this could be a cool story about the naacp and dempsey and a case not many know about. but i think that the affects of the case had long range implications. the creation of the naacp litigation strategy to fight for civil right in the rest of the 20th century and more importantly the modern criminal procedure revolution where the supreme court expanded their power in criminal law and redefined what constituted a fair trial. i believe it is important to understand the structure and expertise of the naacp that played the role during the brown civil rights was determined by an earlier set of events that set it down that path. brown didn't just happen. we don't just get civil rights or the modern criminal procedure. we understand miranda versus arizona but we need to understand how the political and constitutional change happened. it was the battle around the racial violence that started the shift of the naacp and their supporters about how to success fullly fight racial injustice in the federal government. the naacp wasted no time using brown for funding their legal depart

at the staff meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. they were right, why not.in other words, there are some people who say, i've got to say something whether it agrees or disagrees. i think we're trying to show that they're shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like, you know, we were surprised by isil, okay? oh, general clapper's fault. do you want to fire him? no. so hagel was easy sacrifice because he's a republican, who the republicans don't like. and, of course, he was weakened by the confirmation hearing. and again, you know i've known chuck, we worked together in the reagan administration, and what people don't know about him is he was the number two in the va. he was about 35 years old. a pretty big job. the head of the va at the time said, agent orange is no worse than teenage acne. can you believe that? so hagel said either he goes or i go. he went. that was pretty tough. i said, boy, i've got a lot of respect for this guy. but at the confirmation hearings, you're taking money from the north korean

at staff meetings he agreed with john kerry and john dempsey but if they were right, why not? there were some people got to i can't have my opinion whether or not it agrees or disagrees. and so i think they're trying to show that they're shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we are surprised by isil. all, general clappers fall. he want to fire him? no, he's pretty -- so hegel was an easy sacrifice because he's a republican who the republicans don't like it, and then, of course he was weakened by that confirmation hearing. and again, i've known chuck. we worked together in the reagan administration of what people don't know is he was number two at va. he was 35, a pretty big job. ahead of the va at the time said agent orange is no worth -- no worse than teenage acne. can you believe that? so hegel said either he goes or i go. he went. that was pretty tough. i got a lot of respect for this guy, but at the confirmation hearings, they are taking money from the north koreans and -- he gave a speech at rutgers with an irania

chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey spoke with "the wall street journal." he said the strikes by the u.s.-led coalition took place in iraq between late last month and december 9th. dempsey said the three militants include abu muslim al turkmani, one of the closest and most senior aides of islamic state leader abu bakr al baghdadi. another was the head of the group's military operations in iraq. lieutenant general james terry says the coalition forces have gained the advantage in the fight against islamic state, also called daesh. >> we're seeing initial successes in this fight. my assessment is that daesh has been halted in transitioning to the defense and is attempting to hold what they currently have. >> the general says iraqi forces are showing improved capabilities and have retaken many critical areas. but terry adds patience is needed to defeat islamic state, saying it may take at least three years to stabilize the situation in iraq. >>> the recent charp depreciation of the ruble could be casting a shadow not only over russia's economy, but also over i

i wish them and their families happy holidays. >> general dempsey, thank you.he holiday season would not be complete without the annual west point holiday concert in eisenhower hall. named for class of 1915 graduate, general and later president, dwight eisenhower eisenhower hall is one of the largest theaters in america designed to hold the entire corps of cadets. so let's get right to it. here's the west point band in the hudson valley holiday concert performing holiday presents. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we have much more of the hudson valley holiday concert as this special continues, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the united states military academy. but as we take a quick break, here's the west point cadet glee club singing "mansions of the lord." ♪ ♪ if you're suffering from constipation or irregularity powders may take days to work. for gentle overnight relief, try dulcolax laxative tablets. ducolax provides gentle overnight relief, unlike miralax that can take up to 3 days. dulcolax, for relief you can count on. crest presents 3d white whitestrips for t

and so like dempsey, he's a big hitter. and new yorkers seemed to like the big hitters, the guys who could put them on the canvas and put the balls in the seats. what i try to do in the book, just a second on methodology, is i really try to tell the story, try to reimagine it, i should try to say. i try to reimagine say. i tried to go back in my mind and describe the life of my tarks not as i see them from the present, but to get behind their eyes. everyone tells me that the history because you have hindsight. if you will know the great depression is coming, you will organize your book so it leads to that. as my buddy said, most inaccurate phrase is the foreseeable future. the future can never be foreseen. in 1927, it was unimaginable to new yorkers that the greatest urban building boom would soon collapse with shocking suddenness. this guy here, i live in jimmy walker, that he be brought low and forced to resign. walker is one of the major characters. he is fun to write about. most tend to substitute analysis. they doend g

>> general dempsey would say so far so good. it's going as planned.e all would like more results, but they are not going to retreat. isis is going to continue to do what it can to try to win back certain cities. >> thank you very much. >>> many are hailing the dramatic changes in u.s. and cuban relations. but the development is causing some confusion in some cuban communities and familiar list. morgan ratfort has more. >> reporter: while the political risk seems to be shrinking, in fact this has left many children of cuban disdance at odds with their own family. the reaction here is hardly universal. take this family. like so many other families, the generations collide when it comes to talking about u.s. policy towards cuba. >> my parents are very, very upset. they feel hurt that the cuban community -- the cuban american community in the united states was not consulted. my parents just like many here feel very betrayed by the american government, because everything that they have gone through, and everything that has happened was not taken into consi

. >> thomas dempsey was one of glidden's other friends in his housing unit. >> that morning at breakfasti noticed he wasn't at his table. i went to wake him up. i heard the officer say, "he's dead. he's dead." my buddy then went to go wake him up. he said that when he shook him, he grabbed his leg to scare him awake. he said -- >> stuff as a board. >> he said it was like rolling a log over. he said he just rolled over. >> glidden had been awaiting trial for sexual misconduct with a minor. >> as far the people who dealt with him on a daily basis, melancholy. just everybody couldn't really believe it. kind of crazy. >> ryan johnson also knew glidden. >> someone that close -- you see that person that much and then you don't see them all of a sudden and they're just gone, i mean, that left i think a hole in a lot of people that had at least spent some time with him. >> with me, i just couldn't -- i couldn't fathom why did he want to destroy himself, you know. i feel like the inmates felt that way, too. why -- why did this -- nobody seemed to know. they didn't see -- i didn't see anything. >>

for a special message from martin dempsey chairman of the joints chief of staff and 74 west point graduate. >> thank you for the opportunity to showcase this national treasure during the holidays and to hear the music of the west point band the army's oldest and one of the very best. i don't want to miss this opportunity to highlight the service and sacrifice of the millions of servicemen and women serving our nation at home and abroad during this holiday. i wish them and their family happy holidays. >> the holiday season would not be complete without the annual west point holiday concert in ienz hour hall. >> named for the class of 1915 graduates and eisenhowers is one of the largest theaters in america designed to hold the entire core of cadets. >> let's get right to it. here is the west point band in the huntington valley holiday concert performing holiday presence. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ rl ♪ ♪ o >> we hudson holiday concert as well as a behind the scenes look at the united states military academy. as we take a quick break here's the cadet glee club singing "mansions of the lord." ♪ ♪ ♪ could prote

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draw your attention to comments made by the chairman of the joint chief of staffs, general martin dempsey, made earlier this year. he said -- quote -- "we're currently on the clock, if you will. the president of the united states said to us in december, you know what, we've got about a year to review this thing and show me you can make a difference. we understand that just because senator gillibrand's vote was defeated yesterday doesn't mean that a year from now it may not be reintroduced. and if we haven't been able to demonstrate we're making a difference, you know then we deserve to be held to the scrutiny and the standard." mr. president, there is no mission in the world where our military -- in our military where this much failure would be allowed. and based on general dempsey's own time line, our men and women in uniform deserve a vote on this broadly bipartisan reform because the military has not been able to demonstrate that they can make this difference. and, therefore, they should be held to the scrutiny this year. throughout last year we have continued to see the evidence of ho

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people forget like jack dempsey, one of the most popular sports in america and muhammad ali, one of thereatest huge ratings for heavyweight prize fights just 30 or 40 years ago and now it's basically cock fighting and it is a niche sport. why is the thing that happened to boxing not possible to happen to the nfl? >> it's too big to fail. why we think about the follow boxing in these romantic terms that we rejected this very violent sport it was very corrupted by gambling and people lost faith in what they were watching. that happened a little bit with baseball but not too much. there needs to be something more , apparently, than the actual on-field danger. >> football ever be boxing? >> the demographics are entirely different. no viewer of that match could envision benny perez living down the street. because they supposedly go to college, you can envision nfl players living down the street. >> the man, the myth, the legend. the man who played the bandit and the guy selling all his worldly possessions, burt reynolds thomas in a, in a minute. ♪ >> you may not know this about us, but we're

dempsey,, general general snow, and i briefed the president on this two days ago. the white house has been briefed. the review was about qualitative and quantitative measures. we needed and used both to evaluate our progress at dod. we asked the rand corporation to independently administer a department wide survey, which was the largest ever of its kind. 145,000ved over voluntary responses, the highest response rate we have ever seen. we conducted focus groups that gave us not only direct feedback from our own people but also recommendations, important recommendations, many of which have been incorporated into the directives i am issuing today. and for the first time ever, we talked to survivors of sexual assault in the military to learn where they have seen progress and where we need to do better. data shows while there have been indications of real progress, measurable progress over the last two years, with improvement in 10 of the 12 specific measures. we still have a long way to go. threatens the lives and well-being of the women and men who serve our country i

>> with school and counseling mandatory, superintendent mike dempsey also helps to give juvenile offendersce they're released. >> we've been working on a program called future soldier program. essentially what it would do, it would identify offenders in our population who would qualify to be a future soldier. the idea is to be able to release them directly from the facility into the military service without there being any delay, without there being any community transition delay in place. >> patience is key for staff in order to turn troubled kids around. >> we had, for example, a couple offenders a while back, they would act like they was committing suicide and everything else. we went in on them and they're really not committing suicide, they're trying to hurt staff. you don't want to see it, but it does happen. >> the individuals who choose to work here and who stay, who stick it out through the difficult times of working with the adolescents are people that i say, if they can do this job, they can do any job. because this job will challenge everything about you. ♪ >> for some kids, it

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gen dempsey and generals know reported on the president this week on the review. i will announce the latest actions to improve the prevention and response efforts. want to thank everyone, many involved in this, but i want to thank everybody who was involved in this compounds of review. it was organised and supported by the defence department. to thank in particular for the personal readiness, jess white. announced her retirement after years of distinguished frauds for this country. i have to issue a stay on the was until this mission complete, she did, and i appreciate that. women of this department appreciate this as well, thank you for your service of this country. many, long and distinguished given to this e country. also general snow, thank you. thank you for what you have done, your direction, leadership and commitment. and thank you to all that have worked with you. your know that general snow remarks he fter my will take some questions and take you down to the depths of the review and results. of congress members gen dempsey, general snow and myself briefed

you bo go back to general dempsey's speech to congress almost two months ago, he said hey, we've got to be careful around our strategic ends matching our resource methods and i think all the service chiefs from what i've seen are all increasingly voicing their concerns about their budget and going into sequestration and having more missions than they anticipated. so that's a big deal. i think they are -- the service chiefs are voicing their concerns to general democracy and he's making it known to the president and the secretary of defense. it's a continual re-evaluation of the strategy and that's critically important. the point that hit me with the most recent presentation was mr. carter, as a soldier, you can tell not only what they're s saying but how they're saying it. but mr. carter's emotional quotient spoke volumes to me and not only the way he turned to president and said "you have my candor" and he turned to general dempsey and said "you have my support for the soldiers." those are critically important, wolf. >> he will have a huge, huge mission over the next two years if he

for a special message from general martin dempsey chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. >> thank you the opportunity to show case this national treasure during the holidays and of course, to hear the music of the west point band, the army's oldest and one of its very best. i also don't want to miss the opportunity to highlight the service and sacrifice of the millions of servicemen and women, serving our nation add home and abroad during these holidays. i wish them happy holidays. >> the holiday would not be complete without the west point concert in eisenhower hall. named for the graduate and later president, dwight eisenhower, eisenhower hall is one of the largest theaters in america, designed to hold the entire corps of cadets. >> so let's get right to it. performing holiday presents ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> j >>> we have much more of the hudson valley holiday concert as this special continues, as well as abide the scenes look at the united states military academy. but as we take a quick break, here is the west point cadet glee club, singing mansions of the

and at the staff meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. if they were right, why not? in other words, some people who got to say, got have my opinion, whether or not it -- >> whether or not it's agrees or disagrees elm think we're trying to show they're shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we were surprised by isil. oh, general clapper's fault. well, do you want to fire him? no. so, hagel was easy sacrifice because, a., a republican, who the republicans don't like. and, then you have -- and of course he wag weakened by the confirmation hearing. again, i've known chuck. we worked together in the reagan administration. he was number two at va. not 35 years old. a pretty big job. the head of va at the time said, agent orange is no worse than teenage acne. can you believe that? so hagel said either he goes or i go. he went. that was pretty tough. i got a lot of respect for this guy. but at the confirmation hearings, you're taking money from the north koreans and -- he gave a speech at rutgers with an iranian ameri

if general dempsey and the secretary of defense say we want a clear mission and be presidents up -- that person how does that affect the military campaign? >> again i think you raise a really good point. harry truman's old story, if you want a friend in washington get a dog. don't tell anybody under the bus for political reasons. i worked in the obama campaign. dennis mcdonough used to be down the hall from me and he called me a lot. ..

general dempsey talked about 25% pass rate. that's not just because of the test. that's also because of obesity and too many tattoos to be honest with you on visible body parts for people that are trying to get into the military, but the pass rate for high school level test to join the military is about 35% i think of or 40% at best. is our abysmal numbers. is are horrific numbers yet there's no one marching in the street. there is no one sang -- the fact is into this if you can't fix it. if we cast off large numbers of people, young people saying, well, it's their family circumstances, it's poverty. we validate this. we encourage it. we actually make it more real that it's going to happen more often. and it is a tragedy that i think we should not accept. the non-measurement is a great way to make sure it doesn't matter. that kids can be cast aside. so the unions oppose, you know, the former chancellor of the nuke schools with a friend by. said republicans oppose national, national standards i guess even though these aren't national standards. they'rtheir common c

and i don't understand why the administration is dragging its heels when it hears from dempsey, hears from others this is something that should be and is being contemplated. that's it. >> a.mbassador ford, your three recommendations for president obama. >> the first would be within the region itself to prioritize. i think most everyone would agree that syria and iraq are probably the two highest priorities because of the islamic state. but also because of the strain that the conflict is putting on other countries that are friendly to us, such as jordan and turkey. so that would be the first prioritize. second, and jim's laid out a serious of military steps. i would say in addition to military steps, there needs to be a regional, political effort at a higher level. it is very clear that we in the turks are not on the same page about syria. and i don't think we're fully on the same page about iraq. and with all due respect to colleagues in the career diplomatic service who -- with whom i shared a career, that is not something that an american ambassador is going to be able to fix. we're

general dempsey and general snow and i briefed the president on this two days ago. the white house has been briefed. the review both was about kwaul taive and quantitative measures. we used both to evaluate our progress here at dod. we asked the rand corporation to independently administer a departme department-wide survey, the largest of its kind. it received over 145,000 volunteer responses, which is the highest response rate we have ever seen. we conducted focus groups that gave us not only direct feedback from our own people but also recommendations, important recommendations, many of which have been incorporated into the directives that i'm issuing today. for the first time ever, we talked to survivors of sexual assault in the military to learn where they have seen progress and where we need to do better. overall, the data shows that while there have been indications of real progress, measurable progress over the last two years with improvement in ten of the 12 specific measures, including redugsed prevalence and increased reporting, we still have a long way to

. >> joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey says three key islamic state leaders in iraq have been killed in recent weeks. one of them is said to be a deputy to isis leader baghdadi. >> maoscow's economy is in the tank. but amy kelly tells us a long-winded putin today blamed the u.s. and its allies. >> reporter: president vladimir putin had a message -- everything will be all right. there could be two more years of economic uncertainty, he said, but russia will pull out of the situation, which he did not call a crisis. putin said that outside forces provoked the troubles, but he also blamed russia's own failure to wean itself off the sale of oil, which the price of which has plummeted. when asked if a currency collapse was the price to play for annexing crimea, he said, no, the west has been trying to bring russia to its knees since the end of the cold war, that they wanted to turn the russian bear into a teddy bear. >> maybe the they should just sit still and eat honey and buries and leave him in peace. but they will never leave him. they will always put him in a cage and tear out

. >> the chairman of the joint chiefs, general martin dempsey in an interview with "the wall street journal" said the u.s. air strikes against isis have taken out three of the group's top commendsers. quote, it is disruptive to their planning and commends and contractual, these are senior leadership. between december 3rd and december 9th, according to the staff, american military airstrikes killed the head of the islamic state's military operations in rack. u.s. air strikes killed a key deputy to abu al-baghdadi, the top leader of isis. a third top leader was killed in late november, the governor of mosul for isis. >> jennifer, what is the iraqi military doing right now to put some pressure on? >> from all accounts they're gearing up to retake mosul in the near future. the american three-star general in charge of the efforts to crush isis had this to say about the effect so far on isis. >> the ability for them to continue to expand in terms of terrain and geography out there. i think what we must do, especially inside of iraq, is continue to build those capabilities. i think you're at least

general martin dempsey telling the "wall street journal" the isis leaders were high valued targets senior. today boston bombing suspect tok tsarnaev appearing in court for the first time since july 2013. tsarnaev speaking briefly during final pre-trial hearing asked by the judge if the lawyers acted in his best interest he said very much. the trial starts january 5th. in texas a tv weatherman is shot in the parking lot of his tv station it happened in broad daylight as meteorologist patrick crawford was getting into his car. the gunman shot him at least twice. crawford was able to drive away and get help. the gunman got away. police say they do not know the motive. say crawford did not recognize the shooter. a win for the washington redskins. well, at least for the team name. today an fcc commission rejecting the petition to claim the name redskins violates broadcast indecency rules that means stations can say red skins without fearing government fines. thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. good night from washington. don't forget to follow me at twitter i

. >> thomas dempsey was one of the other friends in the housing unit. >> that morning at breakfast, i he wasn't at the table and i went to wake him up and the officer said, he's dead. the buddy to wake him up when he shook him, he grabbed his leg to kind of scare him awake. he said he was stiff as a board. >> he said it was like rolling a log over. he just rolled over. >> gliden had been awaiting trial for sexual misconduct with a minor. >> as far as the people that really dealt with him on a regular basis, kind of melen kolly. everybody couldn't really believe it. kind of crazy. >> brian johnson knew gliden. >> you the person that much and then you just don't see them all the sudden and they're just gone, i mean, that left, i think, a hole in a lot of people that were at least spent some time with him. >> with me, i just couldn't, i couldn't fathom why did he want to, and i feel like the inmates feel that way too. nobody seemed to know. >> how did you feel? >> i didn't know him that well but i didn't think he killed himself though. >> that's another thought. >> it's definitely fishy.

fox news alert to tell you about now because a spokesman for the joint chiefs chair, general martin dempseyirming to fox news that u.s. air strikes have killed several top level isis leaders in iraq. warm front them was a deputy to the terror group's leader, aub your bakar al baghdadi. in addition to the most recent strikes, the u.s. has killed senior and midlevel isis commanders as well. we are following this story. it's breaking right now. we'll have more developments as they become available to fox. >>> in the meantime, new developments in the case of that young woman in mississippi found burned to death earlier this month. the father of 19-year-old jessica chambers spiking out saying he wants whoever killed his daughter kept in solitary confinement when that person is convicted. the reward for information has grown to $16,000 after a donation from the state fire marshall. >>> let's do some real talk now on the cyber terror attack. most likely by a rogue nuclear nation. forcing sony pictures to cancel its release of the movie "the interview." north korea declaring the comedy film an act

armed services committee in september with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey are the pilots dropping bombs in iraq a direct combat mission and will u.s. forces will prepared to provide combat search and rescue if a pilot gets shot down? are they put boots on the ground to make that rescue successful. >> yes. >> want to bring in barbara starr from the pentagon and our cnn national security analyst bob baer. barbara, we heard from the jordanian spokesman who told cnn it appears that the f-16 fighter jet was shot at from the ground. what are you sources telling you and why does it make a difference how this jet went down? >> su >> reporter: our sources are telling us they think at this point it is unlikely it was shot down. they don't see the evidence yet. everyone's continuing to investigate what did bring the plane down. there's no final conclusion. but for now, it doesn't look like a shootdown. one of the reasons this is so important is the coalition, u.s. pilots, everybody else, they need to know if isis has some type of weapon that can reach their altitudes

general martin dempsey telling "wall street journal" that three key islamic state leaders were killedcent weeks. >>> jolly white-haired figure bringing holiday cheer to wall street. of course we're talking about janet yellen, not santa claus. the fed's patient outlook putting stocks in rally mode for the second straight day. take a look at that, almost 300 points. things not so merry with oil after flirting with $60 earlier today. lori rothman is here to discuss this with charlie gasparino and doug holtz-eakin, director and president of the american action forum. doug, let me start with you, what do you think of the big plunge in oil? >> look this is a really good news story in the end. it reflects the fact that u.s. production has broken pricing power of opec. the saudis took a look at emergence of u.s. as largest producer of liquid fuels and decided they need market share, not high prices and keep pumping. this is not temporary. this is change in the global markets and this is important. melissa: i covered oil a long time. in summer it was $147 a barrel. this is sea change. peak oil

i'm not saying dempsey should be fired. don't get me wrong. >> well, on that note, i think we have to go to coffee break. thank you all so much. this was excellent. we could have gone on much longer. [ applause ] >>> back on capitol hill, we're covering a senate judiciary committee here today on c-span3 looking into sports blackouts and antitrust exemptions. the committee in a break for a series of votes on the senate floor. the senate is in the last vote of that series, so they should be wrapping things up there. and we expect this hearing to resume shortly. the federal communications commission earlier this year repealed its sports blackout rules which prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that had been blacked out on a local broadcast station. witnesses at today's hearing include the fcc's media bureau chief and attorney for the nfl and the leaders of the group's sports fan coalition and the national consumers league. again, we expect the hearing to resume shortly. live coverage here on c-

not really, because starting last week an order came from the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, the chairman, out to the worldwide combatant commanders to be ready when the report is released. the concern is a lot of material may appear online now. it will be read around the world. whether it is accurate, ink context or propaganda put out y about the cia by isis, there may be -- may be -- violent repercussions. the concern is u.s. embassies, u.s. military bases around the world, u.s. troops in afghanistan, in iraq, in the middle east. so what has happened since last week is u.s. marine which is basically run the emergency response forces in africa and in the middle east have been put on this heightened state of alert. they are now ready to go faster than ever before if a violent situation was to break out. look, let's be clear. the pentagon, the white house, congress, everybody hopes it does not happen. but it has happened in the past. u.s. embassies have come under attack and, of course, ever recalls the situation with the u.s. government compound in benghazi, libya. that is w

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i flknow you have, but it has und undermined our principles in dempsey. he also stated earlier this could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. do you agree with that statement by the president? >> flno. in fact, we prioritize recent illegal migrants. we prioritize those who came here illegally afternoon january 1, 2014. and i intend to highlight that fact wherever i go. in fact, i'm going to our new detention facility in texas week after next to highlight the fact that we've expanded our detention capability and recent arrivals illegally are priorities for removal. and i intend to go to the country of mexico to work with them on their own interdiction efforts. so wherever i go, i intend to highlight the fact that these new reforms prioritize recent illegal entrance. >> again, i just look at history. in 1986 the amnesty law was passed. and it led to a wave of illegal immigration. i look at toddaka. i had 60,000 children unaccompanied crossing my border in texas through the rio grande valley sector. sass a result of daka, you can't deny that the tra

. >> reporter: just 29 seconds into the first game the team's captain, clinton dempsey, making historyt's the earliest usa goal ever in world cup history. >> reporter: and igniting a legion of american pandemonium. >> for me that started the ride. >> reporter: that ride anchored by tim howard named this year's u.s. soccer male athlete of the year. >> your epic performance, 16 saves, a world cup record. what's going through your mind during that game? >> nothing. everything is the same you know. slows down a little bit. it's all in good rhythm. i wish i could do it every week and save more ball every week. >> reporter: americans became obsessed with their new hero the tattoos, that beard. after all those saves, 1.8 million mentions on twitter, even a call from the president. >> i just wanted to call and say you guys did us proud. >> thank you very much. >> how nervous were you before the phone call? >> he seemed like all americans to be genuinely enthralled and immersed in the passion of the world cup. >> i think so many people were just so inspired by your performance in that last game

and we heard from martin dempsey and the man in charge of military operations within iraq, lieutenantry said it would take a minimum of three years for iraqi forces to be trained and reliable to the point they could carry the fight against isil. so some very interesting questions there. even as the air strikes continue some 1600 -- i'm sorry 1360 -- 1361 to be exact by the pentagon account as of yet have taken out many high-valued targets. we heard from the mayor of mosul, which of course still is under the control of isil forces. so there are foreign policy issues here that go beyond north korea, certainly david. >> there has been a lot of discussion and speculation in washington and other places that china must have had to have played some sort of role in helping north korea carry out this sophisticated cyber attack. i wonder if you could give us the latest about how far the obama administration is willing to go in that avenue in suggesting that north korea did get help from china or other bad actors? >> i think you are not going to see them divulge a great deal of information in th

tough friction with vladimir putin in russia, china is a complication, hagel acquiesced too much to dempseychairman of the joint chiefs of staff. i think for ash carter's credibility to be really sound and to move from being a systems guy, who's mostly seen as internally competent, he has to show the generals who's boss. he has to be like donald rumsfeld was, tough. they're not going to like him. commentators like tom ricks and others have said, this is not a job to be loved by the generals. it's to remind the general who's boss and that's why i wrote that ash was going to have to fire a four-star general somewhere along in there to show them that he really is in control of that building. >> we'll definitely be watching. thank you very much, steve clemons. really appreciate it. >>> more fallout now for bill cosby, the comedian resigned from the board of directors at temple university giving up a seat at his alma mater he's held for more than 30 years. in a statement cosby said he resigned because he wanted to do what was in the best interest of the university and his students. he's been acc

that's according to general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.d "the wall street journal" that the air strikes happened in iraq in recent weeks. he says: "these are high-value targets, senior leadership." in nigeria, suspected islamic extremists have killed 35 people and kidnapped at least 185 more. it happened sunday in a remote, northeastern village, near the town where boko haram militants seized 276 schoolgirls in april. the news took days to get out because the militants destroyed communications towers. russian president vladimir putin vowed today that his country's economy, and the ruble, will bounce back within two years. in a three-hour news conference, he blamed falling oil prices anç western sanctions over ukraine, and russia's dependence on exporting oil and gas. >> ( translated ): of course the current situation has been caused primarily by external factors. but also, much of what wasç planned to be done and what we said we should do hasn't been done with regards to the diversification of our economy over a period of nearly twenty ye