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At top with the mayor. the mayor made several fatal errors in the days following the death of freddie gray. first, she did a standdown order. that was horrible. next she wrapped herself around al sharpton days following riots. bad move. third she reversed herself saying people were dying rioting were thugs. we don't have any thugs in baltimore. she has a lot of thugs in baltimore. they were out last weekend. calling in justice department and throwing police department overboard and blaming them for what is going on in baltimore. she failed to get her arms around the situation. this is failure ...

News leland vittert who has a confrontation with reverend al sharpton today leland? >> greta, good evening that report really sending shock waves through this city. it's very incendiary. yet, you have these police officers who are still trying to keep the calm. that's what we were really trying to do when we went out and ended up finding the mayor of the city of baltimore who was with al sharpton. trying to ask her some questions about her finest. the men in blue behind me who have kept these streets safe and certainly done yoman's work in the face of difficult circumstances. remember, it was ...

He's in retirement now. what happened that night that they were fighting for hours and got no backup? we have never done that before. the standdown order. i mean, as i understand it, president obama went to sleep, hillary clinton and leon panetta said we've got this one, but we have never left our men and women behind, and those men went in themselves to try and save them. why did we do it that night, and i think we still are owed that answer. >> jedediah, talk to me about the politics. was critics will -- because critics will say republicans are playing politics. but you saw that poll, people...

There's not a lot of new ground to tread here and the armed services committee helped shed light on that. a lot of these committee members and we heard the excerpt from darryl issa and just about all of the republicans on the select committee at one time or another have said military assets could have been brought to bear. we have to get to the bottom of this, the committee did get to the bottom of that. they found no merit to that, and i hope that they'll read these interviews now that they're widely available and recognize this is one area that's been thoroughly exhausted and let's not spend...

Weapons raising a lot of red flags as chuck hagel, the defense secretary, acknowledged yesterday, and here's what he had to say. >> where there are gaps, we will close them. where there are inadequacies, we will address them. and where there is failures, we will correct them. we owe the victims, their families and all our people nothing less. >> reporter: hagel has ordered the review of base security and clearance procedures at u.s. military bases around the world. bill? bill: there's something we're trying to hunt down on this, too, about these s.w.a.t. teams, the early response teams from th...