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I'm asking everyone, across the spectrum, to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations until these funerals are passed, let's focus just on these families and what they have lost. i think that's the right way. >> ads the city mournd, joining us now, an op ed columnist, the author of losing our way. the intimate portrait of a troubled america. bob, great to be here. >> great to be here, rachel. >> do you thu it is possible for everybody to bring there for a

Was made from. it's the reason why i have the right to vote. it's the reason we have civil rights legislation. >> was that a yes or a no? >> i think second guessing an administration is always an issue. i think that nothing is ever perfect. i think we're here today, though, and taking a step back and say look we'll take a step back, the union reps need to calm it down, the protesters, we believe and i believe, by the way, need to stop until we pay homage to our dead officers and let the city heal and move forward. as far as the protests go and open conversation and open political debate, i thi...

Supporting recent protests. >> the attack on these two officers, the assassination of these two officers was an attack on the city of new york as a whole, on every one of us, on our values, on our democracy. we cannot tolerate such attacks. anyone with the ability to help us stop them must step forward. >> and the doctor for officer liu's parents say they are so devastated by losing their own child, they have not eaten since he was killed. his wife of two months was very emotional at a news conference monday with his parents. >> this is a difficult time for both of our families. but we will st...

It's time now for "we the tweeple" and the stories you can't stop buzz being on social media. we begin with #nypd where at a rate of over 1,000 tweets an hour, almost 440,000 tweets have been sent today. you still decry the killings of officer liu and ramos and sending tweets like this, r.i.p. nypd officers. also defending police online saying the police are the ones who wake up every morning and face local try rants to keep us safe from harm. god bless them. and protests over recent police killings of unarmed black men are being met on social media with accusations for authorities. this man t...

I don't understand. i would like somebody to tell me where you can replace that word "cops" with any other segment of society, be it politicians, teachers, or any other racial ethnic group, where you can replace the word "cops" with any other group and that would be acceptable. >> but that was a tiny number of the maybe tens of thousands of protesters that uttered those ugly words. right? >> absolutely. absolutely. and it was a small radical group within that protest. and it does two things. one, it incites people, it's divisive, and it actually diminishes the actual valid concerns that the pr...