Ambassador to south korea, mark lippert. The diplomat undergoing nearly three hours of surgery overnight, receiving more than 80 stitches on his face alone. Im bleeding here. Lippert slashed by a teninch knife in the face and arms moments before delivering a speech in seoul on wednesday. The weapon slicing open his left forearm, damaging the nerve system for his fingers. The gash on his right cheek four inches long and an inch deep. South korean surgeons say if the facial injury was any deeper it could have been lifethreatening. Hes one of our top asia policy experts in the u. S. Government. According to witnesses, the suspect, 55yearold king ki jeong pushed the diplomat on to a table before assaulting him. Bystanders tackling him to the ground as Police Rushed him out of the conference room. Witnesses say they heard kim yelling antiu. S. Sentiments shouting the south korea u. S. Military drills must stop a reference to the annual war games which north korea sees as a provocation. Norts say the assailant has a history of similar attacks. In 2010 kim received a suspended prison sentence for throwing a piece of concrete at japanese ambassadors to south korea. President obama calling ambassador lippert, wishing him a speedy recovery. The two close since obama started in the senate in 2005. Lippert tweeting from the hospital doing well in great spirits, will be back asap to advance u. S. south korean alliance. Certainly that was a brave and plucky tweet, chris for him to do. Interesting, it does raise questions about security in south korea. The police saying the u. S. Embassy did not ask for any additional security. You have to say mark lippert looking remarkably cool in the face of that attack. I could not agree with you more. Its spoton how he handled this. But it does raise significant issues. Lets talk about the issues here. We have cnn Global Affairs analyst and managing editor of quartz, bobby ghosh and mr. Daniel pinkston in south korea. Beyond debate is how mr. Lippert seems to have handled this cool under pressure. Youre saying no surprise given his background. Served in iraq he served with the navy s. E. A. L. S, hes a strong guy and a tough guy. It is it would have been a shock because you dont really expect this in south korea, a country where he is well liked. He walks his dog in the street among the public. His dog has its own twitter account. Hes a popular figure there, although hes only been there for a few months. You dismiss it as a madman. This is clearly a madman. There are questions to be asked why the American Ambassador was allowed to go to place without protection when somebody in the embassy intelligence should have seen a guest list this guys name should have brought up a flag or alarm. He was a member of the council that the ambassador was going to address. They had reason to know this man who had the problem in 2010 was a registrant of the event. Yes. An interesting point. Mr. Pinkston obviously south korea is a friend to the u. S. Just the word benghazi gives context to what has happened to people in Foreign Service recently is this somewhat of a call that we have to be more careful in the United States about security surrounding our diplomats . Well before i get to that point i want to correct the last comments in fact the individual kim ki jeong was not a member of that organization the Korean Council for reconciliation and cooperation. There was no reason to know . He was not invited, he walked up and was a walkin guest. They allowed him to go into the event. So there was, the visitors were not vetted and they allowed him to go in and he took advantage of this. Important distinction. Please repeat the question. The question is because this happened at all, is this a little bit of a wakeup call that you do need security around diplomats in no matter where they are in the world now . It shouldnt be a maybe, it should be a must . I think thats correct. Ive been to many similar events in south korea, and with democratization here its very common that people allow different voices theres a feeling that freedom of speech and assembly has to be recognized. And occasionally at academic events for example or conferences, someone will come in and begin shouting statements and so forth, dissidents and they will let them have their say and they will suddenly be escorted out. This is very shocking. The violence that occurred in this case and i think ambassadors have to have tighter security highlevel officials can be subject to these types of deranged attacks. Just the fact just because mr. Lippert handled it you know, with such strength doesnt mean that he wasnt put at great risk. We heard at least one source on it say this could have been lifethreatening given the depth of the wound and how close it was to his neck. A slashing like this is not unheard of among south koreas elite. Right . A former leader had that happen. A current lead centre. President park has a scar that goes down the right side of her face she was attacked in 2006 with a utility knife, 60 stitches in the ambassadors case its 80. I should say this is very very rare. Now there are two incidents and thats pretty remarkable. But its no trend. It is a modern democracy, theres not a huge theres not a tradition of current tradition of Political Violence if you like. And so it would have been a shock, it was a shock for everybody. Mr. Pinkston what isnt shocking is that north korea used it as an opportunity to throw some gas on the fire. How should their comments be interpreted . Well its quite sad, and deplorable. Dy see the statement that their news agency released late this afternoon. Regarding the attack. And it calls it a somewhat justified punishment that was delivered to the ambassador to the american warmongers. This type of bad outcome is consistent with their state ideology. That views the u. S. As an imperialist that seeks to enslave the koreans. Its been modified by the greatest geniuses in the history of humanity. It explains all of their hardships in north korea and Everything Else so this type of event can be explained by their ideology. They claim it a result of the combined exercises that are going on now with the u. S. And the republic of korea and a number of other allies four or five other allied states as well. You dont see what happened to ambassador lippert into any type of window of instability in south korea, correct . No, i dont think so. There is a small fringe of people like this that will engage in violence or think that violence is justified. Theres a slightly larger number that is sympathetic with the north and north koreas policy positions. But i dont think this is a majority or has any influence on overall policy. Mr. Pinkston thank you. Mr. Ghosh, as always. New developments in the emerging controversy over Hillary Clintons use of a personal email account while she served as secretary of state. Clinton herself now speaking out. Cnns Brianna Keilar has the details from washington. Speaking out via twitter. She spoke out in a tweet overnight. This came shortly before midnight. The tweet saying i want the public to see my email. I asked state to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible. And weve heard from the state department that they are going to do this. We dont know obviously how much how all of these will be released. Some of them no doubt will be redacted. We expect this will take some time and the state Department Says that this comes after two days of controversy as we learn that Hillary Clinton used solely a private email account while she was secretary of state. And also that she owns the server that all of her emails were housed on. Really allowing some protection from records requests. Things that experts say were designed to protect her and really make sure that she had a tight control on some of these communications. This is obviously Hillary Clinton and her team after a couple of days trying to ratchet down the controversy that really seemed to be going on and it was going on unrelenting. So it also really speaks to this deep scrutiny that we see Hillary Clinton in. You know john when you look at this this gives us a preview of what were going to see, as Hillary Clinton is very much the democratic frontrunner. And we expect that she is just a few weeks out from declaring her candidacy for president of the you state. And faces questions from republicans and also democrats from republicans, too. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahus big speech to congress barely seemed to budge the needle back home. Look at the poll by israels channel 2 news. 44 of israelis think the speech strengthened support for the Prime Minister. 43 said it had no effect. 12 say it weakened support for the israeli Prime Minister. Another case of radicalization here in the United States. A 17yearold virginia student accused of being an isis recruiter. The Washington Post reports investigators tracked him for more than a month before arresting him. Right now he is charged as a juvenile. But prosecutors want to try him as an adult. Federal investigators say he helped a man travel to syria, where it is believed that man joined isis. Some scary moments aboard a u. S. Airways flight from charlotte to denver. Smoke reported in the planes cockpit. You can see passengers using emergency chutes to evacuate the plane as soon as it landed safely at Denver International airport. The flights 164 passengers and crew were unharmed and they dont know what caused the smoke. You dont want smoke in the cockpit or anywhere else in the plane. Its encouraging when you see people doing what theyre supposed to do in a situation like that. Im impressed by the crew and the passengers on board. Winters grip is packing a new punch, gripping and punching at the same time. A monster storm is slamming much of the nation today from texas to massachusetts, 90 Million People in the path. Getting around this morning is awfully tough. Lets get right to meteorologist chad myers with more. Good morning, chad. Im just man this is 90 Million People in the grips of this warning today. And it is going to continue all the way from new york city what you see in new york right now is nothing like what its going to look like as you drive home tonight. Because the rain has been here all night. But the cold air is pushing in. And the cold air is changing the rain over to sleet and eventually over to snow. This is downtown memphis right now. Not too many people walking the streets today im afraid. Its going to be an ugly day there. Just like its going to be in new york. Youre changing over to snow now and the snows at least four inches. The same story for philadelphia for baltimore, for d. C. D. C. Still raining now. It will change over to sleet and then all snow. Still snowing in memphis, little rock. About to change turnover all snow there in nashville. The roads are slick, theyve been wet all night. Now its getting down below 32 and everything will freeze up. Even though its getting to be the daylight hours, its getting colder. Because the cold front is moving to the southeast. Taking the cold air with it. By the time we get to rush hour d. C. Philly baltimore. All getting snow. Airports are a mess. Over 30 of the flights in and out of the u. S. This morning are canceled. There are the numbers, there are the official numbers. Dallas had about two and a half inches of snow on top of the ice, theyre at 538. Those are cancellations in and out of dallas. If youre flying today, log on or call ahead. This will a tough day. I woke up this morning feeling like hmm, maybe chad everett got it wrong nope. Right on time the end of the day will be a mission. A stunning indictment of Ferguson Missouri Police the Justice Department uncovering systemic racism and a range of abuse against black citizens three members of the force under investigation, one of them fired. What comes next for that embattled missouri town. And lawyers for the boston bomber say he did it. Mistrial . No strategy why they would say this, ahead. Turn around every now and then i get a little bit tired of craving something that i cant have turn around barbara i finally found the right snack [ male announcer ] after John Huntsman was diagnosed with cancer, he founded huntsman cancer institute. 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Seven months after the shooting death of Michael Brown, federal officials have cleared Police OfficerDarren Wilson of any civil rights violations. Michael browns death, though a tragedy, did not prosecutable conduct on the part of officer Darren Wilson. The justice report states that wilson acted in selfdefense. Giving legitimacy to officer wilsons report that 18yearold brown had reached into his car to grab his gun. Investigators agreed that forensic evidence supported officer wilsons testimony that after fleeing the confrontation brown turned around and refused to stop charging at him. Discrediting witness accounts that his hands were up. The report uncovered extensive racism and a highly toxic environment within the Ferguson Police department citing a disturbing pattern of discriminatory and Excessive Force by police against black residents. Our view of the evidence found no no alternative explanation for the disproportionate impact on africanamerican residents other than implicit and explicit racial bias. The report says officers singled out and targeted blacks for various petty violations and even more troubling . Racist remarks in emails involving supervisors about the president and first lady. And disparaging comments about africanamericans. The mayor of ferguson addressed the findings in this investigation late yesterday afternoon, but interestingly enough michaela the police chief did not attend the press conference late yesterday. Very interesting. Conspicuous by his absence. Lets discuss this further. Lets look ahead, mo ivory an attorney and radio host joins me and pastor robert white with the peace of mind church of happiness, a member of clergy united a group that helped protesters communicate with Law Enforcement during the protests in ferguson. Pastor i know were you on the call that attorney general eric holder had with some of the Community Leaders. Im curious what your sense is of the report and what your fellow Community Leaders are saying this morning . Good morning, michaela thank you for having us. Primarily as was stated in the attorney general comments yesterday, is what this report has done is basically put ink and paper to what weve already known. Those of us in this community. This Police Department along with other Municipal Police in court have disproportionately attacked basically the Africanamerican Community in the st. Louis county area. Validation from the Community Members and Community Lead tlers, not a surprise as the pastor mentions mo. So what now is the big question right . Where does the city go . Where does the community go . Do you think its a question of cleaning house, structural change . What do you think needs to happen . Michaela good morning. I think its all of those things i think it starts at the top. File that theres already been a certain amount of disrespect for the report by us not even hearing from the police chief, jackson. I would think that such a first step would have been for him responsible for all these Police Officers 50plus Police Officers responsible for what happened under his reign with the Michael Brown situation. I would think that he would be the first one to step up and say, you know what it is now time for me to resign. I thought he would then next take steps to deal with the mayor. Deal with some of the judges some of the officials that have been blatantly a part of this racism that has come out in the report. But we havent seen that. So im hopeful that you know only you know its been out only for a day. Im hopeful that those are the next steps there are recommendations of course from the Justice Department that they will have to you know ultimately hopefully sign a Consent Decree