does this come as a surprise he made it this far and how it ended? >> it is not a surprise. this individual was supported by network which would have smuggled him out of the country given him some he had spent a number of years in germany before moving to germany. presumably had a number of contact there who could help him, as well. does not seem to be an intelligence-led shootout. they just got lucky, it seems that routine patrol last night that he decided instead of handing his identity papers over to go off in a blaze of glory by attacking italian police. fortunately, the italian police were able to return fire and to take him out. this removes the threat from him, but still concern that this

wider network poses a threat to germany. poses s s a threat to europe. overnight two arrests and the germans are looking into whether those two individuals arrested overnight were planning to launch an attack on a christmas mall and shopping market in northwestern germany. that area was really ground center for the recruitment efforts for this recruitment network linked to the berlin truck attack. >> so, chris, that aligns with your reporting, as well. this wasn't an intelligence-led capture and shootout. they stumbled upon him. >> this is really a lucky shot. there is no indication at this point that italian authorities have been waiting for him, especially in a small town at suburban station outside of

myelin wm milan. at the same time, this was a huge dragnet going on and going on across germany and across europe. they were bust down doors in east and west germany looking for this guy and other searches going on that managed to stop another attack at the largest shopping mall in europe, in western germany, that also has a christmas market. they arrested two kosovo brothers who live in germany and they foiled that attack, as well. the story is not over here either. >> ben wedemen joins us now on the phone from italy. what are you hearing about the circumstances surrounding this shootout. >> well, what we understand from the italian police and the italian interior minister at 3:00 in the morning, nine hours ago, a police patrol train

station in the suburbs of milan, northern italy, stopped a man who, they say, was acting suspiciously. they asked him for his i.d. he reached in to his backpack and rather than pulling out his passport or identification card, he pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and opened fire and shot one of the policemen in the shoulder and according to the italian media he took cover behind the car and continued to shoot. but one of the italian officers fired back, shooting him fatally. now, we understand that on his body they found ticket stubs, train ticket stubs which would indicate that he came from germany via france to italy. then he went to the central train station in milan and then went to this train center in the suburbs, which would indicate that he is going, well, the

suspicion is what was he doing? who was he going to meet in this particular spot. >> and, paul, what is the answer to that? what has your intelligence reporting tried to figure out about where he was going? >> well, we don't know that yet. it may well be that he had a network of contacts in italy, as well. a country that he spent a number of years in. and when it comes to these extremist networks in europe, they really don't respect any borders that there's a network of individuals who radicalized, spread out across the european union. he was heading south, perhaps in an attempt one could speculate to try to go back or at least try to get into syria. to perhaps link up with isis.

that we know in december of 2015, he was absolutely determined to go and join isis in syria. he was preparing for it and getting fit and going on long hikes. he was really, really desperate to go join the group. so, perhaps he felt that after having launched this attack, that he could try to attempt that. but it would have been quite difficult, obviously, given he was the most wanted man in europe. but this is somebody who'd over the past several years has used numerous aliases and numerous identity papers and forged documents and maybe he felt he could flee southwards and get to the middle east. >> so, paul, let's knit together everything we're hearing this morning from ben wedemen saying that there was -- the investigators are looking at why he was trying to get to where he was going. who he was looking to link up with.

chris burns saying that the authorities in germany are still worried about these other arrests and how this may be knitted together. what you're hearing and i'm hearing from our friends at french intelligence is that they are on alert, as well. maybe around the holidays or maybe as a past model we've seen that it's never just a one off in europe. there is usually some kind of concerted effort to have chain attacks. >> the system is blinking red in europe right now, chris. there's just a lot of concern about plotting activity right across the continent. particular concern about christmas markets, outdoor events. isis really putting out a call for the followers in europe to launch attacks. infiltrate operatives back into the continent. we are on really maximum alert level throughout europe and the public is just going to have to be really, really vigilant as

they sort of go about their everyday business. >> chris, we've learned through intelligence sources that they believe that this guy was part of a larger network. there in germany. what are people on the ground telling you about that? >> well, absolutely. in fact, i mean, cnn obtained nearly 350 pages of german intelligence papers that show th abu walaa who is now in custody. recruiting, training people to do just what we saw happen here at that christmas market on monday. so, yes, he is plug under to this network that could have others. you mentioned about how other parts of europe could be facing the same kind of threat. just last week i saw how they have a huge christmas market

there and they were blocking all the bridges leading into the christmas markets with huge semi trucks and they had cement blocks and checkpoints and we're probably going to see a lot more of that around europe now. >> some intel sources from france and some of their main promenades in paris. ben wedemen, the italian investigators are slow to give all details because they say this is an active investigation. what are you hearing about what they're still looking for. is this about a broader connection or other planning? >> well, the feeling is that because spent so many years in an italian prison that he probably has contacts here and contacts of a criminal nature if not an extremist nature, as well. they're going back to look at everyone he might have come in contact with in prison where those people may be at the moment.

but in the immediate term, what italian authorities are doing certainly since the attack in berlin is further heightening the level of alert and the level of security in major italian cities. actually, the level of alert has been quite high going back to the beginning of 2016 with the attacks in paris. but, certainly, since the later november attacks in paris last year and the attacks in belgium that you have seen a heightened level of security and it's only going to get higher as a result of what happened in berlin. but, yes, the italian authorities, intelligence is really working this around the clock. i've seen italian intelligence documents that are basically top secr secret. said the italian intelligence maintains on suspects.

it's quite impressive in terms of telephone numbers, transcripts, all of that information. so, there definitely in over drive right now anything happening in italy that might have happened else where in europe. >> ben, chris, paul, keep working your sources and we'll check in with you throughout the morning. >> thank you, guys, for all the reporting. another big story. russian president vladimir putin talking about mr. trump and the president-elect's tweets. what vladimir putin is saying this morning. that's next.

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in the past 24 hours, president-elect donald trump using his favorite medium to issue groundbreaking news on nuclear weapons, military jets and the israeli/plan conflict. boris is live with more. good morning, boris. >> yeah, alisyn. throughout the campaign we saw donald trump used unconventional methods to get his point across. just weeks away from the ina inauguration with controversial tweets about international relations. president-elect donald trump shaking up international relations weeks before taking the oath of office. on twitter, trump tweeting that

the u.s. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. bucking almost 50 years of historical precedent against nuclear proliferation. this pledge coming hours after vladimir putin spoke about strengthening russia's arsenal, prompting concerns of a reignited nuclear arms race. >> it's difficult to know what to make of it all. we're committed to our new start obligations with russia and to, again, maintaining a strong, modernized nuclear deterrent here in the united states. >> reporter: trump's team attempting to clarify the president-elect's tweet hours later saying that he actually meant he wants to prevent the threat of nuclear proliferation. the opposite of what he initially tweeted. trump also openly undermining president obama and signaling a major shift in diplomatic policy in another unprecedented move via social media, calling for the obama administration to veto

a u.n. security council resolution condemning israeli settlement activity just hours before the skenl wld vote. a senior israeli official telling cnn, the israeli government reached out to trump directly asking him to intervene. egyptian president putting the vote on hold after taking call from the president-elect. >> nobody here felt boxed in by a tweet from the president-elect and he's perfectly entitled to express his views on these types of things. >> reporter: trump then using twitter to take aim at a major american company, defense contractor lockheed martin, threatening to replace the pentagon's costly new f-35 fighter made by lockheed with a less expensive plane made by boeing. costing lockheed martin and its shareholders millions in market value. despite backlash, trump's team signaling that the president-elect will continue his use of twitter. >> he has a direct pipeline to the american people to talk to them in a way that no one's done

before. i think it's fascinating. >> trump also used twitter yesterday to mock criticism of the caliber of entertainment he's expected to have at his inauguration. he tweeted out "the so-called a-list celebrities are all wanting tick toots the inauguration. but look at what they did for hillary. nothing. i want the people." now, trump's camp has confirmed the rock ettes and a former performer on "the voice." but, chris, i guess the president-elect is a huge fan of the rockettes. >> good to know. boris, thank you very much. so, how will world powers interpret our president-elect's tweets. as whimsy or real warnings? we're getting that answer right now in a televised address vladimir putin is talking about trump. he just said, no one thought trump could win, except the

russians. that is a loaded statement to be sure. cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance is live in moscow with the latest. matthew, unlike our president-elect, putin is a man who measures every word and likes to make suggestions and implications through what he says. how's it working for him this morning? >> he doesn't tend to use twitter as a means of communication. he prefers to go with these lengthy, multi-hour long press conferences to drop his particular bombshells. a range of interest to us and not about the russian economy, but speaking about the hacking allegations. again categorically denying that russia had anything to do with them saying that this is backing up on trump and quite right to say some other country or somebody on a couch reflecting the position of donald trump there. he was pretty vicious, i have to say, about the democrats when he was asked about this hacking allegation. that's saying that the current

u.s. administration always tries to find a scapegoat for his findings. the senate, the house of representatives and am i really to blame for that and responsible for everything? it shows the kurncurrent administrations has systemic problems. if you lose, lose with dignity. unleashing on the outgoing obama administration and at the same time preparing the way for a better dialogue, perhaps, with the new incoming trump one. chris? >> thanks for that reporting. let's discuss it with our panel. we want to bring in columnist for "washington post" josh rogan and washington bureau chief for "daily beast" jackie kucinich. great to see you this morning. let's start by dissecting this tweet that the president-elect sent out. he said the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.

obviously, words matter from the president and the president-elect. and people -- what does that mean? >> well, apparently, it doesn't mean what he said it means because his campaign, excuse me, his waiting administration had to come in and fix it for him. yes. exactly. trump has sort of been all over the place on nuclear weapons. remember, he said he didn't like them. i think to anderson cooper during the election, he also said that south korea and japan should perhaps book into getting them in order to -- so the united states didn't have to protect them. but this is certainly alarming. experts that "the daily beast" talked to were scratching their heads and maybe their heads were just exploding for lack of a better term. because this is just so unorthodox what he's done and, frankly a little scary and dangerous. >> what we call unconventionally

these days, that's not the concern. about their impact and very often they're confusing and lead conversations in different directions. nick burns, les let's bring you in, former state department official. former u.s. ambassador to nato. great pedigree, perfect for this conversation. what is the concern about when a message is put out from the president-elect to be president very soon that requires constant corrections? >> well, chris, there's two concerns. one is the substance and you're asking about this. this is rather an extraordinary tweet. 140 characters on nuclear weapons. since the reagan administration, we've been trying to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world by treaty to achieve nuclear stability and to achieve peace and to make sure that nuclear war is not in our future. and this tweet is very ambiguous. it's hard to know what he says. you really don't want a state nuclear policy on twitter. second, chris, we've talked about this before on your show.

i think you can't, you cannot have two presidents at a time. president obama is president until january 20th. president-elect trump is interfering with the workings of the u.s. government in every transition in which i participated. the president-elect is not out there tweeting or talking about these issues or commenting in realtime. i think it's confusing to foreigners and it's not right. >> hey, josh, you know, we in the press have been cautioned and a little ridiculed not to take the president-elect literally. that was our big mistake, they said, during the campaign. we took him literally and his supporters didn't. so, when a tweet like this comes out, how are we supposed to know whether to take it literally? >> i think we have to take the president-elect and the future president's words as they are. no such thing as relative litterism. it doesn't exist. what he says matters and he should mean what he says. on the broader point, i think this sort of tweet about nuclear policy and in my reporting what i've turned up it really shows

that trump is sort of shoot from the hip foreign policy, nuclear policy, colonize to question whether or not he is going to be able to establish this new bromance of vladimir putin as he says he will. if he's really responding to putin saying that russia is going to build nukes. how long is that real detente between the u.s. and russia going to last if it can be destroyed by a comment and a tweet and a policy change. you have vladimir putin saying how great is it that donald trump is president and then trump saying maybe we'll build a whole new arsenal. >> nick, something that's different here is that there is this talk there may be a detente. the concern should be way farther down the line of that type of analysis which is, have you ever seen before where putin is echoing the same political

message as an incoming administration. you know, he's motivating in his press conference this morning the same attacks against the left that donald trump and his supporters have. when's the last time we saw that and what does it mean? >> i don't think we've ever seen it in the u.s. relationship with russia or the soviet union before that. truth in putin are not two words you usually use in the same sentence. i have been following the press conference this morning. he's, obviously, you can't depend on what putin is saying. we have clear, compelling evidence that the russians intervened in our elections by hacking into the democratic national committee. >> you think that's -- >> every republican accepts that. >> do you think that is what putin was getting at when he said nobody thought trump could win except us. >> he's covering up that russia intervened in our elections. i don't think anybody there believes him and we shouldn't believe him. >> we can listen to a little bit

of that, jackie, just so you can hear vladimir putin in his own words talking about mr. trump. listen to this. >> regarding the president-elect, mr. trump. there's nothing new about that during his election campaign. he mentioned the need to strengthen the nuclear capabilities of the states on strengthening and expanding the capabilities. trz there's nothing new about that. >> so, jackie, he seems to be saying about the tweet, there's nothing new here, nothing to see. >> that's what's so dangerous about this tweet. because, clearly, the other countries are reading them. but, i mean, look at also what vladimir putin did. he spent some time denying the fact that russia was involved. then he does a wink and a nod thing at the end by saying that no one thought trump would win except for russia. so, it's almost like he's

purposely muddying the waters. but, yeah, this is so unprecedented. sort of hard to even wrap your mind around. this sort of closeness that trump is setting up with someone who cannot be trusted. >> so, josh, how do you respond to the criticism from the trump transition team that the media just doesn't like the president going on twitter because it's getting around them. it's a direct line as we heard recently from the new press secretary. what do you make of that criticism? >> well, i think that's partially true. i think it obscures the greater issue, which is it's not just a concern for the media. it's a concern for people in government who want to be involved in policy. a concern for lawmakers and a concern for voters and a concern for foreign countries. i mean, making policy over twitter is hugely disruptive for everybody. so, it's not just a way to get around the media. it's a way to get around all the processes. just to follow up what jackie

said. i think the most shocking part of putin was that he noted the same statistic 30% of republicans are pro-russia and pro-putin. president obama in his press conference said if ronald reagan knew that, he would be rolling over in his grave. he's denying and interfering in the elections and trying to drive a wedge in u.s. politics by criticizing democrats and criticizing the dnc and praising republicans as being a pro-russia party. that's pretty amazing just by itself. >> panel, thank you very much. please, stick around. we have many more questions this morning. so, big breaking news coming out of the investigation in germany about that attack on the christmas market. the search is over. the man responsible, the authorities say, is dead. shot near milan in italy. more on that dramatic showdown and reports of a hijacked plane are also just coming in. stay with us on a very busy morning.

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the search for the berlin christmas market attacker is over, say the authorities in italy. they are reporting that anis amri was killed in a shootout with police after they stopped him at a train station in milan. the officers say the suspect at this checkpoint pulled a gun when asked for identification

and led to the shootout. 12 people were killed. dozens more injured monday when police say amri plowed a truck into that busy christmas market. we are staying on top of this because there are other arrests and concerns at how broad this network was. and we have more breaking news at this hour. this out of malta where there are reports of a hijacked plane landing. let's get the latest from cnn foreign correspondent ian lee with all the details. what have you learned? >> good morning, alisyn. what we are hearing comes directly from the prime minister. he tweeted out that the plane has been hijacked and i spoke with the communication affairs and he was able to confirm to me that the plane was on the ground. this happened about an hour ago. this flight was an internal flight that was hijacked and diverted to malta. no word on how many people are onboard and have hijacked, although we're hearing from

local media reports that there are 118 people onboard this flight. security personnel are at the scene right now. the prime minister is having an emergency meeting to discuss these ongoing developments. but, still, very much early in this situation. >> as far as we know right now, the hijackers are still on the plane. this is an active situation. >> that's correct. from what we're hearing is that they're on the plane. local media is reporting that they're making some demands, but we haven't been able to independently verify that ourselves. still very much a fluid situation as this has just happened in the last hour. this airliner going from an internal libyan flight being diverted to malta. at the malta international airport. all flights there arriving in malta are also being diverted away. >> all right, thank you very much. please stay on it for us.

president-elect donald trump jumping into israeli/palestinian politics before he takes office. another tweet, how about this one. did it go too far? did he mean it the way it came across? what will its impact be abroad? next. hi, we're the hulford quads.

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okay. we need to talk about more fallout from mr. trump's tweets. this one about israel. let's bring back our panel to discuss. josh rogan, jackie kucinich and nicholas burns. egypt wanted a u.n. resolution to end a settlement activity in israel. egypt wanted it to be sort of deemed, you know, illegal and the u.n. was going to move forward. and then israel, as we understand it, reached out to mr. trump and mr. trump weighed in. let me read to you the statement he tweeted. this was via facebook. so, yet another medium. he said as the united states has long maintained peace between the israelis and palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties and not through the imposition of terms by the united nations. this puts israel in a poor negotiating position and

extremely unfair to all israelis. ambassador, again, what, what does this mean that the president-elect is weighing in on, you know, geopolitics before he's in office? >> well, it is unprecedented. we have a tradition of one president at a time. this resolution was going to be voted upon by the united states. president obama heads our government. he will until noon on january 20th. so, this is extremely unusual. second, it's ill advised. this was a resolution not on negotiations but settlements. as our former ambassador said if trump wanted to veto this resolution, we would veto 40 years of american policy uns unsettleme unsettlements. going back to the 1960s has been against israeli settlements on the west bank. and in east jerusalem. so, i think president-elect trump would be best advised to get his team around them, form their strategy, wait until

january 20th. he will be our president and take us down this road or other roads and making life, i think, very difficult for the obama administration and if you're overseas and if you're putin or netanyahu or anybody else, you're hearing two presidential voices and it's not good for american credibility. >> jackie, how big do you think this idea plays in our political back and forth? do you think there's a chance it gets dismissed as style points. oh, he's not waiting until he's actually in. do you think that's something that would resonate back here at home and do you think the focus will be on the substance that trump has a new policy there and much more pro-settlement and donated on a personal basis and just put in an ambassador who is very much in favor of this and this is the new policy. >> i think it's so much bigger than style points because it isn't just inside the united states. you can't view this through the prism of just being an american because it does have these global repercussions.

you can't. what this does. one of the things this does is this sort of completely shatters the politic stops at the waters edge. it's very clear that everything is going to be politicized going forward. be it it, you know, foreign policy, foreign or domestic. so, it is, you know, some new territory that we're cruising into. >> josh, before we get to your reporting about what mr. trump's team sent to the request. sent to the state department. do you have thoughts on where he is with israel? >> i think a couple things going on here. i think the obama administration was definitely planning to not veto this resolution and this resolution was different than others. that would have been its own sort of landmark position for the united states. traditionally, we veto anti-israel resolutions. the fact that the obama administration was cooking this up. in its last month as a lame

duck, that's what people in israel and the trump administration were sort of fighting back against and the way they did it was controversial. but that's what was really going on behind the scenes here. going forward what i think we're going to see is the trump administration and israeli government is going to be as close as lips and teeth. that is going to be the dynamic going forward and we have to see whether that helps or hurts the situation in the middle east. >> what do you know about what was just asked for by the state department by the trump transition team and what does it mean? >> so i reported yesterday in the "washington post" that the trump transition team had the state department put out a tasker, a request for every office in the state department to give them all the information on staffing, funding and programs for gender and women's issues. okay. like by 5:00 today send us everything and everyone and whatever you know about everybody working on women stuff around the world. that's a lot of stuff. now, it's not clear whether or not that's because they really love women's issues and they

want to make it a priority or whether or not they plan to drastically cut funding for women's issues, as some republicans have long sought. but state department people were freaked out and they started telli telling me in large numbers that this stoked fears that the trump administration is going to go around and find people who worked on these issues and single them out and perhaps get rid of them along with the programs they work on. >> this is a tough one, jackie. it's possible to know how to interpret it. is it a witchhunt where anyone that worked on issue's issues. you're going to be gone. we have other priorities. or is this ivanka trump's influence if you worked on women's issues we want to embrace you and hear more about it because we're interested in that. how will we know? >> we won't. he could also be striking at, you know, being a little vindictive and striking at the heart of one of the things that hillary clinton worked on as secretary of state. women's issues were always one

of her touchstone issues. but we just don't know. so many open questions. and you can -- the ivanka scenario is much rosier than perhaps what josh was hearing in his reporting. >> nick, give us the importance of these programs. >> well, i've been in many transitions before. it's normal that any office in the state department would be asked by the transition team what do you do? what is your budget? what are your priorities coming up? this could be just bureaucratic. i hope they don't reduce the women's programs because they have been successful and point for our city and for people around the world. might just be a bureaucratic exercise. >> panel, thank you very much. great to talk to all of you. we are staying on top of two big breaking stories, at least. the terror suspect has been tracked down and killed in milan. also, there are reports of a hijacked plane that has landed in malta and we are getting new information from the ground for you, next.

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the last thing you want to be is the guy on video that the front office sees as someone not playing hard. the eagles playing hard against their division rivals in front of their home crowd, too, up there in philly. manning threw 63 passes in this one. the problem is, three of them interceptions. one for a touchdown and then at the end of the game, they had a chance to win it with this one, but, no. it would be picked off. sealing the deal. philly never trailed in this game. eagles win 24-19. next up, the mascot, the famous idaho potato bowl getting busy. but this was not a hot potato. 18 degree temperatures creating an ice rink of a football field for idaho and colorado state just watch the carnage. players slipping and sliding all over the field and the field may have been icy, but both team's offenses on fire in this one. idaho stunning colorado state. chris, that was the third

highest combined score ever in a bowl game. >> do you think that the score was that high because the traction was so off or do you think it would have been higher if they could have gripped and cut? >> you have no footing. the offensive players know where they're going to go, but the defensive players, you don't have a chance. >> that's the first report i ever understood because he put it in food terms. >> coy, always quick to make defense excuses. best of christmas to you and your family. we're following a lot of breaking news around the world this morning. up next, shocking video leading to protests. all right, this mom sees her kid get grabbed by the neck by a neighbor. she calls the police and she winds up getting arrested. what? next.

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so, stlz there's outrage this morning after video surfaces after a white police officer in texas wrestling a black mother to the ground and arresting her after she called for help. that officer is now on restricted duty and protesters are demanding justice. cnn's polo sandoval is live with more. what happened. >> we know that cry for justice has only grown louder in the last 24 hours or so. this north texas mother earlier this week initially called fort worth police claiming that her neighbor had allegedly choked her 8-year-old son after the child allegedly littered in the streets. well, police officer, at least one officer did respond and they took a very quick and drastic turn and it was all caught on video.

>> my son is 7 years old. you don't have the right to grab him, choke him behind no paper that he threw. >> reporter: stating her case to a police officer she called to her community in ft. worth alleging that a neighbor check choked her young son for supposedly littering on his lawn. but it was not what she expected. >> it doesn't matter if he did or didn't. it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him. >> this man just asked my mama why does this white man not have the -- >> ask me -- you don't know what i teach him. whatever you teach your kids --

. >> reporter: at that moment craig steps in facing her mother and the officer grabbing her from behind. there is a jump in the video and the next thing you see is craig on the ground being arrested. the officer pointing what looks like a taser at witnesses. another jump in the video and the officer is wrestling craig to the ground. a community is outraged and crowds gathering outside the ft. worth courthouse thursday night. craig's it attorney telling cnn he and his client believes race played a role in the incident. >> the officer came to that scene and he saw a white man and a black woman and he made up his mind before really asking any real questions that the white man was not going to be guilty of anything and that he was going to find a reason to be upset with the complaining witness the black mother. >> reporter: ft. worth police department saying in a staimg statement, we acknowledge that

the initial appearance in the video may raise serious questions. we ask that our investigators are give on the time and opportunity to thoroughly examine this incident and to submit their findings. the officer is now on restrictive duty as the department's internal affairs department investigates the case. jacqueline craig did speak to cnn saying at this point she is not up to speaking on what took place on that street earlier this week. we also reached out to ft. worth police who say an initial report was taken that the neighbor allegedly assaulted that child. no arrests have been made or charges filed. the officer was apparently wearing one of the body cameras and investigators now poring over thatti footage to see what if anything, went wrong there. let's bring in retired nypdt detective harry and charles coleman jr. just to review, gentlemen,

first, thank you for being here. merry christmas to all your families. but, very simple fact pattern. the kid does something involving the neighbor's lawn. littering, throwing a piece of paper, nothing, who knows. the neighbor grabs the kid and the mother gets upset and calls 911 and the cops come and let's play the piece of video that only shows the interaction between the cop and the mom. >> you could have came to me. don't put your hands on my son. >> try not to litter. >> it doesn't matter if he did or didn't. it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him. >> why not? >> because you don't. >> all right, so, you have what is legal here, what the law is

supposed to do and then how you're supposed to police. let's start with the policing first. the idea of getting a call like this and the mother talking about it and you ask her how she raises her kid. is that as dumb as it seems for someone who was in the police community? >> yes, it's pretty dumb. the main thing is the first thing i thought, who brought this guy in? the officer doesn't know how to react to a situation like this. the mother called the police. we see him walking from the white male in the beginning of the video like he's talking to the white male first. i'm wondering who made the call to the police because -- >> she did. >> also another report that he called the police, also. was she the complaitant or was e

the complaintant. what annoyed me was his comment that says, it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on me. and the officer said why not. i wanted to smack this officer myself for his stupidity. my analysis is based on this video and this video alone. i think this video shows everything that was going on. this police officer is bordering misconduct and maybe criminality. >> could anything have happened that you don't know that would have made what the officer says and does with respect to the mother okay? >> it's kind of hard. you could see the point where the daughter comes to grab the mother. why the officer put his hands on her, i have no idea. it was clear to me that, you know, the mother started getting mad and it looks like the daughter tried to come and intervene and keep her mother, you know, started to make her mother calm down.

then the officer just grabbed her like that. i was just like shocked. like i said, this is poor training. this guy got like two weeks on the job or has he been on for five years. >> then you have the legal part. if i call you, let's keep to the fact that if a mother calls and says, the guy grabbed my son by the neck, what triggers the bar for probable cause to make an arrest? >> at that point you have to assume the mother has given the officer probably cause barring any kind of unforeseen circumstances where we haven't seen that there is a litany of other witnesses who says this is not true, this is not what happened. after placed a 911 call and being on the scene, no reason to believe that that officer may have thought that this woman was not telling the truth. and, so, from everything that i've seen on this video, that officer absolutely had probable cause an arrest or the gentleman called on by the police. when i watched this video, i'm

wondering, what was the question, what was the issue the officer had? even to respect of the woman raising her child. >> no police are taught to have that kind of conversation in that situation. >> no, they are not. this is the problem we have with community. calls for the police and calls for help. she winds up being arrested for absolutely no reason here. this is why i am so mad when i saw this video. this one incident, there must have been 10, 15 people maybe watching it. they all have a bad idea about police now because of that one incident. >> that's a really important point when you start talking about communities of color and policing and why there is a mistrust between those two factions in many respects. now, you're watching a situation where a woman has called the police. the police are sworn to protect and serve us and in our communities come in and now becomes a referendum on this woman and her child raring practices and, essentially,

she's been doubly victimized. she's victimized first because her son is assaulted and she is victimized because she essentially has to validate how she has chosen to raise her child by someone who should be in a position to protect her. and that's a problem. >> what is the range of reaction from the police force that should come out of something like this. >> the internal affairs is going on. this officer acted improperly and i think that's what's going to happen and some steps taken against this officer. i think that the police department ought to go and speak to the mother and the daughter and the community and say, police, don't judge all our police officers based on the action of one officer here. >> what about the guy that grabbed the 7 or 8-year-old by the neck? >> when you first get to the scene like that, you don't let them engage in conversation. you talk to them and say, tell me what happened. we have witnesses. did anybody see what happened? >> gentlemen, thank you very

much. tough conversation to have, but an important conversation. again, best to you and your families for christmas. chris, we are following a lot of breaking news this morning including an end to the manhunt for the berlin terror suspect. and reports of a hijacked plane in malta. let's get right to it. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. we do start with breaking news for you. the manhunt for the berlin christmas market terror suspect is over this morning. it has ended with a dramatic shootout near milan. >> investigators say anis amri pulled a gun and the police returned fire and the early reporting is that he injured a policeman during this altercation but was killed by the police. we have every angle covered beginning with cnn's ben wedemen live with the latest from italy. actually, we're going to go to chris burns in germany. so, chris, you heard about the reporting from italy about this.

what does it mean to the authorities in germany about how he got there and who else may be involved. >> well, chris, this is what we know so far as far as anis amri at this christmas market with that truck of 25 tons on this christmas market on maebd. he fled and then made his way to southeastern france and it is from there that he took a train to the central station of milan early this morning. from there, he took another train to a suburb just outside of central milan. that is where police saw him and asked him for his identity papers. this seems like it was completely by accident that they found him, they met him. instead of pulling out his papers, he pulled outa gun a .22 caliber pistol and started firing. he shot one of the italian police in the