Good morning, everyone. Im dr. Kathleen hicks, and im so pleased to have joining me this morning the chief of staff of the army. General, welcome to csis. Thank you, dr. Hicks. Great to be here with you. Wonderful. Theres so many things we should be talking to you about today. But i know we have a limited amount of your time. I really want to focus more than anything on the pacific. And i know you come from the region relatively recently. The National Defense strategy is prioritized, and especially china and russia. But i think most people, when they think about the army, are thinking obviously a ground intensive environment like europe and not thinking about the pacific. Is the pacific really a priority for the army and what does it mean if it is . Yeah. Historically we focused on europe, but with the strategy that puts the indopacific as a top priority, its certainly a priority for us. As we take a look and havent been out in the pacific, that was my first overseas trip as a chief in
New York City Police officer and trainer and instructor at the Police Academy in new york city. Welcome to washington journal. Guest good to be with you. Host let me ask you about how this all started. What do you think went wrong in the encounter between the four officers and george floyd on that memorial day arrest attempt . It is a complex conversation. It will consume a lot of time. It is a terrible outcome. My condolences to the deceased and the family of the deceased. Event, the this error gartner event, eric ner event the same thing happened. They were in search of cigarettes. The mayors have to give more clarity. Matters,ndly Important Police should not be involved. I hate that it had to end badly. This is so horrible, 8 minutes on the guys neck. No one can promise that you wont have some version of this going forward. Policing is the nature of the work. We have people offering up the idea that if you train, you can train your way to a point where this wont happen again. There
Extent. Nor doe know just how the car who control. We will give you updates as more information becomes available tonight. Now to the developing news from roxborough where a beloved elementary schoolteacher was killed in a fire today. Fire broke out at 8 00 this morning claiming the life of a six twoyear old woman who was a third grade teacher at a reporte nemcrmack i s livthe atull annie. Reporter walter and sarah beginning to hear more information about this from the community about how they tried to neighbors when it broke out, and now howathering donations. Now at this point ive, aim not sure what we have if we have a picture, if we have video from the fire, but right now i will toss to a picture. This is a picture of the woman killed in that fire. Shes six twoyear old sheila august a third grade teacher at nearby shawmont school. She was killed in the blaze. When the fire broke out inside of her home, her son in law, and other people were inside, and, also their son. Neighbors ran
Reporter at this hour that little girl is at chop and shes in stable condition but right now we are told that by the lieutenant here that she is under going surgery and they are hoping, doctors are hoping, that they are able to save her leg. Somehow she got a hold of her fathers loaded weapon inside of their home, and she somehow pulled the trigger. Now take a look at this video, video from afternoon, this is the air use where this all happen, inside of a home in the 1300 block of south wilson the child was shot once inside her home there. Police recovered the weapon at the scene. Toddler then rushed to chop. Police say that the toddler fat shore owns the gun was rushing to get to work and asked his mother who was watching the young girl to put the gun away. He left and went to work and told police his daughter was asleep when he left. We are also told that the father does have a permit to carry and that this is a legal weapon. Authorities say that when medics arrived, because of a, gu
And meeting with Law Enforcement. And determined for the safety of the tens of thousands of people will be postponed. We were informed that the event was being cancelled. The Chicago Police department had no role. I am not a person who wants to it see violence or people hurt. Reporter his gop rivals wasted no rival. The responsibility of that lies with protestors who took violence in tir own hands. But any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Mr. Trump needs to own up that rhetoric he used contributed to the climate in parts of other rallies. Reporter this is not the first time violence erupted in in st. Louse one protestor was hurt and more inside. Trump leaving them with parting words. Go home to mommy. Reporter Hillary Clinton said no matte what party we are. Violence has no place in politics and we should use our words to bring america together. And donald trump said organized group of people who shut down the rally energizes america. Donald trump is considering rescheduling