s spokesperson responding, saying, we agreed the federal government has a strong role to play in public safety. we are hard and he is taking the issue seriously. a dark cloud looming over all of this, a department of justice investigation into chicago police department over allegations of racism and brutality. its findings could have major ramifications for the police force. the head of chicago s police force, says she expects the investigation will show the solution requires more than law enforcement. job training, doing everything we can to drive down unemployment, provide resources to the kids that are living in poverty, that we have go to schools. this will take a multifaceted approach. speak of the department of justice is expected to release the results of its investigations into the chicago police department right around donald trump s inauguration. bret. bret: matt, thank you. the head of the house foreign
isis and kurdish militants, suicide bombings jumped from five in 2015 to 21 last year. western europe was also a suicide bombing target. is the islamic state loses in the middle east, there is a higher probability of taking actions in western countries. mainly, you re up. the report doesn t include other types of terrorist attacks such as shootings or vehicle attacks like those in europe and the recent one here in jerusalem. a final note on the findings, 10% of the bombings last year were carried out by female attackers, less than previous years, but happening in more countries. bret. bret: john huddy and her middle eastern news. john, thank you. what could be the main event in the unarmed capitol hill combat known as the trump cabin and confirmation hearings gets underway tomorrow. secretary of state rex tillerson is easily the president-elect s most controversial and perhaps come out of the box, selection.
wilderness. nice rhetoric that you read from him, he can deliver a good speech. it doesn t surprise me that his personal approval numbers are quite high. he himself said the election was a referendum on his legacy. he said that. his policy. he begged the audiences, that he really energetically campaigned before, to deliver a victory once again, victory to continue the positive change that he had begun. this election was a repudiation of the policies that have kept this economy quite stagnant, of a foreign policy that was modeled. america went into decline. china was on the rise. we have race relations, i think i m at the debilitated state. the u.s. military polls show deep dissatisfaction with the commander-in-chief. so, while i think his personal approval rating, great family man, great has become a great father. i think he is optimistic about much of america. that s great. boy, electing donald trump couldn t be more of a 180-degree turn from what he initially ran
hearkening back to hope and change. the trouble is, the change came with donald trump this election and he is talking about a blue-collar workers who democrats lost. exactly. he had spent the past several months before the election campaigning against trump and calling him unfit for office. now, he is handing the baton to him and voters rejected a lot of what the president did in his tenure. you see that in the polling average. i think with the president is trying to do here is to use seek to demoralize the democrats, get them engaged in the game, young people, who frankly didn t show up in this election, get them back into the business of rebuilding the party. i am wondering how he operates as an ex-president, and terms of rebuilding the party. you have some who want him very involved, others who are looking. bret: there are some democrats, laurel, who blame him or their party is, in the
translator: there are no circumstances, not the best trade deal investments, support which would justify taking a step that would violate the dignity of mexicans just such an extent. officials are reminding doubters that the president-elect has been able to bend american companies to is well with a twitter account, and is not even president yet. they insist our neighbors to the south will fund a wall one way or another. one of the things the president-elect has talked about his companies are moving out of this country and then going to a place with cheaper labor and trying to sell back, at the expense of american workers, those products. i think there s a way you can utilize some of those taxes and tariffs to help fund this as well. insiders at trump tower today continued defending the newly named senior advisor to the president, jared kushner. allies continue wondering about the appropriateness of the president-elect hiring his 36-year-old son-in-law. allies are insisting the