around, oh, let s fudge this. right? the pressure comes from the top. and there s so many different opportunities throughout a department and throughout the police force to just nudge something over into a category, and if every individual person is accountable for their numbers, every individual person has the incentive to do that nudging whenever they can, right? it s so easy, and there s not only there s a trickle-down effect. the at the top of the chain of command, has to report to the mayor. and the pressure comes in various ways at every little rung of that ladder. and that pressure, according to chicago magazine s report was allegedly affecting the crime stats. that s what we were hearing was happening inside a department, the panel had ase ase asemi assembled. some homicides are clear cut. those are very difficult to fudge at all.
if you will. the question becomes connecting with that audience or does ron paul pick up this support. can senator santorum capitalize on what he got out of iowa and pick up on south carolina and florida. i don t know the answer to that. the real question to that is what can stop mitt romney? he s going to be the republican nominee. i don t know that anything can stop him now. thank you, i appreciate your time this morning. thank you. here is a look at other stories topping the news. michelle obama pushing back about claims made in a book about her. she s challenging accusations she battled with rahm e manual. rahm and amy, his wife are some of our dearest friends. rahm and i have never had a cross word. i don t have conversations with my husband s staff. i don t go to the meetings. our staffs work together really well. it s more interesting to imagine
the ordinary. that part of his mentoring process to many young people was to take them around the world. show them life experiences and that sort of thing. beyond that, there wasn t much more in the way of specifics. especially specific allegations in the lawsuits but one interesting theme emerged in the line of geing with roland this morning and essentially the attorney saying that thesal gags, these lawsuits are not only attack on bishop long but attack on the 25,000 members of the new birth missionary baptist church. that theme was repeated over and over. did the attorney say anything of why bishop long e-mailing pictures of himself in a bathroom wearing a muscle t-shirt? . reporter: no. we didn t get answers that would explain that at this point. and so beyond those trips kind of talking about that, it was very little in the way of specifics. all right. ed lavandera this morning, thanks. new this morning, rahm e moon july may step done as president obama s chief of staff
mcgann and jeff sessions to see if he was trying to recuse himself. i would rather he didn t. that s very different from a president of the united states saying that don mcgann and you tell him that i order him to stay on the investigation to protect me. that s a different story. it could be what is taking place. we would like to hear from don mcbegan to nag out. ultimately remember to jeff sessions s credit, he did recuse himself. he pressured him not to do so and he chose the more prudent course. it is a little bit of context covering the clinton white house. what a terrible tleap they had. rahm e manual and we used to ring them out on different issues. that s a different issue.
extraordinarily difficult job. i sat down with the man trying to tackle the city s crime problem, chicago mayor rahm e mo emanuel. the truth is in some of the neighborhoods you re talking about, the people in the neighborhood know who committed the crime. you have to live by a moral code, not a code of silence. that frustration with that code of silence isn t new. you can blame the chicago police all you want. look in the mirror and say, what are you doing for it? for 43 of the last 60 years, chicago was run by two hmayor daleys, father and son. the younger is credited with bringing a resurgence of commerce and stability to the city, a legacy of high-end restaurants and high-rise offices. on his watch, the city s population shrank. during his last decade in office, poverty decreased. crime declined, but chicago was never able to realize the kind of dramatic increases seen in