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Street, that might be exponentially larger than anything we have seen out of syria so far. that has raised increased concerns at the pentagon. >> jim, thanks. back to andrea mitchell we go. andrea, we are looking at that picture on the stage, four generals, 16 stars among them, yet thats only part of the equation. as jim points out, especially in the middle east, among the broken countries, among the countries where there is trouble, where there is a vacuum, thats the troubled spot. the u.s., to...

Hasnt been very helpful to the campaign either he at times has criticized ben carson publicly, even on our air. there is a lot of back and forth between these two separate spheres of the campaign. one is more of the informal campaign. armstrong williams does not have a formal role in the campaign, but hes very much like the carson whisperer. hes very close to ben carson. he talks to him several times a day there is this con fliktd between this campaign who has responsibilities and arm strom stro...

Early, catch them, hold them accountable, and also when necessary, have a disciplinary policy which is in place and has credibility. and its not just you strike a point. its a work in progress, also. and while you may make changes in policy, you may make changes in practice, and not may -- we will -- and may make changes in personnel, its also the hard work of changing a culture that i think is -- >> mayor daily had a similar press conference more than seven years ago, ipra was created. why shou...

Havent fully cleared that inland renalgional center yet. they were looking for victims and did a more detailed search and found an explosive device when which they then said they were going to detonate. were told they havent fully gone through and satisfied themselves ls that they have cleared it of other explosive devices. thats still a work in progress. >> pete, let me ask you this, i dont want to get out ahead of the facts, i just to want know what we know so far. we have more multiphysical s...

Today, anybody who is there to uphold the law cannot act like theyre above the law. and both a principle that is used to make sure it reflects the culture in the police department. and i want to say one thing, there are men and women both in leadership positions and rank and file who follow and live by that principle every day. jason van dyke does not represent the police department. i can give you chapter and verse of people who are doing things beyond what their quote/unquote their job descrip...

In a positive fashion. there are very good things about the chicago police department that i found when i got the here. were building on those. and were trying to revamp anything that is negative. quite frankly, youre almost forcing me to give you the data on our police shootings over the last four years that weve been here. theyre down almost 70%. thats really significant. and we did it through policy, training, and supervision. so that is a work in progress. and were going to continue to pursu...

It to the next level, you need to be able to contract your own self-to be able to create that space for your team to grow and for them to lead. its a work in progress for me. i used to be a one-person operation. i used to pack the product, take the orders, ship the orders, write the invoices, everything else. today i have an incredible team of people that are farm smarter and brighter than me. and much more specialized at what they do. its such an incredible pleasure to see them learning from wh...

Thats what happened. the body politics was clear on that. the really group that really wanted us to stay was the kurds. they didnt believe it, every step of the way we designed a glide path that would gradually pull us out of iraq. at every step along the way the iraqis didnt believe we would follow through. they didnt believe we would get out of the cities, we did. they didnt believe we would end our combat mission. we had to prove to them that we meant it. in my judgment, at least, we actually...

Thats what happened. and the body politic was clear on that. the only group that really wanted us to stay were the kurds. sunnis, shia, they didnt believe that every step along the way starting with president bush and then president obama. every step along the way, the iraqis didnt believe we would get out of the cities, we did. they believe we would end our combat mission, we did. they didnt believe we would leave at the end of 2011. in my judgment at least, we actually had to leave in order to...

Evacuated just as a precaution. luckily no one was hurt and no word yet on what sparked the fire. illegal immigration has become one of the hottest talking points of this election season with lots of presidential hopefuls offering up their solutions on how to tighten security at the u.s./mexico border. each location along the border has its own set of challenges. we have more now live in nogalas today. willi william. >> reporter: gretchen, ive covered immigration and been on this border countl...