not vandalism. >> whats with the proportion nature response? dont we want disproportion nature response to deter regimes like north korea. the response shouldnt be limited to cyber responses. we have a wide array of military -- >> lets talk about this with our next guest joining us from austin, texas. david sanger. david you ha...

What we dont need is the police union and the mayor at war. and the war of words on both those sides need to stop now because we just cant afford it. part it has to do with city contracts. part of it has to do with policy disagreements. part has to do with the conduct of both sides. i thought the rhetoric over the weekend from both sides was incredibly irresponsible. >> mika, let me say this really quickly and then we need to get to our guest. but those tragedies were no time to use language lik...

Past four months that led a 13-year-old believing that all people hate cops. no jaden, we dont. most new yorkers and most americans love and respect police officers and understand like those young men and women that we sent off to vietnam so many years ago they are only doing their job and most of them believe they are doing it to protect all of us. new yorks finest deserve better. so do police officers in st. louis and across america. maybe now they will get it. maybe now well have a real conve...

Overheated rhetoric that angers and divides people. and former police commissioner ray kelly is also speaking out on the relationship between police officers and the mayor. >> i think when the mayor makes statements about he had to train his son to be, a son who the biracial to be careful when dealing with the police, i think that set off this latest firestorm and quite frankly the mayor ran an anti-police campaign last year when he ran for mayor. >> talking about stop-and-frisk, is that what yo...