Bill de blasio. Tensions mounting fall being the ambush killings of two new York City Police officers. Behavior prompting action from the Police Commissioner and former mayor rudy giuliani. Listen to this. Dont support that particular activity. I dont think it was appropriate particularly in that setting but reflective of the anger some of em. I dont think they should have turned their back. The mayor deserves respect no matter who he is, the office does but i can understand their emotion and maybe if i were then done the same thing. If you want to say mayor de blasio contributed to atmosphere of hate for the police, absolutely he did. With me now, charlie gasparino, fox business senior correspondent, Veronica Dagher from the wall street journal and kmele foster from fox business. Thanks for joining us. Charlie, what do you think . I think this is scary time in new york city. I didnt think this would hit the fan this quickly. Civil unrest and mayor de blasios acceptance and fomenting i
Politico said ryan has become a political hero. He was roughed up by police while he was inside a mcdonalds. That raised a lot of questions about Police Intimidation of reporters. Ryan, i want to get to your arrest in a moment, but first tell me what you witnessed overnight . How were reporters like you treated during the curfew . Reporter yeah. So the interesting thing is this was the first night where there was a press area where we were allowed to remain stationed throughout the night. Basically we were behind the police instead of within the crowd with the protesters but unfortunately that location was actually located away from a lot of the clashes that we were trying to cover. A number of reporters who did manage to make it down towards the clashes didnt have any issues and were actually later mingling with some of the officers further down and were allowed to report from there, but all of us who were working from within sort of i guess the press tent there were threatened with a
John heilemann, senior Political Editor for the huffington post, sam stein, National Political correspondent for the Washington Post karen tim mull tea along with willie geist and Mike Barnicle in new york. So much has happened even in the past 24 hours, former fbi director Robert Mueller immediately takes over the Justice Departments investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign. He is now in charge of prosecutors and fbi agents in multiple field offices. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein made the appointment yesterday. Rosenstein is overseeing the doj Jeff Sessions recused himself. Nbc news was told the White House Office was informed about the appointment of the special counsel after the order was find. Stop right there. David ignatius, a lot of people have liked to say since january 20th, theres a new sheriff in town. When the white house is notified after the special counsel there really is a new sheriff in town. There really is a new sheriff in town. Lets just s
has lost ground by attacking. they should do what they and their consultants want to do. i will focus on being substantive and focus on barack obama. and welcome back. to another day of madness in the republican party. it s friday, december 2nd, welcome to morning joe in washington, d.c. today. try and get our arms around this. with us onset, time magazine political analyst mark haleprin, we also have former chairman of the republican national committee who is here to explain everything that s happening in his party, michael steele. also, the political writer for the huffington post, sam stein, and we ve got the great willie geist in new york. boy, mark haleprin, he s sounding kind of confident. says he s going to win. you look at the recent polls, it s his. people in this city, there s an irony. he s former speaker of the house, one of the most powerful jobs in this city. but in this city, people still don t take newt gingrich seriously. around this table we do. we
obama. and welcome back. to another day of madness in the republican party. it s friday, december 2nd, welcome to morning joe in washington, d.c. today. try and get our arms around this. with us onset, time magazine political analyst mark haleprin, we also have former chairman of the republican national committee who is here to explain everything that s happening in his party, michael steele. also, the political writer for the huffington post, sam stein, and we ve got the great willie geist in new york. boy, mark haleprin, he s sounding kind of confident. says he s going to win. you look at the recent polls, it s his. people in this city, there s an irony. he s former speaker of the house, one of the most powerful jobs in this city. but in this city, people still don t take newt gingrich seriously. around this table we do. we were talking before, we think he can be the nominee. but he is he has had a 30-year relationship with the grass roots of the party and he is