New yorks finest. We have the heartfelt tribute. Fox friends begins right now. Well, good morning. We want to get right to the breaking news. The executionstyle shooting of the two Police Officers here in new york city happened just five minutes after the new York Police Department got a warning from police in baltimore that a gunman was on the way to the city to determine to assassinate Police Officers. Jackie is live in our studio with details. Reporter guys, the two Police Officers were on overtime in their marked car having lunch. The Police Commissioner bill bratton says they never had a chance. He walked up and took a shooting stance on the passenger side and fired his weapon several times. Police say the 28yearold suspect Ishmael Brinsley was already a suspect. He shot his girlfriend and he survived. His Instagram Post said, im putting wings on pigs today. They took one of ours, well take two of theirs. Ripericgarner. Moments later he was dead as he shot himself in the head. The
Country strong and secure. Welcome to the journal editorial report. Im paul gigot. That was john brennan defending his agency postseptember 11th use of socalled enhance interrogation techniques in the wake of a Senate Intelligence Committee Report released this week accusing the cia of torturing detainees and lying about its effectiveness. Roundly criticized by former top officials of the spy agency, none of whom were interviewed by the committee before its release. Is the 6,000page document anything more than partisan second guessing . Lets ask wall street journalist and deputy and dorothy and Foreign Affairs columnist bret stevens. So, dorothy, weve been editorially very critical of the report and we published the opposition from the former cia officials. Get that on the record. But theres an argument out there whatever you think of the report, this is somehow good for democratic accountability because it gets out in the public what the cia was doing. Do you agree with that . Paul, i
The former ferguson mayor even calling for the governors resignation today. Listen. He failed the city of ferguson. He failed the state of missouri. He should resign. We have a powerful lineup for you to want. Governor Mike Huckabee and judge alex ferrar. But we begin with mike tobin live on the ground in ferguson. Hello, mike. Hi there. Its pretty slow largely due to the weather right now. Youve got this wet miserable snow coming down. Because of that you can see number of demonstrators has picked up a little throughout the evening but is pretty small. What is picking up is their volume. Contrast them to the National Guard out here in this bad weather the night before the holiday, theyre standing sent ri as their mission would dictate. We just saw them change out shifts. So there are more guardsmen nearby but some have the opportunity to go inside and warm up as they change out shifts. Local police do say there are some demonstrations planned. They dont know if theyre really materiali
President is attacking and now serve in two the president of the United States has complete confidence in the professionalism of these individuals. Hes got complete confidence that these two individuals who serve in important leadership positions on his National Security team are following the law and doing everything that is necessary to protect the american people. The president is pleased with their service. Ed henry joins us live. Ed, it looks like you got a survey sound bite response to your questioning. Greta, what i think is interesting is that the focus yesterday was on the Bush Administration, rightly so. Because these policies played out back then. But today we saw this president s leadership come under scrutiny, not just at the White House Briefing but surprisingly at a democrat in mark udall of colorado just lost his reelection, maybe freer to speak his mind. He said this president is not showing leadership on this issue. Part of his anger is over john brennan, one of the o
To flood into new york city in the times square region particularly. They were chanting they do believe race was a factor when the police put eric garner in a chokehold back . July. Here is part of a tape of that incident. Bill on that recording garner saying he cant breathe 11 times. The white house reaction was quick. This is an issue we have been dealing with for a long time. Im not interested in talk, im interested in action. Im committed as president of the United States to making sure we have a country where everybody believes in the core principle that we are equal under the law. Bill between the Christmas Tree lighting at Rockefeller Center and the protests it was a busy scene. Reporter one demonstration is planned for later today, but at this hour in midtown man things are quiet but things could soon change. Demonstrators fanned out across the city. A few dozen laid down on the ground at Grand Central station, the major train station here trying to disrupt the major commuters.