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They never saw coming. Yet, now the nypd are devoting their resources around the clock to prevent further attacks. Breaking overfight. Officers on heightened alert, following a few online threat. In brooklyn, police are searching for an alleged gang member who posted a threatening message towards officers on facebook with a photo of a Police Vehicle. And in memphis, police questioned a 26yearold man after he posted on instagram shoot the police, two more going down tomorrow. Investigators scour social media on the lookout for copycats of a 28yearold shot and killed two nypd officers. Rafael ramos execution style saturday afternoon. Politician looking into 15 online threats according to an online official. Family and loved ones in brooklyn. I hope and pray we can reflect on this tragic loss. Earlier sunday, new yorks commissioner and mayor attending new yorks st. Patricks cathedral. They today in line for the slain Police Officer. This a stark contrast on the nypd turning tear backs on mayor deblassio, angry about his support for eric garner who died after an apparent choke hold by nypd officers. The shooters onslaught began saturday morning. He posted this ominous warning on instagram. Im putting wings on picks today. Accused of shooting his exgirlfriend in baltimore traveled to new york before taking his own life. The scene horrific. When you walked up and saw that patrol car, what was going through your mind . He has a family and so we dont know if theyre going to make it. This job, they put their lives on the line for other people. His postings make references to Michael Brown and eric garner, according to police. Garners mother heart broken all over again. We want to not use eric garners name for violence. We are not about that. These two Police Officers lost their lives simply. Reporter officer ramos son posted this message on facebook. This is the worst day of my life. Everyone says they hate cops, but they are the people they call for help. He write, i will never forget you. Rest in peace, dad. Heres what we know about brimsly, he had an extensive history. At one point he told why. But it is worth looking at. People want to know if there is anything anyone could have looked for. Its not the first time we seen anybody mentally unstable, take the bait and do something horribly wrong. One thing we know for sure is the need for leader shp is great, starting locally. Lets bring in the president of black Law Enforcement executives and the deputy chief operating officer for De Kalb County and a member of president obamas new task force on the 21st century in policing. Gentleman, sorry to have you here for this. Good morning. You were there last night as the community was coming together. How do you explain to your constituents why this happened . Emotions are so raw. People are grieving. Theyre angry. My first reaction when i heard if news was rage. The mayor was elect ed to try t Reform Police community relation. That is not an easy thing. Change is never an easy thing. Particularly when it comes to Public Safety and acts of communities of color, there are bound to be friction. Those of us who are in positions of responsibility have an obligation to speak response blichl im trying to talk to my constituents and the people i connect with in a responsible measured way that respects the sacrifices oof these two officers and also, hopefully, will look forward to try to constructively clang the way things are. Commissioner bratton said the mayor didnt campaign against Police Officers, he campaigned. He says these politician whipped people up, demonized police him deblasio talked about his own son, he had to teach them how to be around police. They started a firestorm. Is that fair criticism . I think thats unfair criticism t. Mayor was elected to form policing policy in new york city. The famous ad with his son dante. Which many credit his winning the primary, winning the election, it was about Police Community relations. I think the mayor has been very measured in his dialogue. We need everyone involved in this situation to have that same measure of level. Dr. Alexander, this was one of the concerns, when the protests started the rhetoric was so hot, there would be retribution against Police Officers and wrongly so, now we see this, a big caveat, it was perpetrated by someone who was not in their right mind, obviously, feared by their own families, apparently untreated for whatever was given creating their madness. How do you see this act . First of all, let me offer my condolences to the family of the clain slain officers and to the city of new york who i know is mourning very deeply today. Let me say this, chris, i have said this from the onset, is that the relationships that must be establish and we must strengthen is the fact that community and police must Work Together. This one individual who lodged that attack against those officers the not speak for that entire community. Nor does he speak to this nation. At the end of the day the majority of people in this country support Police Officers. You are saying that, its being evidenced in this city. Across this great country, we will continue to build those reasons and those of us in leadership positions must demonstrate leadership. This is not a time for us to be divisive. It is a time to maintain a relationship and develop and create new relationships as we go forward. That will be the powerful piece that will move us through this. We have a former governor of new york who tweeted. Governor George Pataki said sickened by these barbaric acts, a divisive anticop rhetoric and he hashtags the attorney general and the mayor. What do you make of that . Is that leadership . I dont prescribe to that whatsoever. Here again what i think is so important who are in leadership positions the president and the attorney general both i think have demonstrated great leadership in a crisis at a time where you have the country calling out for some reform. They have stepped forward. They are doing everything they can to help effect some change. But we as an entire Community Must come together and be able to launch a partnership, chris, here, in this tragic time in this moment and ongoing threats towards police cannot be tolerated and the community has the stand and are standing with the Police Across this country to combat anyone who may attack those Public Officials because attacking Police Officers is attacking society at large and we are not going to stand for it. No one in this country is going to stand for it. Officers liu and ramos, obviously, living proof as officers of the diversity of the Police Department who all share as we heard from the First Responder a commitment to put their lives on the line every day for others. The idea of making purpose out of this pain, how do we do that . First of all, we need to honor the sacrifice they make. We will lay those officers to rest. Hopefully after that, all the people who have leadership responsibilities the mayor, the police union the leaders of the protests, are going to communicate and act responsibly to try to constructively change the way we do policing in new york city. Thats what the mayor was i elected to do and people need to accept that thats a reality. The borough president asked for protesters to stand down during this period to allow the officers to be laid to rest. Good move . I think thats appropriate. I think the focus of the city really needs to be on the grove that we have, on laying these officers to rest. Respecting the families, honoring tear sacrifice. But when that concludes, we do need to move forward on an agenda of policing. The police union the protesters, the mayor, the city council, we all have a role in that. It starts with not demonizeing any of the other actors in that equation. Thank you very much for trying to help us figure out this situation and move forward. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Alisynments another top story, north korea vowing to retaliate against the u. S. After president obama made it clear he holds the regime responsible for orchestrated attacks on sony, and will find way to respond and may restore north koreas designation of a sponsor of terrorism on a list of terrorism states. Pyongyang is promising to come after the u. S. With harsher attacks. Sony claims it did not but to hackers and is considering ways to release the film that started this whole mess. Michelle ka zin z ski is on the ground in honolulu where the president is vacationing. Good morning, michelle. Hi, alisyn. It seems yesterday north korea was making announcements to the world like it discovered a unicorn layer. Today this back and forth over hacking is starting to seem like a movie, only stranger than fiction. This morning, the white house said that the u. S. Response to the hacking will not be dictated by these outrageous statements north korea keeps making and may not even be visible or announced when it does happen. North korea now openly threatening u. S. Security, vowing nothing is a more serious miscalculation than guessing a single Movie Production Company is a target. Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the white house, the pentagon and the whole u. S. Mainland the cesspool of terrorism. Even while denying the hack, north korea promises escalation saying the hackers are sharpening bayonets to do acts thousands of times greater. Do you think it was an act or war . I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously. That characterization not as cyber war but vandalism launched the president s critics am home. This is a manifestation of a new form of warfare, when you destroy economies, when you are able impose censorship on the world and especially the United States of america, its more than vandalism. We need to react and react vic russly. Reporter what america can do and when is a question. Possibly sanctions against the already strapped regimes economy, like banks or military. The u. S. Has now reached out to china and asked for couldnt. What exactly that would look like, u. S. Officials declined to say. It has been stated at the highest levels is options against north korea are being weighed as we speak. They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionally and we will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Reporter so belle isle this is going on, today on an unprecedented move, they will take up the dismal human rights record. They call it one of the worst in the world, they will be looking at referrals to the International Criminal court for crimes against humanity. Alisyn. Michelle, so much still going on with this country. Thanks so much for our update. Lets go to christine romans. Hi. A lot going on to start your holiday week. Police in france have arrested a man suspected of mowing down pedestrians with his car while chanting in air beck. At least 12 people injured. The suspect was heard yelling in arabic god is great. A day earlier, police shot a man who shot and wounded three officers shout tag phrase. In northern australia, a judge rejected a plea for a woman charged with killing eight children. She will have her hearing at a Mental Health court. She is accused of these murders. Seven of the victims were her chempblt one her niece. The bodies were found in her home last week. She was found with stab wounds to her chest. She is recovering in the hospital. A canadian man is in custody after u. S. Border Officials Say he approached officers waving what appeared to be a gun. The incident occurred sunday on the ambassador bridge. It turns out it was a replica, the man was shot in the arm, he reportedly had encounters with Canadian Police just moments earlier. Pope frances this morning with harsh word for leaders of the vatican bureaucracy. He offered a critique saying many view themselves as superior him they have forgotten the guidance of god and being indifferent to others rather than showing opt minimum and cheerfulness from the top manage tore his managers, clearly saying the culture is really remarkable. Absolutely. Incredible message, messages coming from these folks. He has been involved in every major story. Just last week, cuba, a really important report, sort of lifting up american nuns, which is a surprise after many thought after an investigation into their behavior. This pope has been someone making a lot of news outside the state of the union and he uses the state of union to speak to his managers. They are caught up on rules. He is sending a message about what is right and shiao yu do it . A little good news. It would be nice to have snow on christmas at any time . What we saw before thanksgiving, maybe we will see something nice again. Jennifer grey, im hearing on the east coast, it will be wet and nasty. I guess we want somebody to have a White Christmas . Somebody will have a White Christmas. Its going to be a light dusting. It is going to be a nasty mess all across the east throughout the week. Already seeing rain in the southeast actually watching two systems. It climbs up the coast. It could actually cause Severe Weather tomorrow and portions of the southment south louisiana all the way through the panhandle. It climbs up the coast, wednesday no thursday, rain, all across the midatlantic, the northeast. We could see snow across portions of the galaxy, that wrap around moisture could create an inch or two of snow. A White Christmas for folks around the great lakes. Sixtoeight inches of rain, though, once you head to the northeast. We will see an inch or two of rain. We could possibly see an inch or two of snow across portions of thegration. The other problem with the storm, guys, the wind, that will create travel nightmare for folks trying to travel because of the rain the wind. 34mileperhour wind on the south. That moves up to the northeast. 30mileperhour winds throughout pittsburgh and new york. Guys. Everybody should be on the lookout for those. Thank you very much. The North Koreans denying they had anything to do with the hack on sony pictures. Threatening something worse is coming. How seriously should they take the rocky nation . And the Police Situation in new york city. Right now, they are on high alert. Pointing fingers at their mayor for not having their backs. That fer, we will take a closer look at the tragedy and water going on right now. North korea ramping up its rhetoric against the kungs this morning despite involvement, pyongyang now warns there will be more of the same and even worse. The u. S. Even asking chosen for help, how should the u. S. Respond and what might kim jongun do next . Lets bring in cnn Political Columnist for the New York Times and cnns political commentator, contributing editor, gentleman, great to see you. Ross, you wrote a piece for the fork times this weekend. I want to read one sentence from it. Its interesting. You say in practice, kim jongun has our cultures number, letting angry people impose little censorship is the way we live right now. You make it sound like this is an every day occurrence . My point is just what happened with sony andinterview and this movie is not all that different from what weve seen play out repeatedly in the u. S. And europe with conversations around islamic fundamental ammism, whether its canceling performances or various things that have happened where basically people threaten violence and cultural institutions basically retreat. Then this happens on a sort of lower scale on College Campuses with Commencement Speakers getting disinvited and so on. The problem here is that we are talking about what the u. S. Should do in response, but really the moment for a ve responsibility was a week ago when not only sony but obviously the Movie Theater chains that had the opportunity to show a movie had a chance to say were not going to give into hacker pressure. So you think they should, despite the threats, you think the theaters should have run the movie . Yes, absolutely. You are establishing absolutely terrible cultural precedence if you dont release the movie. Look, if you have a credible specific threat against specific Movie Theater and Law Enforcement is involved and says, dont show the movie, dont show the movie. At this point we dont even know still that this is really north korea. I mean, we think it probably is but the North Koreans can bluster and pretend its them. We dont know if they are capable of pulling off terrorist attacks on our soil. So retreating as sony and others did, what was a mistake. Okay. Peter, how do you see this . Is this Political Correctness gone amuck . Or are we in cyber warfare . I think it has a lot to do with the bottom line. The big fear of the movie chain was that if people were afraid to come to the movies, it would affect the box office. The other movies, i think the what this has to do with fundamentally, a concern that in the biggest movie year, week of the year, that box offices would be down across the country. Peter, what should the u. S. Do now . This is one of the most bar barack regimes in modern history. Its defenses towards its own people boggles the mind. What the United States needs is a strategy for regime change. A political strategy. The only way to do that is to convince the chinese it is in their interest to fall. The only way is to convince the chinese there will not be u. S. Troops in a unified korea on cones border. If the United States could reassure the chinese that a unified korea, with this government falling would not lead to troops on u. S. Border, which brought it to war during korea, we might be able to have a political strategy for regime change. You think chain cannot . Chosen has much, much more leverage. Ultimately, they have hundreds of times more leverage over this government tan we do. Ross, let me read to you what north korea are saying, these are the threats they are now making against the u. S. , our counteraction will be boldly taken against the white house the pentagon and the whole u. S. Main land, a cesspool of terrorism. By far the counteraction declared by obaum. The army and people are fully ready to stand in confrontation with the u. S. In all war states, including cyber warfare states to blow up the citadels. It couldnt be more hyper pollick. Slightly. Not even slightly, deliberately unhussein i hinged north korea that you know we have grown accustomed to since the end of the cold war and before. I think peter is absolutely right this regimes survival depends much bigger on the attitudes than it does on us. The point i would stress is it isnt just chinas anxieties about u. S. Troops in north korea. China has a lot of the same anxieties we do, period. This is an unstable regime that has every inzen centive because they often depend on outside aid for survival to bully and black mail. It would regime. There is a lot of delicate stuff going on here. It isnt the u. S. Posture that makes beijing say, well, we are almost better off keeping these guys muddling along in their bar baric evil. Tanks so much. Great to see you. We will talk about the situation going on in new york city and around the country. First it was protesters blaming the police. Now we have the people who protect us. There are new threats to tell you about and a hard look at who is to blame for the murder of two of new yorks finest. Lets take a look at your headlines, the new york city Police Department on high alert following the cold blooded shooting death of two of its officers. The police union slamming new york mayor bill di blassio. They believe he has blood on his hand for knocking protesters in the eic garner decision. He told two bystanders, quote, watch what im going to do before opening fire and killing those Police Officers. To northern iraq, forces killed by airstrikes made big advances, they claim to have ripped the town of sinjar from militants. Thousands of displaced iraqis have been trapped since august when isis took over. The peshmurga are expected to take over so convoys can get to people on the mountainside ranch. Chris christie calling on cuba demanding they turn over a cop killer. They fled five years of escaping prison. She was convicted in the 1970s of murdering a new jersey state trooper in a letter to obama, christie insists on her return. The potential contender joined the course of republican voice criticizeing obamas move. Heres a reason to hope the long lost lug annual of yours may turn up eventually. A woman recently had her luggage returned to her 20 years after it went missing. Even better, all her art supplies were still in there. Some of them actually valuable. The back somehow turned up recently at tucson, international airport. Officials used a hand written note with the womans old address to track her down. She didnt have to pay anybody to put that bag on the plane, thats when it was free. Where lags it been in 20 years . Its a big news, Florida State university is clear jamieis winston of rape allegations at a student code of conduct. Let bring in brian mcfadden, it will be controversial. It was new to hear. Jamieis winston has been cleared of any wrongdoing from the alleged 2012 sexual assault, justice major harding ruled the amnesty was insufficient to satisfy burden of proof. They said they are stunned and dismade and will consider an appeal. Right now they feel duped. Jamieis winston was never arrested. He will play in the rose bowl on january 1st against ranked no. 2 seattle ducks. Yesterday the cowboys beat the colts, then they went into ar ards to let everyone know they are the team to boat. Marshawn lynch was angry and unstoppable. Thick this out. 79 yard touchdown run. They will wrap up a win next week against the st. Louis rams. The sports world pays tribute to the two Police Officers killed, rafael ramos and wenjin liu. He wore a peace seen as a tribute. Meanwhile, there were emotional scenes before the nets home games. Also the yankees Silver Shield foundation will pay for the College Education of rafael ramos children. Thanks so much. Well, new york citys mayor under fire, a Police Leader says mayor di blassio has blood on his hands, this as a divide between the police and city widen. A. Our city is in mourning. Our hearts are highway. We lost two good men who devoted their lives to protecting all of us. Officer ramos, officer liu died in the line of duty protecting the city they love. Thats new york city mayor bill di blowsia shortly after two officers were arrested by a deranged man avenging the des of Michael Brown and eric germany, a sensitive act. You Jean Odonnell is with us. He served 14 years as a new York City Police officer, angela davis, cultural critic and writer. Eugene, the blame for why this happened. Okay. There is a lott being offered on this. Should it begin and end with this guy who came up, shot his girlfriend and shot these two officers . Should the blame begin and end right there . Two conversations. We have a Mental Health crisis and the guns that are available. Thats one issue for sure. The second issue, im not sure this is the tremendous amount to spend time on it. The atmosphere send sent to police is intolerable. Elected fish versus to step up and stoppableing like bystanders. They are partners in government. Im not sure this is the weak to have that conversation. Its an ecertainly conversation. We heard much about negative stuff about police. Untruths. Distortions. Its in cities. There were those in brooklyn and online who were celebrating. They were young, misguided, there is a hatred out there. What do we do with it . Where do you see it sourcing . I live in the community. I live in this tight community. There is a lot of pain and fear, chris. I think those are isolated meaning people celebrating. The neighborhood is in mourning for the officers and tear family itself. Another citizen was shot somewhere else who is recoveringch and there is more fear. There is compassion these are conversations everywhere, at church, kitchen tables, online. There is a lot of compassion. There is also fear communities are afraid there may be more policing and disappointment. There is so much disappointment in the response from the police union from the president. We are looking for our community to come together. We see its broken. We are working toke, not placing blame. So there is a lot. The community is at even more unrest and fear, not so much directed toward police. But what are our leaders doing . Why are they fighting a at time when it really is a time get closer together to work more into the strategy, not blame. I dont think you can see this killer as an agent at any cost t. Mental health issue is real. We do it every time there is a senseless act of violence. Not today there is a feeling the tone was pushed too much in the protest. That it was aim too much at police, not Police Practices eempblt longitude there is blame to go will . We should say its essential. It should not go off the radar screen, people should have known better, they went after those folks and criticized those folks. Do you blame the mayor . There are a lot of issues. Again, this is a week for the city to come together to grieve. Within it comes to the way the police have been treated and especially in this city. This is a world class Police Department. This is a diverse Police Department. Its a restrained Police Department. All summer we have people say things that are not true. It turns out there is a cost and people continue to say things like the nypd kills people all the time. Something unequivocally proving what is untrue. The leaders werent saying that. The elected officials the duty in the garner case explain how the grand jury works explain how hard it is to reign it in. Stop acting like bystanders if you are an elected official in. They say when you look at new york specifically, because there has been a big focus after garner. The number of complaints are down. Use of force is down. Every indicator shows progress, why isnt that reflected in the film . I think what we need to be clear about. This is not a politicians movement. This is not the Police Department or the mayors movement. This is a peoples movement. You see it all over the country and replicated all over the world. What theyre looking no senior a reform. In every Police Department, every government, every civilization goes through reform. This is what people will asking for. This is not led by politicians. They are responding to what people want. Right . So i think. Once people rise, they dont go away. This is an unfortunate crime and everyone sees this as an isolated crime. But the issues are still on the table. People want to see communities and Police Department itself Work Together. They feel they are seeing thousands of people talk about police brutality. We have seen thousands of people how do you talk about it . Who you blame matters also. I think we have to be careful talking about blame and asking what are the solutions . Thats why i think weve responded with so much disappointment. Our leaders are coming out with blame when the people want change and thats a ard thing. You have been real. You have been out there. Again, eugene is right. We have to take the moment for what it is. This is bad, we need to be better. There is no question. Its perfect. Part of that is honesty with what has been done on the leadership side and the protest side and what needs to change there as well going forward. I also dont think an elite has a right to take over this conversation. Talk to people in the precincts. Listen to what they want we request agree, i dont want to be pretentious here. When you talk to folks in brooklyn, ask them what they want. They want police engagement. They want the police out there. They dont want the police to stand down. They want the police to be protected. N we have to say, those of us who will do their work, we have to speak clearly and emphatically and not allow people to pollute this conversation. I live on the border of this stock. We want community engagement. The response to Police Problems is not always more policing. Its more community, working with the police. We need more community agents, Community Leaders to work with the police. Look. It was a sad pla is to see it. It was certainly there last night t. Whole community was out there. They were all one. Sometimes there is a purpose in pain. Eugene odonnell. Glad to have you. Al sen. Okay. Chris. After the brutal sleigh of those two new york Police Officers, many pointing fings fingers at the mayor. Has the mayor sided with protesters instead of police . And is that contributing to more demonstrations across the country . Well debate all of that. The Holiday Season is here, which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Anger over the slaying of two new york Police Officers on saturday. Now accusations against the officials, including the mayor of new york city. Many say he does not have their back. So they turned tear backs, literally, on him saturday night joining us is a cnn political commentator and john avlon editorinchief at the daily beast. Gentleman, thank you so much for being here. Good morning. It seems as though all of this tension between the mayor and police started within the mayor talked about how he and his wife had to advise their biracial son about his encounters with the police. He said, dont reach for your cell phone, always be very careful. Do whatever they say, it doesnt always go so well. Should he not have said that or talked about that . Its certainly true. It aggravated a nerve already pressed on. The way the mayor won when he ran for office last year was the way he beat crowded democratic primary field putting his son front and center, biracial kid with a big afro, talking about stop and frisk Police Practices need to be changed. The police were a little uncertain and maybe a little miffed. Then succeeded and he won. So to bring it up again i think aggravated a problem really about a year old. John, is he not allowed to talk about his own familys experience when running for office . No, absolutely. The problem as earl said is deeper than his son dante and those probabilities the problem is they dont feel the mayor has their back thats an essential quality when you are mayor of cops and a low crime rate. This administration seems closer to the activists than the Police Department. That drives a deeper wedge when the protests occasionally gets off the hook. Can you do both things and when that tone, however, gets lost, there is a big payback and politically as well as practically. In fact, what the head of the Police Union Says the mayor should have done is taught children to respect and revere police, that should have been his message. Not be wary of the police. They might hurt you. Not i have a security detail. The mayor didnt take that job. Thats certainly true. To be fair, they dont i think have the interests of the entire city in the same way the mayor must and does. When you see the head of the police union saying what he should have said and protesters should have said, thats overreachin overreaching. They are known informally as a nation state. Theyve got their own helicopters, foreign policy. They got people stationed overseas. Theyre a very important, very power. Very Large Organization full of tens of thousands of voters. So they matter a great deal. This mayor i think has really got to try to reset that relationship, if thats possible. He sure does, john. When they said the mayor you sent this out he spelled it out on saturday fight t. Blood of two executed Police Officers is on the hands of mayor deblasio. John. Thats unacceptable and inaccurate. The only thing is two cops tore killer who is deranged and doing this he said on instagram to revenge the deaths of eric germany, it has to do with that individual sickness and illness, that said, the mayor said he has been too hand off of these issues. When the pro testifiers have gotten out of hand, have assaulted police. He hasnt gone down to that press conference at one police plaza. So that is actually the real sin. That has been the route of a lot of these problems, cops dont feel the mayor versus their backs at a time of low crime. In fact, his language is not helping as well, two Police Officer assaulted two Police Officers. Its a serious misstep him we are watching them get beaten up. That in itself is a risky move. Its a decentralized disorganized or unorganized kind of broad movement. What to does he need to do . He needs to reset himself between the activists and comes and protesters and advocates and city hall needs to distance themselves aggressively when they start you out like that, one of the things that adds to the instability of the situation. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you on new day. Later this morning, we will be joined for more on this story by former new york city mayor Rudy Guiliani and commissioner ray kelly. They have a lot of thoughts on this topic, as you can imagine. We have following a lot of news stories this morning. Lets get right to it. Two officers assassinated. New York City Police on high alert face agnew threat. It is an attack on all of us. We got to take back our communities. This cant happen. Where is your humanity . Blood on the hands starts in the office of the mayor. We have not caved. We have not given in. We have persevered. We have not backed down. We cannot have a society in which some dictator can imposienceorship in the United States. They must be incredibly happy inside pyongyang. This 1 movement has the power. Theyre not afraid to die. Well keel 250 million, 5 million. We dont care about the number. Good morning, everyone, well come back to new day. We start with breaking news this morning t. Nypd is taking no chances after two Police Officers were shot and killed over the weekend. Police at this hour are on the hunt for a gang member who posted a threat on facebook. We have learned the man in question lived in brock len at the sameboro where the officers were gunned down saturday. This is escalating a budding crisis between police and the people of americas biggest city. The Police Officers union literally turning their backs on the citys mayor acruising bill deblasio of having blood on his hands for backing protesters over police in the wake of the eric garner grand jury decision. We are also learning more this morning about the man who executed those two officers as they sat defenseless in their patrol car. He had a long history of violence, mental instability. His own family was reportedly afraid of him. On saturday, he told two bystanders watch u watch what i will do before he opened fire. Alexander, what do we know this morning . Good morning, chris the gunman had ranted about the government. He railed against Police Online yet made explicit threats against officers on social media, moments before he executed two of new yorks finest on this street. Thety is in mourning. The officers are on alert. We a team has been dedicated to working around the clock. They are trying to determine if any of those threats could be credible. Breaking overnight. Officers on heightened alert following a new online threat. In brock lynn, police are searching for an alleged gang member who posted a letening message towards officers on facebook with the photo of a Police Vehicle and if memphis, police questioned a 26yearold man after he posted on instagram shoot the police, two more going down tomorrow. Investigators scour social media on the lookout for copycats after a 28 shot and killed two nypd officers. Rafael ramos and wenjin suspicion liu execution style. Police are looking into 15 online threats according to a Law Enforcement official. We shall overcome reporter family and loved ones mourning the officers at an evening vigil in brooke len. I hope and pray we can reflect on this tragic loss of life that has occurred. Reporter earlier sunday, new yorks commissioner and mayor attending new yorks historic saint pat treks cathedral, where the congregation stood in applause for the slain policemen. This, a stark contrast from the nypd turning tear backs on mayor bill deblowsia in a News Conference saturday, angered about his support for eric garner the Staten Island man who died after an apparent choke hold by nypd officers. The shooters onslaught began saturday morning, he posted this on instagram. Out im putting wings on picks today, accused of shooting his exgirlfriend in baltimore t. 28yearold traveled to new york, murdering him with this spy automatic gun before taking his own life. The scene, horrific. When you walked up and saw that patrol car, what was going through your mind . He has a family. And we dont know if theyre going to go, we dont know if theyre going to make it. This job, you put their job on the lean. Britainsly posting they take one of ours, lets take two of theirs, his postings make reference to Michael Brown and eric garner, garners mother heart broken all over again. We want to not relate their names to violence. These two Police Officer lost their life senselessly. Reporter officer ramos son posted this message on facebook. This is the worst day of my life. Everyone says they hate cops. But they are the people they call for help. He writes, i will never forget you. Rest if peace, dad. Joining us now to talk about all this is Brooklyn Borough president eric adams, a former captain of the new york Police Department and former new york state senator. Thank you so much for being on with us this morning. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Are you the perfect person for us to talk to because you are in the political arena and you come from the police arena. So you have both perspectives and we do, i do want to get your take on what happened saturday night where the Police Officers literally turned their back on the mayor as he went to the hospital where the bosses of the two Police Officers were. That is a stackering message from the Police Officers. Do you understand why they did that . Yes, i do. And i believe its a moment of pain, a moment of anger, now the question becomes how do we dont pain into purpose . Police unions and Police Officers, representatives of Public Safety t. Mayor is a representative of the city of new york. We cant turn our backs on each other. We must come together and resolve these issues around policing. The mayor has clearly attempted to do that and has continued to do that. Has the mayor sided too much with the protesters in the wake of the eric garner grand jury decisions and not been sympathetic enough to the police . No, not at all. I broev the mayor has made it clear, im going to give my Police Officers the resources they need to carry out their job. Im going to give them body cameras that clearly show an overwhelming number of times Police Officer act accordingly. Im going to give them what they need to do their job. He ran with the understanding that under the Previous Administration there was an over proliferation of abuse of young people in the city of new york and many young people look like his son and my son and he understood that. Yet, many people, many of the Police Officers feel he has not cracked down on the protesters enough in wanting to give them a voice, he has let them get too close to the Police Officers. Police officers have been assaulted. He hasnt arrested enough of the protesters who may have done something threatening. Is that fair . No, its not fair. I dont think its overwhelming number of Police Officers. We have over 30,000 Police Officers in the city of new york. Have you some who believe the mayor has been too lenient. Have you many that believe the mayor has sheen great level of restraint. This Police Department is one of the greatest Police Departments on the globe. They understand restraint. We understand the right of protesters having the right. That is how we do things in the city of new york t. Protesters have been constructive, not destructive. This is not what has happened in other parts of the country. This has been peaceful demonstrations. This is what we represent. Yes, yet, as you know, there have been Police Officers who were assaulted during these protests. We have it on video. In fact, there were arrested made. There were a crowd of people taking punches at these two Police Officers and afterwards, the mayor said the officers were allegedly assaulted. That didnt sit well with Police Officers. No, he made that comment in appropriate fashion. When you conduct criminal investigations the mayor was clearly trying to get information out to the public as soon as possible. The term allege was dealing with gathering the facts. It would be inappropriate for a mayor of the city of new york without getting all the facts, those individuals who assaulted. Those lots assaulted, the people arrested and the marches participated in the investigation to apprehend the people who were involved, you dont have a long list of assaults of Police Officers dealing with these protestles. They have been arrested within appropriate. We have shown a great level of restraint. This is how it should be done in a professional Police Department. So, mr. Adams, what is the answer for the mayor to regain or just to begin to gain the polices trust now . You have been a Police Officer. What do your fellow former officers want to hear from the mayor . You are right. I have been a Police Officer, a retired captain, 22 years, in understanding the men and women who are Police Officers. I know their ups and downs were there were many complaints under the guiliani administration of not having the backing. There were complaints under the Bloomberg Administration of not having the backing. This is a part of the police culture. Oftentimes, there are conflicts between the mayors and the Police Commissioners and Police Officers. However, we are dealing with professionals. No matter what happens, when that radio comes on, if there is a job to respond to a plirnlgs, these officer are going to do that. This is a professional department and the huh pan element of two officers were slain. All of us are mourning. The entire estimate but we have a professional Police Department and the issues between the mayor and the police union head, thats political. It will resolve itself and we will continue to have one of the safest cities in the opportunity. We sure hope thats true. Brooklyn borough president , mr. Adams, thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you. North korea insisting it did not hack sony. All the while warning the second round of attacks will be even worse. President obama is weighing the response from vacation in hawaii. Thats where we find cnns michelle co dozen ski. Not a threaten of denial when you threaten future action. It seems like it wasnt so long ago, north korea was announcing it has found a unicorn layer. Remember that one . Remember this angry back and forth over hacking is starting to, itself, seem like some kind of a movie, only stranger than fiction. This morning, the white house says the u. S. Response to the hacking isnt going to be driven by these outrageous statements north korea keeps making. In fact, it may not be visible or announced when it does happen. North korea now openly threatening u. S. Security, vowing nothing is a more serious calculation than guessing a single Movie Production Company is the target. Our toughest counteraction will be boldly taken against the white house the pentagon and the whole u. S. Mainland, the cesspool of terrorism. Even while denying responsibility for the sony hacking, north korea now promises escalation, saying the hackers are quote sharpening bayonets to do damage thousands of times greater. Do you think this was an act of war by north korea . I dont think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it seriously. Reporter not a cyber war or terror but vandalism that launched the president s critics here at home. There is a manifestation of a new form of warfare. When you destroy economies. When you are able to impose censorship on the world and especially the United States of america, its more than vandalism and we need to react and react vigorously. Reporter what america can do and when is a question. Possibly sanctions against the already strapped regimes economy, banks or military. The u. S. Has now reached out to china and asked for cooperation, but what exactly that would look like, u. S. Officials decline to say. What has been stated in no Uncertain Terms at the highest levels is that options against north korea are being weighed as we speak. They cause a lot of damage and we will response. We will respond proportionally. We will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Reporter so while this is going on, today in an unprecedented move, the u. N. City council will take on north koreas dismal human rights records, looking at the referral to the criminal court for crimes against humanity. Chris. Michelle, thank you very much with the reporting. Appreciate it. Lets go to christine romans. A lot going on, a veteran florida cop is dead after a fugitive allegedly shot and ran him over the officer was called to an Apartment Building when a man was banging on doors. The 23yearold who now faces first degree murder charges is said to have admitted he killed the officer because he didnt want to go back to jail. A machine who mowed down pedestrians with his car in france is in Police Custody this morning. At least 12 people were injured sunday. The suspect was heard yelling arabic for god is great. A day earlier police shot and killed a man who stabbed and wounded three officers while also shouting the same praise. Here, millions of people prepare for a holiday headache. 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Is that a political hedge to being off oagency po se doesnt have to be treated as seriously as it is . No, i think quite honestly, it puts it in a framework, where, you know, its not in every war on terrorism. People use that term freely all the time when we talk about these sort of attacks, whether its a home depo or target or this event as large as it is, so similar to cyber vandalism and cyber tage. If a cyber terrorism stole a bunch of stuff and left, wouldnt we be saying its a terrorist attack. Then we say, oh, its vandalism . I wouldnt say vandalism. In this case its a criminal, a theft and everything else, when you look at the cyber crime laws. Thats one of the reasons the fbi has a great lead on this, when you break it down step by step by step, this is a crime. Everything thats taken place is a crime. It may elevate to particularly the threats about moviegoers and theaters might rise to the levels about terrorism. Its still a crime out there. Thats one of the things we have to be very, very careful of. Because in this case, particularly the way the world is poised on this cyber malwear environment, we have to be very careful because world, words do matter in this case. All right. Let talk about hour proportionate response or should you go big and heavy so it doesnt happen again . I think the practice ditional path is if somebody does something to you in a Law Enforcement level, you take it to the end. I think there is a lot of conversation in the government, what does it mean to countries tremendously dependent on the internet, technology, upon their economy. Tied to those things relative to a country that must be compartmentalized now. They dont have a lot of access or resources, but there has got to be something more than to do something. I think as was mentioned that china may be a key to this. They have a better control over north korea than anybody else does. Lets say you go the chosen route, what do you think they might be able to do to north korea, best Case Scenario . We have been looking for a long time we indicted the five pla members for hacking against the United States, people are chilled. Everybody is lets see what common ground. Its been in nobodys best interest on Cyber Attacks going on around the world. I would think they would be opened to that what they could do is not give them the resources to conduct cyber activities. Whether its directly in north korea or some other asian country. That would be one thing is to turn that off so they cant create. Other countries have been hacked earlier, they didnt seem to know, the ceo says thats not true. The fbi and the experts we brought in basically said the malwear was so xift sophisticated 90 of americans businesses would have fallen prey. Do you buy that . Or do you think sony wasnt ready to do the things they needed to do to protect itself . Twlr two sides to this. One is the malwear. There are many place you get unique software. Malwear is shared by the criminal elements every day ten times a day to modify it to make them successful. Be you the part that worries me is the delivery mechanism is traditionally an old school. They send a spearfishing email with an attachment saying here is your 2015 pay raise or something more relevant that you are liable to click on. Thats where the 90 is likely to come in. Whether its real sophisticated or not the delivery mechanism gets it inside the corporation. Do you think 340rth korea is behind this . We were unsure the first time. Yeah, im still not sure. I think the investigators, the fbi folks, which are so talented at this will take this step by step by step until they find out who did it. Who supported it. You know, when you look at the facts where it started out stealing of emails and threatening and extortion, stuff like that then all of a sudden the belief into the movie. Thats questionable. That causes my Law Enforcement background to say, im not sure i want to see this to the end and see what real people can come up with it. They sure know a lot. Thank you very much, happy holidays. Same to you. A huh pan rights groupps to make sure North Koreans get a chance to see the threatened movie the interview. We will tell you their plan to get the movie into peoples hands. Dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future. You. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Tyou have two options. Afyou can stay inside. , or get behind the wheel of the Jeep Grand Cherokee with an available bestinclass 4x4 traction Management System to maximize control, giving you confidence in all weather conditions. 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He has been battling parkinsons disease. They say they caught it early. Thanks so much. North korea openly threatening the u. S. Saying the sony attack was just the beginning. The u. S. Now considering adding it back as human rights activists vow the interview finds an audience in north kore korea. Reporter alisyn, it is a frustrating fact, one defector says, dont get mad, get even. Take him out. You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Yes. What . North americans wont see it in theaters, but they pledge North Koreans will. Dvd . Reporter this plastic bag is packed with western news clips about north koreas brutal atrocitys to attack south korea and music videos of how the west views the regime. For years, park, a north Korean Defector has launched the bag across the border they drop into north korea with the hope of reaching North Koreans, if it does, it challenges the regime. This is all koreans see their entire life. One television station exists in north korea. The r the interview shatters the reveered image says park, a silly comedy to the west. A powerful tool for this defector. He waits and hopes sony releases a movie on dvd. Its deeply personal. 20 years ago, he read a leaflet and he realized he needed to flee north korea. This is how you see the regime crumbling. This will change how North Koreans think, says park, when you know the tru, it will bring change. We want them to topple the regime. The u. S. Has few options in dealing with north korea. Parks believes he can get even, but the very movie the ve jet stream tried so hard to block right in their own back yard. Park is working with a new york based human rights foundation. He is hoping they are going to be successful in talks with sony to get copies of the dvds, whenever that releases, if it releases, he is hoping to get 100,000 doips drop over the border. Im sure it will be well doumt documented. What a clever plan. We will be following that. You no ethat much. We do want to talk to you this morning about the situation in new york. Specifically the deranged man who gunned down two Police Officers here eric garner and Michael Brown were his motivation s. That why he shot his girlfriend the day before . We have the familys outraged response. A cnn exclusive for you, a journalist politician sent an extraordinary spent ten days in isis controlled territory. His gripping look behind enemy lines. Holiday excitement. At the volkswagen signthendrive event. Right now, for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a new volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the precisely engineered passat tdi. Ah, the gift of clean diesel. For the new volkswagen on your list this year, just about all you need, is a pen. Festive, isnt it . Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Thats why i always choose the fastest intern. R slow. The fastest printer. The fastest lunch. Turkey club. The fastest pencil sharpener. The fastest elevator. The fastest speed dial. The Fastest Office plant. So why wouldnt i choose the fastest wifi . I would. Switch to comcast business and get the fastest wifi with the most coverage. Comcast business. Built for business. The person that gunned down two new york Police Officers was a deranged gunman. He says he was avengeing the des of Michael Brown and eric garner. Here is Michael Browns mother condemning all violence in her sons name. Standing with us, we want to not use eric garners name for violence. We are not about that. These two Police Officers lost their life senselessly. Joining us now is benjamin crum, the attorney for Michael Browns family. The family put out a statement we will put up on the screen for people to read obviously saying the violence is rejected. We reject violence against Law Enforcement. We have the incident with the stepfather of Michael Brown. There is protests, change and violence orie oughting. What does the family make of this situation . Its tragic, chris. They rejected it yesterday. They will reject all forms of violence in the future. They really want to express their heart felt sympathy. Its tragic. All our hearts break for the families of these Police Officer, protesters, all the protesters that were heart broken for the deaths of ferguson and Staten Island, heart broken over the deaths of these Police Officers, these are a terrible, terrible thing. Its easy to dismiss the man who did this. He had a record. His mother said he had things ignored and yes the tone we have seen that has become pervasive, do you think its time to check that tone for reverend sharpton and leaders to clarify what they mean by what they want to see and not direct hostility towards police but focus on policy. I dont know civil rights leaders that talked about doing something here. Everybody has tried to promote change and attribute the senseless acts of violence its analogous to trying to contribute the attacks of Lee Harvey Oswald to Martin Luther king in the civil rights nonviolent protests. There is just ridiculous. We need to use this as an opportunity to elevate the conversation as a society to faye proper legacy to these Police Officers to say their legacy is we will do better as a society to prevent anybody from asking Something Like this happening again. There is a different perception out there as well. Listen to the head of the union and what he says is going on. There is blood on many hand tonight. Those that inkroited high vince on this street under the goiz of the protests that try to tear down what u. S. Police officers did every day, thats on the hand starts on the step of the mayor. Do you think the rhetoric went too far . I do. I think it was mayor guiliani, so we have to use these water shed moments in our modern day history, the leaders have to lead to bring people together. We have to say that we respect all life, the tragedy in ferguson and Staten Island. We dont want to see those repeated out we want to see the policies and procedures. The tragedy that happened in brooklyn over the weekend we understand they have a difficult job. We want sids to understand that its tough and we want to make sure that no acts of violence against the police, we want them to use their training and supervision to make sure there is no violence against sids its a twoway street. We use these tragedies to say we are going to do better. Do you go the protesters should calm down for the period of the funerals and there to be healing in the city right now . I think the protesters have been very successful when i heard about Michael Brown laying on the ground and i watched a video of eric garner. This is hurtful to anybody that says they love america and the protesters i am sure will be as respectful and mourning the loss of these officers as they were respecting and mourning the loss of these citizens you know its sickening when you have these violent acts happening over an over again and dr. King says hate can drive hate and the law cannot conquer this hate in this senseless killing we have to have a society saying we are going to respect each other, the Community Respect the Police Officers and the Police Officers respecting the community. I know there are so many people who marched in protest so were not isolated from one another. Theyre not incombatible saying we want to protect our life. It has been said about the need of what has to change and who is at fault was very much together last night. Its sad it took a tragedy. At least they were together. Thank you for offering your perspective on the show as always. Thank you for having me. Al sen. An exclusive look, a never before seen glimpse of what life is like under isis, speaking directly to isis fighters and living to tell us about it. Thats next. When you run a business, you cant settle for slow. Thats why i always choose the fastest intern. The fastest printer. The fastest lunch. Turkey club. The fastest pencil sharpener. The fastest elevator. The fastest speed dial. The Fastest Office plant. So why wouldnt i choose the fastest wifi . I would. Switch to comcast business and get the fastest wifi with the most coverage. Comcast business. Built for business. What is it like to be inside the isis Terror Network . The operation largely hidden from direct exposure until now, one documenting it with unprecedented clarity and living to tell about it. Cnn has our exclusive look. Reporter its an extremely rare glimpse into the inner working of the most Dangerous Network in the world. They managed to visit isis territory both in iraq and in syria. They are only 1 movement in the islamic world. This 1 movement has the power of a nuclear tsunami. Its incredible. I was so amazed. I couldnt understand this entity. They spent several days in mosul. Iraqs second biggest estimate they gave a speech earlier this year. He met with child soldiers. How old are you . Five. Im 13. He managed to get them in the hands. What would happen to you . Our captors said we have Islamic State fighters in prison with our government. We are prisoners here. They didnt say they would kill or slaughter. Reporter putin says People Living in isis control areas are in fear of the harsh penalties for infringement of the laws. There is a sense of order and stability. Fighters say they often managed to coast much larger armies because theyre not afrom id to die. It took you how many days to conquer . Four days. We didnt kim 24, but we killed a score of them so they got terrified and ran. We only fight and god almighty was victorious those who vice president. During battle he learned many of the isis fighters wear suicide vests willing to blow themselves up rather than be captured. In one interview, a senior isis fighter warns the u. S. And europe. Well conquer europe some day. Its not a question. We will. Well kill 150 other million, 200 million, 500 million. We dont care about the number. They say theyre serious about their threats. This shows a brutal group that wont go away any time soon. Cnn munich, germany. Riveting to see that up close and personal. People will say why do i want to let them speak . I dont want to hear what they have to say. You want to understand whats going on. So much of what happens seems senseless when we hear about it. That was a brave thing to do for that german author. I dont know what arrangement was made to get in there. Im sure he might have thought at times he wasnt coming out. It was interesting to see an isis fighter with his identity exposed. Youll get to see what they believe and judge what is motivating their actions. We have a situation back here at home theres no escaping. We have trouble in the United States now with the culture of policing and attention. What do we do about it . We have two men coming up on the show who know more about policing and certainly nypd than about anybody. What do they think is the way forward . Youre going to want to hear from the citys former Police Commissioner ray kelly and Rudy Giuliani as well. An important conversation coming up. the music builds to a climax. more people are coming to audi than ever before. See why now is the best time. Audi will cover your first months payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. Visit audioffers. Com today. As responsible for the sony hack we can not have a society in which some dictator can impose censorship here in the United States. They must be incredible happy in pyongyang. Good morning. Welcome back to new day. It is monday, december 22nd before 8 00 in the east. Im chris cuomo with alisyn camerota. The gunman was by all accounts deranged. He had a long history of violence and issues. He told bystanders to follow him on instagram and watch what im going to do before he opened fire. The City Police Union making accusations against mayor bill de blasio saying he created the culture backing protestors in the wake of the grand jury decisions. We want to get to alexandra fields live from brooklyn, new york this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning alisyn. Those two officers were executed on this corner. They never saw the gunman coming. The nypd is on the lookout for the next attack. They are scouring social media looking for threats and have investigators looking for people making those threats. Breaking overnight, officers on heightened alert following a new online threat. In brooklyn, police are searching for an alleged gang member who posted a threatening message toward Police Officers with photo of a Police Vehicle n. Memphis, police questioned a 26yearold man after he posted on instagram shootthepolice. Two more going down tomorrow. Police are on the lookout for copy cats after brinsley shot and killed two officers, ramos and liu, execution style, saturday afternoon. Police looking into 15 online threats according to a Law Enforcement official. Family and loved ones mourning the loss of officers ramos and l liu at a vigil. I hope and pray we can reflect on tragic loss of lives that have occurred. Early sunday, new yorks mayor where the congregation stood in applause for the slain policemen. This a stark contrast from the nypd turning their backs on bill de blasio at a News Conference saturday angered about his support for eric garner, the Staten Island man that died after an apparent choke hold by nypd officers. The shooter began saturday morning posting this warning on instagram. Im putting wings on pigs today. Accused of shooting his ex girlfriend in baltimore, the 28yearold travelled to new york murdering ramos and liu before taking his own life. The scene, horrific. When you walked up and saw the patrol car, what was going through your mind . He had a family. You dont know if youre going to make it to your family. You put your life on the line everyday for people. Brinsley posting before his rampage, they take one of ours, lets take two of theirs. His posts make references to s Michael Brown and eric garner. Browns mother is heartbroken all over again. We refuse to use names in violence. These officers lost their lives senselessly. Officer ramos son posted this on facebook. This is the worst day of my life. He writes, i will never forget you. Rest in peace dad. A 13yearold bringing the senselessness of all this into focus. These families have questions that of course will never be answered. We are learning about the gunman. He has a criminal record, arrested 19 times, spent years in prison and admitted having Mental Health issues. Thank you for the report. No matter what gunman said about hi his motivations, he also shot his girlfriend. The problems should not be dismissed. Lets bring in former commissioner ray kelly, president for Risk Management services and charles ramsey, police chief in philadelphia and cochair of obamas task force 21st century policing. Commissioner, ive relied on you heavily in the past to understand situations going on. Lets dismiss the guy that did this. He had no good reason to do it. He had plenty of trouble. The reality is is we do have a problem here right now. I want your take on why do you think things are the way they are right now . A lot of reasons obviously the garner case and Michael Brown case have brought these issues to a fore. I think in this city we had a Mayoral Campaign that was based on some of these issues. Its been kept out there for a while. Youve been outspoken about the mayor. The bratton, current commissioner, came out and said he was antipolice policy not antipolice. The mayor has said things you feel should be focused on. For example, lets play the sound of the mayor talking about b culture of policing with respect to his own family. We have had to talk to dante for years about the dangers he may face. Good, young, law a biding young man would never think to do anything wrong, yet because of history still hangs over us, the dangers he may face weve had to train him as families have all over this city for decades. This bothered you . There are certain things you keep inside and dont say publicly when youre the mayor of all people. Saying that at was yes inappropriate. But you know it goes beyond the mayor. Obviously the garner case and brown case have focused the worlds attention on issues involving race and police. Youre never going to find justification for what happened to the officers. It was a senseless crime done by somebody that may have had no sense is. The issues the mayor is speaking to there, theres a culture in the black community. Theyre afraid of what will happen when they come into contact with cops. Thats not something to avoid. Is that a reality . Its a reality with some in the community. Police have worked hard to address that issue. Certainly in this city. We have a Police Department that Police Officer ranked is majority minority. We have Police Officers born in 106 countries. That is incredible. No other Police Department in the world could come close to that. These issues are complex. There shouldnt be handled with a bumper sticker. We have to Work Together to address them. For all talk about black and white, its worth noting the officer who is lost their lives were named liu and ramos. They reflect the diversity of the department. A lot of this comes down to leadership and the vacuum of or appropriateness of leadership. The president thousand starting a task force to think about changes. You spoke to the president in the wake of this situation. What is his message and take on what has to happen . Well, first of all let me start by saying the president began the conversation by again expressing his outrage at the senseless murders of two Police Officers in new york city. Once again, ill reemphasize the need for the task force to move forward with its work to look at ways to build bridges between police and community. I agree with my good friend ray kelly. There are some people that certainly harbor very, very negative attitudes towards police. We need to find a way to reach those people and try to do everything we can to close that gap. The president is very serious about this. He gave us 90 days to come up with concrete recommendations which we will do. How do you fix culture in 90 days . I dont know if you fix culture in 90 days but you can have recommendations that need to move forward. This is a period of time we can establish a frame work for discussion, dialogue, action to move forward. Nothing is going to be fixed in 90 days. It could take a generation to fix social issues that face us in many of our communities. You have to start somewhere. It starts with a plan, with a frame work. Thats what the president is looking for. Commissioner, you think that weve allowed tone to get away from us a little in protests. Theyve become too focused on animosity toward the police. We were talking about how the protests were odd in populations here in the city. I had a lot of young, white kids yelling at me. Do you think tone got away from us a little here . Perhaps. If you allow people to take over bridges and roadways, its only going to ultimately involve them. Here you have 35,000 uniform officers. You dont have to make a lot of arrests. Prevent people from going on the bridge, taking over roadways or move them quickly. There is an issue if you tolerate a lot of things. Of course that impacts on other peoples lives. It will em bolder them to do more. Thats a what happens when Police Officers were assaulted on the bridge last week. Its not just about giving freedom of expression. You believe the limits are required not to suppress but to safeguard . You have to consider everyones rights in this regard. I think you know, we dont have a right to totally incon convenience people, shut down a bridge. Thats going too far. Do you think the mayor can a p peel things . Its time for rhetoric to be tone down and have someone, perhaps a religious leader, come and work with both sides if you will. What are two sides . Well obviously the unions and the administration. We need them to get together. This city is complex, sensitive. I believe the police are transforming the city many the last two decades. This was the murder capital of the United States in 1990. Last year we had had incredible low number of murders, lowest in shootings. That has brought about a rebirth in terms of real estate, businesses in new york. We dont want that to slip back. We have to get them together in some way, shape, form to continue to help police the city. As i say, its a complex environment here. Chief ramsey, commissioner kelly, thank you very much for your perspective on these things. We look forward to seeing the work of the task force yields. We know youll be a voice in the city. Thank you chuck. Thank you. A lot of news. Lets get to michaela. Escalated attacks on america while denying the possibility of the attack on sony. President obama says he will punish the a authoritarian regime. A lawyer for son think says the film that started the controversy will be replaced. The timing is unclear. Harsh words in the annual christmas address. The pope offered a blistering critique saying many review themselves as superior and have forgotten the spiritual guidance of god. He accused leaders of gossiping and being indifferent of others rather than showing optimism and cheerfulness. Jameis winston is cleared on charges. The woman making the allegation has five days to appeal. Her Attorney Says she feels dooped and is convinced the university will never hold winston accountable. The Heisman Trophy winning advisors are not commenting. Too many of those stories. I called you mick by the way. Sign of endearment. As much as we saw at thanksgiving, winter storms are stall ago traffic this week. We have the latest forecast with jennifer. Hows it looking . Starting to see the rain in the southeast. That is going to continue as the week goes on. Its going to impact the mid atlantic also the northeast. Some areas will wake up to a White Christmas. The majority of this storm will be rain. Already seeing it in the southeast. Tomorrow, possibility of Severe Weather from south louisiana all the way over to florida panhandle. Look at rain from chicago down into central florida. Couple of showers in the northeast. Snow possible right around the great lakes. Through christmas eve, flurries from oklahoma all the way up to portions of illinois. Well see rain across much of the east coast. We could see a little bit of a mixture across the great lakes as well. Christmas day doesnt look so bad. A lot of people traveling tuesday and wednesday. Thats when were going to see a lot of trouble. We are going to see incredible amounts of rain across the southeast. Could see anywhere from six to eight inches right around the panhandle. Were also looking at 30 Miles Per Hour winds across the mid atlantic and the northeast by tomorrow and wednesday. All right. Well keep an eye on that jennifer. Thanks so much. The massive hack at sony making it clear how Vulnerable Companies are to Cyber Attacks. Why has the bill stalled in congress . Well speak to one of the sponsors of that bill. New york city is in mourning today as a deranged killer guns down two Police Officers. Is it right to blame the current mayor and rhetoric for the senseless act . We have Rudy Giuliani here with his take on the situation for you. Just in time for the holidays. Tmobile introduces americas only unlimited 4g lte family plan. Get two lines of unlimited 4g lte data for just 100 bucks a month. With any smart phone. Including the Samsung Galaxy note 4, for 0 down. Add more family members for just 40 bucks a pop. Think the other guys have a family plan like this . Think again. Only tmobile has an unlimited 4g lte plan for the whole family. 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You have been Warning Congress and anyone who will listen for a couple of years about the danger of a coming cyber attack. Were people not taking you seriously . Well, chairman mike rogers and i have been focussing on Cyber Attacks for quite some time. Im very concerned about weapons of mass destruction and also Cyber Attacks. One of the most serious issues facing our country and world down the road. Right now, as an example, we are attacked by countries like china and other countries where we have had over 2 billion stolen from our countries, trade secrets, that type of thing. Thats whats happened with north korea is different. This cyber attack is called destructive attack, attack where you come in and shut down systems. Its very serious, and we have to deal with this. The public needs to understand these Cyber Attacks are going to be war fair of the future. We have to do what we can working with our Intelligence Community and military to protect us from attack as and work with allies to protect them also. Just last week, Congress Finally passed four different pieces of bills about Cyber Security, but as i understand, none of them were yours. Does this legislation go far enough . Were work with Homeland Security committee, congressman call and democratic congressman benny. We are trying or attempt thing to put together with them and also our Judiciary Committee and others a bill to allow the information sharing of Cyber Attacks. Let me explain. When attacks are coming in, our Intelligence Committee sees these attacks. Based on current law right now, the Intelligence Community cant share the information until these Companies Like a target or other companies where attacks are coming. Its like being a weather forecaster, having sandy come up the east coast, and you cant warn anybody. Chairman rogers and i along with our committees put together a bill called the information sharing bill. It passed the house which is unusual for this house to have a bipartisan bill passed. It was passed and went to the senate. It didnt pass in the senate. Weve got to make sure we get the administration, get the senate, and the house again to reintroduce a bill on information sharing so that we can protect our country from these attacks. The north korea congressman, lets use the example of what happened to sony. How would that legislation have changed anything . Well what it does, it gives information that the Intelligence Community sees coming in, attacks coming in. It works with the companies. Sony is an example. It cannot handle whats happening right now. Theyve totally had their systems knocked out and had information stolen. Sure. But did the Intelligence Community see this coming . Was this something the Intelligence Community could have alerted sony to . It depends on individual cases, but in most situations the sbel jensz community can see attacks kojing and work with them to stop it from hahhing. Thats what we want to do. Theres another issue. North korea, the first major destruct aif tack weve had. Not stealing. This is destructive attack. Think what could happen 23 north korea wanted to knock out a grid system, energy seasonal, air traffic control. These are serious issues we have to deal with. We need to the legislation to move forward in order to protect our country. Thats not hahhing. We have worked in legislation with,elu, listened to people about privacy issues. Our bill deals with privacy. I happen to be an attorney. We follow the constitution. We also need to protect our country. We have to move forward. The debate has been there, passed the house by close to 300 votes. We have to get the white house and senate to work with us to mass legislation to protect us to make sure we dont have other sonys. Then north korea, a different issue. Weve got to stand up and hold them accountable for what theyve done to let north korea and other countries know you attack the United States of america, youre going to pay for hit. What does that mean hold them accountable . What action would you like to see against north korea . It has to be a measure to count. Based on what they did to us, we have to show are theres going to be consequences. Whether sanctions whatever we do. I cant talk about the offensive now. Were going to have to do something to hold them accountable. You cannot attack the United States of america and just let it go. This is a destructive attack. The first one weve had from another country. We have to be very strong and measure the attack and what were going to do. The rhetoric theyre threatening to attack the white house and pentagon. Thats typical north korea. Theyre propaganda. We have to measure this response but make sure the world knows dont attack the United States of america. Congressman dutch, thanks for joining us. Back to chris. Sure. All right alisyn. Two new york Police Department officers gunned down, an for which theres no justification. Critics say politicians may be to blame in part. One of these critics, a big name politician, former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani. Hes here for his perspective with what needed to happen from the current mayor that didnt. I. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Time now for the five things to know. New York City Police on heighten add alert after the execution style shooting death of two of its officers. The family of one of the officers is calling for calm. The president is weighing action against north korea following the sony hack attack. The the regime denying involvement and promising new worse attacks against america. Fwrench police have arrested the man they say drove his car into pedestrians sunday in the city. At least 12 were injured. Witnesses say the suspect was yelling god is great in arabic as he mowed down victims. Border patrol officers have taken a canadian man in custody after he waived pay gun at them. It happened on a bridge that linked canada and detroit. The gun turned out to be a replica. Experts will a unveil the safety cam tan giving drone users the information they need to operate safely and responsibly following near misses with commercial planes. Go to cnn. Com for the latest. As new york city moushs the deaths of two Police Officers killed in the line of duty, the mayor bill de blasio receiving criticism for lack of support for the Police Department. Union members criticize him. Many say de blasio sided with the protestors rather than the police. Lets bring in the former mayor of new york city, rudy joule dy. Good to see you. Good morning. The Police Officers turning their backs on the mayor. Cant imagine that. Having been mayor and went to 24 of those before september 11. Seeing mayor bloom berg, its hard to comprehend that. You have to understand Police Officers. I had four uncles that were Police Officers. I ran the Police Department. First of all, lets separate ours from the comment that the blood of Police Officers is on the mayors hands. Thats not true. You disagree i think pat is a wonderful leader, great guy. Coming out of there tremendous emotion. Got to understand it. These men and women are like brothers and sisters. Its like losing a brother. I think he overstated it. The idea the mayor should resign, i dont agree with that. I dont think the Police Officers should have turned their back. Had i been one of those Police Officers at that moment, im not sure i wouldnt have turned my back. I dont think they should have. But i do think the mayor has accountability here. Hes been participating in this hate speech against Police Officers for the last two or three months. What sort of hate speech other than talking about his own sons experience . Hes allowed rallies to take place where people are yelling and screaming kill police. Police officers have been attacked. Police officers have been attacked with an ax. Hes also allowed protesting that i had stopped in this city and ray kelly and Mike Bloomberg continued. You dont get streets of new york city. You take fdr drive, Brooklyn Bridge . I went to court and stopped people from doing that. Im going to tell you why. Ambulances rush through the streets of this city. Somebody can die of a heart attack because some idiot is yelling kill the police. I won those cases in court. We never allowed protests like. That you start letting that get out of control, police get an impression of you youre agreeing with them. Some people were saying that. We were both out there. I was in the thick of protests. They were saying worst things than that about the police, media and a lot of people. That wasnt the main part. The main part were protests asking for change, reforms of policies. Dont you want to be careful about silencing that because its legitimate . You dont want to silence it, but it doesnt have the right to take over the city and cost a person their life because an ambulance cant get through. Doesnt have the right to take over the bridge so a man cant get home from work. Protest at an appropriate place and manner. Thats perfect First Amendment law. Protest is across the street from the president rather than right next to the president. They get to make their point. They dont get to take over the city. When you see protestors taking over the city, all of a sudden police get the impressioning youre supporting them. Theres no question he was supporting the protestors and though the the police. Then the strange comment about his son that he tells his son to be careful of police. His son is biracial. Then his son has a nine times greater chance of being killed by another black than a Police Officer. He should be talking to him about take care of yourself in the street. Your chance of being killed by a Police Officer is minuscule. The chance of being killed by another black is high. You understand what he was saying. He wasnt saying a cop is going to kill you. He was reflecting what you know is a cultural observation of a lot of families which is if youve got a black kid, be careful in how you train them to be around cops. Cops may not give them the same benefits of doubt as they would a white kid. What im saying over the last two to three months the hate speech about Police Officers has created a propaganda that Police Officers are racist. That is not true. Main problem is crime in the black community. When i was the mayor, i sent Police Officers to where these Police Officers were killed, not because im antiblack by no means am i. I sent them there because there were tremendous numbers of crimes there. I sent Police Officers to the southern part of brooklyn because italian kids were stealing cars in the southern part of brooklyn. I reakcted to crime. When you do stuff the mayor, president , attorney general is doing, they are perpetuating a myth theres systemic police brutality, systemic crime, occasional police brutality. What do you think the president has done . You said hes been part of this propaganda. Hes shown no respect for police. Hes seen one side of this dispute. I heard king on television this morning. If they would spend as much time as improving education. If mayor de blasio would Start Talking about supporting kids in schools, work fair and more work. If they would Start Talking about responsibilities of fatherhood. Now were starting to talk about the real problem. The Police Problem is a reaction of that. Maybe these two Police Officers ramos and liu should be made heroes of the black community. They were there trying to save black lives. They were moved from one precinct to another because there was more black crime many that precinct than the other one. The children of black parents in this city are saved by our Police Officers. During the time i was mayor, and i dont mind saying this, i saved more black lives than any mayor in the history of this city because i was not afraid to police according to statistics and not what al sharpton sells you black propaganda. How do you explain the protests in cities its the same saying more are afraid of flying on an airplane than driving in a car. People are not afraid of driving in a car. They have much graeater chance f dying in a car. If im a father of a black son, theres a 92 chance hes going to be harmed by another black. The idea its systemic and widespread, thats over extension. The idea the mike brown case was the right case to hang this cause on may be arguable assumption. The idea that blacks are at risk when it comes to culture of policing, thats not new. You know theres a lot of statistical support for it. You dont want to ignore that problem. You dont want to ignore the problem. You dont want to do hit disproportionately to the real problem. To reduce the significant amount of crime in fort green, those Police Officers wouldnt have been in abusive. All that has gone down. Thats a legitimate issue. You dont want to say the real issue is blacks kill each other. Heres the highway with 2 of accidents, heres the highway with 92 . The lieutenant and bill de blasio is spending all time on 2 highway and never talking about the 92 highway or talking about Police Officers that save black lives that far outweigh Police Officers that abuse anyone. Both cases you mentioned, great sympathy for their families. Both were committing crimes. Low level crimes. Minor crimes he doesnt deserve to a lose his life for. That. He wasnt killed because of cigarettes. He resisted arrest. Youre driving 95 Miles Per Hour and a police stops you. They say give you license and information. You tell them to go to hell. Hes not going to let you drive away. Who knows whats going to happen. Youre not dead because you were driving 95 Miles Per Hour. Youre dead because somebody never taught you to comply with Police Officers. When you said the real problem is blacks kill blacks, well whites kill whites too. Its fairly proportional. Woo. It seemed to be a distraction from the real issue whether or not we do as well as we should with culture of policing. Its the opposite. It isnt a real issue. Thats not why police this is what i dont understand. Youre saying blacks are committing a lot of crimes in their areas and you have to have police there. Thats not why you would have bad situations between blacks and cops. Doesnt mean thats license for cops to be excessive in force. Theyre not. Cops arent excessive in force. Sometimes they are. Sometimes. So its not theyre not. Its sometimes. Thats a minor situation. I had a black kill a jew in new york city. Had tremendous problems in the community. Ive had cops kill italians, mafia members. That happens in policing. If you commit a lot of crime, youre going to tend to have more interaction with police and have more situations get out of control. Most these situations are justified. Most situations the Police Officers are acting because we are dealing with people with significant violent records who act in a way that puts Police Officers lives in jeopardy. I mean, lets give the police a break. This has been three months of antipolice hatred, rhetoric, anger. I dont hold mayor responsible for deaths, but three to four weeks ago im telling people a cop is going to get shot here. All this stuff sharpton and mayor is saying and holder is saying. I know Law Enforcement. I know somewhere somebody is going to kill a cop. They were yelling it in the streets. The mayor was allowing them to take the streets. When hii was the mayor, nobody took my streets. Sorry. Youve got to have the discussion the right way. You got it. Thanks for coming in. Nice to see you. An unforgettable journey for chris as he travels to italy to retrace his roots. The surprising things he found along the way. Why there are men standing on him. The mayor was talking about italians one way. 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Ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a free 30tablet trial. This year some of cnn anchors got the opportunity to set out on an opportunity to discover their roots. Chris, you found impressive relatives beyond your father and brother, the governors. Its true. The family is proud of the governors. Theyre not the source of pride of my family. Those that fought the big fight allowed the cuomo family to enjoy the opportunities here in the new world. Ill tell you, i thought i knew what i was getting into. Even i was surprised. Take a look. How did i wind up here . Thats what i was thinking clutching a pole slathered in pig fat with men climbing over me in a place i had never heard of in italy. The mystery about my family that led me here was even more surprising especially since i thought i knew the whole story. Here we are at this convention to remind ourselves where we come from. For many my lineage will come as no surprise. Thats my pop mario cuomo, former governor of new york. We speak for those that want to add their culture to magnificent mosaic that is america. He spoke for years about italian heritage and struggle to make it here that led to two men holding the highest seat in the greatest state. We come into the chamber. Were not democrats, not republicans. Were new yorkers and working for new york. Thats andrew, my brother, the governor of new york today. I knew it all about who we are and how the cuomos got here, et cetera or so i thought. Turns out i was right about my moms family. My fathers side had a big, fat mystery. It is true that he was a first generation american and grew up sleeping in the basement of this grocery store. My grandparents did come to this country working like dog, suffering bigotry all to build a better life, a legacy thanks to my great grandparents. Thats where the mystery begins. Lets talk about Something Interesting like me. Perfect. What do we know . Folks at ancestry. Com uncovered the story of how the cuomos came here. In digging more is very different from what id heard. This is the first document of the cuomos. This is very cool. Looking back at records from a century ago in the tiny villages, we found a trail no one had followed. Dinoto cuomo kacame first, dug ditches and sent for his wife, my great grandmother. The family is here. Shes listed as germa. Heres her death. It doesnt sound good, i have to tell you. Who was she . Where did she come from and why did she keep changing her name . The story i had grown up about who she was and how she became known as my great grandmother was all wrong, fake. There would be one way to figure out the real deal. So you believe i need to go to this place and see if i can track the roots . Absolutely. Im the man for the task. I think you can handle it. My great grandmothers life had to begin in italy, so did our journey of discovery. When i told my wife i had to go to the italian country i side on assignment, she wasnt buying it. I brought her along with my oldest bella to hunt for answers to where my blood comes from. I believe this would have been the church. Kind of cool the latest generation of cuomos looking the for the earliest. The last document we found was key. My great grandmothers birth was in a tiny unknown place high above the sea. Turns out she was born here in 1869, but the question is to whom . Her name is all over the place. Turns out back in this day, the family ruled here. Maybe were not peasant stock after all. Royalty baby. Word spread i was here tracking down my roots. A local historian came around to help. What he had to offer took the story in a different direction. A cliff hanger. I was watching like what is the cliff hanger. I was like oh i wrote this. Look, surprises are good. This is sad. Theres a sad part of this story coming up here. Ultimately winds up with a good ending. A lot of people had it hard back then. When we come back, youll get to see what i figured out about my great grandmother and how it led us all here today for better or worse. Get two lines of unlimited 4g lte data for just 100 bucks a month. Thatll get your holiday bell ringing. Dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future. You. Thank you for being my hero and my dad. Military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa Auto Insurance could be one of them. If youre a current or former military member or their family, get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Left you with a cliff hanger there on the roots of story telling. Heres the deal. We thought maybe were royalty because the family that ruled in that area. Not so much. Heres the real answer. Far from the guilded center of the city, he took us down a lonely side street. In this street in one of these door ways there was an orphanage. There was a woman who took in orphans, children that were abandoned and took care of them before someone adopted them. This is the sad part of the story. This is the street where my grand great mother was given up for adoption. Were told basically babies were left on the ground. There was a knock on the door, and people would take off. Why . It was a rich town. Maybe it was somebody who was wealthy who had indiscretion, maybe someone who didnt want a baby. Either way, she was given the name because that was the ruling family in the area. Doesnt mean she came from the family, just means it was a common name. This is where her life began where some woman she didnt know wound up taking care of her and later on in life she wound up marrying the man who would bring the cuomos to america that led us to the next part of the mystery, their wedding. Church records pointed us to another Italian Village i had never heard of where i had much deeper roots than i ever imagined. The tiny italian city. So we dont have to guess about it. This is the deputy mayor here in the city. He says he has documents that prove that my great grandparents were married here in this church. 1890, so they were married in this place. Germana costaldo. Thats my great grandmothers name. She used more than one. What about the others . She wasnt a criminal. The writing was literally on the wall. Weve got another piece to the puzzle. We meet on the way over. He says i live there when im not in jersey city. He asked why im coming. I say trying to trace my great grandmother. He knows something about it and takes me here. What do you know . My dad told me the family immigrated to jersey city. This is part of the family the cuomos were part of. There are some of that family in jersey city . Right. It all ties back to the town that has 2700 residents today. Had you heard of connection to the cuomos . Theres rumor of connection going back. What was that a connection . Who was this man and why was he on that wall . Why was my great grandmother using his name . That part of the mystery would have to wait. Our little investigation wasnt the only thing going on. When they heard we had roots here, we got the man testing which is part of a festival weekend. The towns people had big plans for me. All right. So this is the festival, solemn festival in honor of san rocco. At the events, participating chris cuomo from cnn. We had an amazing time with these beautiful people, some of whom could be cousins. We played games, drank some wine, maybe too much. Next thing i knew, i was staring at this. Heres how this works. This is like the main event of this festival where they climb this pole 45 a feet high. It takes four of them. The pole is greased with this pig grease silk stuff. Im going to be the first guy and hold on. Good news im a real member of the village. Bad news is i love had the shirt. I smell now. For all we had learned though, we had one last stop, the coast. The cuomos left their tiny villages in the hills and came down to the sea. When they looked out, they didnt just see open water. They saw their future, america. My great grandfather became whats now known as a bird of pass an, someone that traveled to the new world to make his fortune. Some fortune though. The 16 voyage was more than he had to his name. He and his mysterious bride would make it to the new world. This would lead to the man talking to you now. What about the other names in parts of the family we learned about . Remember dominic and what he told us . Turns out franchesco was my grandmothers adopted father. They would make it big in the jersey city. They sent a big chunk of that money home. My team on that greased pole, they went on to win the competition without me. My family left italy with a new understanding of who we are and remember for the cuomos, family is everything. Thats great. 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