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December 15, 2015
Debate prep, forgoing this ritual of doing the walk-through. >> sara murray, thanks so much. well be checking back with you throughout the hour. i want to game out tonights debate with three people who have seen a lot of the events, gloria borger, cnn chief national correspondent, john king and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. david, let me start with you. you went through so many of these when you were adviser to then-senator barack obama. >> pleasure to be an observer. >> much m...
December 14, 2015
None of our kids are digesting dirty fuels. well have clean energy that can power the world for hundreds of years to come. the sun will last for billions of years and we cane the beneficiaries of it. >> before i let you go, sir richard, can i ask you one final question about donald trump. are you friendly with him as a fellow businessman? >> ive met him, but i wouldnt say i know him enormously well. >> but youre an observer of american politics. you spend a lot of time here. youre a fellow busin...
December 13, 2015
For looking at the horses eyes, i always just look at them and walk up to them. and we know now that the wild horses think that im a predator. i know not to look at them. no eye contact. >> there you go. relax. news guys are touching live horses for the first time today. and theyre doing a great job. >> its okay. >> you could offer your hand up to her. its okay, its all right. just stand your ground a little bit. >> i wasnt sure how she was going to react. it was really cool. im going to move fo...
December 10, 2015
"observer" shows that more than half of voters believe mayor emanuel should resign. another 20% undecided. there are still a lot of questions who about knew what and when in the laquan mcdonald case, whos been punished, whos been investigated and what the chain of custody of it all was. perhaps the biggest question right now immediately in a city so dominated by machine politics that upheavals are rare is whether the mayor of chicago can provide answers to all those outstanding questions in a wa...
December 10, 2015
Mechanism to recall the mayor. in new polling from the illinois "observer" shows that more than half of voters believe mayor emanuel should resign. another 20% undecided. there are still a lot of questions who about knew what and when in the laquan mcdonald case, whos been punished, whos been investigated and what the chain of custody of it all was. perhaps the biggest question right now immediately in a city so dominated by machine politics that upheavals are rare is whether the mayor of chicag...
December 10, 2015
Would ever treat you the way they treat me? and the answer is -- no. and that is wrong! and that has to change in this city. that has to come to an end and end now. no citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of chicago! if my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way! >> city council aldermen had mixed reactions to the speech and several are calling for further investigations into the mayor and his administration. a democratic illinois state representative also intr...
December 9, 2015
Disrupting commerce and clearly disrupting neighborhoods, wolf. >> martin savidge on the streets of chicago for us. thanks. well stay in touch. lets dig a little bit deeper right now with our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and former federal prosecutor legal analyst sunny hostin. sunny, these protesters demanding the resignation of mayor emanuel. has he lost the confidence of this city in the wake of the fatal shooting of that laquan mcdonald young t...
December 9, 2015
Sunny hostin with me, danny savls -- >> i think its interesting sign a bill to get a dually elected mayor to resign from office. look at the sentiment going on in chicago. i know there was a poll published by the illinois observer commissioned by the insider. 55% of chicagoans say rahm emanuel should resign. there appears to be this crisis of confidence when it comes to mayor emanuel. maybe in the interest of this city he does need to resign. a lot of people are talking about a cover-up. weve be...
December 3, 2015
Suggest that it wasnt a spur of the moment incident. we are also told that the bomb making supplies, weapons and everything else could easily cost between $25,000 to $50,000. maybe he paid for that out of his $70,000 a year salary or maybe the money came elsewhere. we will be following the financial trails like we are following everything else on the internet with his connections. >> i suppose that if you look at it from the outside as a casual observer, it might look like a normal family. we we...
November 29, 2015
People could identify with arafat, and they could see israel as the oppressor. >> while the palestinians hadnt by 1974 got the palestinian liberation that they were seeking, theyd certainly put themselves on the agenda at a very high level indeed, and this had happened fast. >> in a historic vote today, the united nations general assembly supported the palestinian claim to statehood. and a second resolution also passed that would give the palestinian liberation organization a formal place at the...