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good morning to you. it is tuesday, december the 20th. i m ali velshi joined again by alina cho this morning. good morning. good morning to you. so glad you re with us and up first, the u.s. keeping an eye out for advancing troops and any other threatening moves after the death of a dictator in north korea. north korean media show the images of kim jong-il s body laid out in a glass coffin. his third son and successor, kim jong un, paying respects. and live for us in seoul, south korea, anna, good morning. the south korean government sending its condolences along with a dose of what some are calling christian mystery diplomacy. what s that all about? reporter: that is right, alina. the sense of condolence, the official wording from the south korean government. this is a real thorn in relations because relations between the two countries hit rock bottom of late. it s worst of the relationships for years. offering sympathies certainly seems to be an act of south korea ....
department are facing perhaps the biggest challenge yet. it comes from a federal justice department probe more than three years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing, a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinas at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office, that reaches the highest levels of the agency. in addition, the letter details a study commissioned by the department of justice that found latino drivers, quote, are four to nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-latino drivers. there s more in the report, documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities. calling them, quote, wetbacks, stupid mexicans, and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the attorney general for the civil rights division, they re also reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual ass ....
it comes from a federal justice department probe more than three years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing, a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinas at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office, that reaches the highest levels of the agency. in addition, the letter details a study commissioned by the department of justice that found latino drivers, quote, are four to nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-latino drivers. there s more in the report, documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities. calling them, quote, wetbacks, stupid mexicans, and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the assistant u.s. attorney general for the civil rights division, they re also reviewing allegations that sheriff joe arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults and child molestation cases. man ....
mitt romney is picking up a significant endorsement in south carolina today. one that could help boost his standing with tea party republicans who continue to question his conservative credentials. romney now has the backing of governor nikki hailey, who herself was propelled into office with tea party support. can she convince those same tea party voters to back mitt romney? joe johns is joining us now. this is a huge day for mitt romney. tell us what we know. mitt romney continued to get a bunch of big endorsements. this goes up on the top shelf. republicans of south carolina have been telling the romney organization to make more of a play for voters in the state and stop acting like there s no way he can win there. the nikki hailey endorsement suggesting the romney camp is responding. the nomination race in the early state of south carolina, the first primary in the south, just got interesting. nikki hailey endorsing mitt romney for president. today is the day i ....
with mexico, they have plummeted. time to play reporter roulette. susan candiotti, let s begin with you. jerry sandusky waived his right to the preliminary hearing today. do we know why? reporter: well, what a day it s been, brooke. imagine 11 witnesses, including at least four alleged victims who would have taken the stand talk about in excruciating detail being molested and raped by jerry sandusky but they didn t have the opportunity to do so because he waited and, why? his lawyers explain that it was a tactical decision on their part, that, in part, because they would not have had an opportunity to try to challenge the credibility of these witnesses while they were on the witness stand because of court rules, then it just wasn t to their advantage. however, they certainly, it s true, miss out on an opportunity to interview these people, put them on the stand. however, it would have meant that this day would have been filled with the testimony of what those alleged ....