tension in this room. it s because people are hurting. people by show of hands, noum this room have either been a victim of violence or know somebody that s been a victim of violence in the city of chicago? i know i have. so now we have to acknowledge that people are hurting in these communities. and then on behalf of the police, as somebody who wore a badge but i also served my country in the military but before that i was a young black man who grew up not too far from here and i saw the blood of my fellow peers spilled on 47th street. i saw the blood of my peers spilled on the streets of iraq, and i saw the blood of my fellow police officers spilled in inglewood. so can we all agree at that at the end of the day can we unify behind the fact that we all bleed the same color? at the end of the day, can we all unify just behind that one point and regardless of what side of politics we come from, regardless of what hashtag we promote, regardless of what we ve come through, the better d
today is it wasn t like storn throwing like the anarchists yesterday. i hear good reports about the cops in both new york and philadelphia. they did their jobs and didn t go chasing or beating up anybody. my wife was down there, my sister-in-law, nieces were down there today. a lot of people i work with, gene robinson s people were down there. the number of people who are not normally protesters who were now today and made a point. i was in the new york march, chris. the place that we started to march, we literally it took us two hours and 15 minutes to get from 47th street up to trump tower because it was 300,000 people. they expected 100,000. the signs were thoughtful. people were in the march,
all the ladies marching all across washington and the country, kyung, we ll check back with you and new york where not only where one of the major marches are, but the home. jessica, people couldn t even totally eyeball how many would show up and i think the initial estimates just blew these organizers away. reporter: it s overwhelming. this is the women s march. for two hours, we stood in absolute gridlock. here s a shot of 2nd avenue extending north. this march was supposed to begin at 47th street but as you can see, we re at 46th. you are seeing crowds as far as
just to give you an idea of how much this stretches, we ve got blocks and blocks. we are only at 47th street. this goes all the way to 59th street. they will be filling these pens just like this so we can see as far as the eye can go it looks pretty full but they will keep filling this until they reach that capacity. maybe you have a little bit more time but these folks have already been out for hours and there are still hours to go. it s amazing. they are the die hard. from a great time. we will check back with you later. don t forget this new year s eve expect the unexpected with anderson cooper and kathy griffin. that s right, new year s eve beginning live tonight 8:00 eastern on cnn. and straight ahead parents of an american journalist who went missing in syria, they are now speaking out. what they hope the incoming trump administration is going to do to help find their son. this is a cnn exclusive up next. you re live on cnn newsroom. ae and her new mobile wedding business
heather: in california. bill: 47th street is loaded with cameras. he got across the country. bill: you re correct on that. president obama offering good advice to president-elect trump, don t do what he did, whoa. take it easy, he said, on executive orders, just listen to this, first. my suggestion to the president elect is, going through the legislative process is always better in part because it s harder to undo and if he wants to reverse some of the rules, that s part of the democratic process. that s why i tell people to vote because it turns out elections mean something. bill: chief strategist for the rnc with me from trump tower, sean, how are you? good morning, bill.