steve, yesterday i was and th s in front of the county jail and a group of young african american boys who were all 14-years-old and played for the same football team came up and spoke to me when i was standing outside my truck and i said guys, it s so cold here. what are you doing here? they said they were showing support for the mcdonald family because some of them were scared to leave their houses because of what happened to a boy just a few years older than them. the naacp has called for a full investigation of the chicago police department. $5 million was awarded to the mcdonald s family but the city signed those papers just a day after mayor emanual was re-el t re-elected. there s a lot of people asking
collecting all of our phone records and storing them. so we think we have some advantages that the other candidates don t have. also when you look at my polling against the democrats, against hillary clinton in a general election, i actually lead her in five states won by president obama. so i m the one republican who can actually gain the independent vote and go to cities and try to get the vote that republicans haven t gotten. we ve got to take a break, but very quickly, a lot of your kentucky supporters, they want you to focus on getting re-el t re-elected in kentucky and forget about the presidential campaign. i haven t forgotten about my day job. i m paid by the taxpayers of kentucky. i try to be here for every vote. i ve made 99% of my votes. i haven t forgotten where i came from and who i represent. stand by, we ve got a lot more to discuss. much more with senator rand paul right after this. the human foot has always been good at.
candy crowley. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. when the u.s. invaded iraq back in march 2003, few people imagined it was the start of a nightmare that would last almost nine years, cost more than 4,000 american lives, plus hundred of billions of u.s. taxpayer doll lors. the u.s. mission in iraq which had been gradually drawing down will instead come to an abrupt end in just over two months with all american forces out of iraq by year s end. president obama himself announced the end of the iraq war. today, i can report that as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. after nearly nine years, america s war in iraq will be over. over the next two months, our troops in iraq, tens of thousands of them, will pack up their gear and board convoys for the journey home. the last american soldier will cross the border out of iraq with their heads held high, proud of their success and knowing that the american people stand unit