These two complex, threatening problems, isis and russia. Good to see you. Reporter this morning while president obama met with british Prime Minister David Cameron their joint oped circulated titled we will not be cowed by barbaric killers stating nato is as important to our future as it ever been and president obama is still fielding hits on how hes said thing. Yesterday he said this was the objective. To degrade and destroy isil so its no longer a threat. Reporter and then he said it was. To make sure isil is not an ongoing threat to the region. Reporter and . Continue to shrink isils sphere of influence. Reporter cnns jim sciutto later sat down with secretary of defense chuck hagel to framed the u. S. Goal this way. To degrade and destroy the capability of isil to come after u. S. Interests all over the world and our allies. Reporter he said destroy and degrade its capabilities, is that the same as destroying isis . He says yes, that all of the above statements are true, that the l
Thats why if were ever late for an appointment, well credit your account 20. Its our promise to you. Were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. Because we should fit into your life. Not the other way around. 6 00 eastern this sunday evening. We begin with breaking news just in to us here at cnn. The Justice Department is getting ready to announce an investigation into the Chicago Police department. A source familiar with the situation tells our evan perez that the department will begin a pattern and practice investigation. The department has been under scrutiny since releasing showing an officer shooting and killing 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald, shooting 16 times. That officer now charged with firstdegree murder, awaiting trial. More on that later this hour. Meantime, two hours from now president obama will try to reassure the nation that he has a plan to destroy isis and keep the American People safe in the wake of the attacks in San Bernardino, california, an
Of the peace talks in moscow so many ways the violence here is completely disparityive. Weve seen it ourselves over the past week. People are discussing the potential of humanitarian corridors to let civilians lead. We were there over the last week. The shelter was hit. Periodically people have tied to flee through the main humanitarian corridor but sometimes its blocked and theres a sense that any ceasefire deal will be hard to implement. So much heavy weaponry in use around that area. Were seeing the de facto hiding off of the separatist held areas. It will be hard to imagine a situation where those separatist held areas choose to be governed by kiev. Russian intervention has been so extraordinary to this point. Those peace talks will try to leave kiev comfortable with the resolution but its the violence on the ground here thats escalating and defining its own rhythm with increasingly confident well equipped well disciplined separatist forces taking a lot of territory. Thats going to
Terribly broken country back together and give the people the future they deserve. They havent done either of those things. So im still hopeful that they will do both of those things, and i think thats what secretary kerrys talks, that are very frequent with the russians, are all about. But meanwhile, we have a channel that is focused on safety issues, and we maintain that. And thats a very professional working channel between us. Mr. Secretary can i follow up on that and ask you something else. But to follow on phils question, youre well known to be skeptical of the russians. And some of the things that they have that their military has done. So really straight up, are you willi willing, are you in favor now of an expanded effort with military operation with the russians inside syria. Because most people in this town think you are not. If the russians would do the right thing in syria, and thats an important condition, as in all cases with russia, were willing to work with them. Thats
Sara, i heard you just received some sort of new information about the explosive. Reporter thats right. Nypd here are saying that preliminarily they believe this material may have been contained within a plastic bag. Theyre being very, very clear they are not calling this any kind of device. Theyre not saying that they are that they believe there is any necessarily any link to any intent to harm someone. They believe at this point that it may have been a homemade or experimental type of material put together to create an explosion or a loud noise given the Holiday Weekend. They say around this time of year, they often see members of the public doing something that they obviously dont advise, which is going on line, looking up chemistry and putting together devices or materials that they believe, you know, could be some sort of crude kind of firework. They are being very clear that they dont have evidence one way or the other. They actually opened up the press conference by saying they