and harold pollack joins us as well. welcome, gentlemen. first to you mr. pollack. what is the problem? is it guns, gang, both? what is it? >> i think that everything you mentioned is a problem. but i think that the immediate problem is getting a better handle on illegal guns. many of the murders that take place involve 18-year-old kids dealing with each other, having normal 18-year-old conflicts. and then you introduce a gun to that. and someone ends up dead. i think that helping kids deal with those conflicts more productively but also doing everything we can to deal with those illegal guns is critical to bringing the homicide rate down. >> this is exactly what cease-fire deals with, especially the gang issue. and you know from experience, you know this well. before i talk to you, do you remember back in 2009 in the summer, this was right after 2008 when it was high. you and i went and walked around all these really terrible neighborhoods. at one point, someone pulled a gun on us. you remember that? >> yeah, i remember it pretty clearly, don. somebody pulled a gun

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with me, tio hardiman and harold pollack. you heard the man. what do you think?rtainly think that we need to have a sense of urgency. i think the part of mr. kass' comment that i agreed with was this is a really serious problem. i listened to your earlier problem on a fiscal cliff which is really an artificial crisis created by dysfunction in washington. and i'm thinking, i wish we had the same urgency in washington about bringing resources to places like chicago to help deal with these problems we see in some other areas that are no more important. i do think listening to your report, it's important to know that there's lots of things we can do. with two local nonprofit partners, we did a randomized trial in 16 schools in chicago of an intervention that helped kids basically with their social and emotional skills. and we found a really strong reduction in violent arrests among the kids that participated in that intervention. there's a lot of good ideas for dealing with guns. i think you can listen to these reports and get a sense, hey, it's just so bad, there's

. >> let's do that, so germ me pollack in my office will be staffing on that and we will work together in putting a resolution together. i do want to look at what was done in the past around fiber and communications and so i think that would be important to have as part of -- at least for consideration, what has been done in the past and what we have done as a lafco towards that end. i know that we probably have something in your office that might be there and i see hope is ready to weigh in on this. >> commissioner schmeltzer. >> it was a lot more recent than 10 years ago and when it happened it was in the context of the google proposal to provide free wi-fi so that's when laugh. >> i remember it around 2006 or seven, yeah. >> >> yes. >> it's on the lafco website and you will see there is a report in there but i'm happy to get you a print out if you need one. >> thanks. >> one thing i would ask as we are putting this together is one thing that we know happens in city government is issues come up unexpectantedly and there are some other thing that comes up, so whatever we adopt of cour

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william pollack, thank you so mesh. we appreciate your perspective.k more about something very unique and fascinating. the fact that the medical examiner in newtown, they're bring inning a genist it to look at the dna of this gunman. what can they learn from the dna? >> you'd like to think they'll find some real answer by doing this, looking at someone's actual dna a. the problem is my guess is unfortunately it won't yield much. a lot of mental illnesses, if there are any genes associated with them, there's lots of different genes. it's hard to put one specific gene and say this is the gene for schizophrenia. we're not there yet. another part of that is there are people who carry the genes for various mental illnesses but never have the behavior. simply having it doesn't mean you will develop the behavior. that weighs into this as well. it's hard to connect the dots on a genetic sort of basis. >> at this point we don't have the kind of information or the kind of technology or science to take a look at somebody's dna, their genetics and say this is evi

, many of the elected officials are saying that there is enough pollack is no time to do something. that could happen by this weekend. >> gun control is a complex issue. politicians across the country are starting to tackle it. nancy pelosi wants a vote by saturday. that would prohibit the production of high production magazines. >> theirs is a very complicated and difficult position but we are able to do this with calibrations legislation. and really that is effective. >> that would ban magazines holding 10 rounds of ammunition house speaker, john boehner did not address the issue on wednesday. many of our elected officials are saying enough talk about gun control. it is time to do something. and that something could happen by the weekend. gun control is a complex issue. politicians across the tackle it. house minority leader nancy pelosi wants a vote by saturday. on legislation that would prohibit the production of high-capacity it would ban magazines house speaker john boehner did not address the issue michigan governor rick snyder vetoed legislation that would have allowed conce

unrepresentative agreement between powerful interest with the biggest guns when they see coming out of this ken pollack talks by these open fighting momentarily the lazy deeper foundation for further devastation and state deconstruction on the road. the united states should not be a party to such a short term destructive approach in this alter his policy to avert an outcome that simply says the seeds for further work. this hearing and leadership i believe in congress will be an important building block for this step change for seeking from the administration and broader international community. here's the crux of it. the lack of a credible and affect it internationally mandated lavish peace process addressing these issues in eastern congo has become a major region for the worse continuation. the current negotiation between the government of congo and the m23 rebels is already making the same mistakes as his predecessor and will likely result in the same short-term deal that keeps the congolese government empowered reduces international pressure for backing the m23 and redefines the word. the root cause

dave pollack on my left. >> thank you. i wanted to ask about a comment that steve cook made early on that was sort of left hanging as i see it which is about the salafis. what you said was that when the dust settled, what we are likely to see is that the political dynamism, i think was your expression, in egypt was going to be between the brotherhood and salafis. in other words, within the islamist spectrum of politics. and can you or anyone on the panel tell us a little bit about that? after all, tease are the -- these are the people who won 25% in the parliamentary election, who got street gangs that are apparently permitted by the new constitution to enforce public order and morals, and i venture to say also that these, the younger generation which several speakers have alluded to is not all a bunch of liberals and democrats. there are millions of young salafis and just ordinary thugs in egypt who are very far from being in the spirit of tahrir. thank you. >> thank you. yes, right here. right in the center. >> swraimmy