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breaking news. the shock waves are spreading through the justice department's ferguson missouri investigation and tonight, we are learning who is now paying a price for a very disturbing culture of racial bias and abuses in the police department and the city court. in a cnn exclusive, we will hear from the ferguson police chief. there's a move afoot to oust him right now. can he keep his job? even as the nation prepares to commemorate one of the watershed events of the civil rights movement president obama is speaking out on the justice department report saying ferguson is not an isolated incident. our correspondents and analysts and guests they're all standing by with full coverage. let's begin with our justice reporter, evan perez. the ferguson police chief, amazingly, he's still on the job. >> amazingly, he is still on the job. this is something that local officials who had really organized a deal set up a deal with him some months ago to try to get him to leave before this report came out. they were hoping to avoid just this which is the question of

how can this police chief who oversaw the police department during all of these allegations that the justice department is making how can he be responsible for reforming the department. that's a big question now. we know that some officials are trying again to see if he could be eased out and try to get new leadership for the police department because it is something that clearly is going to be a problem for them. >> the news that's breaking right now, you have it is that two of those police officers they are now being forced to step down. >> right. exactly. there are two police officers who have been forced to step down and also if you remember the really racist e-mails that got everybody's attention depicting president obama as a chimpanzee one of them was -- one of the persons who was sending these e-mails was actually the head of the municipal court system. we have a picture of her with a couple of other city officials including darren wilson and the

mayor james knowles. obviously this is a small town so it's probably not unusual to have these folks all together in one place but there you see a picture of mary twitty chief clerk of the ferguson municipal court system. she was forced to resign as a result of this. >> she was fired earlier in the week. that's what the mayor said one official we have now confirmed who that is. we reached out to her and have not gotten a statement from her as of yet, right? >> exactly. we have not heard from her yet. sara sidner is down there. she has been trying to talk to the other two officers the two police officers who were also forced out. >> two police officers were on leave but now we are being told they are actually fired from the police department. stand by. i will get back to you in a minute. we have a cnn exclusive. i want to share it with our viewers. day after the damning report on racial bias in his department the ferguson police chief is still stonewalling but seems to be leaving the door open to stepping down. cnn's sara sidner caught up with him.

>> do you think the department has a race problem? do they have a problem? and are you going to fix it? what are you going to do about it? >> i need to have time to really analyze this report so i can comment on it. >> why do you need time to analyze the report? you should have known what was going on in your department, correct? right? >> reporter: he should have known and he did know. this is his e-mail unearthed by the department of justice during its investigation. in the 2013 e-mail the doj highlighted the chief boasting that court revenue passed the $2 million mark for the first time in history. the city manager responds awesome, thanks. apparently not awesome enough because in another e-mail the city manager tells a colleague he asked the chief if he thought the p.d. could deliver a 10% increase adding he indicated they could try. the intense effort to get money through traffic tickets and court fines and statistics show african-americans bore the brunt of that. what do you think of the doj's report? >> i'm still analyzing it. >> reporter: you're still looking at it.

but don't you think you should have known some of the things that came out, the racist e-mails, the numbers. were you just trying to bilk people out of money instead of protecting them? telling your department to just go ticket them? >> thank you. i will be in touch. get ahold of jeff. >> reporter: i talked to everyone. i have given you literally every opportunity. we have been talking for days and days and days. all we want is an answer from you. what do you think of this doj report and what are you going to do about it? just any idea what it is you are going to do yourself about this as chief of the department. >> i'm going to analyze the report and take action where necessary. >> reporter: does that mean you are going to stay around? >> i'm going to take action where necessary. thank you. >> reporter: are you planning on resigning? >> i will let you know. >> reporter: are you thinking about it? >> i have told you that. >> there you saw it. she finally caught up with the police chief there. he's thinking about it hasn't made a decision. sounds like he's seriously thinking of stepping down resigning. i just want to be precise.

the two other police officers they resigned today. they were not necessarily fired, but they were forced to resign that is what you understood? >> that's right, wolf. they were forced to resign. this was obviously the city decided they could not stay in their jobs given what the allegations are and given what they are facing with the justice department. >> let's talk a little about this police chief. how long can he stay there given this scathing report the justice department has released under his watch, what was going on? >> i asked justice department officials if they were going to make his departure a requirement as part of the city's any settlement with the city. they said they're not going to do that. all they want is to make sure the police department is reformed the municipal court system is reformed and they don't care who is doing it. obviously they know that attorney general eric holder himself has called for regime change at the top of the police department down there. >> you also broke another big story today unrelated to ferguson but related to the united states senate. tell our viewers what happened. >> well attorney general eric holder has approved for prosecutors to bring corruption

charges, criminal corruption charges, against senator bob menendez of new jersey. this is a democratic senator who has been under fire for a number of years now. the justice department had been investigating the senator for various issues but the focus of this of the charges, we expect will be his relationship with a prominent democratic donor who is a doctor down in south florida. here's a comment from the senator's office. we expect to hear from senator menendez on this later on today but for now, here's what he had to say, according to his office. we believe all of the senator's actions have been appropriate and lawful and the facts will ultimately confirm that. wolf this is going to be a tough case you know, for the justice department. he has been somebody that has been in their sights for a long long time and it's not going to be easy because a sitting senator has a lot of constitutional protections and we expect that he's going to use all of those.

>> when do we think formal charges will be filed? >> we expect they will come from the new attorney general, hopefully if she gets confirmed in the next couple of weeks, loretta lynch, the attorney general eric holder has already approved those. >> evan working hard for us thanks very much. president obama is speaking out about the blistering justice department report on ferguson. he is offering some blistering criticism of his own. let's go to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. >> reporter: we have seen the president take this very balanced line not wanting to accuse not wanting to take sides, but now that we have seen this scathing doj report detailing even racist sentiment by the police toward the president himself, today he responds finally in blunt, specific language speaking directly to the black community and calling ferguson a clearly broken, racially biased system. since the justice department's

damning report wednesday about the ferguson missouri police and criminal justice system appeared to target african-americans. president obama has been silent on the subject until now. speaking out in south carolina a traditionally black benedict college. >> it's systematically biased against african-americans in that city who were stopped, harassed mistreated abused called names, fined and it was an oppressive and abusive situation. what's striking about the report is a lot of this was just using e-mails from the officials themselves. it wasn't like folks were just making it up. our goal should be to stop circumstances such as ferguson or what happened in new york from happening again. that should be our number one

goal. >> reporter: on learning what was in that lengthy report the white house today said the president was not surprised even by the revelation of starkly racist e-mails within the ferguson police department including the portrayal of president obama as a chimpanzee taunting the first lady as well. the president addressed the ferguson problem in radio interviews this morning with broadcasters having predominantly black audiences. >> i don't think that is typical of what happens across the country, but it's not an isolated incident. >> reporter: this weekend, he will go to selma, alabama, the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march and violence there known as bloody sunday ultimately leading to passage of the voting rights act, and he will bring sasha and malia. >> selma is now. selma is about the courage of ordinary people doing extraordinary things because they believe they can change the country, that they can shape our nation's destiny.

selma's about each of us asking ourselves what we can do to make america better. >> reporter: as we're watching this town hall at this college, waiting to see if the president will address ferguson the questions that were coming from these students ferguson was not at all at the top of their minds, not even close. all of their questions were about education and opportunity. the one question about ferguson came toward the very end and during this town hall president obama put the responsibility on them to influence young people and to make america better by exercising their right to vote. wolf? >> michelle, thank you. joining us now for more the president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives cedric alexander. thanks very much for joining us. we are just hearing that two ferguson police officers have now been forced to resign over those racist e-mails, another city clerk, she resigned earlier. she was effectively fired.

is that enough based on everything you know? >> well i think what's going to happen going forward is that as this process continues to unfold as this report continues to be revealed and show exactly what the president stated oppressive and abusive behavior on behalf of the police department i believe we are going to continue to see further firings and resignations to take place in that city. >> the president, you just heard him say, he doesn't necessarily believe ferguson is an isolated incident. you have your finger on the pulse around the country. what do you think? >> well i certainly do agree with the president, but it's also important for us to move forward and i truly believe that the president through the recommendations that have been made by the task force here most recently there are many recommendations that have been made that is going to show how important it is for us to move forward and some action items as

well in which we can utilize to move all police departments across this country forward. but let me say this as well, too. every police department in this country has a responsibility to adopt and maintain good community relationships. many police departments work at that every day. but certainly as you heard the president say, there's a lot of work to be done and i don't think any of this we should take for granted. we should just continue to progress and see ferguson as something that we all can learn from. it's a lot to be learned from ferguson but i'm in total agreement with the president of the united states in regards to his remarks that he made earlier today. >> you are a former police chief in dekalb county down in georgia. what's your reaction to the way the ferguson police chief, he has been ducking questions. sara sidner eventually caught up with him but he is really not responding specifically to all those charges in that federal

justice department report. what do you think? can he stay on? >> well chief jackson is going to continue to be part of this process, and i think as information continues to be revealed through this report and that community in which he is currently still chief, that community in and of itself will make a decision and help its leadership i hope make a decision to do what they feel is right for their city. and i think that's pretty obvious to a lot of people what that may be but that's a process in which leadership in that city is going to have to take accountability and responsibility for, and the community as well the citizens there as well too, need to have a voice and their voice needs to be heard, whatever it may be. >> what i hear you saying is the handwriting is on the wall. there's no way he can still be an effective police chief given all that's happened. >> i think it's very unhighly for chief jackson at this time to be effective ever again as a

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ferguson's embattled police chief is still on the job even as two police officers resign in the wake of the scandal over racist e-mails and other forms of bias. we are back with cedric alexander, president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives. cedric we are just getting this in from reuters that the u.s. attorney general eric holder he's now saying he's now saying

that the justice department here in washington the federal government will use its full authority, he says to reform the ferguson police department also said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of dismantling that ferguson, missouri police department. i want to get your reaction to that. >> well i thoroughly agree with whatever attorney general eric holder feels from the position that he holds and the leadership that he's been providing this country since the beginning of this. and if he and his office feel that's the direction that he needs to go in then certainly myself and millions of other people across this country as well too, are in full agreement with the decision that he feels is appropriate to make. >> if he dismantles the ferguson police department who is in charge? who takes over? federal government? federal agents come in? >> well you know i can't speak to that wolf. i'm not familiar with that process. but the only thing that i can

say is at the end of the day, whatever decision is made i am more than confident some leadership will show up there, however they get assigned there, so that that city can continue to move forward and make reforms that are so necessary to that community there in st. louis. >> once again, the attorney general of the united states eric holder he's only got a few days left before he leaves that position he says the justice department will use the full authority of the united states government to reform the ferguson police department and wouldn't even rule out the possibility if necessary of dismantling that police department. we are getting more information on all of this cedric, i want you to stand by. i also want you to take a look at this picture. i will put it on the screen. it was taken before michael brown's death, shortly before his death. it shows the ferguson mayor, james knowles and darren wilson he's the police officer, former police officer, with his arm around mary ann twitty.

twitty was fired as court clerk for ferguson after the department of justice released their scathing report earlier in the week finding lots of evidence of racist e-mails and bias sent by city employees, some of which belittled black residents, also made fun of the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states. we know cedric this is a small community but if city leaders like twitty were involved in this kind of systemic racism you think ferguson as a community, as a government there, could really be trusted to clean up its act alone? >> the justice department findings are very clear. they are very pointed, very clear. you cannot argue them. you cannot in any kind of way deny what the evidence has revealed as it relates to that community. and i think anything that we pretty much see now and that we are hearing that is coming out of ferguson creates a great deal

of pause, such as the picture that you just showed. i can't read into that but i think every other -- every citizen in this country that sees that picture has to draw their own conclusions based on their own experiences of what that may reference or mean to them. however, i think it's important, too, to keep in mind this is the most important thing of all of this is that we must look at reform for that community and we are going to have to find a way to move forward, and i am more than confident in our attorney general, mr. holder who has here again from the beginning taken a real leadership role and has done an investigation that has been revealed to the american people across this country and i think that we can look at that report we can read it we can digest it for ourselves, we can look at the evidence that's constantly being presented every day across this country, and i think we can draw some pretty clear conclusions

about the leadership there and what's going to -- may need to happen in order for that community to move forward. >> once again, we did reach out to mary ann twitty the ferguson court clerk, to get reaction from her. we have not been able to get any reaction yet. we have also learned only in the past half hour or so that two police officers now have resigned as well in the aftermath of this scathing justice department report. cedric alexander, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me wolf. good seeing you. >> thank you. coming up after the destruction of priceless antiquities, a stunning new atrocity committed by isis. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." your eyes really are unique. in fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. that's why there's ocuvite to help protect your eye health. as you age your eyes can lose vital nutrients. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite is a vitamin made just for your eyes

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once again, the attorney general of the united states eric holder has been speaking to reporters. he's just said that the justice department will use the full authority of the federal government to reform the ferguson missouri police department. said he wouldn't rule out the possibility of dismantling that ferguson missouri police department. we are also tracking the new fallout from the revelations of abuse and discrimination in ferguson. two police officers have now resigned over racist e-mails. a court clerk was fired earlier in the week. let's go in depth with our cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes fuentes, and l.z. granderson and jeff toobin. what does that mean? he wouldn't rule out the possibility of dismantling the police department in ferguson? who is going to be responsible

for law and order if that police department is dismantled? >> there is precedent for this even right in the area. the jennings missouri police department was shut down and new officers were hired. there was consolidation with other departments and clearly, that's what should be done here. this is a department that deserves the death penalty. they should not be in existence anymore and by the way, if you fire all the current officers and let them apply for new jobs that takes care of your community policing problem right there. you don't have the huge racial imbalance anymore. >> that police officer darren wilson came from jennings and went to ferguson which has raised a lot of suspicions as well. would the federal law enforcement, federal agents have to come in for an interim period until they could get a new police department organized? >> no. they would still be from within the state of missouri st. louis county the surrounding police departments. it would not be the fbi or any federal agency coming in. >> that's probably a good idea independent of this whole racial problem, that the inefficiency

of having all these little police departments is just a terrific waste of taxpayer money. >> l.z. the president of the united states today said he doesn't believe ferguson in his words is an isolated incident. an isolated event. you agree, i assume, with the president? >> absolutely. i live in chicago and just last week there was a story about these black sites that were run by the chicago police department in which they would take suspects many of them black and brown men, and not book them officially at the police station but take them to isolated warehouses where they would chain them up and interrogate them and sometimes keep them from 24 to 48 hours. that was just reported last week in chicago, the third largest city in the country. so no i don't think ferguson is isolated. i don't think it's the norm. but there are certainly enough pockets all around this country big and small to let us know there is still a very significant racial problem when it comes to our criminal justice system. >> the problem is that the numbers in that justice

department report were so staggering as to how many people were arrested. more people were arrested than actually lived in ferguson when you look at those numbers. >> they were a business. the arresting of individuals, almost all african-americans, were a business to fund the operations of the government and there was a corrupt system in place where the fines, the excessive fines that were levied on these people was a substitute for tax revenue and that is something that should be investigated around the country in particular. >> i want to play the clip. this is the attorney general of the united states eric holder, speaking just moments ago. >> that means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure. >> reporter: does that include dismantling the police force? >> if that's what's necessary, we're prepared to do that. >> you just heard him say if necessary, they will dismantle that police force in ferguson. >> they could do that but the down side is that the local people of that town lose control

of their own police department. you are going to have officers from some other department some other part of the county come in and patrol their streets. the idea of community policing of getting to know your police officer, that will be out the window if they dismantle that department. >> hopefully that will be for a relatively short period. until they can get their act together. stand by. we have much more coming up. also another major story we are following. new outrage as isis its thugs take bulldozers to the irreplaceable ruins of a 3,000-year-old city in its entirety.

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we are getting word of a victory for the iraqis in the war on isis. the pentagon now says iraqi troops and tribal militias mostly shiite militias with the help of coalition air strikes, have retaken the town of al baghdadi just outside a huge air base where there are u.s. trainers mostly marines. they are working with the iraqi military. we are also getting reports of a new isis atrocity. iraqi officials say militants used bulldozers to destroy what's left of an ancient historic city. our senior international correspondent nic robertson is joining us now. he has details. this is really awful, what is happening. explain to our viewers what we know. >> reporter: just to give our viewers an idea here this is a city that's about 3,000 years old. it's about one and a half square miles. that's about 770 american football fields. that's a big area.

this was the capital of one of the first or the first empire on earth and it gave stability in that area so what happened there within those walls of this incredibly old town they developed some of the sort of religious, the social and the economic foundations of society today. you can trace some of our banking norms and our social laws back to that city. so that's what it means, a unique site. only 30 years ago, the iraqi government found the site -- found the tombs of two long-dead queens. there are a huge number of rich artifacts, huge stores of ivory have been found there. now you have isis going in there wantonly destroying it cultural annihilation. you know the unesco director general today said that this is in effect a war crime. >> it certainly is. we know that only a few weeks ago, they went into a major museum in mosul and started destroying ancient artifacts,

museum pieces just going crazy in there as well. here's the question. you covered this story for a long time. why would isis invest time and energy in destroying these priceless, these historic exhibits and indeed, this ancient biblical town? >> reporter: well we should also note here and let our viewers know that isis is also making money out of some of these sites as well by looting them and taking rich artifacts out, selling them. this is how they are buying their weapons in some cases. but what isis is involved here okay you have gotten the destruction there, you got a week ago the museum in mosul, you have had shrines destroyed, historic shrines destroyed by isis left and right through the areas they control. but not just that. we are seeing them just last week pushing out assyrians, an ancient christian community from their homes. we saw them last year driving out thousands of yazidis to the mountaintop, many of them dying, gunned down dying of hunger.

this is not just a sort of historic destruction of historic sites. it is a cultural annihilation an effort to culturally wipe that area in iraq and syria from anything they don't like. >> it's a really really sick situation. terrible. nic, thanks very much. also coming in to "the situation room" newly released video of the isis terrorist known as jihadi john when he was a teenaged school boy. the video is one aspect of a growing problem. isis propaganda raging all over social media. cnn's brian todd is here in "the situation room" with a closer look of this disturbing part of the story. >> very disturbing indeed. tonight we have more startling images of the man who has horrified western audiences for months in those beheading videos. these new pictures show a very different young man, reserved camera-shy. no indicators of the person we would come to know as jihadi john. he flashes his foot skills.

he is apparently among the first picks for a soccer game in the schoolyard. this shy 15-year-old hiding his face as the camera catches him is the same person hiding his face in the isis beheading videos. in this video obtained by cnn, we have the first extensive look at mohammad emwazi unmasked. >> this is a normal kid like any other kid, playing in a play ground a little shy, maybe, looks amazing and newsworthy is only what becomes of him. >> reporter: emwazi is now identified by western officials as jihadi john but in this video recorded more than a decade ago at the british academy emwazi attended he is shown sporting a gray hoodie and backpack jokingly pushing past two other boys. his former headmaster says he was bullied because he was so reserved. british media reports say he received anger management therapy. according to british court documents, he later became part of a network of london boys who supported jihadists in somalia. analysts say many of them had a common thread. >> there will be some type of

local grievances situations that are particular to them that create a cognitive opening into which ideology seeps in. >> reporter: emwazi later became part of isis' propaganda machine which includes legions of supporters on twitter. a new report estimates there are 46,000 twitter accounts openly supporting isis. most claim to be from saudi arabia followed by syria, iraq the u.s. >> all these supporters are force multipliers. they can be radicalizers they can prompt people to action they can amplify isis' message. >> reporter: it illustrates the pull of isis to the younger crowd, an attraction that can change a life. >> your kid, my kid, they are all playing in the playground together. how disturbing is it that a kid playing soccer in the playground with his buddies ends up engaging not just in criminal behavior but this kind of barbaric behavior? it's more than a little shocking. >> reporter: apparently shocking to mohammed emwazi's family. despite the schoolyard video and other information, a man who

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skidded off an icy runway at new york's la guardia airport. it's racing questions about the riskiest part of any flight at any airport. the runway. tom foreman is joining us from reagan national airport, next to water as well. what do we know? >> reporter: wolf we know a lot of people worry about coming in over water because the takeoff and landing are the most dangerous part of any flight. investigators have the data recorders from that flight back here in washington to examine them. they want to figure out what went wrong. they might have some answers by monday. the entire airline industry wants to know what's going wrong on the runways. a smashed nose cone a badly damaged wing. how nearly disastrous this crash was. new information is pushing the question, was it avoidable? amid the snow and ice, the incoming pilot asked about the

runway and was told two other flights had just landed safely. but another delta pilot decided not to take off because of a quarter inch of snow. >> it's a little bit much for us to go right now. >> reporter: the incoming jet started skidding and slammed into an earthen wall feet from the icy bay raising many questions for investigators. >> the question ultsimately is a judgment issue. the question is whether the port authority, whether the federal aviation administration ultimately whether the pilots made the right decision on that day. >> reporter: the incident has renewed concerns about la guardia where traffic is high and runways short. in 1996 another jet hit pilings at the end of the same runway and crashed. ntsb investigators called it pilot error. listen to this man, who is close to 40 years of airline experience. >> la guardia is one of the

runways where when you come in you have to have your a game with you. you have to be right on in everything you are doing, because there's not a lot of room for error. >> reporter: recent accidents have the industry on accident. last year a private jet crashed trying to take off outside boston killing seven. >> how many more? >> three total. >> reporter: in 2013, an airline jet hit a sea wall killing three and injuring 181. in 2006 a plane in kentucky steered on a runway too short for takeout. 49 people died. the faa numbers on this do not look good right now. last year alone, there were more than 1,200 potentially dangerous runway incursions. that's still more than three a day and up 24% from just a few years ago. that wolf is why the airline industry is taking this matter so seriously.

>> as they clearly should. thank you. let's get more insight from our aviation correspondent richard quest. richard, we know the runway incursions the most common form of aviation accidents. why is that? >> it's really very simple. once the plane has taken off, there's space between the aircraft and other aircraft. it's not as much a critical moment of flight once you are actually in the air. the plane is pretty much performing as it is supposed to. when you are talking about moving these pieces of metal around on the ground they are in very close proximity to each other. you are taking a piece of metal and hurling it towards the ground and you are doing it in a controlled fashion. if anything is going to go wrong, putting it bluntly, the result is likely to be bad. thankfully in this delta case not as bad as it could have been. the international airline

association are well aware of this. time and again, the annual safety audit, which comes out next week always shows up to half of all incidents relate to runways, which is why, wolf finally so much effort is being put into runway radar, runway communication and better information about the quality, the contamination of the ground. >> la guardia airport in new york is it safe? >> yes. the runways are short. they are short, but, you know pilots know they are short. remember u.s. airways went off the end of the runway in the early '90s. not much room for error, but perfectly safe. which is witnessed by the fact so many aircraft do take off and land there every day. a bit stomach churning for passengers on that late left turn to one of the approaches. >> are they too crowded, the runways? >> that's the issue, wolf.

that is it. there's so much air traffic now. so many airlines trying to cram so many planes to fill their schedules that yes, they are -- technology is at its extreme for keeping planes moving. then you get something like the a-380, the super jumbo where you have to reconfigure because the plane is so big. >> richard quest, thanks very much for the good information. coming up more on our breaking news. city officials paying the price for buy yasias and abuse in ferguson missouri. police officers resigning. an unprecedented cnn event. he didn't vanish without leaving

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happening now, under fire cnn presses the ferguson police chief about the future of his job and what he knew about racist e-mails. we learn about members of his police force just forced out. iran its commanders are open about their role in the battle against isis. now u.s. military officials sound more concerned than ever. new low, unemployment falling to the lowest level in seven years before the financial crisis. how much credit does president obama deserve for this important rebound? remembering selma. the civil rights 50 years ago. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around

the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." the first heads to roll in the ferguson police department after a federal investigation exposing rampant racial discrimination in the police force. two officers who were suspended over racist e-mails now have stepped down. this as the ferguson police chief isn't ruling out the possibility he will resign as well. sayre >> reporter: don't you think you should have known some of the things that came out, the racist e-mails, the numbers? were you trying to bill people out of money instead of protecting them? telling your department to go ticket them? >> thank you. >> reporter: we have been talking for days and days and days. all we want is an answer from you. what do you think of this doj report and what are you going

to do about it? any idea what you are going to do yourself about this as the chief. >> i'm going to analyze the report and take action. >> reporter: are you planning or resigning? >> i will let you know. >> reporter: are you thinking about it? >> tonight, more about the high level pressure on ferguson officials to clean house in the wake of the rioting and the justice department's report. the president of the national urban league is standing by live along with our correspondents and analysts covering the news that's breaking right now. first, let's go to evan perez. the attorney general eric holder speaking out about the ferguson police department. >> that's right the attorney general is not mincing words about what he wants to see happen with the ferguson police department in light of this report from the justice department. here is what he had to say. he was traveling with the president a few minutes ago. >> we are prepared to use all the power that we have to ensure that the situation changes

there. and that means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure. >> does that include dismantling the police force? >> if that's what's necessary. >> you know one of the things that they discussed some months ago was that in the future after the justice department investigation was over that perhaps the ferguson police department would cease to exist. the st. louis county police would take over policing duties in the city. >> what are you hearing about the resignations at the police department? two police officers today, the pressure on the ferguson police chief to resign as well. >> that's right, wolf. there is a new effort down there by local officials to try to ease him out. this was a deal that they had cut with him some months ago. then he reneged on that. today, we know that now three officials part of the department there have now resigned have been forced to resign. pictures showing two officers.

earlier, there was a resignation the who was the head of the court system. the justice department found that many african-americans were being targeted for fines. when they couldn't pay the fines, they were thrown in jail. >> in an unrelated story you broke earlier today, you reported that justice department is preparing corruption charges against the democratic senator robert menendez of new jersey. what you have learned? >> the attorney general eric holder has approved for prosecutors to bring these charges against senator maenendez because of a corrupt relationship he had with a prominent donor who goes way back with the senator. a former -- a friend and a prominent donor to the democratic party. according to the justice department which has been investigating this for five years, menendez used his office on behalf of the doctor and in

return received gifts and favors and some of the donations as well according to the justice department. we expect to hear from the senator later, probably in the next hour or so. we do have a statement from his spokeswoman, what she had to say about this. she said we believe all of the senator's actions have been appropriate and lawful and the facts will ultimately confirm that. wolf this is going to be a tough case for justice department because a sitting senator has a lot of protections about the type of things he is allowed to do in carrying out his job. so that's the argument that menendez is expected to make. >> thanks very much for that evan perez. tonight president obama is offering a reaction to the revelations of racial discrimination by the ferguson police department. let's go to michelle kosinski. tell us what the president said. >> reporter: for days we have been trying to find out, what is the president's take on this scathing doj report? how does he feel about it?

especially since we know some of the racist e-mails within the ferguson system were directed at the president himself and even his family. you ask the white house about his take on it and they haven't wanted to say. from the beginning of ferguson the president has wanted to take this very careful line not wanting to accuse anyone not wanting to take sides. today, finally speaking in blunt, specific terms, speaking directly to the black community. he let his voice be heard. >> it's systematically was biased against african-americans in that city who were stopped, harassed mistreated abused called names, fined. what's striking about the report is a lot of this was just using e-mails from the officials themselves. it wasn't like folks were just making it up.

and if our goal should be to stop circumstances such as ferguson or what happened in new york from happening again. >> reporter: the president called ferguson a clearly broken racially biases system. said ferguson has a choice to fix that broken system or the doj will sue and make sure that those changes are implemented. we asked the white house about the president's reaction. they said he was not surprised about what was in that doj report even those racist e-mails. the white house tried to give a civil rights focus this week. they had the task force on policing that was created because of ferguson deliver its recommendations on building trust between law enforcement and communities. today he had the town hall before a traditionally black college in south carolina gave two radio interviews to broadcasters that have a predominantly black audience. this weekend he heads to selma for the anniversary of the civil

rights march. the president found it important to bring not only the first lady with him but his teenage daughters. >> good idea. thanks very much michelle for that. at a time when race relations are front and center in this country, the top republican leaders in the house and the senate they are raising eyebrows tonight. they will be absent from the ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday in selma, alabama. other republicans will be there but not the leaders -- the republican leaders. >> that's right. this is a big event. more than 100 members of congress are going down to selma. it's the biggest delegation ever. president obama and his family will be there as will george w. bush and first lady laura bush. who is not going? it's the top republican leadership on capitol hill. mitch mcconnell john boehner,

kevin mcccarthy. represent can ascalise admitted he spoke before a group of white supremacists connected to david duke. it is raising eyebrows that they are not going. as you mentioned, we will have two dozen rank and file republican members who will be in selma. while we have been focusing on the republicans who aren't going, i should mention that while some top house democrats are going like pelosi and others three senate -- top senate democrats won't be there. harry reid who is of course still recovering from eye surgery. he won't be there. neither will dick durbin and shuk schumer. it's the republicans who have more of a perception problem when it comes o black voters. it's notable they are skipping this event when the party wants to expand its base and appeal to more minority voters for 2016.

in case you were wondering, republican presidential hopefuls also won't be going. red cruz will be in iowa and marco rubio won't be in selma. >> ramifications on this. i know you will head down there as well. you have a major report later this hour on the history of selma. stand by. joining us now is the president of the national urban league. mark thanks very much for joining us. i assume -- >> thank you, wolf. >> i assume you would have preferred to have the top republican and democratic leadership in the house and senate there with you this weekend. >> wolf, sieve illcivil rights in the 160 dz was bipartisan. republican leadership democratic leadership a democratic president named johnson, civil rights leaders were not all democrats.

therefore, i think that for members of congress to recognize that historical fact would be important. but it is their miss for not coming. those of us who are here are excited that the president will be here excited that people who were part of the 1965 will be here and that citizens from all over the world will watch this both commemoration and a commitment to a continuation that will take place in selma over the weekend. >> i know you are probably disappointed -- nancy pelosi will be there. but none of the major democratic leaders in the senate harry reid obviously recovering from eye surgery. he can't travel. but you heard the other top leaders on the senate democratic side won't be there either. >> and we would like to see all of the leaders here. and the reason why, wolf is this is an important event in

american history. the commemoration of the bloody sunday event where people were brutalized in the fight for the basic -- i would say the most basic right in our democracy. that's the right to vote. but notwithstanding any of that -- this is what is important is why this is taking place. to commemorate 50 years ago the struggles, the work the effort and the victory. and also to commit to continuation because whether it's in ferguson or supreme court which seeks to dismantle the voting rights act or any of the issues we face today, this generation of americans must recommit to continue this battle to protect democracy. >> i know the former president george w. bush laura bush they will be there. senator tim scott of south carolina the african-american senator from south carolina he

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coming up with an entirely new structure. >> does that include dismantling the police force? >> if that's what's necessary. >> that was the attorney general of the united states eric holder speaking to reporters a little while ago. we're back with the president of the national urban league. we're following breaking news. two ferguson police officers have called it quits over the racist e-mails that were revealed in the scathing justice department report. your reaction first of all, to what we heard mark from the attorney general, eric holder saying if necessary they are ready to dismantle the police department in ferguson. >> the attorney general is being resolute and he has, if you will the ammunition of a comprehensive report which documents case after case instance after instance of constitutional violations and intentional discrimination. so i appreciate the way the attorney general is proceeding. but as i shared with you

yesterday, i think it may be best for the ferguson police department to be dismantled. and if not dismantled i think a reform effort including a temporary receiver or executive monitor needs to be put into place as quickly as possible in order to protect the citizens of ferguson. but i also think that the court system and the very structure, the mayor and the city manager this is a city manager form of government we have not heard from the city manager. in effect the police department reports to the city manager. so that dimension and that element needs to be part of this conversation. it is time for real change there in ferguson. >> the president, president obama said today he doesn't believe ferguson is an isolated incident. first of all, do you agree? >> wolf here is what the evidence shows is maybe ten to

15 -- don't hold me to the number at this point -- cities are currently under consent decrees. that means these are cities whose police departments have been found to have engaged in systematic pattern and practice constitutional violations. number two, the justice department has brought many many cases across the nation against individual police officers for violating the constitutional rights of citizens. so i don't think it's isolated at all. but it's not mere conjecture. it's really what the evidence shows in terms of the work of the justice department over the last six years that has not gotten all the media attention that ferguson has received. so ferguson is not alone, is not isolated. but it may be that what has happened in ferguson is more extreme in terms of the use of

petty violations to finance one's government. >> it's hard to believe this kind of stuff -- you are standing in front of the bridge there in selma getting ready for 50th anniversary commemorations this week. it's hard to believe this is still going on in the united states at least to me. what do you think? >> wolf that's why the 50th anniversary celebration is indeed a commemoration. but it's also a continuation. it's not simply about looking back on the struggles and victories of 50 years ago. but it's also a time to commit. so president obama's presence former president bush who i might add signed the last extension of the voting rights act in 2006. their presence along with activists and citizens is and members of congress i think we're all here to reaffirm a commitment to democracy, to equal rights to fairness and to

justice. and that element i think is one of the most significant reasons why this event, this 50-year event is going to receive both national and international attention. >> one final question mark before i let you go. good numbers, the unemployment rate in the country last month went down to 5.5%. that's the lowest it has been in six or seven years. almost 300,000 people got jobs in february alone. but the number of un -- the unemployment rate for african-americans, especially young men, is way, way higher. it's falling but it's not falling enough. what do we need to do? >> so what we really really need is we need a comprehensive summer youth employment program for young people wolf. if the economy is producing almost 300,000 jobs a month and that unemployment rate is still that high what it says is we

need a dose of policy medicine to address this. i think it's a positive sign that this job creation is taking place, but there's still a real crisis in that many people are being left behind by this economic recovery. so again, much more work to do. but, look let's vote for our kids. let's say that we have confidence in them by finding every means available to give them a chance to work this summer. >> we all got a lot of work to do on all of these fronts. i'm glad you are down there in selma. we will have live coverage throughout the day tomorrow and sunday as well right here on cnn. the president of the national urban league. just ahead, growing alarm inside the peptntagon that iran's influence in iraq will extend far beyond the war against isis. oh yea, that's coming down let's get

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days after isis boasted of its destruction of priceless antiquities in iraq, calling them false gods they have commit aid new atrocity bulldozing one of the world's cultural treasurers. this comes as the united states and iraqi forces are stepping up efforts to try and roll back isis games.

iran is also flexing its military muscles inside iraq more boldly than ever. let's go to barbara starr. she has new details. >> reporter: there may be some short-term military gain to having iran on the ground fighting in iraq but the pentagon is deeply concerned about some of the long-term implications. the latest u.s. military intelligence assessment most of the fighters here are iranian-backed shia militia with iranian weapons fighting to reclaim the city of tikrit. signs of iran's influence everywhere. iran's language heard here. field commanders review their plans. the pentagon watching iran with a close eye. happy to have the iranians doing the bulk of the ground fighting

but worried it could again open up a cauldron of shia versus sunni violence. >> for the sunni and shia sectarianism that has happened for thousands of years, it could be strategically disastrous. >> reporter: u.s. officials also worry the fragile iraqi government in the long run will become a client state of tehran. with the u.s. spending millions to train iraqi units, the risk is it falls into iranian hands. >> in terms of ensuring our resources don't migrate over to shia militia, there's no easy way to be certain it can't happen. >> reporter: the u.s. wants the prime minister to guarantee sunni representation vital to stopping sunni support for isis. the security forces east of fallujah and west of are a ma de

are launching new operations. iraq iraq's reliance on iran working south of tikrit which baghdad says has been liberated. a potential u.s. victory of sort. these marines in western iraq helping advice iraqis that a nearby town now liberated from isis according to the coalition. just don't count on the u.s. joining forces with iran. >> there is no cooperation between us and the iranian forces. we will have to count on the iraqi government to do those things necessary to number one, ensure that things don't trend towards greater sectarian violence. >> reporter: no cooperation, no communication with the iranians on this issue, wolf. that's what the pentagon is saying. but here is the reality. a senior u.s. military official tells me when coalition warplanes are in the skies

flying the bombing runs they inform the iraqi government of where they are and rely on the iraqis to tell the iranians to steer clear. it is becoming a very complex battlefield. >> it is. barbara, thank you. let's bring in peter bergen and philip mudd. it looks like iran is becoming increasingly aggressive in iraq right now. they have an end game in mind. >> straightforward. this is the opportunity of a lifetime for the iranian leadership. after the revolution in 1979 extensive influence in lebanon and syria, there's a huge piece of territory before that. that was iraq ruled by a sunni dictator. now as the americans leave and you have a shia leadership in baghdad, the iranians have a simple idea extend influence. >> we heard alarming words from martin dempsey. he raised the specter, at least he was fearful of ethnic

cleansing down the road in iraq. the tense between shiites and shoe knees s and the kurds. >> i have spoken to u.s. army officers who are concerned about the same issue. tikrit is going to be -- which is where the action is happening now, is a test case. the shia militia outside tikrit could go in and could interpret any sunnis still there as people basically supporting isis. if we see ethnic cleansing in tikrit that would be an indicator that there will be cleansing in mosul, which is a bigger story. >> are the shiite militias they are helping the iraqi military. there are advisors from the iranian national guard. but are they loyal iraqis? >> i think they would listen to the iraqi leadership the clerical leadership. >> the iraqi shia. the shia have been trained in iran. they have close relationships

with iran. the ability of iran to exert influence over the militias through leadership that they have talked to for decades i think is extensive. i agree with peter, this is a test case. i don't have a lot of faith that the militias and the shia leadership will control ethnic violence. >> there are powerful shia militias in iraq. but there are sunnienni militias as well. >> i mean, the iraqi army is a militia itself. shia dominated. it's probably one of the weakest forces. the revolutionary guard supporting shia militias. they are people with extensive military experience. >> i heard, u.s. analysts suggest what iran's goal is to build an arc of influence into lebanon. >> yeah. and then down to yemen as well.

>> they have an inroad in yemen right now. >> yeah. the iraq war had the consequence of giving iran a lot more space to -- >> look at the map. you can see the potential that the iranians have. they are smelling victories. >> they are. look how quickly this is changed in a couple years. if you put baghdad at the center of a map and look at influence in syria and lebanon, now extending into iraq going south into yemen, you start to see influence that's not only significant for iran it's significant for sunni states like saudi arabia who say, where does this come to an end? >> peter, our friends, they have a new study that came out. they found at least 46,000 twitter accounts used by isis supporters in the middle east and europe as well as here in the united states. that sounds enormous to me. >> we have heard from the u.s. government that isis is producing 90,000-plus tweets a day. this is a group appealing to a

group of people would areho are active in social media. >> i have heard from the highest u.s. officials that their social media skill, the isis terrorists they are enormous. they are winning this battle. i assume you agree? >> it's really hard to understand where this game ends. we start 25 years ago, let's say, in afghanistan with al qaeda. you have to touch an al qaeda member to be indoctrinated. 25 years fast forward, you are in a media battle that's 90,000 tweets a day. remarkable. >> thanks very much. to find out more about the escalating batde inging battle against isis what you can do to help protect iraqi children impacted by the violence go to cnn.com/impact. just ahead, a barrage of questions about hillary clinton's private e-mails when she was secretary of state. did she require her employees to do one thing while breaking the rules herself?

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tonight, a senior administration official tells cnn, there has been some concern for some time about hillary clinton's use of private e-mails while she served as secretary of state. the controversy has been growing as new questions emerge about whether secretary clinton was breaking her own rules. let's bring in brianna keilar. she has the latest. >> actually the white house we are learning from michelle kosinski knew about the fact that hillary clinton was using a personal e-mail address all the way back in 2009. they weren't concerned because they thought that she was cataloging the e-mails in the system. then this past summer they found out as house republicans subpoenaed benghazi documents she was relying on this account and that's when they became alarmed. the firestorm over clinton's use of personal e-mail dominated the

briefing. >> i'm not the spokesperson for her office. >> reporters asked if she failed to follow the e-mail rules she signed off on, including an internal department cable from 2011 that said employees should avoid using personal e-mails to conduct government business. state department spokeswoman marie harf downplayed the guidelines kau ss calling them -- >> helpful tips. it's a guidance on best practices. >> three years ago, a scathing inspector general reported ed amoned amonish ed amonished the ambassador for using personal e-mail. he told cnn he was surprised at the double standard. at clinton's request, the state department will review 55,000 pages of e-mails the obama administration directed her to turn over last year. a clinton aid said she turned

over anything sdrog with her work at the state department. but harf conceded the state department is taking her word for it when she says she's handing over what's relevant and keeping what's not. meanwhile, the white house says clinton abided by the federal records act, even as it touts an e-mail policy clinton did not follow. >> did members fts ss of the administration receive e-mails from hillary clinton while she was secretary of state? >> that i don't know. i do know the president has a very firm policy that e-mails should be kept on government systems. he believes in transparency. >> some political observers wonder if the controversy leaves an opening for potential democratic candidates to challenge clinton's run for president. >> it's real. >> like martin o'malley. traveling in the coming weeks to the early states of iowa and new hampshire. >> there's rumors that martin o'malley may enter the race and challenge hillary for the democratic nomination.

hillary is not worried. who is going to go from being unknown to beating her for the presidency? how would that happen? >> but unlike in 2007 2008 a lot of political folks think that isn't going to happen this time. many strategists say hillary clinton is the only show in town. they say more episodes like this may happen but she's in a primary against herself. even so you can see that the competition is pretty stiff. >> let me bring in gloria and ron. you have a column you wrote on cnn.com about democrats essentially stuck with hillary clinton no matter what happens. you write this the truth is simple. your job is to defend hillary not to bury her. it could be hard even annoying but think about it this way. if you don't, her problems become your own. is that it? if she runs she's solid? >> let me just say that the democrats over the years of the obama presidency have not exactly been nation building

throughout the country. they have lost a huge number of govern governorships. they lost legislative seats. they don't have a large bench. yes, martin o'malley yes, we're talking jim webb. >> what about joe biden? >> maybe the vice president. i don't think so. the truth of the matter is that she is their nomination should she decide to run. she's got overwhelming odds with her. if they start campaigning against her this early, they are only hurting themselves. their problem is they want to talk more to the clinton camp so they know what they are defensing.defense ing fending. this is a reminder that this is the package. as political figures, they bring a lot of assets to the table. they are tenacious, good at connecting with voters. they have a history of pushing

the envelope, into gray areas on many fronts. that's part of the full package. i'm sure it's uncomfortable sense of deja vu for democrats. are we going to answer these questions in 2016? there's that other side of the ledger. >> at some point, she's going to have to say more than a tweet. >> that's right. she will be asked at some point, if she doesn't say something -- there's an event tomorrow. cgi university event. she could say something. >> clinton global initiative. >> she could say something there. we don't know. we're waiting to see. very carefully we will watch. she has events monday and tuesday. at some point someone is going to -- >> let's talk about the jobs numbers. major significant development. very good job numbers. unemployment rate going down 5.5% that's the lowest in six or seven years, almost 300,000 jobs created last month alone.

does the president get enough credit for turnaround? >> some credit. the problem that the white house has is that the wages haven't grown. the wage growth in february was 2% which is about half of what they would like to see it at. if you look at the president's approval rating on the economy, it has gone up by ten points. it's under water, under 50%. but it's going in the right direction for him. >> the wages are the big problem. second problem is that the issues get framed better in a presidential campaign than any other time. after this month, they are up to 7.8 million jobs created since the first full month of the obama presidency. that compared to 1.2 in the entire years of bush. it's possible 2016, the democrats will say there were ten times as many jobs created over obama's terms as bush's terms. that could be a more powerful argument than we have had so far. but it depends on wages. >> let's say hillary is the democratic nominee. good jobs numbers, the economy

improving, unemployment rate down. presumably that would help her. >> it would help her. then i think we will expect -- we talked about this. some of these times like this week we don't want this flashback to the '90s. when it it comes to the economy, it's not a bad thing. we might hear her invoek that. >> anything that -- here is what you are seeing even as we see white house officials being annoyed at defending her. what's good for president obama is good for hillary clinton, even if she tries to distance ler herself from him. they have to work together. his approval ratings need to be -- they matter for her. >> this is a challenge for her. she distanced herself on foreign policy on syria we know. then if the economy is going well she's going to be all for president obama. obama obama's solutions on the economy. there may be back and forth. then people start questioning your

. >> let's say the republican nominee is jeb bush. who do we do when he takes a look at the economy. jobs, a lot of jobs have been created. the stock market has record highs. the nasdaq, the dow jones. what does he do about that? >> they'll talk about incomes and wages. kind of the risk for a bush in particular is you had 22 million jobs under bill clinton in his two terms in the '90s. you could have 12 million or so jobs under barack obama created. you could have 1.2 million under eight years of a republican president in the middle. and again, i think that's the kind of argument you can focus more on a presidential campaign than you can on a midterm. and that will be a challenge for him. the challenge for democrats will be rising incomes and wages. >> i think for once you're going to see the conversations converging. you see a lot of republican candidates like jeb bush potentially like john kasich talking about pay gaps rising wages for the middle class. you heard john boehner talking about keystone jobs.

i think democrats and republicans may be singing from the same page on income inequality. >> we'll have a lot of time to talk about all of this guys thanks very much. just ahead, back to the bridge where civil rights history was made. congressman john lewis shares his emotional memories of bloody sunday in selma, alabama 50 years ago. this is jim. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested.

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situation room." kevin mccarthy will will go to selma tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday civil rights march in selma and how it changed the country. congressman john lewis was actually there. and he has the scars to prove it. he spoke with cnn's athena jones on the now famous bridge where history was made. >> the bridge at selma is almost a holy place. it is a place where people gave a little blood to redeem the soul of america. in this city people couldn't register to vote simply because of the color of their skin. so they had to change that. >> john lewis, who has spent almost three decades in congress was just 25 years old. >> i can never forget what it felt like to be on this bridge on bloody sunday. we came to the highest point. down below we saw a sea of blue alabama state troopers.

and behind the state troopers we saw men on horseback. so we got within hearing distance of the state troopers. >> you're ordered to disperse. go home or go to your church. >> reporter: >> and the major said troopers advance. i thought over and over again they were going to arrest us. they came toward us beating us with night sticks trampling us with horses. i went down on my knees. my legs went out from under me. i thought i was going to die. >> he was carried back to the church where the march had begun. it was there he issued a challenge to president lyndon johnson. >> i stood up and said i don't understand it. how president johnson can send troops to vietnam but cannot send troops to selma, alabama to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. >> after bloody sunday president johnson spoke before congress. >> it is wrong, deadly wrong to

deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. [ applause ] >> he was the first american president to use the theme song of the civil rights movement. i looked at dr. king. tears came down his face. i started crying along. i didn't like for anybody to see me cry, but i cried. president johnson federalized alabama national guard, called out part of the united states military to protect us all the way from selma to montgomery. >> on august 6th president

johnson signed the landmark voting rights act, ensuring that all citizens could vote regardless of their color. it was bloody sunday that helped make that day possible. it's also why lewis returns to this bridge every year. >> the vote is as powerful. it is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society. and i don't want people to forget that people paid the price. >> athena jones cnn selma, alabama. >> thank you for that report. cnn will bring you special live coverage of the 50th anniversary of the selma to montgomery march. our coverage begins tomorrow morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern. please join us. remember you can always follow us on twitter. please tweet me at wolf blitzer. tweet the show at cnnsit room.

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