bill bratton is here for his first national tv interview since this case happened.>> good to have you here. let's talk first about this garner case because chokeholds have been banned in the nypd since the '90s. what happened here? why was this violent force used and is it at all defensible? >> well there's an investigation by the district attorney's office at the moment and we're going to have to wait to see the results of that investigation. we have a parallel administrative investigation in the police department, but we don't come into it until the district attorney finishes his look to see if this is a criminal act that was committed. so i think we're all going to have to just stand by a little bit and wait and see what he determines. >> i understand there's an investigation and that's important, but when you see this video, many people think this is over the top. >> what you're seeing is a snippet, an eight-minute video actually. and in terms of the activities before the video began, the activities after, that's the totality that we have to take into account in

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then youed had rudy giuliani and bill bratton changing the policing ways. >> well, it is not the only thing to spend the money on. >> and it is absurd left concept that does not work. >> and here is the thing. one thing that we have seen, dagan, over the years, over the last 25 years is that the crime has come down pretip to usually, -- precipitously, and part of the reason is aggressive polici policing. to adam's point, you combine it with technology and know-how, but it effective and made it a much better country. >> yes, butt at some point, it crosses the line, and we all agree when you look aggressive and mill tar is iistic you can to actual ly incite violence looking that way, and where you draw the line is impossible to quanti quantify, but there were instances in ferguson that made the hair stand up on your back. >> and now to the right of center is rudy giuliano, and now it is bill de blaso agbad. i'm paraphrasing, but what you need issing assertive, and here is the problem with places like ferguson, they are aggressive after the fact. they are not assertive. i don't believe t

. >>> and new york city police commissioner bill bratton joins us in the studio. news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's friday, august 8. i'm michelle griego. >> good morning, i'm juliette goodrich. frank is off this morning. >> yes. he is off this morning! [ laughter ] >> and so is lawrence! >> but at this, all the lovely ladies are here. >> here we are. >> yes. >> chicks on pix in an array of colors! >>> one color outside you will notice gray skies into the bay. numbers in the 50s and 60s. the full weekend forecast still straight ahead. >> ino one will make it freezing in the studio today. at the bay bridge toll plaza we have roadwork westbound into san francisco. in fact, a lot of overnight roadwork still out there. so we'll tell you all about it on this friday morning commute coming up. >> thank you. >>> developing news on iraq now. president obama has authorize

. >>> and new york city police commissioner bill bratton joins us in the studio.ng news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> today is friday, 8th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erica von tiehl. an apartment fire in upper dublin township is sent one person to the hospital as the building was evacuated. steve patterson has a live report ahead. >> the 72 hour cease-fire is over, israel has resumed strikes on gaza and update on the hostilities straight ahead. >> two hurricanes striking at this hour. residents there, big island, are preparing for the worse. we'll have the latest for you. >> yes, let's talk about those two, and our forecast, over to the weather center and check in with katie. >> so much watch different pattern for us, no tropical activity of any kind expected in the next two days in the atlantic basin. sitting pretty and really will be a nice couple of days. we want

. >> reporter: chokeholds are banned by the new york city police and commissioner bill bratton promised that message would be reinforced. >> we shall retrain the whole department, all 35,000 members, and particularly those 20,000 officers who routinely work the streets. >> reporter: the officer seen using the chokehold has been stripped of his badge and gun, another is on desk duty. four medical responders are suspended without pay all pending an investigation. tonight, the police union offers its sympathies to garner's family but says it believes if he didn't resist arrest "this tragedy would not have occurred." meanwhile a family mourns and a city debates the tactics used to keep peace. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> another break here. when we come back, the surprising admission from a big star this morning on "today." ...we need to break up. is it the biting? cuz i can stop? no! i love you and your show. it's cable. customers are more satisfied with u-verse. switch and we can stay together forever. forever? ow. i'm not gonna lie to you. it's also the biting. break up with ca

but the difference between bill bratton in new york and the police chief out in ferguson is bill brals policing is something you do with a community, it's not something you do to a community and that seems to be the attitude in ferguson and that has to change. >> all right. gene, thank you very much. reverend al sharpton, thank you very much. we will be watching "politics nation" at 6:00 p.m. on msnbc. gene, stay with us, if you can. >>> coming up, how far will the white house go in its pursuit of isis? syrian officials are warning against a u.s. strike in its country but should american officials listen? we go live to the pentagon. >>> plus from vacation bliss to hotel hell. than been through that? how hidden fees can ruin a good time. that and more when "morning joe" returns. ♪ vo: this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. where memories will be forged into the sand. and then hung on a wall for years to come. get out there, with over 50,000 hotels at $150 dollars or less. expedia. find yours. it's been that way since the day yo

we hear about bill bratton coming on talking about community policing. that is when you let the community feel they are a part of policing. >> represented by it. >> represented by it. when you get a place where there are 50 white cops out of 53 and only three black cops in a community that is overwhelmingly black, that's not community policing. that sounds more like apartheid in south africa in this small town. you know what else? a lot of conservatives are talking about culture. you have to look at the culture in ferguson. this is a welfare culture. a lot of things have gone terribly wrong and all you have to do is look at these people that are on tv every night and aren't they horrible? it's a terrible culture! and this is what happens when you have the federal government throwing welfare to a community. okay. you want to have that debate, we can have that debate. paul ryan on the other day was talking about how welfare strips away the dignity of people. i've said it before. let's have that debate, but if we are going to debate about culture, then why

new york city police commissioner bill bratton says the nypd is closely following developments in the he said so far there is no specific threat to new york. kitty logan is live in london. what else are we learning from the british government? >> the government here is extremely concerned about these british jihadis who have been traveling to iraq and syria to join the islamic state. the real fear is what these radicalized men might do when they return to the uk. they have been exposed to some very brutal violence there. the prime minister since he wants much tougher action to be taken against what he describes as a poisonous ideology and says action needs to be taken now and this problem cannot be ignored. >> we cannot appease this ideology. we have to confront it at home and abroad. to do this we need a tough, intelligent, patient, and comprehensive approach to dash that defeats defeats defeats tht threat. >> prime minister also says the danger posed by the islamic state is something we have never seen the likes of before and warns the uk could be tackling the problem for years if n

i talked to bill bratton about that.f every cop in america wore a camera we would know what happened in that altercation. it seems to me we said yesterday the only people who were hurt, because good cops aren't hurt by wearing cameras. the only good people -- i mean, the only people that are hurt by that policy are bad cops. >> i heard you say it in the mornings and i think you're right, because the only ones that should object to that are bad cops and criminals. because now the criminal has no excuse and the bad cop has no excuse. i don't think most cops are bad like i don't think people in our communities are bad. we got to get rid of the bad ones on both sides. >> there's a couple of other things going on here that we really should think about as a country for quite sometime. one is cultural and the other is political. the cultural thing there is something deeply wrong with the culture where the vast majority of americans know more about the death of robin williams than they do about the death of michael brown. i mean

bill bratton is a good guy to talk to. community policing. get cops on the streets and in neighborhoods and get them to know who they are working with and not against. >> funny you bring that up. we'll discuss that with our political panel in just a few moments. always great to see you. thank you very much. >>> time for a quick check of other headlines today. more american air strikes in northern iraq. fighter jets and drones destroying at least three armored vehicles operated by the islamic terrorists. >>> russia allowing ukrainian inspectors to check hundreds of trucks waiting to enter eastern ukraine. the trucks are part of a massive aid convoy sent by moscow. the convoy said to have a large number of russian vehicles escorting trucks. >>> flying the flag of isis in new jersey. a man says he has flown the banner for more than ten years but had no idea it was the same one used by terrorists rampaging in iraq. neighbors upset by the sight told him about the connections and the flag has been removed. >>> back to what we were just talking abou

united states sit on the web looking at these terrorist videos, john miller one of the deputies to bill bratton said, look, there's a magazine al qaeda puts out. >> "inspire" magazine. >> articles about how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. sounds like a joke, but one of the terrorists they caught here, jose pea mon tall, had been building his bomb based on that article. >> they had the latest iteration of how to make a car bomb. at 47th and broadway, here's where you can park it. literally, how do 0 we counter that, mary? >> i don't think there's any one silver bullet. obviously intelligence is the most important element. i think what john miller was describing is how they have been able to identify who these individuals are and follow them -- surveil them for up to years. i think that's been very successful, but it's not an exact science. >> that surveillance has actually been under political pressure here at home, saying it's intrusive. but it sounds to me like it's absolutely crucial. >> i don't think the politicians have done a good enough job in explaining to the american people

ray kelly and bill bratton are doing a fantastic job. now we have to bring it to another level, because these guys have the money, and with the bucks, they can get in here, can get in quick and can get in unidentified. >> yeah, we hear you. pat, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> now, the white house today appearing to down play the threat of an attack by isis militants in the u.s. to ed henry with more on that. ed? >> reporter: interesting because remember where we were a few days ago. had the extraordinary news conference at the pentagon last week, wheres dempsey and defense secretary chuck hagel suggested in hagel's words that isis was worse than al qaeda pre-9/11, the only way to actually defeat isis was go into syria, as well as iraq, launch air strikes, direct u.s. military action to deal with the severe terrorist threat to america. not just to the region there. but today at the podium, white house spokesman josh ernest seemed to be tamping that down and in the last 24 hours general dampsy clarified his remar

after some public backlash, bill bratton the chief at the time decided to outlaw the use of that term distraction strikes forever being used at the lapd. they are not allowed to say it but they are still allowed to do it if the situation calls for it. joe vazquez, kpix 5. >> the sheriff's department tells joe we'll do an internal review but jonathan hasn't filed a complaint. >>> 5:12. san francisco airport urging travelers to make sure they haven't left their valuables behind at security checkpoints. about 20,000 items go through the airport's lost and found each year and they include a surprising number of laptop computers. more than 900 last year alone. so why do so many items get left behind? >> they probably want x amount a fee to check the bag and hey, it's easier to leave it at the checkpoint and then when returning back they are claimed. >> okay -- [ laughter ] >> the airport says about 2% of the items are never claimed. they are eventually sold at auction. i can't imagine leaving my laptop at the airport. >> any valuables? >> once you go in with your tact you're like this goin

i know that you met with the new york police commissioner, bill bratton. are you satisfied with the results of that meeting? are you confident that there's going to be a full and swift investigation into mr. garner's death? >> i can't speak to you the progress that has been made thus far, but i believe that commissioner bratton is headed in the right direction. to the degree that everyone is committed to a full accounting, a full and thorough investigation, we're satisfied. but given the tragedy of mr. garner's death, given the expectations of the citizens of new york, the country and indeed the world, we await the outcome of the investigation with a great deal of anticipation. >> let me read you something that you wrote specifically about the larger implications of the death. you wrote garner's death is not a symbol, his death is a heart-breaking symptom of the untested and overaggressive policing culture that has become common place from new york to california. it is part of a sequence of tragedies that have seared the names of rodney king. i'm going to

unleashed a fire storm in new york city and nationwide and led to a meeting between bill de blasio, bill bratton al sharpton. in light of today's ruling, commissioner bratton said the nypd will continue to cooperate with the district attorney investigating the case and mayor de blasio released a statement saying, "we all have a responsibility to work together to heal the wounds from decades of mistrust and create a culture where the police department and communities they protect respect each other and that's a responsibility that commissioner bra bratton and i take seriously. i said we'll make change and we will." everyone will be watching the mayor very closely to see how he delivers on that promise of change. rain fiber can do. one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, two espressos. make one a double. she's full and focused. [ barista ] i have two cappuccinos, one coffee with room, one large mocha latte, a medium macchiato, a light hot chocolate hold the whip, and two espressos -- one with a double shot. heh, heh. that's not the coffee

bill bratton, the nypd commissioner, actually came out and made that argument. he said "so much of what goes on in the field is he said/she said and the camera offers an objective perspective. officers not familiar with the technology may see it as harmful but the irony is officers tend to benefit because very often the officer's version of events is the accurate version." >> exactly. an objective record of the incident as opposed to hearsay and he said/she said and of course i support police commissioner bratton and i would urge the implementation in the city of new york. >> i think we've still got that live camera footage going just showing exactly what the perspective is. anthony? there shooting us live. you get a full picture of what's going on at the time. the other question here, leti a leticia, is how this video is handled as it's rolling out in communities. clearly the visual can go viral, it can reveal potential misconduct as we saw with the eric garner video, anthony still keeping us accountable here. but we have a report from atlantic city lance sayin

>> first of all, charlie beck, the chief the lapd and bill bratton both understand that community policing have to be key elements to any police department in the united states of america, democratic country. we have to understand that the civilians are in charge which is why i frankly don't understand that i haven't seen enough of the mayor of that town in the situation. one of the things we did, we had about 67% of the city is of color and about that number of our police officers are of color. in fact, patrol, it's almost close to 80%. we focused a lot on making our police department more diverse, focusing on working in our community. our captains are in the community every week. our chief, both bratton and beck were meeting in the community quarterly so that there was a relationship before big incidents happened. that was critical. the diversity of our police department. a police commissioner in charge of the police department that reviews these things. >> mika, everything that he is talking about, ferguson didn't do. was overwhelmingly white police make up a diverse community. >> it is

that's what bill bratton talked about in l.a. and what is talking about here.ou can't do that if the police force is that grossly unrepresentative. willie good night. >>> should we turn to some politics? >> i would love to. >> it was the hug everybody was waiting for last night. >> can i just say? i wasn't waiting for it. >> i know. a bit tongue in cheek. >> i'm not much on fake physical contact. >> we don't have any evidence of it. >> no, we don't. >> i think we should have every politician wear a camera! so we know what they are doing and if they hug, we know. >> that's an idea. >>> so president obama and hillary clinton came face-to-face last night for the first time since a public flap over foreign policy messaging and the debate to arm syrian rebels. they sat at the same table on martha's vineyard at a birthday party. hillary clinton said she was looking forward to making amends early in the day yesterday. >> hug it out with the president? >> absolutely! yeah! we are looking forward to it. going to be there tonight. >> is it a hard choice? >> no. in the bo

new york city police commissioner bill bratton is joining us here in studio 57 for the first time onr critics about a number of recent controversies here in new york. >>> plus carter evans introduces us to a robot programmed to act like a shark and track their every move. what they can teach scientists about the great whites swimming off of some of nation's most popular beaches. that's just ahead. >>> time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "usa today" says russian bombers increased flights around u.s. airspace. they acknowledge russian strategic bombers and other military aircraft entered air defense zones 16 times in the last ten days. fighter jets scrambled 17 times amid the crumb bling relations between russia and the west over ukraine. >>> the san jose mercury news says the serial stowaway was arrests again. as we reported she flew from san jose to l.a.x. without a ticket on monday. the judge told her to stay away from the airport unless she had a ticket. she ignored the order. now she's being held on $10,000 bail. >>> the indianapolis star says the ncaa's board of di

he says bill bratton has no doubt -- go to the . paragraph. do you athat? do you agree with that, that this is an issue of having the perception of order? >> caller: well, let me to you. i mean, i mean, all that is good indian the, what they wrote about. but i'm telling you poverty, this is opportunity for everybody but it's not. it's a limited. i think the youth in this country, i me, i'm grateful that i'm educated and have agree. i know a lot of youth, i me, that are targeted by the so-called law enforcement. once they get a record, the system is organized. what they do, they tried to arrest young youth and once they get a conviction they cannot vote. they cannot get a good job. i see black folks come on tv talking about these folks. how can they vote? >> host: we will move on to staten island, new york, democratic caller. what do you think, are the police forces in this country to militarized? >> caller: yes. i believe they are. i believe the reason is because people just don't know their history. even just a little over 100 years ago. new york city alon

commissioner bill bratton says there's no doubt the police morale is hurting. >> mike barnicle, it'sall live here. a lot of us live here, have a lot of friends in brooklyn, most of them younger than me. i haven't heard any stories from, quote, crime-infested brooklyn communities, certainly hasn't spread to manhattan. what's going on here? >> no. these are very hot properties. people paying enormous sums of money to live here. this is a real shot at two people. obviously the mayor and police commissioner. a lot of it i suspect involves al sharpton sitting down with the mayor and commissioner bratton at an event a couple weeks ago, talking about stop and frisk, talking about the choke hold death of eric garner. it's infuriated the police federation. >>> there was a terrible accident at an arizona shooting range on monday. >> oh, this is hard to watch. >> a 9-year-old girl lost control of a fully automatic uzie killing an instructor who was helping her. the practice session was being filmed and police released a video that is cut off moments before the deadly incident. it's really tough

new york city police commissioner bill bratton has a lot on his plate, as the commander of what's in one of the world's largest armies, he's watching what's going on in iraq and the middle east very intently. he's dealing with trouble here at home. it was a caught-on-tape arrest that bent very wrong. it's threatening to split the city along color lines. remember, this isn't even his first time on the job. we got a chance to sit down with the commissioner for a rare interview to take a look at what's going on in the world around us. >> is it good to be back? >> great to be back. no place i'd rather be. >> the job change since the last time you had it? >> '94 was traditional crime. this time terrorism is front and center and will always remain friend and center because we are the number one terrorist target in the world and will remain so. >> are you concerned with isis, ever see a group like this before, running around and trying to chase christians down, telling them to convert or die. are they a new breed? >> they are a new breed in the sense of their ability to inspire, but to recr