Officials say the shooting death of two of its officers on saturday was an assassination. Officers ra s Raphael Ramos and wenjin liu were anas natu assassinated simply for being cops. They were assassinated. Reporter Police Commissioner William Bratton says officers wenjin liu and Raphael Ramos both sustained gunshot wounds to the head while sitting in their patrol cars. They never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. They may never have actually seen their assailant, their murderer. Reporter the alleged asillant is ismaaiyl brinsley. Brooklyn residents are shocked and outraged by the violence. We have to take back our communities. This cant happen. We have two families thats missing somebody for the holidays. I dont condone this and im not with it. Reporter investigators say theyre looking for a motive but that brinsleys media post indicated bias against Law Enforcement. The fallen officers were not engaged in the shooter in any way before they were attacked. Im andy rose report
Safety. Good morning, everyone. So grateful for your company. Youre touching on all of those stories. Im christi paul. Of course, my colleague Victor Blackwell is live in orlando. Good morning to you. This city, orlando, is still reeling now nearly a week after the attack at pulse nightclub. At least five funerals today for some of the 49 people who were gunned down at that massacre at the nightclub. Now talking about the investigation, authorities are still on the scene trying to piece together the killers motive. Fbis analyzing Surveillance Video showing the shooting rampage inside the club. One key detail as investigators say the shooter paused several times to use his phone, even posted on facebook. Heres one of the posts. You kill innocent women and children by doing u. S. Air strikes. Now taste the Islamic State vengeance. Also a final warning here. He says in the next few days, you will see attacks from the Islamic State in the usa. Now these posts prompted a friend to call him
Which was a no show from democrats, remember that was just last week. Moments ago the white house had this response when a reporter pointed out that this impasse is happening as republicans control both congress and the white house. They may control washington, but this still takes some democrats to be engaged in the process. And we hope frankly that democrats will play by the schumer rule and not hold this bill hostage by playing partisan politics and theyll come to the table and help fund our defense department, help fund our military, help fund veterans affairs. So lets go straight to the white house to our colleague there, jeremy diamond. So talk to me ha little bit about this meet tg. What is expected to come from this . Reporter thats right. Well the president gets to meet once again with chuck and nancy after last week that meeting canceled abruptly after the president took to twitter and seemingly criticized democrats over immigration and suggesting that really they werent goin
Us, we know its isis, we hit them like you folks wont believe. This came after a pair of morning tweets calling the new york terror suspect a degenerate animal and threats isis will pay the price for any terror attack. So with me retired Lieutenant General mark, cnn analyst. So, general, whats the truth . Ten times . What are you hearing . Where is evidence of that . Yeah, no indication, brooke. Frankly ive been monitoring both attacks in syria and iraq. Its about normal today. There are other locations around the world where special Operations Command is striking against isis. There was a report of africom fighting in somalia. You also have a fighter iman part of the benghazi raids that was captured i think on october 30th and may have led to some potential kinetic strikes. But truthfully this incident in new york city occurred just a few days ago. If the military is striking targets, they are striking every one that they have intelligence on. Its very difficult to ramp things up. Bec
Is there any worry there at the white house that his poll numbers continue to be so low . Reporter i think there is concern over here at the white house, breanna. And that is why you see the republicans up on capitol hill. You see people over here at the white house, including the president , trying very hard to get this tax cut plan passed before the end of the year so the president can sign it. And then head off for the holidays. Keep in mind, this poll that just came out pretty alarming numbers for the president and house and senate republicans. It says here 29 say they approve of the republican tax plan, 61 say they disapprove. Thats bad numbers for the tax plan they ran through the senate in the middle of the night the other night. And you heard the president meeting with republican senators really singing is the praises of this tax cut plan and declaring that there is it republican unity in the gop like we havent seen before. He was saying that right next to senator jeff flake of