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is that expected to come up at this meeting? >> reporter: well it could welcome up. i thought what was interesting about that was, it was a pretty soft ask. he asked them not to and some of the officers, as you say, didn't take him up on that request. so that in itself kind of somehows you where the power lies in that relationship. the mayor hasn't taken questions on this issue since the two officers were assassinated a couple weeks ago. i think everyone just waiting to see what he can say and what commissioner bratton can say to try to offer some sort of way to ease the tensions that we know have been building up in these two weeks. >> we know there was a meeting previously with the mayor and several police unions in which reports say the mayor did not offer an apology to the police force for some of the comments he's made. what are people around the mayor's office saying that the mayor feels like he needs to do or does the mayor feel that the police department needs to simply get its members in line and get them to pay respect to

the mayor? >> reporter: i think he does feel that way, but of course that's not something he can come out and say. that's that's where commissioner bratton comes in. he has some authority with the police department. he was a man that mayor july an any brought in the '90s to do this broken window strategy. there are a lot of officers who still have a lot of respect for him. he finds himself in a difficult position being asked to stand next to mayor de blasio and bridge this divide. he's the most important figure in all of this in some respects. >> msnbc zack roth, thank you very much. in boston the trial is under way for dzhokhar tsarnaev the man accused in the devastating attacks on the boston marathon nearly two years ago. right now security is tight outside the courthouse where attorneys for the prosecution and defense are just five hours into what's expected to be a long process selecting 12 jurors and 6 alternates from boston and surrounding communities.

nbc's ron mott is live aboard an armed coast guard vessel patrolling the waters in boston's sea port. what have you got? >> reporter: good day to you. day one of what is expected to be a month's long process here with this trial. as you mentioned security will be tight. we show the security in boston harbor. you see these two small 25-foot coast guard boats. they are armed. armed guards manning machine guns on the front of both of those vessels. off to the distance the boston harbor police. this detail will work these waters for the next four, maybe five months. this trial could go into june. you can see the moekly courthouse is just over here. they are enforcing, joy, a 100-yard buffer zone that is prohibited to traffic. traffic getting near the courthouse. they want to make sure they protect this side of the building. there's plenty of security on this side of the building. as you might imagine, a lot of

security in the building. what we can tell you about the jury selection process, this is the second group that is in today. there will be four more groups coming in. two groups tomorrow two groups on wednesday. by the end of day wednesday, we expect to have seen between 12 and 1500 prospective jurors come through. they are filling out a series of questionnaires. the one they're getting once they get to the courthouse detailed questions about their feelings on the case itself how much they know about the case and we believe also their positions on the death penalty. the tsarnaev team tried to get a change of venue. they were turned down. that was the second time it's happened. to get an impartial jury to hear this case. there's been a lot of publicity. so that's the concern from the defense standpoint. the federal courts are saying the judges have said that have ruled on these motions, that it's only fair to the city of boston, those that live in this

community, at least have an opportunity to see if you can find a panel, an impartial panel to hear the evidence in this case. and the judge hearing this case judge o'toole says if they have too much difficulty getting an impartial jury he would support moving this trial out of the city. >> nbc's ron mott thanks much. now the latest on the crash of airasia flight 8501. the worst of the bad weather may be letting up, giving divers a chance to investigate five large objects on the ocean floor. naval craft has still not received pings from the plane's two black boxes. to date 37 bodies have been recovered, including three today. nbc's kelly cobiella is in indonesia on the multinational search efforts. >> reporter: joy this indonesian captain and crew say they spotted what they think may be the tail section from this plane. now, if true and if it is still

largely intact, it could hold those black boxes. but there's no confirmation of this yet. in fact, searchers haven't been able to get eyes on any of these large objects found on the sea floor. they've only been detected by radar so far. weather is really against them. they're dealing with low visibility, high waves. waves 13 to 16 feet at the surface and very strong currents. those conditions make it difficult for divers to get down. if they do get under water, they can't see anything. the yurnt water cameras are more difficult to operate as well as underwater vehicles. they're having trouble getting the hydrophones, underwater microphones, down below to listen for the black boxes. they have five ships at the search site just concentrating on the black box search, but no pings as yet. the weather is expected to improve a bit tomorrow. the waves coming down to about six to ten feet but still not

great. an agonizingly slow pace particularly for the families. just 37 bodies recovered so far out of 162 passengers and crew. federal investigators are hoping a 7-year-old girl can help them determine the cause of a plane crash friday night in kentucky that killed every family member on board, except her. sailor walked more than a mile from the wreckage to a nearby house where she knocked on the door for help. earlier today my colleague tamron hall spoke with the man who answered. >> her words to me were my mom and dad are dead. we've had a plane crash. and the plane crash is upside down -- the plane is upside down. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez is in kentucky where the plane crashed with this report. >> reporter: investigators have moved the plane's wreckage from here to get a closer look.

these woods were pitch black the night of the crash but somehow that little girl made it out alive. this morning the 7-year-old is recovering with relatives. >> she is one remarkable young lady. >> reporter: but investigators are hoping the second grader will soon be able to provide clues about what caused her family's aircraft to plunge into the cold dark kentucky woods friday and how she was able to make it out alive while her parents, 9-year-old sister and 14-year-old cousin were killed. this virtual video from piper aircraft shows the interior of a similar plane. one of the things the ntsb will try to confirm is where sailor was sitting, hoping that may suggest how she survived. cell phone video from first responder wade white shows the path she took to find help. >> she had to crawl over tree top, crawl through briere patches, weeds, deep ditches. she had to do this in the dark and she took the best route she could have took and she did this

in sock feet and shorts and a t-shirt. >> reporter: she finally saw a porch light. the man who answered her door knock called 911 and sheriff kent murphy was the first to spot the downed plane upside down. >> some people don't believe in miracles. they think it's luck and stuff like that. but it's -- to me it's a miracle. >> reporter: a miracle that has captivated the family's hometown of nashville illinois as it mourns a devastating life. >> judging by the way she handled herself there is a fighter and will be well taken care of in this community. >> reporter: amazingly. first responders say sailor tried to find a branch to light on the plane's burning wings so she could see. that didn't work but it didn't stop her. this was a girl who wanted desperately to help her family. joy? >> thank you nbc's gabe gutierrez. now a reid alert on the markets on the first full week

of trading. >> we're always monitoring the impact that any sort -- that any sort of policy would have on the economy. so certainly something we're watching. i think as a general matter speaking broadly the impact of falling energy prices has been good for the economy. >> cnbc's mary thompson joins me now. all right, mary, what is going on with the dow? >> well there are a couple of things. first of all, those falling energy prices that were mentioned. the energy sector is the leading decliner here or among the s&p groups we follow. oil prices dropping below $50 a barrel just recently. now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. gasoline prices are right now on average at their lowest level since 2009. there are a couple other factors at play today. first of all, you have growing concerns about the eurozone and

specifically whether or not greece will leave the eurozone and if this would eventually lead to the breakup. so, that's another factor in today's decline. and keep in mind we just want to caution your viewers. remember, the markets were at record levels right before the christmas holiday and the week following. so a selloff today, while it is significant, 300 points for the dow, this is the first four-day losing streak for the s&p 500 in over a year. we are still coming off record levels. so some kind of consolidation like this isn't completely unexpected. >> dow 18,000. we hit that at the end of the year. cnbc mary thompson, thank you very much. coming up the new all--gop run congress kicks off tomorrow. put this in your mental rolo decks for a moment. how speaker louie gohmert. the former police officer speaks about his experience breaking the blue wall of silence. what he says happened after he blew the whistle of misconduct on the force.

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of florida on same-sex marriage. >> i'm lifting the stay. >> just a few minutes ago same-sex marriage became legal in miami-dade county with the rest of florida to follow at midnight.

an area judge lifted her own stay on a ruling that overturned a ban on same-sex marriage giving the southern florida county a head start on everyone else including the entire state of florida. same-sex marriage is now legal in 36 states, plus the district of columbia. and this will be a busy week on capitol hill as congress returns tomorrow. however, despite a new year and a new republican majority in the senate, the ajen da of the newly installed congress may sound awfully familiar. initial gop focus will include the passage of a keystone pipeline bill and renewed attempts to chip away at obamacare. then there will be republican attempts to rein in president obama's use of executive action. with both parties head to 2016 will the ds and rs also be looking for a change in tone? joining me now, democratic congressman jvmentg.k. butterfield.

thanks for being here. happy new year. >> thank you so much. it is true that at 9:00 tomorrow morning i will take the awesome responsibility of leading the congressional black caucus. we have a very strong caucus. we are very united in our determination to stand strong and to confront the new republican majority. >> well in confronting that new republican majority you will still have a republican speaker of the house. but there's been some rumbling there are members on the other side, your colleagues on the republican side, who may not want that to be john boehner. i want you to take a listen to congressman louie gohmert of texas saying he's throwing his hat in the ring. take a listen. >> we've heard from a lot of republicans that gee, i'd vote for somebody besides speaker boehner but nobody will put their name out there as running, so there's nobody else to vote for. well, that changed yesterday. when my friend ted yoho said, i'm putting my name out there. i'll be a candidate for speaker and i'm putting my name out there also as another candidate

for speaker. >> congressman, we know john boehner has had his travails with conservatives in his caucus. hasn't been the most effective speaker, i guess you could say, out there. is there support for it being someone other than john boehner as speaker, do you think, and what would ted yoho or gohmert be viable candidates? >> i will certainly not vote for boehner but he has a large majority of his conference behind him. we have to get ready to roll up our sleeves and find common ground with the republicans. i believe that with this new majority in the house of representatives, there are 46 new republicans who have come in. they're different from the tea party that came in in 2010. these new 46 members who are republicans coming to the house are business types from their communities. they're men and women who have business backgrounds. and i hope that they will have a different perspective and not

bring this wrecking ball ideology to the house of representatives. i believe we're going to work with this new majority. we're not going to get everything we want. i hope we can find common ground. >> it's interesting that you say that, because there's been a lot of sort of speculation that perhaps, the reduction in the -- what looked for a while between tea party and regular republican order was -- really ended because the tea party just won and then they took over the entire caucus. it's a very conservative caucus. and leading that caucus will be not only speaker boehner as well as his majority leader, but also the house whip who is expected to be steve scalise, a congressman from louisiana who's had some issues over ten years ago attending a meeting of a white supremacist organization. debbie wasserman schultz said nothing discredits republican claims of outreach and bringing people together more than their decision to keep steve scalise as top leader of their caucus.

far on the other side of the idea lodgeal spectrum which said, u.s. representative steve scalise third ranking leader of the majority republican in the u.s. house of representatives shouldn't keep that position as long as questions swirl about his 2002 revelations to david duke. do you think the republican party is harmed by having steve scalise in leadership. >> first of all, you've got to understand that the tea party influence is waning in the republican conference because those republican who is are to the right of center are beginning to realize that the tea party has an idea lojological agenda that doesn't have the best interest of americans at heart. i believe the new business-minded republicans that have come into the conference will be able to reach across the aisle, we reach across the aisle to them and take on the enormous issues we have in this country. we have to put on the table issues that really, really address the need and concerns of african-americans.

we have one out of four african-american families living in poverty. that's unacceptable in 2015. one out of three black children living in poverty. we have got to come up with a formula whereby we can target funding into poverty communities that have had persistent poverty rates for many many years. i believe we can do that because, guess what? many of these -- many of these districts that are very poor are tepted by republican members of congress. they have a vested interest in working with us for getting funding for low income communities. i believe we can do it. we're going to reach across the aisle. the congressional black caucus will meet with republican leaders to see if we cannot get some type of consideration and the federal budget that will provide assistance to low income communities. >> all right. we will leave it there. congressman g.k. butterfield. we should note your caucus has a couple of new republican members, mia love coming in as well. an interesting 114th congress to come. thank you, sir. >> thank you. now, three things to know on this monday. a member of the grand jury that

decided not to indict officer darren wilson for the shooting death of michael brown is suing st. louis county prosecutor bob mccullough. according to the suit grand juror doe wants to speak publicly about the case. alleging the prosecutor's public characterization and implication that all members of the jury were in agreement on the decision not to charge wilson were not entirely accurate. a federal judge in new york meanwhile, is deciding whether to make the granted jury proceedings in the eric garner chokehold case available to the public. a group of petitioners, including the legal aid society and the new york aclu request for the disclosure of information, including trance transcripts, presented evidence and the instructions that were given to that grand jury. and if you're looking for warmer weather, head west. most of the country can expect brutal cold to kick in as temperatures begin to plummet on the first full week of the new year. two rounds of arctic cold will move through much of the country, spreading east and into the midwest and the northeast.

the weather channel's mike betters is in chicago where the windchill is minus 16. >> reporter: well arctic air has invaded here in the midwest to start the brand new year 2015, as everyone is heading back to school and work today, brings in below zero temperatures here in chicago. 3 below is what we bottomed out at in single digits throughout the afternoon. on top of that some snow is coming. we'll show you something very interesting here over the chicago river. the river's unfrozen still because temperatures have been so mild for most of the season. but now we have this frigid cold air. a little bit of steam coming off the river this morning. and beautiful blue skies, by the way, overhead, despite the wind we have. the blue skies do give way to snow. the biggest snow of the season is coming for chicago. 3 to 5 inches expected to begin after dinner time tonight. then likely last through the overnight. but should be gone by the time the morning commute starts on tuesday morning. but for many people it's a

shock to the system considering we've only picked up 5 inches for the entire season so far. that's the very latest here in chicago, i'm meteorologist mike bet bettes. >> stay warm. as we go to break, a look at the windchills across the country today. 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.

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in less than a half hour new york city mayor bill de blasio and police commissioner bill bratton will hold a news conference. there's no word yet on what will be discussed. but it comes one day after hundreds of nypd officers repeated a now familiar protest. turning their backs on the mayor again as he delivered the eulogy for officer wenjian liu, who was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol car with his rafael ramos last month. in baltimore, a former police officer who testified against two other officers saying he saw them assault a man, is suing the police department and it's commissioner, alleging they failed to protect him from retaliation. detective joseph crystal resigned last year saying a hostile work environment forced him to leave. he said he even found a rat on

his car windshield after word spread he was helping the investigation. according to the baltimore sun, the police department has declined to comment on the lawsuit, pending the completion of an outside investigation of crystal's intimidation claim. joining me now is former baltimore detective joseph crystal. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much ma'am. so glad to be here. thank you. >> let's first talk about the incident that started what you call harassment and intimidation by fellow members of the baltimore police force. what happened on the day of the incident that you wound up reporting to your superiors? >> well, ma'am, i was working as a detective in baltimore city and i observed a sergeant and off-duty officer assault a handcuffed suspect. to me ma'am, i don't like something like that so i reported it to supervisors within my chain of command in my unit to follow the chain of xhabd command.

i was told specifically to not, quote/unquote, rat or snitch. my report did fall on deaf ears. and after that i went directly to prosecutors to report this to a prosecutor. to let them know what happened. i assisted in the investigation at that point. the officer and sergeant were indicted charged, tried and the one officer was -- both of them were found guilty. one officer was sentenced to 45 days in jail. the other officer was given probation for their roles in the incident. >> now, once those sfrs were indeed, found guilty and it turns out you were right, did you get support from other members of the support or from your superiors? >> no, ma'am, not at all. it was very rough, ma'am. you know i had to deal with calling for backup or calling for a unit. you can't do everything on your own. you need the help of the people you work with to back you up and

keep you safe. and just assist in supporting the citizens. and i would call for backup on multiple times and nobody came. i had a superior call me and threaten me and tell me i better pray to god i'm not the star witness. you spoke yourself, ma'am, about the rat that was put on mine and my wife's car. i even had a supervisor have me -- or try to attempt me to forge a document that i refused to do. so, i mean i had no type of support whatsoever. >> and you know there's been a lot of talk with all of the incidents that are happening around the country involving police and civilians, deadly encounters with civilians, where we have officers on the show they say you need to have the good cops supported so the bad cops can be pushed off the force. when i read your story, it did remind me of frank serpico, a well-known nypd officer in new york.

he reported misconduct, repeatedly tried to do it. this is what he wrote in politico about his experience 40 years after. there were movies made about him and everything. he said i still get hate mail from active and retired police officers. a couple years ago after the death of david dirk the police officer was one of my few allies inside the department and my efforts to expose graft. the internet message board of nypd had messages directed toward me join your mentor rat scum, read one. you can only speak about the baltimore pd is this a culture that says to officers it's more important to stay loyal to your fellow officers, even if they're doing something wrong, than for you to come forward? >> well ma'am, i know police try to view themselves as a family and, unfortunately, you know i bought into that in hopes that, like you said officers would come and support

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you beat cancer by how you live why you live and in the manner in which you live. >> that was sports broadcasting legend stuart scott delivering a heartwarming and heartbreaking speech about his battle with cancer at the espn espy awards just a few months ago. scott died early sunday morning at the age of just 49. and while he went unquestionably will be remembered for his die-hard attitude in the race against that battle scott first made history the moment he took the anchor chair more than 20 years ago. before scott, no one said things like booyah or cooler than the other side of the pillow on the air. during what you might call a golden age of game leaders in sports history, michael jordan tiger woods, mia hamm scott changed the world of broadcasting by being himself. dave zirin is the sports editor

at "the nation." dave, i think we're going to talk a little about his battle with cancer which is so heartbreaking, so young. to have been lost to the world. but i think what a lot of people are also focusing on is how he changed the language of sports broadcasting just by bringing in black vernacular and talking the way black americans talk when they're together. how important was that? he was in the words of one obituary a liberator of language. that can't be overstated. throughout sports history, these liberators of language have come forward almost like profphets. you think about writers like grantlin rice and vin scully and howard cosell. stuart scott is part of that continuum. he liberated a language. it's not that he was black. because there were black sports broadcasters before him. it's that he was a generational

representative of a hip-hop generation and a hip-hop vernacular that a lot of america, certainly not bristol, connecticut, where espn is headquartered, was exposed to before. and that very authenticity allowed him to forge relationships with athletes which is very rare in this day and age. we live in a day and age when athletes don't trust members of the media. when you look at the outpouring from dez bryant of the cowboys to shaquille o'neal to tiger woods to michael jordan there was love for stuart scott that was really unique and all his own. >> he did it very thoughtfully in a lot of ways too. it was artful. it wasn't just accidental. he wrote back in 2002 scott told npr, he said writing is better if it's kept simple. every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. i sometimes hate when i'm talking. then he gave the example of bengals thought they were going to go 12-4 this year. man, they ain't going to go 12-4.

he said i'll write that because i'm going to write like i talk. so, it was sort of simple but sort of elegantly simple. and it did change the way broadcasters behaved. >> absolutely. i mean there's an economy of language that i thought he marshalled entirely at the espy awards over the summer. it was almost like 25 years of practice of figuring out how to use words as a way to connect with an audience was marshalled for the purpose of connecting with the millions of people who live and survive with cancer every day of their lives. and he was -- i mean his value at that moment to the broader society, i really think is still being felt. >> yeah. and to people like you, i mean you write movingly in "the nation" about how stuart scott you said was your strength and inspired you with your own battle with cancer. how important does the way that he described as you put it this winners versus losers feeling that people have when they -- when they get cancer and sort of, i don't know, the

expectations versus the way the real experience is lived. >> yeah. there's this very destructive language around cancer. and i was diagnosed with cancer in late july. and that language is that you have winners and losers. you have people who -- and people who just lie down and take it. and it takes the discussion away from just living day in day out, loving your family appreciating your family. taking care of your medical business, no question. but also just loving and living life. and there i was july 29th getting a cancer diagnosis. stuart scott had done his speech 13 days before. i'm in a fog of depression and self-loathing and anger. no one was reaching me. i was too upset. and then i watched stuart scott's speech and i listened over and those seven words where he said you fight cancer by how you live. and that was like my nicolas cage/cher "moonstruck" moment of

getting slapped like snap out of it. it was this idea that said look, we're all going to die of something. it's how we live our days it's how we bring people close to us, it's how we express our lives on a day in/day out basis like we truly do live in a state of grace. and now my cancer is gone. i do have to get checked every three months to make -- see if it's there or not. but i can promise you, no matter what future diagnoses bring, i will face it with a degree of strength. and in my family folklore that strength comes from the example of stuart scott. >> so many people can relate to that, dave. thank you very much for being here and sharing those personal revelations. really appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. as we go to break, we also want to note the passing of senator edward brook, the first african-american popular elected to the united states senate and a proud liberal republican. was elected in massachusetts in 1966 where he had been attorney general. at a time when just 2% of the state's population was black.

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in about ten minutes, new york city mayor bill de blasio and police commissioner bill bratton will speak to the media at nypd headquarters. right now the topic is not known. it comes one day after hundreds of police officers turned their backs on the mayor for the second time as he eulogized officer wenjian liu who was shot and killed while sitting in his patrol car with officer ramos last month. joining me now is new york daily news columnist alyssa katz. we don't know the topic, obviously, of this meeting. but wondering if the funeral will come up. bill bratton did issue a very strong statement to his officers, not ordering them but strongly suggesting that they

not repeat that funeral protest and they did it anyway. >> well expect what we're going to hear today is about the remarkable record in the past year overall. you know, half of it predating eric garner's death at the hands of the nypd and most of it predating the killing of wenjian liu and officer radio mossmos. i expect to hear a continuing drop in crime despite the near elimination for one thing of stop and frisk as a police tactic. and, you know what mayor de blasio and police commissioner bill bratton should rightly be celebrating as overall a very successful year for policing that is of course ended very badly. >> and your newspaper and others have also noted that there is this alleged slowdown that police have instituted in terms of doing even less in terms of looking at petty crimes quality of life crimes and making

arrests in those crimes. and yet there has not been a concurrent increase in crime. wondering if there might be some discussion of that. your colleague, denis hamel, wrote a piece excore rating the piece for that slowdown. he wrote, if anyone should have started the powwow between police union chiefs and bill de blasio it should have been lynch who used the most inflammatory of this hot blue mess. will that come up, do you think? >> well sure. we actually don't know right now yet exactly what the picture of crime has been in the past two weeks. i'll sure we'll find out much more about it at 3:00. you know so i think this -- what has been going on in the past two weeks, and very clearly been a slowdown. a dramatic drop in summons, personal offenses, drop in arrests for larger offenses as well. this is a big test right, of

commissioner bratton's broken windows approach to policing which is really fundamental to how he operates. and to mayor de blasio who hired bratton and is you know has been very much supportive of this approach. so, we will find out what has been going on. in the meantime you now have the police unions and pat lynch is head of the patrolmen's benevolent association, really aggressively putting the squeeze on the mayor and the commissioner as my colleague denis hamel talked about, a really outrageous and problematic way. we have to remember from the point of view of these -- of particularly the police officers union. there's other unions for the sergeants and so forth, that they are looking to get the political upper hand on a mayor that has been really trying to push them in a very different direction. >> but who was elected by 73% of

new yorkers. that's going to be a difficult thing to do. alyssa katz of the new york daily news. that wraps things up for "the reid report." "the cycle" is up next with live coverage of the news conference with new york mayor bill de blasio and new york commissioner bill bratton. welcome to the most social car we've ever designed. the all-new nissan murano. nissan. innovation that excites.

reach new high between the nation's largest police force and city hall. good afternoon. i'm toure as we come on the air, new york city mayor bill de blasio is about to appear with police commissioner bill bratton. the two are out to discuss a drop in crime last year but the mayor's also expected to take questions. you can bet the growing rift between de blasio and the nypd will be at the top of the media's list. on sunday at funeral for that second fallen officer, wenjian liu liu, thousands of police officers turned their back when the mayor began his eulogy. all this despite repeated pleas from commissioner bratton to save it until after the

grieving. zack roth this seems to be escalating as the mayor tries to diffuse it. what's going on? >> reporter: hi, toure. you know mayor de blasio has avoided questions on this entire issue since the assassinations of the two police officers a couple weeks ago. so, now people looking to see what he can say along with commissioner bratton, who will be there with him, what can he say to begin to ease these tensions? we just learned for the second consecutive week new york city police officers arrested and issued summons to far fewer people than they did the previous year. so suggesting a concerted sort of deliberate slowdown in work. in addition to the back-turning at both of the funerals that you alluded to. of course, commissioner bratton sent a memo last week asking police officers -- politely asking, not ordering but asking them to not again turn their

back on the mayor when he appeared at the officer's funeral. a number of them -- a large number of them did not comply with that request. so here we are. and people again just looking to see what the mayor can begin to do to ease tensions here and he'll be relying on his police commissioner to do a good part of that. >> zach roth thank you for that very much as we wait for the mayor and police commissioner. let's bring in nbc's perry bacon and mark clayton.