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line before he came here to the new york city area to potentially target officers on years eve. cory, as you can imagine, this place was bustling, it was packed. tens of thousands of people here at the times square area. there were certainly a lot of chaos shortly after this knife attack. officials are saying they were able to secure the area quickly. and then they carried out this press conference earlier this morning with an update. take a listen. >> one officer, any year veteran, suffered a laceration to the head. the second officer who graduated police academy on friday was also ...

The trump voters stick with trump. republicans simply don't have enough voters to be competitive against democrats. we need that reckoning as a country as a culture. >> let's turn to republican congressman elect george santos. it'll be sworn in this week after apologizing and admitting to embellishing his resume. including lies about his identity, work history, other things. federal prosecutors in new york now investigating him. nbc news has reached out to centers for comment. we have not heard back. democratic robert zimmerman's campaign suggested some inconsistencies. is there a question her...

To talk about anyone but to make sure that this process worked. >> o'mara also says that the smear campaign labeled george zimmerman a racist, labeled him a murder and he used that word. do you think that is true at all? do you believe at the time -- >> no, not at all. >> -- that you and ben crump were trying to introduce race as an element in this? >> well, let me say this, we don't know george zimmerman, and in fact, i heard ben say today when asked that same question, we could never call that man a racist. now, we believed that this case in its totality has a racial undertone to it. and so ...

Smear campaign, the publicity campaign labeled george zimmerman a racist, labeled him a murderer but labeled him a racist and he used that word. do you think that is true at all? do you believe at the time that -- that you and ben crump were trying to introduce race as an element in this? >> well, let me say this. we don't know george zimmerman, and, you know, in fact i heard ben say today, let me ask that same question. we could never call that man a racist. now we believe that this case in its totality has a racial undertone to it and so that's a huge difference, anderson. >> i want to play ...

Perfect student is irrelevant to whether zimmerman's conduct that night was justified. trayvon was a kid. he was another unarmed black boy whose life was lost because of unfounded stereo types suspicions and fears. >> during the trial, the idea of racial profiling was. wasn't talked about. do you think that -- that there is an under pinning of race throughout this that wasn't brought into the trial? >> no, what he was charged with, anderson is very important, criminal profiling, and i think we heard it time and time again from the beginning of this case where george zimmerman talked about al...