December 5th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, Steve Rattner and host and managing editor of news one, Roland Martin and the president and ceo of the National Urban league, mark morale. Great to have you on board this morning. How is everybody doing. I got reports back from the field last night. Some young people went to the protest and thought it was amazing. They felt they were witnessing history. Were you out last night . Anybody . I was out last night. Steve rattner is out every night. But hes counting money. I skipped over you steve, you notice. Its kind of amazing. You hear the same thing over and over again. It is diverse as Mike Barnacle said very inviting. Its the antithesis of what happened in ferguson. Not the black community but the black community, the white community, hispanic community, asianamerican, everybody coming together saying enough is enough. We have another story out of phoenix today. First of all, you did see some of that in ferguson. There were 100 plu
Long to cuban president raul castro. I delivered a fairly lengthy statement at the front end about how were looking forward to a new future in the relationship between our two countries, but that we are going to continue to press on issues of democracy and human rights, which we think are important. There were some awkward jokes. At the end of my remarks i apologized for taking, you know, such a long time. I wanted to make sure before we engaged in the conversation that we he was very clear about where i stood. He said dont worry about it, mr. President. Youre still a young man. And you still have a chance to break fidels record. He once spoke seven hours straight. And then more awkward jokes. And then president castro proceeded to deliver his own preliminary remarks that lasted at least twice as long as mine. And then i was able to say obviously it runs in the family. What is so remarkable about this conversation is it was the first time in more than 50 years the leaders of the United
One is weijial liu and rafael ramos. Neither had the chance to draw their weapons to defend themselves. Saturday marked the First Time Since 2011 that a new York City Police officer was killed by gunfire in the line of duty. According to police, the suspect fled down the street and into a nearby subway station where he turned the gun on himself. Investigators say they believe brensley made statements on social media saying he planned to kill officers in retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown and eric garner at the hands of police. He is believed to have shot and killed his exgirlfriend in baltimore. The deadly attack were strongly condemned by president obama who issued a statement saying in part, the officers who serve and protect our communities risk their own safety for ours every single day, and they deserve our respect and gratitude every single day. Last night new york mayor bill de blasio and Police Commissioner bill bratton spoke about the shootings. Although we are still