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>> a whole hour. >> it was fast. >> that's it for us tonight. i'm don lemon. >> ac 360 starts right now. >> thank you for joining us. live edition of ac 360. breaking news on two fronts. an arrest in the disappearance of hannah graham. after a big day here in new york. new video of co-legislation forces hitting targets today. these clips come from social
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media taken according to people who shot it in the syrian city. a total of eight strikes. activists say in day light as well as in darkness. american air strikes. cnn cannot independently confirm whether or not they are that. or from saudi or emiratee jets. pro isis rally on the streets of a town. this video posted by twitter accounts sympathetic to the group. the crowd chanting for isis, al nusra denouncing the saudi family. president obama chairing the u.n. security council winning passage of a resolution on terrorism. earlier he addressed the general assembly. issuing a tough new call for every country to do what it can to combat violent extremism and making a case for war against isis. vowing to dismantle the terror group's network of death. at lay ya the alliance, netherland and belgium as well.
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joining us now, chief correspondent, jim sciuto. what is the latest? many targeted isis oil assets. >> that's right, andersen. a visible demonstration of alliance in the air strike. told by senior official. 2/3 of aircraft were not american. saudi planes. from united arab emirates. move ni munitions dropped by coalition and ties to the president's message in the address to the u.n. general assembly. a call to arms, a global fight. must be a global fight against the group with military action, as well as the, tackling their funding, flow of foreign fighter. etc. you saw a demonstration of that today. there are capabilities raqqa. those weren't hit because of risk to operations. these that were hit were in an isolated area. do we know how much revenue they
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actually generate for isis? estimates range from 2 million, $3 million a day. close to a billion a year. get to one of isis' supreme advantages. it has the its own revenue stream from oil as well as from other sources, ransoms. it robs banks. as wells it has an overseas stream funding coming in from groups outside the country. you saw today the u.s. and coalition attacking in effect, two of those revenue streams. one, one, oil facilities inside the country where they were able to smuggle this out and sell it on the open market. but also the resolution, you mentioned anderson. going after the funding that comes from outside the country. requiring all 193, u.n. member states, nato, in, in u.n., rather to stop that revenue stream. stop the flow of foreign fighters. make it a crime in all the countries to fund these groups. the intention is, to cut off the funding and by doing that you take away one of its, enormous
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advantages. >> appreciate the reporting. update now. cnn global affairs analyst, rick francona and, a former navy seal coordinator of hostage working group of u.s. embassien baghdad. they're trying to hit the pocketbook. >> they're in the desert. risk of casualties was minimized. in keeping cut off the funding. we sawen air strik ein air stri. hit the finances and oil fields as well. the economic portion. a list of preplanned targets. >> you have said that the u.s. strategy you said has the a lot of holesen i ein it.
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explain that. >> we announce we are going to do something 12 days ago. starting the air strike campaign. ultimate low, isil, isis, they're going to fall back into the population. won't be that many targets. with collateral damage even going after all oil refineries. where are we going to be in two, three months when we have taken off the option of putting combat troops on the ground. air strikes alone are not going to solve this problem. >> you can loon k at israel fryg to got to hamas by the air. only so much you can do without killing large numbers of sieve vilians. >> far from ideal situation. this is the situation. >> the card that obama has been dealt. there is no appetite in this country for boots on the ground. it know it clear american boots on the ground are going to be the solution. what you, what you are fryingtro do right now is change the narrative. so far the narrative has been isis takes whatever territory it wants.
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isis hold territories it takes. that narrative has to be changed. there has to be some way to push isis back. two reasons. one we saw all the young people coming from around the world to join, they think twice before doing that. all these tribes. particularlien iraq. supporting isis they now begin off to think twice. they are joined because they see isis as the a, successful force. isis begins to change the narrative. if we join isis, we are earning the wrath of the world. >> colonel francona, to dan's point. untemperature theil there is a ground able to engage isis mill faerl -- militarily, syria or iraq not a change of isis possessions look at maps before the bombing and now. in iraq. isis positions are unchanged. >> that's a success story. if you look at what was going on before the bombing.
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isis was running down the euphrates and tigriss valley. the purpose was blunt that. change the narrative. stop them where they are now. we have to get a ground force in to start rolling them back that. has to be done. you can't allow these people to sit on the territory. in iraq, we have a ground force to do that. they're just not capable right now. hopefully they will be. the question is -- after you get them out of iraq. then what happens? the syria portion of this is, the real key. dan, how skeptical are you about the training, so-called moderate syrian rebldz. the u.s. talking vetting 5,000, doing it over the course of 12, 18 months. do you buy this? is this just a fant sasy? >> no, it doesn't pass the smell test the i have been doing foreign internal defense for two decades. in my, in my, in my back ground.
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and my, many of my peers have expressed the same. the syrian free army that might have had an option a few years ago, has, has largely been wiped out. bashir al assad, effort to take on syrian free army, if isis, isil rosen t ein the wake. whatever is left of syrian free army to train them in a year. what will you have in a year you. don't have a basic infantry soldier. i am not optimistic. frankly we don't have 12, 15 much month. the air campaign will solve short term problems going after the financing, so on, so forth. the rally, in the arab modern, military, aviation, there is only been one war, no battles won. one war stopped by any form of air strike, world war ii. hiroshima, nagasaki. don't think that is on the table. taken a lot of options off the table.
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hamstrung us. it doesn't give us a lot of other options. that still need off to be on the table. we are telegraphing, we are, we are, and we are with hoefholdin options on the table. we should never do that. >> bobby, you spent all the time in iraq. covered it for a lot of years. problems are well known with iraqi military. a new government in place. the government is quick to say, new president. prime minister. still no interior menster. no defense minister. still no real clear plan the table, beside word reaching out to sunni groups. reforming the iraqi ml terry. the u.s. was building the iraqi mel ter military for more than ten years. more than 100,000 u.s. troops on the ground. still clams edslaps collapsed. >> the elements of the military that were in the north. were possibly, the worst. because the government was so
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shiite centric. >> secretary of state john kerry told chrrist yahristiane amanpo would have fallen. >> if you told me mosul would have fallen. nothing is impossible. best elements of iraqi military were protecting baghdad. and shiite areas. the trick is to persuade the government to get the best men in the front lines do more than word. reach out off to the tribes. say to them, you break away from isis. we will give you a seat at the table. >> requires skon fi dense. >> requires confidence. statesmanship. requires political skill of an art that they haven't shown. >> colonel. >> very quickly. >> leadership of the iraqi army was gutted. caused the collapse of it. >> generals -- generalship. >> al maliki replaced sunni
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generals with shiite cronies and led off to the collapse. >> got to get new generals in. takes time. appreciate it. thank you. great to have you as always the set your dvr, watch 360 when you want. assessing president obama's impact today at the u.n. critics were looking for leadership. look at whether the president dlifrmentd and the breaking news in hannah graham's disappearance. police have been looking for a suspect to. night he has ben apprehended. details on that ahead. ally beauk with consistent comfort. find your perfect color and get a free trial offer at airoptixcolors.com. find your perfect color and get a free trial offer big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy.
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it is morning right nowen the middle east. battle damage assessment under way after today's fresh round of attacks on targets especially oil smuggling business. president obama spending the night in town in new york after a busy day as we said at united nations. he spoke first at the general assembly. >> mr. president, mr. secretary-general, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, we come together. >> president obama shepherded an anti-terrorism measure. earlier tonight, i asked david gergen to sum up what the world saw from the united states and how it differs from what it had been seeing until now.
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david said we are back in leadership, the president is a forceful president. more on what went into the change of tone from jim acosta. >> they may try to return to their home countries to carry out deadly attacks. >> he told the new iraqi prime minister to brace himself for a long battle. >> this is not something that is going to be easy. no god condones the terror. >> hours earlier in a tough talking speech, the president urged the world to join forces to destroy isis. as he warned the terror group soldiers to clear off the
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battlefield. >> the only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. so the united states of america will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death. >> but mr. obama also took aim at the root causes of violent extremism with a candid message to muslims everywhere. >> it is time for the world, especially muslim communities, to explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of organizations like al qaeda and isis. no external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds. >> aide say the president added a mention of the riots in ferguson, missouri to acknowledge the u.s. isn't perfect. >> so, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. >> still the president didn't win over any adversaries. moments after he slammed russia for its actions in ukraine, moscow's delegation was caught on camera laughing. and syria's ambassador to the
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u.n. accused the u.s. of siding with arab partners that support terrorism. >> you cannot be a terrorist while fighting terrorists. this is why i am saying usa need reliable partners such as syria, iraq, and the other secular governments in the area. >> the syrian ambassador of the u.n., calling syria a reliable partner. jim acosta, tough remarks from the president. anything that he didn't say that stood out to you? >> absolutely. anderson, what was missing from this speech is what victory against isis will look like. and when it will happen. that's for obvious reasons. the president doesn't have the answers to the questions. as you said earlier, this will be a jen rationale struggle. political translation of that, andersen. he is likely to hand the war off off to his successor. >> no doubt. jim acosta, u.s. backed security council measure 2178 calls on all countries to suppress,
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recruiting, organizing, transporting, equipping financing of foreign terrorist fighters. states that foreign fighters may pose a serious threat to their states of origin, states they transit and the states to which they travel. that is the fear about fighters in the war. >> reporter: across the nation it is one of the top security concerns. foreign fighters, currentlien syria and iraq, returning home to america to launch a lone wolf attack. >> interpol enhancing international databases to help border control agents around the world better identify terrorists and more effectively share that information globally. >> working very closely with interpoll in order to prioritize the information that they keep on foreign terrorist fighters. the alert system can help countries identify suspected terrorists quickly and get the data to other officials.
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red notices or wanted identify terrorists for arrest and prs cushion in u.s. courts. blue notices or be on the lookout, flag possible terror suspects. and green notices alert authorities to hundreds of foreign nationals who have been to both iraq and afghanistan. >> need to be able to identify them, working with our partners before they come back and cause harm. aawe during the u.n. general assembly this week, america's top national security prosecutor, john carland has been mounting a full press with 30 global counterparts to use the interpol system to shut down foreign fighters. >> how do you think this will help stem the flow? >> one of the most critical aspect of stemming the flow of terrorist fighters, making sure each country as they gather information about who the individuals are has a mechanism for sharing it quickly. >> countries including turkey, canada, and the u.s., will continue to have access off to interpol data and biometrics to i didn't tie and stop jihadee
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fighters before it is too late. >> deborah, all that you said is true. certainly seems like the lack of sharing information is critical here. especially countries like, turkey. who, who where a lot of the foreign fighters were going to syria. where they are crossing over into. i have talked to people along the border. they say it is obvious who is crossing over to start fight. >> exactly right. one of the things is, that in r interpol has mechanisms. when people go into other countries they can beflagged. a huge database that america could access. turkey. amsterdam, netherlands. everybody sharing all right information. you know who is coming in and out. that is not happening. the best software in the world. if people aren't putting in the right information nobody is going to know who is entering which country. >> you also have the problems of european passports. once somebody gets into europe. they've can travel, anywhere, and a lot of the countries, it is not as if you are flying directly to, to iraq or flying directly to syria. you are going through a,
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circuitous route. >> that is right. your passport may never have indication you have been to any country. they are adept at moving around under the radar they know this. they take advantage of that. so, you know the u.s. government is really working hard with its, its different partners to make sure that whatever information is out there. whatever information is a available. if somebody does come through turkey. been gone too long. that data is put into the system. so that officials know what to look for. a border agent. smart border agent could look at a passport. understand the length of time they've been away and ask the right questions. don't have the base line or data. it is not going to work. >> the countries signed on to security council resolution. we will see if this more is than a paper promise. thank you very much. >> for more on the story, and other getz s go to cnn.com. breaking news in the search for the missing college student. hannah graham. a suspect is now in custody. details just ahead.
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>> welcome back. in other breaking news, authorities have arrested the man they have been looking for in connection with missing student heather graham. sophomore disappeared 12 days
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ago. jesse matthews in custody in texas 1,000 miles from charlottesville, virginia. matthew was the last person to be seen with her. here's what the charlottesville police chief said about the arrest. >> we are here tonight to announce that because of the collaborative efforts of the federal bureau of investigation and state and local law enforcement across this nation, jesse matthew is in custody in galveston, texas. now we won't go into the circumstances that led to that custody taking place, but by the grace of god and the good work of the galveston sheriff's office, it took place. >> jeanne, joining me with the latest the what more do we know about this, jeanne? >> i have been able to confirm he is booked in the galveston county jail. he was arrested at 3:30 this afternoon on the beach. he wasn't brought into the station until 8:00 local time.
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and he was continued to be questioned. so, they have been questioning him for a while now. we have got to remember, a missing person's case. hannah graham in about an hour she well have been gone 12 days. i think foremost on their mind is where is hannah and maybe that he can help. now, we are also learning from kprc in houston that a galveston county judge said that what happened was a suspicious phone call was made to the galveston county sheriff avenue department because somebody saw someone is a tent on the beach. so they want down there. ran the license plate on the car. that came up as hot. and they moved in. they arrested him. he did not at all combat when they were trying to arrest him. they held him. but, but, more information we are learning is that virginia north are going to texas tomorrow morning. the court proceeding should be tomorrow. extradition proceeding.
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he can fight it. waive it come back to virginia to face the charges. at this point, it is abduction of hannah graham that he is facing. a 40 year felony maximum. >> the question is what happened to hannah graham. authorities don't seem like they're any closer to necessarily finding her at this point? >> you know, anderson, what the, police chief told you earlier is the latest. they're asking land owners, any bed that has big plots of land to actually look on their land. and see if they find anything unusual. a couple days ago it was tire tracks on mrplots of land they' looking for. the current charge is a kidnapping charge. so that it has nothing to do with death or homicide. they're waiting for the forensic evidence off to come of in. i've spoke with the, the lab today. that is in richmond. they're still testing forensically. items from the car, apartment should have the results in a couple days that may led to charges. >> authorities did have two
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encounters with jesse matthew, first at his apartment. when he voluntarily came into the police station for questioning. asked for an attorney. is there any indication from authorities what happened in between the tweam that he left the police station to when they charged with him abduction with intend to defraud. >> he said items of evidentiary value from the car and from the apartment led in part to the arrest on the abduction. items of evidentiary value. now we know the forensics are still being done. so it could mean personal effects of hannah, her cell phone, purse, wallet. also asking for a week for witnesses to come forward, saw them. and saw the demeanor. when some one is abducted. force, intimidation, and what did the people see and hear when the two were togetheren t ein t restaurant and walking out. >> jeanne, thank you.
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>> former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. they found this guy 1,300 miles away. you actually said legally speaking, fleeing from police is consciousness of guilt. can you explain this. >> yeah, i think they were looking for an excuse to take him into custody. because they knew he was the last person who had been with hannah. that was the piece of evidence that they had. but that's not evidence of criminality. when he came to the police station and asked for a lawyer they chose not to question him further. he want out. gotten his car. and, then they said he fled at high speed. now, fleeing from the police who are investigating a crime, is considered what the law calls consciousness of guilt. that added just one additional factor to the case that maybe was enough off to convince a judge to issue an arrest warrant. on these charges. as jeanne has said. they say they have recovered items of evidentiary value. that suggests to me that maybe they have things that suggest he was in his car or apartment.
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but of course, defense attorneys will say that is not evidence of criminality. maybe they were out together on a date. >> charge abduction with attempt to defile. i never heard that before. >> a very strange charge which exists under virginia law. i noted when i was looking at the murder stach out tute in vi. if you abduct with some body intent to defile, and the judge defined that as sexual abus or rape of the victim. that supports the death penalty in virginia. this is being set up as a death penalty case if hannah ternz out to have been killed as a result of this incident. interestingly, maybe giving hope off to the family. no murder has been charged here so far. they would have charged murder if they thought they could support the charge. >> when i tacked to the police chief early on, there wasn't probable cause. so the fact that he fled the scene that gave them probable cause.
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you think they let hem im go. >> think they set it up deliberately. at first thought they were idiots. >> tailing him at the time. >> i think what happened was they put, probably, it was supposed to be a quiet tail on him. he probably picked up the fact he was being tailed. increased speed. got away. they then said, that was reckless driving. so, he commit aid crime. the crime of reckless driving. and he was fleeing a police investigation. so they then, went to a magistrate and said to the scio guilt. last person with the victim. enough for a warrant. >> is it possible. he could try to fight extradition. >> he can. it is very, very difficult. extradition only requires two things. one, whatever he is charged with in virginia would be a crime in texas too. that is the case here. and he is the person named in the warrant. that's it. texas doesn't have the right to have a hearing about whether there was enough evidence to, uf the warrant. that will, that battle will be fought when he is brought back
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to virginia. >> how long do you think it would be before he was brought back? >> interesting. if they don't have much of a case against him. this thing is going to give law enforcement authorities in virginia mr. tiore time to investigate. he can be held in texas for as much as 60 days dealing with the extradition. puts him in custody. virginia can continue to investigate and hopefully develop more evidence to support the charges. because some day they're going to wind offen cou enup in court. need more than ape guy fleeing. they need more evidence. >> why would a defense attorney fight extradition if it is not a winnable battle. time? >> they almost never do. they usually waive extradition. 90% of the time. in fact i think that will happen here. if he goes back to virginia. he has to have a hearing. presentation to the grand jury right away. stays in texas gives them time to investigate. >> all right. thank you. appreciate it. >> search in rural pennsylvania's, hundred of law enforcement officers looking for
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the man who took down one of their own. tonight a new perspective on the suspect in the killing of the police officer. appeared in a documentary about vietnam war re-enactors. speak to filmmakers and clips from the film, in which eric frein spekaks. >> not a re-enactment. it is teaching the public and showing the equipment that was used talking about the history of it all. what's your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, this can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain, and improve daily physical function so moving is easier. because just one 200mg celebrex a day
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tonight a new perspective. for 12 days. 1,000 law enforcement officers searching for eric frein. there have been a number of possible sightings. he continues to elude capture. now investigators describe frein as a survivalist and war re-enactor. he appeared in an upcoming documentary about vietnam war re-enactors, vietnam appreciate day. here is a clip from the documentary.
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>> my name is eric frein. here at a vietnam remembrance day. >> how do you feel having been to a few of these that the re-enactment went to day? can you give us a commentary on that? >> the re-enactment that we saw today was -- hard to call it a re-enactment. a bunch of guys went out. popped off some blanks. it's to commemorate the veterans. not really to play army. to, basingly, enact a fantasy. >> the filmmakers, join me now, and thank you for joining us. did anything stick out. did anything surprise you about him? >> sure, andersen. he was quite aloof.
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many re-enactors are really good people. they're historians. they love the history channel. and they're, out to, kind of express their hobby, physically, for the public. to do -- education. eric -- kind of kept himself to the side. he had mannequins he brought that he dressed in uniforms. he was very meticulous about the layout of the mannequins, weaponry that were with them. >> it is also interesting. in the clip we showed. he seems like he doesn't want to criticize them. he is not happy with the level of the re-enactment that he just, just took part in.
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specific. precise. what he did. he preferred to do what they call, tactical re-enactments. that are private. and performed in the woods. where they actually go out and hunt the, you know, in this case, viet cong. so that, that, he did that, quite a lot. so that, that makes a lot of sense to me that, he might have just snapped and took the fantasy a little bit, well way more seriously. >> also indicates certainly that he feels comfortable in the wood. a huge concern for law enforcement. patrick, i want to play another clip. he is expressing disappointment at the lack of accuracy in this. >> you don't really do anything with the public as far as teaching them anything. it is's not vietnam.
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we are in the middle of pennsylvania. we are in a revolutionary war fort. not a place to try to re-enact the battle. that's my personal opinion. >> he certainly seemed to have very strong idea about how things should be re-enacted. he was quite ambivalent. re-enactors are clans. from different regions. these events are a time when they can all come together. kind of show off what weaponry they've been collecting. show off their uniforms. most of them are, decent people. eric was there. he thought he was better than them. supposed to be a social gathering. he was looking at people critically. >> seemed to be taking it to another level that some of the others perhaps weren't. or, viewed it differently.
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yvette, the culture that re-enactors are steeped in. fascinating you show in your film. i understand a lot have collections of vintage weapons and are concerned about police taking them away from them, is that right? >> yes. you know, the re-enactments are a place where violence is -- basically acted out. they collect a lot of weapons. they have all kind of weapons. antique weapons. but also more modern. ak 47s. m-16th. i guess hoarding wep pon ining . there is a culture. they will come and take our guns. i think with eric being out there right now. and the fbi following him. they, they might be concerned.
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i'm curious. when you heard that people were searching for him. what you were doing. and went through your mind. you went wait a men out. this is the guy that we spent time with. that we have in our film. >> it was shocking. our field producer in pennsylvania, sent us the news on line. and in this hobby, there -- there is a small percentage that, that, take too seriously. that are hoarding weapons. and the empowerment that they feel when they're re-enacting and holding thee weapons and being photographed. there is the point that gets blurred. and the soldier. that's what we are seeing here with eric. >> fascinating. appreciate you spending time with us. and thank you so much. >> thank you. >> just ahead tonight. new tensions erupt in ferguson,
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the united nations, president obama called on nations to reject extremism and preempted critics saying this. >> in a summer marked by instability in the middle east and eastern europe another world took notice of the small american city of ferguson, missouri. where a young man was killed. and a community was divided. so, yes -- we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. and like every country, we continually wrestle with how to reconcile the vast changes wrought by globalization and greater diversity with traditions we hold dear. >> president obama's mention of ferguson was timely. tensions flared again in the small town where michael brown was unarmed shot dead in august. much anger directed at the prosecutor who convened the grand jury who will decide to whether to indict darren wilson. in a rare interview he sat down.
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>> reporter: a new explosion of v of violence in ferguson, missouri. >> this behavior will not be tolerated. the safety of the officers in the community will be maintained. >> the fresh unrest. a reminder of the tension still simmering in this small town. tensions that could reach a full boil depending on the actions of the saint louis county grand jury. more than six weeks after officer wilson shot and killed michael brown. >> why did you decide to take this case to the grand jury? >> a couple reasons, one is that forever we have taken all homicide cases to the grand jury. >> prosecutor bob mccullough has done few interviews since his office got the case. he remains a target of protesters who want him to step aside. >> you don't just walk away from a case because, you know you are catching a lot of grief over it. i can be fair. i have been fair. >> people are still angry and
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worried there is a bias, because your father was killed in the loon line of duty police officer killed by an african-american person. >> correct. all of that is correct. and all of that is irrelevant in terms of -- whether there is any bias or prejudice on my part. i know what it is look to lose a loved one to violence. and so, i know what that feeling is. if it causes me to lean one way or the other, it causes me to lean towards victims of vif lense. >> did you think ever about, making a grand gesture by stepping down from this case and letting a special prosecutor take over? >> there is a very vocal group, don't get me wrong, that thinks, you know that i am the devil incarnate and shouldn't be on the case. when you look at the ones making the allegations look behind them. >> mccullough insists there is no hidden jury behind grand jury secret proceedings. their term extended until
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january. a decision could come sooner. >> that has taken longer than we anticipated on each witness. it is look low ikely to go to n middle of november. >> he says the seven men and five women selected randomly by a judge are hearing from every witness, seeing every piece of evidence, all of which he says will eventually be made public when a decision is made. on whether to indict officer wilson. o a community desperate for answers. these protesters say they will not rest. >> mike brown. everybody is here. >> it is justice they demand. no matter how long it takes. >> certainly was implying an ulterior motive from people calling for his recusal. did he give reasons, what they thought those were, local politicians thought it was politics what's the ulterior
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motive. >> that's definitely what he is implying anderson. there is an upcoming election. he believes some of the more loud voices recently speaking out against him have political aspirations and motivations and calling for him to step aside as the politically popular thing to do. he feels confident he has made the right decision to stay on this case. saying he was elected by the people, to serve in this capacity. he has been the prosecutor in st. louis county for 24 years. he was just re-elected to that post. in august. prior to the shooting. and so he believes he still has the majority's support. but i asked him what about the minority. what about the african-american community or the protesters who continue to feel so passionately and have these serious concerns. are their voices being heard. i asked. he said absolutely yes. one of the key reasons he plans to make all of that witness testimony, all of that evidence, that goes before the grand jury, and we will even hear the grand jury's questions to the witnesses when this process is
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complete. he hopes that proves that this process was done fairly and justly. and hopes that that build trust in the system. anderson. >> thank you very much. just ahead tonight will the death penalty on the table when a georgia man goes to trial for allegedly murdering his son by leaving himmen a h ein a hot ca. the prosecution has decided that next. idges that fix themselves. get more clean water to everyone. who's going to take the leap? who's going to write the code? who's going to do it? engineers. that's who. that's what i want to do. be an engineer. ♪ [ male announcer ] join the scientists and engineers of exxonmobil in inspiring america's future engineers. energy lives here.
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let's get the latest on the stories we are following. susan hendricks is here. >> prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against the georgia man accused of murdering his toddler leaving him in a hot car. the district attorney did not elaborate why he decided against the death penalty. meanwhile, harris' arraignment postponed until next month a awe na nascar driver tony stewart will not face charges. a grand jury decided there was no evidence to charge stewart with any crimes. >> a startling new look at music producer convicted killer phil specter. california department of corrections released never-before-seen photos in 2013. as you can see, specter has not
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been allowed to have his wigs in prison. a different look for him. >> take this next one with a gran of salt. all based on reports on line. people are claiming when they carry their new iphone 6 plus anderson? >> uh-oh. i want that phone. it bends? hmm. well, i don't know, we'll see. thank you very much. that does it for this edition of cnn 360. the former president bill clinton hosted by erin burnett starts now. tonight, a cn prime time special. president bill clinton on the united states striking syria. >> plus, race relations in america in the wake of the ferguson shooting. >> i think our big problem today is we don't want to be around anybody who disagreed with us. >> i made a mistake. >> even a the nfl's handling of whe ray rice scandal.