Those stories and more ahead. The new york city grand jury decided not to indict the officer in the killing of eric garner. Iran is conducting air strikes against i. S. I. L. What appeared to be an f4 phantom jet. If iran is taking on i. S. I. L. That in fact is positive. Oil prices are plunging. From caracas to tehran to moscow, countries that count on High Oil Prices are bracing for tough time. Scott panetti lives to see another day. His lawyers say he is too ill to suffer capital punishment. Barack obama in in the white house, he thought washington would change by his mere presence. Nasa is getting ready to launch, a vehicle that could carry stroants t astronauts to r mars. Another controversial decision in a involved police and minorities. A grand jury in new york city decided not to charge a officer who killed a black man in Staten Island. Officer pantdaler pantal ler i. I said leave me alone. I cant breathe, i cant breathe. 11 times garner, an asthmatic, said he couldnt breathe. Moments later he was dead. Civil rights investigation, president obama summed up frustrations voiced by many minorities about their dealings with police. People just do not have confidence that folks are being treated fairly. This is an american problem and no, sir just a black problenot a brown problem. When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, thats a problem. And its my job as president to help solve it. [applause] and new yorks mayor pleaded for calm. We really want to di dignifye life of eric garner you will do so through peaceful protest. You will not sully his name with violence or vandalism. That doesnt bring us closer to a better community. And the new York Police Department boosted presence throughout the city but protests moved throughout manhattan some at Grand Central station. Andy king, thomas ruskin, responsible for Crisis Management for the mayor and the police commissioner. He is now president of the cmp protective and investigative group. Its very good to have you with us. Tom we saw that terrible video of what happened there, the Police Officer put mr. Garner in a choke hold. The choke hold is banned by the Police Department in new york. Its not illegal however. But you know with all this evidence, weve seen, even though all of it has not been released, seeing this video its difficult to believe is it not that he was not at least indicted on some charge . No, not to me. I have been there during these type of arrests. I have seen someone of eric garners size resist arrest. You see very clearly in this video the way i view it, that the officers are telling him to put his hands behind his back, he is going to be arrested. He is double i the size of any officer there. You are going to see him under arrest. But five officers four literally on top of him as hes saying i cant breathe i cant breathe wasnt that an overreaction . Well at the point in time where he doesnt breathe you have to render him first aid. It is the only thing i see thats disturbing after mr. Garner is on the ground. You have to make sure as a Police Officer you have to arrest the person but you also have to make sure the person is alive and well to stand trial at a later date. Councilman, to his point, there was some resistance by mr. Garner, he was exative not physically but flailing his hands, he was argumentive. As we watch the video, we see a young man frustrated by feeling he is being harassed by nypd. When i see the video and i see a man being taken down and calls out he cant breathe he cant breathe, when do the officers on scene decide to make a decision via their own policies, you have a responsibility to step in and stop that activity or youd be held accountable for whatever happens to the alleged perpetrator. And again were talking about a young man who has been taken down for selling cigarettes and still today we dont know a charge because there is no evidence of anything. They were going after him for an extremely minor crime of selling cigarettes. This was not in theory a very dangerous situation. But to toms point again there was that resistance. Does that make a difference as you go to a grand jury . This is where we get to the point are we talking about the act or do we talk about the history that gets us to this place . Because when i look at this video it appears i see a number of officers caucasian, you go out into the wild and youre trying to take down a bear. Were going to do what we have to do. Were going to have this conversation with him because this is what we feel about him because the history between Law Enforcement and blacks in one. When you walk into the scenario do you treat him as the regular working man who is abiding the law or do you look at him as history has dictated . First of all, it is not illegal to put someone in a choke hold. Its against department policy. The grand jury heard all the evidence which we dont even know what they heard at this point in time, and they decided based on the preponderance of the evidence the totality of the evidence not to indict the officer. We are sworn at some level to abide and support the constitution of the united states. Our constitution called for a grand jury. The grand jury heard the evidence and decided that there was no crime committed by this officer. Right but doesnt this raise questions about our system, just as the ferguson case raised those questions . Especially in this case we have Staten Island is the most conservative of new york bureaus and the prosecutor here is an elected official in Staten Island. So he also knows his constituency. Prosecutors also work closely with police all the time. So can you be confident that a prosecutor under those circumstances would be aggressive in a grand jury going after a Police Officer . I think this law, i know enough people in the judicial process and can steer a conversation to direct juries to go anywhere you want them to go in the conversation. I think right here we have to figure out how do we make sure that justice and fairness is served to all americans all new yorkers and i think thats what hasnt happened. We keep acting like america doesnt have a racial divide. Its built on a racial divide. When we still have conversations around communities of color, theres something wrong. If grand juries decide not to return an indictment, this is your son, if you could see yourself in this scenario, you could find enough theres significant presence on that grand jury though. But to the councilmans again [simultaneous speech] there is no evidence that they were picking on mr. Brown there because he was a man of color but i agree with the councilman that Police Departments around this country have to study these things and make better efforts at bringing the communities together. That white officers have to work black communities and they have to do Community Policing and they have to understand the neighborhoods that theyre patrolling and thats very important. I want to talk about that a little more in a second. But i want to ask you about the system so you get your word in here because you were a detective for the Police Department. You know how you guys work closely with prosecutors. Do you think its a fair system to have a prosecutor having to push for an indictment of a Police Officer, if youve got that very close relationship . Should there not be in these cases a special prosecutor someone from the outside working on the grand jury . Because you know as well as i do, the saying out there you can dieghtindict a ham sandwich if e prosecutor wants to. In this case they cant indict a Police Officer after a tragic death. No matter how you look at it, its a tragic death, we lost a young man who was a resident in the city, theres nothing going to give in to me that the officer went out there that morning and saying, this is going to happen. Relative to your system its the system we live with. This system dieghts Police Indicts officers for acts they commit every single day. We have an officer in another city who shot someone that he believed had a gun, the officer shot him, that officer is under indictment and in prison today. It doesnt work every single time but it does work. I guess weve got two very volatile case necessary a row are where a lot of people are raising questions about whether the system does work. I want to raise a question to you, about talking about the relationship of the new york city Police Department, its a diverse Police Department, its almost half minorities. Representative peter king, new york congressman made the argument today that the nypd has made an enormous difference in minority communities making them much safer over the past decades. In general this should not be an indictment of the Police Department . No, its not an indictment of the Police Department. This should be a conversation to indict a system ha that has constantly failed communities of color. If we were having this conversation about different people around because we come in different hues and colors and shapes. But we always seem every six months or every year we have a conversation around a man of color being killed by the hands of Law Enforcement. Something is flawed somewhere along the line. How do we correct or improve the relationship between Law Enforcement and communities of color . Very quick. In this city we dont see that. And a quick answer, weve got Police Cameras, federal funding going to Police Cameras on the bodies of Police Officers. Difference. Do you think it could help sometime in the future . It could only help if we look at the video and call it what it is. We cant look at the video because we have prejudicial thoughts in our mind, and we make a decision based on those bridg prejudices. It will help the Police Officer, it will show if the person they arrested was also guilty of the crime he was arrested for. Thomas ruskin, councilman andy king. Go to our social media producer, hermela aregawi. I cant breathe the last words eric garner uttered, this stops today and black lives matter. Many protesters gathered in several location in new york city, los angeles and washington, d. C, some layingen the ground in clusters as part of what are being called dieins, celebrities shared their reactions, after Jessie Williams say, guy choked to death in front of all of us is not looked into. Rapper added, more reactions online jay says the man is unarmed the choke hold is banned, the coroner ruled it a homicide, none of this matters, i cant breathe. Eunice says, nonof this matters, i ex expletive all the time. Some people feel we talk too much about race, really . How tired do you think i am worried about my future son. But shaquan said, some people blame for everything, when no race is present. Let us know what you think, join the conversation online, ajconsiderthis. Antonio back to you. Harchtion thanks hermella. An aerial attack by four us made f4 phantom jets are sending shock waves because they are part of the iranian affairs. Caught by camera, in a 25 mile buffer zone as tehran has declared inside iraq near its border with iran. In the meeting in brussels on wednesday. If iran is taking on i. S. I. L. In some particular place, and its confined to taking on i. S. I. L. And has an impact its going to be a net effect as positive. For more on the fight against i. S. I. L. And irans increasingly open role in that war im joined from orlando by michael rejent, who served as a Senior Intelligence officer between 2004 and 2007, adjunct professor at the international university. Good to have you on the show. What do you think about secretary kerrys comment . His comment about iran taking on i. S. I. L. In iraq is a good thing. Its what the the sunnis think. The strategic message of saying iranian air strikes in iraq against i. S. I. S. Target might be a good thing sends a bad message to sunnies that we need to fight i. S. I. S. If iran is getting more involved because we need the sunnies to start helping in the fight against i. S. I. S . We do. Both iran and the abadi government have denied that iran is conducting air strikes in iraq but our pentagon and secretary kerry have stated that that may indeed be the case. There are reports going back to june of iranian jets actioning targets in iraq. Targeteers people planning missions in the military operations in iraq, working with the shia militia and security forces, in and around the shia areas and along the sectarian fault lines. So they are there, and with these reports of iranian air strikes in iraq, its a little concerning to the sunnies that we do need to fight i. S. I. S. They have official ly been sited, we have this al jazeera video showing seemingly iranian planes bombing inside iraq. Theyre demonstrating their capability, and i dont think they feel constrained by the International Community or the u. S. To not do these air strikes. There are reports theyre doing them in syria as well. These jets are fairly old, theyre not entirely accurate. They were given to the iranians in the 1960s and 70s before the Ayatollah Khomeini took power. What kind of munitions are they using in iraq . Im not sure but whether you see the Assad Air Force using barrel bombs, there are reports, not reports, confirmation, confirmed reports that the Iraqi Air Force used barrel bottoms in Alan Al Anbar province. It could be perceived that the u. S. Is backing not backing the iranian air strikes, but taking credit for it or in concert with it. The u. S. Saying its not coordinating these air strikes with iran, presumably our command centers in qatar and kuwait and we can follow these iranian planes so we can know where they are. But is there a risk of a clash between the u. S. And the coordinated . This is the first time that the u. S. Military has allowed air space to be shared with adversarially air forces. Were allowing air space to be shared with Assads Air Force in syria. This is unprecedented. This is not something that our u. S. Military does. We own the air space. What theyre saying is these iranian planes are doing this in support of iraqi forces. They are coordinating with our iraqi allies. Is this just semantics because theres certainly indirect coordination. When we conduct air strikes we have somebody on the ground it is not basically the iranian air force, the bad guys are over there, lets go drop a bomb because i. S. I. S. Is operating there. Thats not the same as from the u. S. Military prospect. Ali kadari, a special assistant to five u. S. Ambassadors to iraq, he has told that where the gloves have come off, in effect the leader of lebanon, syria, iraq and yemen in representation of his boss, irans supreme leader. So is iran do you think calling the shots now in all these countries . Well, sulimani has had the portfolio in iraq and syria and his major effort when we were in iraq was to inflict u. S. Casualties lethal aid that flowed into sunni militias. Iranian military are very comfortable partnering, with the ones in baghdad and the shia areas. They are very comfortable. And this could force officers or working with the shia officers as well. So its not surprising to those who have followed sulimani in the past years. Very broad part of that region, michael pregent good to have you with us. From the host of meet the press chuck todd joins us next. Also oil prices are plunging. Well look at the positives and the negatives for us here in the u. S. What do you think . A dirty deal. Struck at the heart of government. Egypt mismanaged its gas industry. Taking the country to the brink of economic ruin. Its obvious that egypt was being ripped off. Its basically saying to the israelis, look if you want to screw us, heres a tool you can use to screw us. Al jazeera exposes those who made a fortune betraying an entire nation. You dont feel that you owe an explanation to the egyptian people . No. No. Al jazeera investigates. Egypts lost power. December 17th. 10 00 eastern. On Aljazeera America. Barack obama swept into the white house in 2008 with his message of hope and change and the promise to end the Political Polarization plaguing washington. After six years in office, partisan politicking has, failed to master the political process and partly because of unrelenting republican, the pair paradoxes of the Obama Presidency is laid out in the book. The moderator of meet the press and the author of the stranger barack obama and the white house. Chuck good to see you. Thanks for having me on, appreciate the invitation. Youre welcome. You wrote that the president was disdainful of the process of politics. Its like bill gates not liking computers. How could someone who dislikes those aspects of politics so much then master the process to win two terms of president . He loves the campaigning. There are two different types of politics. What he doesnt like is washington politics. Much of the public greez with grease with agrees with him. He is disgusted with the way washington conducts business. When he used this phrase all the time, turn the page, it was the phrase to knock the clintons and also the bushes. To break out of the politics we were in. He struggled to do it and theres two types of politicking, there is campaigning and thats something the president enjoys it, you see the difference. When hes out campaigning, there is a bounce in his step, a santa cat ow stac stacatto in his voice. You blame part of it on arrogance. On capitol hill, he was an outsider and too cool and aloof and unable to play the game. Obama is wired differently, believing that the rational should overcome