listen. when you have former senior adviser sitting at the table with someone like commissioner bratton, an absolute legend with 44 years in senior police command leadership roles, this becomes like alice in wonderland. it s madness. it s completely a bizarre series of circumstances. listen, i think the office of the mayor deserves a lot of respect. it absolutely does. but so does the institution, the noble institution of the nypd. and that hasn t been there. and it s tremendously problematic. well, thank you both very much for joining us. we re obviously going to keep looking at this story. and coming up, president obama has a warning for the new gop- gop-led congress. he has his veto pen and not afraid to use it. and later a brand new poll about 201 shows jeb bush leading the pack of gop hopefuls. that and more as hannity continues.
welcome back to hannity. on saturday thousands of police officers stood outside the church in queens new york for the funeral of officer rafael ramos. a few hundred of those officers turned their backs on new york city mayor bill de blasio as he eulogized the fallen officer who was assassinated last week along with his partner. and yesterday former new york city mayor rudy giuliani said it was about time for mayor de blasio to apologize to the nypd. take a look. i do believe mayor de blasio should apologize to the new york city police department. i said it day one, and i think he d get this over with if he did it. i ve had to apologize for things that i said that were wrong. he created an impression with the police. i don t know that he wanted to do it. he probably didn t. but he created an impression with the police that he was on the side of the protesters. now, some of those protesters are entirely legitimate. but some of those protesters
events and acts like he still deserves the respect they re demanding from him. do you think this can be fixed as mayor de blasio fix do you think he ll actually mean it if he does apologize? as far as de blasio and the police department, it cannot be fixed because de blasio s not the leader that the police department needs to carry out their job. they can do it completely by themselves. they don t need de blasio to actually create problems for the police department. just be silent and let bratton run the police department. it will be fine. but you have to see something here katie. de blasio thinks that an apology is what nypd wants. they don t want that. they want to be able to exercise their job as police officers to the letter of the law for these demonstrators so they can stop these demonstrations and the attitude and the disrespect before it starts not what de
not hundreds, thousands. right. well, can you talk to us a little bit about what the officers were saying why did they want to do that? what were they saying about officer ramos? because they were there to remember him. everyone s upset with the mayor but this was really ability remembering a great man who lost his life too soon. the moon as all police funerals i ve been to many many, many of them was extremely somber. more somber this time than any i think before. i think that has to do with the horrific circumstances of the double assassination. i think it struck to the core. put an ice pick in the heart of the nypd as an institution. it alerted them. it horrified them to the extent of the savagery that occurred. this wasn t a gunfight on a rooftop with a bank robber. this was two guys having a roast beef sandwich in broad daylight in a marked radio car on a quiet saturday afternoon. horrific. and i think it absolutely stilled the heart of the nypd. now, mark, there s been a lo
blasio blasio s doing is placating and talking to these demonstrators and the leaders of these demonstrations like they somehow have a valid, i guess, right to disrespect the nypd. this is where i mean this is the line. as a former detective for the nypd do you think that bill de blasio should resign? that s a very difficult question. and i concur with mark on many levels as it relates to how much will an apology do. listen. when you have former senior adviser sitting at the table with someone like commissioner bratton, an absolute legend with 44 years in senior police command leadership roles, this becomes like alice in wonderland. it s madness. it s completely a bizarre series of circumstances. listen, i think the office of the mayor deserves a lot of respect. it absolutely does. but so does the institution, the noble institution of the nypd. and that hasn t been there. and it s tremendously