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Which so i'm told -- >> today it's over. >> they have been pushing the limits and that puts people like u.p.s. and fedex in a pinch they are the ones that have to get it there. >> we've seen that year in and year out the season has been getting longer. starting earlier and earlier and going later and later. people today on the 23rd look to see can they get something at the last second. >> can they get it on time delivered where they need to get it. john meacham, what books would you recommend? >> i think there's a lot of nonfiction out there that america needs. at least inadvertent fiction. i ...

Howling mob of both sides, nuance is the first casualty. but i think police officers rightly want to believe that their leadership is behind them as they go out in the neighborhoods and folks in the neighborhoods rightly want to believe that the police are there to protect the law-abiding. right now there's a fundamental breakdown. what we saw in new york in the late '80s to the '90s of rebuilding to a large extent a sense of order with some price, obviously, is probably going to have to happen again but won't what happen this leadership as steve was saying. >> john, we'll ask you to stay with...

Continue in this conversation. and the mayor does have a responsibility to sit down with the rank and tile of the police department the ones that have been serving for 10, 15, 20, 30 years and talk to them about how this city can be as supportive as we possibly can to the police department. i think he's trying to do that. i think that the extremists on all sides and by the way this is how it is with every single issue that's controversial that extremists on both sides are the only ones being heard. i went to several vigils last night and again more tonight. we won't have huge camera, print med...

sing you a song ♪ ♪ i will try not to sing out of tune ♪ ♪ oh, baby good morning, it's tuesday, december 23rd as we open up to the sounds of the great joe cocker who passed away yesterday. with us today we have thomas roberts. unanimous n mark hall brine. steve rattner. and in washington pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and gene, joe cocker, obviously for several generations meant an awful lot if you were in the early '60s, early '70s, he was a remarkable singer who broke out at wood...

>> and also that when the new york delegation immediate i want to compliment them who also wasn't just members of the african-american members of congress who spoke out against this decision they came out also and that's us standing together to say we got make sure justice is had in this case. >> john mecham. >> in contrast to new york the lighting of the christmas tree. >> strange. i was flipping from two channels. >> i was walking through midtown and you had young families here for tree and you had as mike says pretty peaceful but passionate protest. so you had this -- it was if you had to h...