from. i mean, a lot of north korea s internet is routed through china. there s also speculation that china may be working with the u.s. or china may be on its own retaliating against north korea s behavior. these things are difficult to pinpoint. it s curious. it s one of the things you want to, you know, wait and see what evidence, if any, develops and where that evidence is going to come from. michelle is with the president in honolulu who is on holiday. appreciate it. coming up next a quick break and we ll talk about this, big story this year. michael sam emerging as a pioneer, the first openly gay player drafted into the nfl, but despite support from people all over the world no one else in the league has followed. will that change?
before the break we talked about the top media stories of 2014. brian seltzer brought that piece and how it was perhapsed influenced by the media, by all of us. we re joined by michael daly and in atlanta terence moore, cnn.com contributor and journalism professional at miami university in ohio. michael, let me start with you. looking at what you think the top media story of the year is and how it led to major protests across this country. do you think the media fanned the flames? the top media story to me began when the daily news photographer was driving home and he heard on the police scanner level one mobilization, but they didn t say why. in staten island.
remember what it means to take the job, those of us who are privileged to call ourselves cops. no other profession will give you as much or sometimes take as much. the job can reward you like no other, but one day it might demand from you everything in return. for the ramos family, today is that day. and here we are. new york city police commissioner bill bratton paying tribute to fallen officer rafael ramos. those words so simple, so point yant and hery are. as the brotherhood of police officers mourn and we all wonder how did we get here? how did it come to this? let s bring back in tony herbert and michael daly, let s welcome in cnn contributor and legal analyst mel robbins. thank you all for being here. a very somber day. i was watching it on television. michael, you were there at the funeral this morning.
joining me now to talk about this tony herbert, community advocate and president of the associate advocates without borders network and michael daily, special correspondent for the daily beast. thank you for being here. michael, you were there this morning. i was. i can sense it talking to you that you you were on our air covering this when it happened last saturday. you called this officer the boy with the perfect nickname became the perfect cop. yeah. this is a young man in new york s toughest neighborhood, east new york, this guy was known as pote, which derived from a puerto rican term, a jar of goodness. and that jar of goodness in the midst of a lot of poverty and it
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