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The mayor today got to announce that overall crime dropped 4.6% in 2014, the first year of his term. over the last year, the total murders, robberies and burglaries in new york fell to their lowest rates in a decade. all while the number of police stops continue to plum et for the third year in a row. the percentage of arrests using force fell to a ten-year low. while the policy changes originated at city hall, deblasio was very careful to credit the police themselves for the drop in crime. >> t...

Result in a skyrocket of crime, the mayor today got to announce that overall crime dropped 4.6% in 2014, the first year of his term. over the last year the total murders, robberies and burglaries in new york fell to their lowest rates in a decade. all while the number of police stops continue to plum et for the third year in a row. the percentage of arrests using force fell to a ten-year low. while the policy changes originated at city hall, deblasio was very careful to credit the police themsel...

Result in a skyrocket of crime, and a return to the dangerous new york of the 70s, the mayor today got to announce that overall crime dropped 4.6% in 2014, the first year of his term. over the last year, the total murders, robberies and burglaries in new york fell to their lowest rates in a decade. all while the number of police stops continue the plummet for the third year in a row. the percentage of arrests using force fell to a ten-year low. while the policy changes originated at city hall, d...

Dont log a grenade without telling me how but you have to say how. >> you know exactly what im saying, eric. >> i really dont. >> second of all we have to have an honest conversation about it. we have to talk about. >> jasyne. we have had people on opposite sides debating it and thats what we do. how is that unfair or unbalanced? >> look, you asked me a question about how do we change it and is there hope? there is hope as long as people want to be honest about it and they want to honestly make ...

Dont log a grenade without telling me how but you have to say how. >> you know exactly what im saying, eric. >> i really dont. >> second of all we have to have an honest conversation about it. we have to talk about. >> jasyne. we have had people on opposite sides debating it and thats what we do. how is that unfair or unbalanced? >> look, you asked me a question about how do we change it and is there hope? there is hope as long as people want to be honest about it and they want to honestly make ...

Scandal short willly. well bring it as soon as we get it. it may put the issue at the top of the list for president obamas end of year press conference which is coming up at 1:30 eastern, 10:30 pacific. theres no shortage of topics for him to discuss. we figured we would bring in some of our favorite reporters to go through them. ayman sakuma has been following immigration. ben ji looks ahead to 2015 and alex looks at 2016. amanda, it seems like the next big focus for immigration is getting poli...

Environment that helps entrepreneurs and civil society and the cuban government has to respond to their own people as opposed to what were trying to do. >> but when you have a totalitarian system they dont need to respond to their own people do they? what is it exactly you think the united states can accomplish in cuba? >> look theres been more change in the last five years than in the previous 50. the reason is because obviously internal dynamics and also because the presidents policy changes i...

Beginning of new policy changes for cuba. i was delighted to hear both. it is time. >> its a tragedy he had to be in prison that long for simply doing his job. but, the fact is, is that hes coming home and thats great news. >> today is a day to celebrate. celebrate alan gross is home. celebrate that ware moving toward more normal relations with cuba. and the work that went through points out to me that when youre fighting for human rights, you cant be quiet about it. >> he said i hope that this ...

Changes the cuban government is prepared to make. we will be closely examining the implications of these major policy changes in the next congress. so its a pretty cautious statement from the incoming chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. certainly not very critical as marco rubios statement was. certainly not very supportive as senator patrick leahys or your statement was. pretty cautious. >> my sense is senator corker -- ive been on the committee a couple years now. very, very th...

I had a half a day meeting with governor mike pence, the republican governor there. hes doing incredible things. 51,000 new jobs, new people in the labor force. corporate and individual tax cuts. school choice. the biggest voucher program in the country. things are happening in the states. theyre not happening here. they cant make the government function because its become dysfunctional and it is not going to change unless we have a top-to-bottom audit of the federal government just like busines...