all. >> the mayor's first news conference since police officers turned their backs on him now twice in the past week. they blame bill de blasio for supporting protests they say are anti-police. >> the move ignored pleas from commissioner bratton. it looks like an effort by police to test theirs elements see how much they can get away with. >> i think they have to be very careful they don't go too far or they're going to lose their supporters. >> when bratton says don't turn your back don't turn your back. >> what's the end game? >> i'm time for the city blue the blue line to find common ground. >> that vision will prevail over the negative vision. aim ari melber in for alex. you saw it moments ago, the commissioner finishing an address here days after hundreds of police officers turned their backs on the mayor as he was speaking at a funeral

for executed officer liu. the mayor had strong words for some of the critics says some of the most disrespectful voices have hijacked the recent debate over policing. >> rather than get lost in the daily back and forth by the loudest and most disrespectful voices those have been so loud in this debate in recent weeks, let's talk about where we need to go as a city. let's talk about a positive vision. let's talk about what the people of this city want us to do together. i'll tell you, this is the vision i think we will see play out, the people want us all to come together. the people believe that we can do better. that positive vision will prevail over the negative visions. over the loudest voices of

dysunity and dischord dominate the news cycle. we're going to find a way forward together. de blasio also touted the kind of progress in fighting crime that would normally be the biggest news of the day. the nypd he says has helped bring crime to the lowest rate in decades. >> 2014 was a year of even greater achievement, record-setting year, an extraordinary year for this department. did things that previously were unimaginable in terms of bringing down crime. they did it with ever fairer approaches, and a greatest closeness to our communities. the men and women of the nypd have ton an extraordinary job and these number speaks to it. >> this is the second time in a week that the mayor has sought to present a united front with officers. last tuesday he met with leaders of the city's police unions, but given yesterday's backs turned some say he has more fence mending to do.

this comes with a separate piece of data new numbers showing a drop in arrests and summonses for the second week in a row. joining mess is zach roth reporting from 1 police plaza. what can you tell us about the mood there? it seems that the mayor is striking a pretty strong tone saying he's doing the outreach but the numbers and data backs him up. he said he was around in the '80s when crime was bad. he's standing next to a commissioner who stood undergiuliani. he doesn't seem to think he needs to give ground on substance. >> reporter: he doesn't seem willing to do that an is leaning strongly on the police commissioner, who also was the architect of the broken windows policing style in the '90s, and has more credibility honestly with the police department than he does. but ari, for those officers who turned their backs on the mayor at those funerals i don't know

that anything he said today will change their minds. he said this is the greatest police force in the world, he said we need to move forward, and way trying to reset the debate. he hadn't addressed this issue in the two weeks since the shootings happened and today he didn't offer the details and fullsome praise that perhaps some had grown used to and we are expecting or wanting, that might begin to change some minds here. we'll have to see what happens. >> all right. msnbc's zach roth on location thank you for your reporting. i want to bring in msnbc political analyst michael eric dyson, and retired atf special agent jim cavanaugh. good day to you both. jim, let me start with you. i want to play some sounds from a few minutes away from commissioner brat ton's side of the address. of course he works for the mayor and they are in close contact on all of this but he was even more emphatic on what zach just mentioned, broken

windows policing part of that so-called proactive outreach and also sort of above the bar kind of policing that goes from small crimes to big. let me play that sound from bratton. >> sorry broken windows is here to say. stop question and frisk is here to say, but it will be done in appropriate amounts. >> there he's sass stop question and frisk is here to say, broken windows policing here to say. what did you make of that jim? >> i think you have to listen care in i to what he's saying. you know stop and frisk as the policy was implemented i think is wrong, and i think the commissioner thinks it's wrong as well but stop and frisk, ari, as you know as an attorney comes from the terry versus ohio decision the supreme court decision that said an officer has the right to frisk a person and now that's not a search but a physical pat-down of his pockets on the outside to protect the officer from harm or to prevent escape.

but it should be implemented on an individualized officer's encounter. i did it many times myself of frisking people i thought might be a danger to me or other officers nearby or thought could have a weapon or might escape. it's not, when it's implemented as a policy this is what outraged the citizens. in other words just go out and stop and frisk everyone you see. same thing with broken windows. you know i've been in presentation when the commissioner was there at the executive research forum, the professors who came up with broken windows. look it has a great foundation and it makes great progress. >> tell us what it is. >> well basically it's saying that you could let a neighborhood deteriorate to the point where if windows are broken trash is society a fire abandoned car are in the street and the corner thrives with crime. then the kids can't walk to school because somebody is pulling and gun and shooting somebody and the kids get shot. you have to start with the

little things. but you can over-police and you can strorm-arm that too hard too. >> let mess bring in professor dyson, and bring up the numbers. it's 328 killings that new york saw last year. that is the lowest figure since the early '60s when reliable statistics were first collected. professor dyson, if you talk to bloomberg officials and more conservative folks here in new york, they will tell you this is an overhang of their policies. if you talk to de blasio's folks and a lot of folks for reform this shows even with this liberal mare yor and somewhat controversial changes, you can still keep crime going down without that some kay too aggressive policing. >> or a third option is that the judge who weighed in was it l.a. year who found that the stop and frisk was too aggressive that the broken windows theory may not

ultimately pan out to be the panacea that we had hoped, so that there's a difference between correlation and causation, number one, and number two, that long after those numbers had declined they are still applies aggressive police tactics that did not prove in the warble tore effective. i think there's a shift going on here that could be potential dangerous, or potentially helpful. the danger is that we have lost sight of the fact that the police people are servants of the public good and as a result of that they must continue to be conscious of serving the large populations there, including african-americans and latinos, who have been dispropotionately charged. on the other hand all the communities want to be effectively pleased so they will see a regard for their communities and that the crimes will be stopped. people who are most invested in crime reduction happen to be people in crime-ridden areas. the question is, can the police come in and make a distinction between those who call the police in as to stop the

progress of crime and those who have been criminalized themselves, and as a result of that receive undue burden of the police. that's what's at stake here. let mess take that point and ask you about that. the mayo today was trying to take a political lap in an environment that really isn't allowing it, yet the data does speak for itself. the commissioner is working with him on this. at some point when you talk to officials off the record they say, look obviously of turned backs by officers in uniform are quite a visual but that's hundreds of turned backs here this weekend at the funeral versus millions of votes that this liberal mayor won in this diverse city in an election that we all know that anyone who follows the news was all about policing and about stop and frisk, and in some ways about the mayor's interracial family part of his message and endorsed

by the public recently. >> absolutely right. i think the mayor is right strategically to downplay the turnback so to speak and emphasize that a community came together millions strong to put him into office to address these issues with fairness dispatch and aplomb but at the same time with sensitive to those communities. here's the problem -- if the mayor can't say that my son has had to deal with some issues because he is perceived as a black child, as a biracial child, and that becomes offensive, then we have no basis or foundation for open and honest conversation on either side. that was not an assault upon the police. so i think the mayor is right here to join with commissioner bratton to say, look despite the fact those backs are turned what has been turned down is a downward trend is the crime here number one, and number two, let's not forget this too,

ari, unintentionally what it may show is that the decline in arrests over the last two weeks, maybe i've been over-policing, maybe if the city is in good shape and you're not doing the stuff you used to do maybe you ought to consider that permanent permanently. jim, on a quick law enforcement perspective, how do you bridge these divides and get to a place where you can talk about police reform without officers or families generally feeling that's anti-police. jim? >> i want to do what the doctor said. you have to listen to the people in the community first. the citizens are the boss of both of mayor and the police. they have to talk. the police captains of the precincts have to talk with the community leaders about the issues like the doctor said broken windows. what are we doing? how are we implementing that? i said a long time ago mr. garner should have gotten a salomons. if anything at all, a commons would have been the appropriate

thing. so the citizens are the ones in charge. you know doctor king said in the south -- the south was having a monolog and not a dialogue. it's true today. you have to have a dialogue. i think the mayor is trying to open it up. a few officers turned their backs, but thousands did not and looked big when he did it. this is going to go forward the right way with the voices like the doctor and the police together thinking like leaders, acting for the best interests of all of us and it will be better. >> jim calf non-and michael eric dyson, thank you both on this interesting news day. after the break, jury selection is under way for the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. can he even get a fair trial in boston? and starting tomorrow the gop will control both chambers of congress. we'll tell you why some republicans may make it an unpleasant day nonetheless for one of their most power 68 leaders. first, a huge portion of the

country is feeling the chill. let's check in the weather channel's chris warren. >> thanks ari, this will be the coldest air of the winter season for millions of americans. just look at where this air is coming from? some of this air starting in the north pole. we follow these streams all the way down into the great lakes and the northeast, and then air is going to be hanging around for much of the week. temperatures for daytime highs in some areas barely getting above the freezing market. in fact not even going to make it there. very cold also in the northeast. highs in the teens.

today in boston, jury selection began in the trial of tsarnaev. that was on april 15th 2013 today the judge told the court opening statements will begin january 26th. jury selection is expected to be very long and painstaking. there's a vast pool 3,000 jurors from the boston area pulled together. that will have to be combed in order to just find 12 suitable individuals and six alternates. tsarnaev's attorney repeatedly argued that it some are also

questioning the government's deciding to seek the death penalty quote -- he's going to be on death row for decades. there will be multiple appeals. that's one argument. and co-author of the long mile home, boston under attack. former federal prosecutor paul butler. a good day to you both. scott, let me start with a basic idea. a lot of americans may say we don't care whether it seems like a fair jury. we don't care whether he wants to be tried somewhere else and yet, of course, the law does care.

you sometimes have had these trials move. we've had some on the screen venue changed granted in the lapd officer trial related to rodney king in another terrorism incident of course the oklahoma bombing trial. talk to you about the latest development here the idea that they can find with a large enough search people in boston who will be fair. >> i think that's still a big question. as you know the defense team to dzhokhar tsarnaev was fighting it to the re last minute. so i mean look it is something that affected everybody here. obviously there's a core group of people who are badly affected.

at the same time you have to remember that in this case all indications are that the big fight will be in the penalty phase. it's not so much a question of whether or not he did it it will be a big debate over what the appropriate sentence should be. my sense is it's a lot easier to find impartial jurors than it would be for the first. people think you get a jury of peers, but actually there's a lot of crankling who sits there. >> there's a myth that people with an objective jury. the only person who wants an objective jury is the judge. the prosecutor wants people who are biased in favor of conviction. in this area the law is actually on their side. the supreme court has a case that says if you're opposed to the death penalty you're

automatically excluded even in the guilt or innocence stage. that creates jurors who are more bound to convict in the first place. the defense, of course they don't want impartial jurors. they want people who are more sympathetic. the defense apparently will be that the defendant was overcome by the will of his older brother. remember he was only 19 at the time of this incident. they want people who will listen to that story and be sympathetic, probably not to find him not guilty but to avoid executing him. >> and some relate of course to the defendant. i want to look also of course at the victims' perspective. so many victims. let me just read one new quote. she says she plans to attend part of the trial. she says why? i don't know if i'd ever get an

answer to that question but i want to understand the thought process. >> i think that's a very articulate way to put it. heather is wonderful. i spoke to her for the book at length and i spoke to he a week ago. a lot of the victims don't really know how they'll feel. you have some people wanting to say i want to be there ever day, and then you have the other pole other people saying i don't want to go anywhere near it. i suspect there are people in the middle like heather that want some answers, and want to understand what happened to them. to better comprehend what brought this kid to do this terrible thing. so you know i think there will be pea people like heather may

go and then stay away because it's too hard for them. hopefully we'll learn why it happened. >> scott, from your reporting, did these victims and their families did any of them feel differently about their tremendous loss and pain because this was terrorism as opposed to a different kind of violent crime, or an accident that would be as damaging but potential not as perhaps as dramatic certainly not as nationally scrutinized? >> that's a good question. i don't know the answer to that ari. i do know that a lot of them, as you would expect saw this as this utterly senseless act, and this random violence. i think in that way, it does make it harder to understand. i mean not that a mass shooting isn't hard to understand right? any kind of act is like this, but i do think there are a lot of questions that people have about the motivations and thinking and preparations. against those aren't just

questions that the heather abbotts of the world have. those are questions we all have. there's still a lot of gaps for all of us and so i think we're all looking to the trial to answer some of those. >> briefly, how strong is the death penalty part of this case? >> the jury would have to find evidence that's aggravating factors that suggest he killed not just for a typical motive if you will but for a specially hain usa circumstances. we have to understand that the defendant has one of the best death penalty lawyers in the world. normally what she does is get a plea agreement, gets a plea for life without parole in exchange for the government taking the death penalty off the table. she did that with ted ka since can i, with eric rudolph, the olympic park bomber and the man who shot gabby giffords. that's what she's hoping for in this case. >> a lot of expertise on a tough

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. for you days into the new year an american droin strike is believed to have killed six foreign mill tans in the waziristan region. officials say the strike was targeting a group of uzbek militants. this after a school was attacked. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, which tracks they covert drone attacks, a total of 25 strikes were launched last year alone,

killing between 114 and roughly 184 people. now, over the course of a decade, u.s. officials have never made officially public most of the key details of these type of drone strikes, including the approximate number the location, or the number of individuals known to have been killed. now, just ahead, republicans kick off their majority in the new congress tomorrow most putting their support behind john boehner to remain speaker, but not all. i'm going to talk directly to congressman tom cole, next.

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joan ichb joining mess congress maps tom cole. good day to you. >> good to be with you. >> let's start here with this debate. these are a couple members who didn't really get very far when you had your official conference meeting on this. is this a legitimate challenge they want to mount tomorrow or dao vu it as sour grapes? >> i'll let them characterize it how they wish to do so but frankly it's just in my view unprofessional and inappropriate. we have an opportunity to decide who the nominee will be. anybody can run. frankly certainly congressman banger -- speaker boehner has quite obvious had opposition. he welcomes that. that's fine. unfortunately neither of these gentlemen chose to do that. now they have chosen at the last minute to baekly break with the conference. they're not attacking john

boehner, but attacking the conference, in my opinion. >> you're offering a lesson how all these things work. not everyone knows that. do you think the folks these members are appealing to whoever that might be some of the conservative base do you think think understand they didn't go at it when they had a chance in the real process? >> i think you're right. sadly they probably don't. it's pretty arcane for most people. in that sense we ought to be talking tomorrow about keystone. we ought to be talking about the president's overreached in some areas and areas we can work with the president, like trade. instead we're spending time on this. it's going to be a distraction. it's not going to succeed, and frankly it decides the conference a bit and it's not helpful. >> you mentioned the agenda. you talked about getting keystone right out there. what do you think is the right metric for whether this is a productive, congress say in the first few months? how many bills do you thinksh pass? do you think you should get

keystone to the president's desk? what's in your view success? >> i want to put as many bills as we can on the president's desk. some of those areas, again we can work together. i'd like to see us work together on trade. i'd like to see us work together on the syrian authorization. if we're going to expend force there that we actually have legal authority to do so. i think we need to get the normally appropriations bill moving but there's going to be some areas where we confront. clearly we'll disagree with the president's approach. we're going to disagree very strongly with him on obamacare and we'll probably try to make at least some piecemeal changes there, and we're probably going to look at a sanctioning bill that will be very bipartisan and i think present quite a problem. it will be a mixture of confrontation and compromise. >> you mentioned syria s do you think assist a deadline at this point a lack of congressional authorization will make the current isis operation illegal,

if you don't authorize it? >> the president thinks he has the legal grounds to do this. a number of people agree with that but he's basing that on legislation that was passed in 2001 and 2002 when most members of congress that are serving today weren't actually in the senate or the house. so the reality is we ought to look at something much more specific. i think this is a question of maintaining congress's role and war-making authority. >> do you think that americans viewed that 2001 authorization after 9/11 do you think americans view that as a reason to start a new operation? >> absolutely not. absolutely not. i'm pleased the republicans at least have had a debate over the president's decision to train the free syrian army. unfortunately the democrats and the senate didn't want to authorize anything debate anything. we're past the election now. certainly this is something that would be bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition, which

frankly if you're dealing with war, it ought to be that way. i think the president, you know needs to send up a proceed. we knee to debate it and pass it. >> you know the president is going on the this week going into the state of union, pushing his agenda on jobs and economic pop you litch. is there anything room to at least get him a vote on any of this. the house as you know in the past as not put any of these imitems up to vote. >> i certainly don't have any problem with a vote on federal minimum wage but i think frankly the whole concept is pretty shaky. it costs a lot different in new york city than it does in say, oklahoma city. a lot of the states have individualry gone ahead and moved if they felt it needed to go. to me that's more appropriate way to proceed, but i'm open to having the debate.

i want to give you the benefit to response to some that josh earnest just said in this controversy over steve scalise being in leadership. >> who they choose in leadership says a lot about who they are, what their values are and what the priorities of the conference should be. mr. scalise reportedly described himself as david duke without the baggage, so it will be up to the republicans about what it says about the conference. >> pretty cheap shot particularly from a party that the late senator byrd was actually the senate leader in and was a former member of the ku klux klan. this blows out of proportion what happened a single incident 12 years ago, six year before he was even in congress not clear if he knew that the group had any asp yags with affiliation

with mr. dukes. >> what do you say to folks who say whether or not you label it as out of bounds the pattern is this is a member who also was one of the only 350e78 in louisiana to vote against the martin luther king holiday. does that reflect the current values of gop leadership? >> well no i don't think so. i think that's a totally different issue entirely. look i supported for it i worked for a member who voted for it at the time. there's just simply no pattern here. remember some of his strongest defenders have been democrats like sedgwick bridgeman who said there's not a racist bone in his body. i've known steve for six years, i've never seen any evidence. he's open he's a really genuinely decent human being. that's what most people that know him say on both sides of the political aisle. >> congressman tom cole i know it is a busy season with congress starting up tomorrow. thank you for making some time for us today.

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goesing they're going to be less scary, isn't -- a worthy pursuit, nonetheless. >> that was josh earnest responding to mitch mcdonnell's stated goal of making his party seem, quote, less scary, heading into 2016. he said i don't want the american people to think if they had a republican president to a republican congress that would be a scary outcome. i want the american people to be comfortable with the fact that the republican house and senate is a responsible right of center governing majority. joining mess is white house press secretary josh earnest. good day to you.

>> hey ari, how are you? >> very well. let's talk about that and the president trying to lay out an economic agenda at the time when the spotlight is on the congress, which has a big new victorious republican majority. >> look ari, there's no question that whoever was going to win the midterm election would face a pretty straightforward challenge. in the mind of the president, it's certainly straightforward. how do we benefit middle-class families. there's no doubt or commit is starting to build momentum. that didn't just stave off a second great depression. actually laid the groundwork for the kind of strong recovery that is not starting to take root. what we want to do is make sure we're putting in place policies that will ensure all the benefits don't go just to the top, but to the middle-class

families that will strengthen our economy the most. >> let's pick one of those that have come up. they cease they're going to send a tweak to a policy oriented bill that will basically change the eligibility as you know from 30 to 40-hour a week workers. is that dead on arrival with the white house? >> well it's certainly something that had adds tens of billions to the deficit over ten years. that seems inconsistent with the kinds of priorities that the republicans have identified. it's entirely consistent with the dozens of other times they have voted to undermine the artable care act. so this is part and parcel of a straek of republicans have engaged in in the past, which, by the way, is actually expanded insurance coverage to millions of americans for the first time holding down the growth and health care costs. and some who get it through

their ploir allows them to keep their adult children on their parents ease health insurance under age 26. so the republicans are a little out of step with the american public when they try to promote items like this, as opposed to the president's focus, which is policies that will benefit middle-class families. earlier we talked to tom cole, we gave him the benefit of responding to some of your criticism earlier. he criticized you, so i want to give you the benefit of a response. take a listen. >> okay. >> pretty cheap shot unworthy of the white house quite frankly, and particularly coming if a party that the late senator brird was actually the senate leader in and he was a former member of the ku klux klan. >> your response? >> well ari, look as i said all along, it would be up to mr. cole and the other members of the house republican conference to decide who they said to serve

in their leadership. they're going to have to decide if they're going to elevate somebody who described himself -- this is not me taking a cheap shot. he described himself as david duke without the baggage. they was certainly somebody ecelebritied by the people of louisiana, or at least the people from hi congressional district. now we'll hear from house republicans about whether they think he should be the leadership. they'll have to also decide what kind of signal that sends about what house republican priorities and values are. that's an open question. . i don't get a vote in the conference, but mr. cole and his checks do and they'll ultimately make that decision on their own. >> what specifically about his argument regarding the historical role of the senator byrd in leadership and that's a point you've heard elsewhere. newt gingrich saying it as well. well you know all i will say is it's fine if mr. cole wants to is a that that -- you no

that that was a decision maid be senate democrat it is a number of years ago. what i'm saying is that today, house rpg have to decide for themselves today if they want somebody to be in their leadership now who described himself as david duke without the baggage. it's totally up to them to vr about what kind of message they want to send to the american people. you take about that message, and there's a question of language and who they're associating with and who that represents and then there's the current question on policy with outgoing republican michael grimm. there is very serious movement afoot in staten island to push dan donovan, who as you know and the president has spoken about, was of course the d.a. involved in a very controversial decision not to indict the officers not related to eric garner. we were covering earlier the police commissioner and the mayor of new york talking about a whole bundle of these issues. do you think it says anything if

the republicans want to give a nomination or promotion to dan donovan, that prosecutor at this time? >> well that would be a question for the voters in that congressional district. again they'll have to make their decision. that also is a slightly different dynamic, because it will be a situation where they'll be comparing a variety of different candidates but ultimately that would be for the voters themselves to decide who they want to represent than in congress. this is a little different. this is a leadership election, where you have members of congress making a specific decision about who they want to elect to their leadership. and what kind of message that sends to the brought are country. >> on the policing the president has put great effort into trying to building bridges. i think that's fair. when you look at the list of people he's consulted with it's wide and varied with law enforcement and civil rights. this has been a difficult time but what do you make here as we start the new year? new york is not the whole country, but boy, there is an unrest among some officers and

some union leaders here that some call mutiny some call disrespectful, but really shows we're not flel getting better yet. what do you think about that from a white house view after all this bridge building the fact that there is just such open -- such open challenges coming from officers sometimes in uniform on these issues. >> a couple things ari. the first thing is that you know based on the reporting i saw of the two funerals of the police officers who were tragically killed a couple weiss acin new york those who turned their backs actually represented a relatively small minority of the large number of police officers who traveled across the country to show their support for the service and sacrifice of their fallen fellow police officers. >> let me ask you point-blank, josh, are you implying but not directly saying, are you complying this is a smaller issue? you work there with the press this the pressroom. do you imply that the press has

made too much of an issue of a small number of protests? >> no because i don't want to minimize this. you have men and women all across the country who future on their uniform and do something heroic. they put their lives on the line every single day to protect and serve the community to which they're assigned. that is something that is worthy of our honor, our respect and worthy of our praise. that's why you've heard the president talk about that quite a bit. at the same time there are also people in some communities that have raised legitimate concerns about the way that the law is being applied. it's not at all inconsistent for us to both show our support for our men and women in blue who act heroically on a daily basis, but also to maybe sure we have a criminal justice system that can be as fair as possible can be. in fact what we found and i think the president believes if we can take best practices from communities that have really worked hard and succeeded in building bridges of trust in their communities, we can make

it safer for law enforcement to do their job and make law enforcement more effective in the first place. >> josh earnest, thanks for your time. >> no problem. thank you, ari. have a good one. appreciate it. vladimir putin throwing a party, but you won't believe who he invited, that's next. swagen golf was just named motor trend's 2015 car of the year. so was the 100% electric e-golf, and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. and last but not least the high performance gti. looks like we're gonna need a bigger podium. the volkswagen golf family. motor trend's 2015 "cars" of the year.

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