incited people to do what they did over in west florson. they may have an argument for what happened eventually in front of the ferguson police department. the largest fires, the buildings burned and the storage facility and the other buildings, the barbecue joint, all of that was farther away. the people who were there, when some of those fires were lit, would not have heard what the stepfather said but perhaps people who burn the cars or decided to throw things to the police may have hurt this. that s what they re going to decide. you look at this statement from brian shel man from the st. louis county police department. he released a statement saying our department is currently looking into this as part of the entire investigation that includes the arsons, looting, destruction of property. once it is complete, the whole investigation will be presented to the prosecuting attorney s office. one of the points i wanted to make about this but i think is
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another 18,000 reserve troops have been called up, bret, bringing that total number to 58,000 troops. many of which are now on the ground fighting here in gaza city. bret? john huddy live in gaza city early friday morning. john, we ll check in with you in just a bit. thank you. today s takedown of that malaysia airlines flight further complicates an already full foreign policy plate for president obama. chief white house correspondent ed henry has that part of the story from the white house. reporter: president obama went forward with his planned schedule of two fund-raisers in new york tonight, calling the ukrainian president aboard air force one on the way. earlier the president was pushing for more highway funding in delaware where he stopped in at a barbecue joint. i hear the burgers are pretty good. reporter: and paused for 28 seconds to note the downed jet. it looks like a terrible tragedy. right now we re working to determine whether there were
certainly uninhibited by this fact. uninhibited. it may have seemed weird, but today we ask similar questions of powerful people, saying things or getting caught on camera. in nixon s case, he was simply so convinced of his own power, he really conceived of those tapes only as ammunition for him. he didn t consider that he was making something that could be taken and used against him politically or criminally or otherwise. the supreme court did see it differently, forcing those tapes loose, which confirmed for the nation, that there were those high crimes and dirty tricks that nixon was overseeing, all the while to get re-elected. today s republicans so quick to yell watergate at any term seem to think anything president obama does could be a high crime. it s as if they have found the inverse of president nixon s belief that anything the president does cannot be a crime. now, coming up, what happens when a president walks into a barbecue joint? the guy behind the counter who got a no
really on the loose. you can see in those videos that he has got secret service around him and he s got all of us in the president around him. these are essentially photo ops and designed to show the president acting like a real regular guy, a person who can go to a barbecue joint and play pool. there are a lot of politics behind this as well. you do wonder, though, is it more effective him to be out even if it energizes him personally is that a most effective strategy or should he have gone to the border and in washington negotiating with republicans to get the supplemental done? joe, this is definitely something that is not new to a president being criticized for on going on vacation. right. having said that in light of this conversation, i guess it s worth asking you about. well, presidents are never on vacation. right. they are never on vacation. it doesn t matter whether