Hot items. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. On this night before thanksgiving, and the long weekend when it is estimated nearly 50 million americans are traveling away from home, the president made a special appearance meant to reassure the nation. The president said he knew americans are asking each other whether it is safe to fly or gather. They understood that families are discussing fears of terrorism around the dinner table. And he essentially asked americans to trust him and trust Law Enforcement authorities. As of today, the president said they know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. We begin with National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house. Reporter a pre holiday show of force from the streets of manhattan to the white house. Where president obama flanked by his Top National Security advisers tried to reassure anxious americans. I want the American People to know that we are taking every possible step to keep ou
Hot items. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. On this night before thanksgiving, and the long weekend when it is estimated nearly 50 million americans are traveling away from home, the president made a special appearance meant to reassure the nation. President obama said he knew americans are asking each other whether it is safe to fly or gather. They understood that families are discussing fears of terrorism around the dinner table. And he essentially asked americans to trust him and trust Law Enforcement authorities. As of today, the president said they know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland. We begin with National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house. Reporter a pre holiday show of force from the streets of manhattan to the white house. Where president obama flanked by his Top National Security advisers tried to reassure anxious americans. I want the American People to know that we are taking every possible step to keep
emanuel has done some good things in address past police torture and other misconduct, but he has not been transparent in freedom of information act requests. has resisted very grudgingly released material here. and the most important thing, howie, the most important thing is right after this shooting occurred, his own police department released a statement saying lequan mcdonald had lunged at the officer, not just the police union but his own police department and the superintendent admitted on our air he knew of that error the very next day and it was not corrected. it was freelance journalist jamie calvin who based on anonymous tip kept pursuing that devastating video. you wrote in the sun-times you re fed up with the federal government for moving slowly and rahm emanuel reversed himself and now says he welcomes the justice department investigation of chicago police practices. do you believe this delay might have been related to rahm s friend barack obama being in the white hous
all we hear from these people is thoughts and prayers, and people keep on dying and dying. that california attack just days after people were killed at a planned parenthood clinic. are the media turning mass murder into a partisan blame game? what about the bizarre spectacle of the tv reporters rummaging through the terrorists apartment. as they play up a republican party revolume that s stopping new york times reporting that republicans are panicking, they are panicking, running around scared like chickens with their heads cut off, because they are realizing that donald trump could go all the way. i have two questions to ask anybody who takes on donald trump? and when do they do it? we have an anonymous senator saying this is armageddon for our party, but i m afraid to saying any. no one seems to be leading it. plus rahm emanuel facing calls for his resignation, and a police cover-up a year after, an officer under indictment after he was caught shooting
challenged, until we get a special prosecutor and federal oversight, we cannot stop while this momentum is moving as it is. all right. reverend jesse jackson, thanks for your time. thank you, sir. joining me now jamie calvin, independent journalist who first acquired and published la kwon mcdonald s aunz findings, also executive director of the invisible institute. jamie, this probably would not have come to light had you and craig futterman who we had on the show started looking into it because a whistleblower came to you and said look, there s a tape, there s an investigation. i fear we re not getting the truth here. are you confident now having seen the mayor s press conference today that there s a commitment on the part of the mayor, the chicago police department to being accountable and transparent? not confident, reggie but somewhat encouraged. i think a step was taken today. a week ago, the mayor made a