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>> okay. that was the news conference right there in washington, d.c., department of justice. we bring in our chief political correspondent. what did you hear that was maybe surprising? very clearly focused primarily and only on the police department. >> thats correct. this is a very significant announcement from attorney general lore lore receipt tht t. she said it was a direct response not only to the controversy over the laquan mcdonald shooting, that graphic police video, lot of police state...

Processes at all on this issue of fighting isis. and waging this military campaign against them in iraq and syria. at the same time our country is participating in and in many ways leading the international military fight against isis, which is rapidly escalating now not just in terms of the numbers of u.s. troops that are committed to that force but its escalating now into something that is almost starting to look like a world war effort against isis. and that was all before the latest mass sho...

Shot specific people, and without blasting the entire campus of this corporation. now if they -- if the lapd and fbi find booby traps, that would totally change my viewpoint of this. >> eric, ive got to interrupt you, theres breaking news from adam housely who has information on the suspects name. adam, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes, sean, a bunch of information. just got off the phone with law enforcement sources. theyre telling me several things, they believe that this is a two-person...

>> how would that be answered? the citys position, as i understand it, has been this, that there is a process, there are a series of processes, first, the ipra, the independent police review authority and all police officer-involved shootings go through them so they had it, we didnt want to tamper with that, we are not going to get involved in that. the states attorney then came in, their own investigation, there was a justice investigation, and the mayors office basically says, look, we dont wa...

Infiltrate the refugee population that we should be welcoming. and so our processes have to be in place, and thats why i think speaker ryan took that on and its consistent with the principles that hes practiced throughout his career. >> the administration is saying they want 10,000 refugees and next year, a lot of the gop candidates are saying zero. so theres that tough balance there as well. james kemp, appreciate your being with us. thank you for the perspective. >> thanks for having me. up ...

Reluctance on the part of public officials to prosecute police officers. and you see long, drawn-out processes that typically do not end in a prosecution. the last time that chicago police officers were charged in -- in harming a civilian and killing a civilian was in 1980. so its been a really, really long time. it very rarely happens. what you see are these agonizing processes where any videotape involved is withheld from the public as long as possible, even withheld from the family. i cited t...

Universities also closed tomorrow and were told that the police will continue going through these various neighborhoods for people they are looking for. we dont have any specifics in terms of how many people but they do believe there were several people plotting some sort of attack in brussels. >> ron mott staying vigilant there, especially with that operation under way not five minutes from where you are. lets go back to thomas roberts who is joining me from paris. >> alex, thanks. this has b...

Security. the threat does not come from refugees. there have been more than 700,000 refugees brought in since 9/11. three have been arrested for terror related processes. they are not going to send them in on a refugee visa. >> do we know that? >> yeah, it takes -- >> look at the hijackers of the airplanes on september 11 terrorists. they were on student and tourist visas. 15 of them came from our country ally number two, saudi arabia. we need to question these policies. if we want our children ...

That was my point. i can sit here and i can say, yeah, it will be saudi arabia, yeah, it would be the united arab emirates, it would be oman. that doesnt mean anything. people need to ask relevant questions. >> is it right for these states to say to the president, were not taking these syrian refugees, even though hes pushing them on us and his own intelligence agencies are warning him that we couldnt possibly vet them all and isis will infiltrate the refugee population? >> of course they will i...

Europe. that was not thoroughly vetted, or are they different in the united states as far as how they vet those that could be coming in? >> the refugees that are going to be resettled to the united states come through a very different process. they are interviewed thoroughly abroad. all of the security checks are conducted while they are still overseas. we will pea see what kind of information comes out in the coming days but these processes are incredibly -- very, very different. >> eleanor, th...