we invited mayor rahm emanuel to attend the town hall.ot only did he turn us down his office used fairly ugly language in their response to us. well, we think this issue is of critical importance even if the mayor's office does not and does not want to participate. but for more let's bring in jaymal greene who is running for mayor. leshawn ford, a democrat and member of illinois state house of representatives and depaul university professor jason hill. professor hill, i know you study these issues, seemingly retractable issues of a recurring cycle of violence. today, as you see things now, is there hope for this city? >> i think there is hope. but i think the hope lies in strong leadership. and i think the hope lies in a change in governance. i think we have an incompetent mayor who is recalcitrant. i think corruption and violence are part of the political dna of the city. >> laura: what does that mean, part of the political dna? >> chicago is the most corrupt city in the united states of america and has been for a long, long time and we

this size a top democrat standing down, rahm emanuel not running for reelection in chicago. bob woodworth's tell-all book next week, we have for you tonight. round two in bernie sanders versus amazon fight. thank you for joining us, thank you for watching, money, politics, we've got the debate behind tomorrow's headlines, i am elizabeth macdonald. the "evening edit" starts right now. liz: news is coming thick and fast, first money stocks are slightly down, down 12, trade tensions with canada and china. but nike the biggest drag on do you, dow down to 25952. amazon hit that 1 trillion market cap today. >> but first, dozens of protesters arrested for disrupting senate nomination hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, democrats trying to postpone the proceedings until after the midterm, blaming a document compandumplate last night they y need to read first. reporter: there is a lot going on. he met with disputes, disruptions, and a lot of activity going on inside. protesters interrupted hearing, 63 times, that is just before lunch, 22 people have been arrested in fi

again, we invited rahm emanuel to come. we really wanted him to come. no other primetime show is doing this show, by the way. your reaction. >> i always say if a house is on fire, it's my responsibility to get out of the house. but it's the police, rather the fire department's responsibility to put the fire out, not to come on the scene and lecture. was somebody playing with matchs? whose fault is it? nope. there's a responsibility that the fire department must do, and that's put out the fire. that's what we really need. all institutions must put all hands on deck. we certainly need the mayor to lead the way. in chicago we have a tale of two cities. we have economic disinvestment on the south side and west side. on the north side you have economic growth. you have first class schools. on the south side and west side you got 50 schools that are closed. this anger is fueled from the poverty and the disinvestment, which ultimately leads to the violence. >> laura: it's a cycle, is it not? this is a cycle. when a community becomes dangerous, business doesn't

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rahm emanuel's brother, sikh, ezekiel emanuel, he was one of the designers of obamacare, and always laughsl kind of interview when you ask him any pressured questions. rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago, with that dreadful murder rate, that family is not looking real good in politics, is it? >> well, i don't think so and i want to say again, poverty is a serious issue for many people in this country. we ought to look at it. there is a way. there is a way to do it come passionately. one of the things that has to happen in any government poverty program, you don't penalize people for going to work. historically the way government programs work, if you get a job, then you instantly cross a threshold and you lose everything, everything from section 8 housing to medicaid to wick and all sorts of programs frankly are very vital. there needs to be a sliding scale, as you go to work, you improve yourself, you always are edging a little better ahead rather than getting further behind. when you create programs like that empower people, incentivize people to go to work they will to to work. right now

hank: rahm emanuel came by and offered to get a doctor. i said i did not need it. it was not a tactic but i know it helped accelerate things. >> while there is a sense of relief, no one wants to say the deal is done before an official vote in the house and senate. >> right now but we have to do is to steer this economy from the edge of the abyss. >> the rich and famous wall street, new york city fatcats expect joe sixpack to pay for all this nonsense. >> it ignores main street's housing challenges. >> if we repudiate the secretary of the treasury, i believe the consequences will be severe. i want to point out to 688.6., if this holds, this will be the single largest point drop in the market's history. >> as we are getting more names, the market was continually going down and down. >> stocks plummeted over 700 points. hank: after the house voted down the tarp, barney frank said don't worry. sometimes kids have to readily from home and get hungry before they come back. >> we are facing a choice between action and the real prospect of economic hardship for millions of

ecstatic that rahm emanuel is not running for a third term.s has been one of the most chaotic years of my life having my family almost murdered in the street about a mayor who chose to do nothing about its most vulnerable citizens. we can rejoice by the fact that the cancer is being cut and also look to repair the body. now from my perspective is a matter of who can be the next mayor of chicago who is actually going to care about the citizens, not just the rich, but all citizens within the city of chicago. and that's going to be a growing, growing list. but's one individual who's been on our network a lot who i think would be great for that role. not knowing if he'll run or not but that's an option. charles: throughout this entire crisis we've heard a whole bunch of things with respect to all of the deaths in chicago. this weekend six alone. a thousand people shot between memorial day and labor day. we've heard that is the fault of guns, the fault of segregation, the fault of gender fief rks can but rarely do i hear that the citizens have to a

i believe our network has exposed rahm emanuel for what he truly is which is a failed leader.ion, it was yesterday, it was a failure on his part not to solve the crisis. it is a complete and total failure to solve the crisis when it comes to schools especially education is a big problem in the city of chicago, and the mayor came in, he failed on every end. this time to step aside. heather: since memorial day a few short months ago, 1000 shootings in chicago. >> the intellect, the compassion and the know how to handle the issues that impact our residents in the city of chicago. we must also mention in 2016 the city had a 71% rate of murders that are not clear compared to the city of new york who had an 80% clearance rate for the national average, 60% clearance rate. this is something that must be solved on a major scale and there is one individual who is well-suited to be mayor of chicago, a democrat i have known for many years and the one we brought the exclusive on "fox and friends," interviewed a protest, that chicago isn't a trump freezone. individuals looking at what they

mayor rahm emanuel's big announcement ahead of a major case on his legacy.

president obama says rahm emanuel came to your office and wanted you to find out who it is. >> i did, figure it out, but the bigger problem is if you read the woodward book, everyone is out to stop this, right? an internal white house that spends a lot of time trying to slow down the president from his worst basic instincts. it's not just one person, it's a whole bunch of people saying the same thing. david gregory said this earlier, everyone is saying the same thing. the white house is broken because of the leadership at the top that is broken. >> so why are you suggesting they should resign if they're keeping the train from derailing? >> because they're not. the obama expansion since 2010. just today, a rapid decline, the decline in global trade volume. the trump trade war is biting, the tariffs are hurting. and the people who are congratulating themselves in this article, are missing the believe that we are having more global economic troupe. the president has been talking about it with troops. they have not been as successful, but the record of this administration, i really restra

quickly enough and then the final shoe dropped just on tuesday of this week that's when mayor rahm emanuel himself said he would not run for reelection if he was expected to do he didn't cite this case but it certainly damage his reputation this city has already settled a five million dollars potential lawsuit with the family of look one mcdonnell and three other officers stand accused of conspiracy and of struction of justice and their trials will come up in november but the big question here is whether if there is an acquittal or a light sentence there is rioting in the streets of chicago foley john hendren in chicago thank you for that. crimes against humanity going on unabated in burundi say u.n. investigators who blame it in part on hate speech from the president haunting me the u.n. says they off you will bodies in the streets than before but this just sells a shift in tactics. reports. some political analysts say bruni's recent problems began three years ago when president announced he was running for a third term the constitutional court ruled in his favor ok protesters took to the

mayor rahm emanuel's big announcement ahead of a major case on his legacy. >> you are a little hungry. jillian: have you been hungry from time to time? any shows that are bingeable? >> and a word added to the dictionary, "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ baby baby baby ♪ you will always be mine ♪ baby baby baby ♪ jillian: whatever it is it got you dancing for a split second. rob: did not. jillian: yes you did, i saw. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. shannon: thank you for starting the day with us. rob: we begin with a fox news alert. a man who wanted to kill innocent americans, wannabe terrorists trying to bomb the us embassy in cairo, egypt. the device he had in his backpack accidentally went off early. the attacker walking near the consulate when a plastic bottle filled with flammable chemicals in his backpack exploded before he could do any harm. police say the 24-year-old suspect believed in extremist ideology. he is in custody and was not hurt when it went off. jillian: five suspects from the new mexico extremist compound

welcome back, everyone, chicago mayor rahm emanuel stepped aside, announcing a tumultuous role reversala year he teased a third run an raised $so million for his re-election according to chicago tribune. >> as much as i love this job and will always love this city and its residents, i decided not to seek re-election. this has been the job of a lifetime. but it is not a job for a life time. you hire us to get things done and pass the torch when you've done our best to do what you hired us to do. >> now, during his tenure, emanuel stabilized the city finances and improved wages and graduation rate. unhis watch, chicago experienced the longest round of closing schools in history and ramping tension between the community members and his support from black voters dramatically declined. he told reporters he was ending his 23 years in politics to begin the next chapter in his life. former president obama says i have been blessed to call rahm my friend. whatever he chooses to do next, i know he'll continue to make a positive difference. by tuesday evening, as many as 12 candidates have announce

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rahm emanuel, not a midterm race, backing down from a fight, michael steele.o me. >> he needs to. i wouldn't run on that record in that city. the number of deaths, the situation in the black community there is appalling. at some point i'm glad to see he has enough self-respect to say you know what, i can't do this any more. >> michael points out, he didn't have a constituency. that's what it seemed he was missing. like he was going to be fine, but nobody was enthused. african americans in one place, i mean, just nobody was for rahm, they were for somebody else. >> the old mario cuomo thing, you can't paint in poetry, you govern in prose. >> he is a tech no krat in an age -- in a city -- >> chuck, there are big issues in that city. more importantly to the point about constituency, the black community has had enough. >> stick around. up ahead, critical mass for democrats. get it? today's primary message in massachusetts could give a clear picture of what the 2020 presidential primaries will look like. be right back. l look like be right back. this is important f

welcome back welcome back this is the colorado mayor rahm emanuel well announced this week that he will not seek reelection. yet. here's the interesting thing that is after he has raised ten million dollars for that campaign and. i wonder who will replace him as the head of p.r. for the chicago police is not going to be easy to replace. this is the latest evidence that the cost of running for office is crazy too high so now some american cities have radical changes in campaign finance on the ballot for this november to explain let's bring in naomi big spender care of on e. bay. believe these reforms are misguided denver and portland are planning to cap campaign donations at five hundred dollars but face it politicians are expensive mayors are not something you can pick up that costs go in bulk. maybe come. drollery oh yeah. definitely comptrollers if we lower campaign donations we could give average people a chance to actually run for office and yes that's precisely the problem average people will just be bribed for less. five hundred dollars justin trudeau could be bought with a fun pa

. >>> the "chicago tribune" reports mayor rahm emanuel abruptly announced he won't run for re-electionnext year. he's asked many sacrifices of his wife and three children. his time in office has been marked by rampant gun violence, the largest round of school closings in the city's history, and sagging support from african-american voters. emanuel is set to leave office next may. >>> and "time" magazine said filmmaker tyler perry offered a job to former cosby show star geoffrey owens after owens was shamed for working at trader joe's. he was red cooled after news photos showed him working as a cashier at trader joe's. he was ridiculed after photos appeared with him working as a cashier. he invited him to join one of his shows on the own network. perry says he has so much respect for actors who hustle in between gigs. >>> still to come, amazon crosses a milestone. it follows apple into historic territory. ♪ but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by talking to your doctor. ask about vraylar. vraylar is

mcdonald's family has called for calm ahead of the trial and the mayor of that city, rahm emanuel, who has faced sharp criticism for his handling of the case has announced he will not seek re-election. >>> time now for a look at your weather forecast on this wednesday. >>> good morning. well, now that gordon is making landfall we're seeing steamy conditions and widespread scattered showers and thunderstorms that will bring about concern for an array of things. first of all, we're talking about the big threats going to be flooding along with damaging winds, a moderate threat for both. looking for a slight threat. with the storm sturgill simpson and tornadoes. the tornadoes will be a problem with some of the outer fringes of this storm. but going into thursday looking for significant flooding from mobile, jackson all the way up to little rock. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. >>> well, coming up, amazon now worth $1 trillion. why it may not be so good for the company. >>> but first the chaos at the confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and what's expe

. >> reporter: those protesters call for democrat mayor rahm emanuel to resign as the shooting violence plagues the city and it has been ongoing. one person dead and 3 others missing after a horrific boat crash on the colorado river. the body of a woman from california pulled from the water a day after two boats collided head on near the california arizona border. all 16 people in the boat thrown overboard. two in critical condition, the cause of the crash still unknown. bracing for impact, states on high alert as tropical storm gordon is expected to strengthen putting millions under hurricane warnings. the storm makes landfall in a few hours. >> labor day washout ruining many people's plans for the unofficial last day of summer. >> rain falling, this is not what we expected. >> reporter: gordon formed monday over the upper keys but by midafternoon areas like west palm beach were already drenched, some parts of the state reportedly getting 8 inches of rain in a few hours. >> a lot of rain and water. >> reporter: what should have been a packed beach with an empty wendy ghost town. not ju

judge jeanine: rahm emanuel said he's not going to run for mayor again in chicago.he number of people who get shot in chicago is 50-60 a weekend. it's out of control. yet these are the cities run by democrats. if you are african-american, it doesn't matter if you are killed. you don't see any clearances of these cases where the solving of a homicide or prosecutions in these cases are rare. >> this is what the democrats and obama fear most of. president trump's successes and the prosperity he's bringing to the hell holes. they are they were finally realizing they haven't done anything for me. >> any heal malkin, thanks for making the trip. and huge economic news, another bogus book and a spineless no-name editorial in the "new york times." it's been a crazy week for the president and his press team. hogan gidley is joining me from washington. thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks so much for your time, judge. judge jeanine: you have got barack obama claiming that life is terrible right now when every metric is improved under president trump. but how does barack ob

rahm emanuel, near chicago, says he will not -- on 2019. has been a job of a lifetime but it's not a job for a lifetime, he was part of obama's former beat -- chief of staff, and he has been in office for more than seven years. the environmental protection isncy's internal watchdog criticizing the agency for spending millions of dollars around-the-clock security for former head of the agency's got prewitt. they say that they failed to document why he needed more than double the security of his predecessor. the iranian president says his country will continue exporting crude oil despite u.s. efforts to stop it with sanctions. speaking to crude oil officials, he said oil is in the front line of confrontation and resistance. the u.s. wants to reduce iran oil exports effectively to zero with renewed sanctions in november. offensive is -- offensive and distasteful, that's how aretha families franklin -- aretha families -- aretha franklin's family is describing a eulogy at her funeral. franklin's nephew said the eulogy copy entire family off guar

bill bailey, the former obama chief of staff and clinton commerce secretary who hopes to replace rahm emanuelr of chicago. remember, you can browse recent charts using btv go. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: record-setting still rising floods covering much of eastern north carolina are preventing companies, regulators, and environmental groups from making a comprehensive assessment of damage from hurricane florence. many rivers are days from cresting as lawrence, now a tropical depression, leaves unprecedented disruption in its wake. >> we have more than 12 hundred rd closures, including 356 primary roads. our major north-south connector, interstate 95, and portions of interstate 40 remain closed traffic. as of this morning, little more than 484,000 people in north carolina don't have power. florence is expected to accelerate tuesday. parts of the mid-atlantic as far north as new york and new england are set to receive additional rainfall. bring court nominee brett kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault both indicated today they would be willing to testify to a

i've got questions for rahm emanuel. i think more needs to be done. charles: are you surprised?my economic and investment philosophy begins with peace. when you have peace in the world and even a few years ago when we had the least amount of hostile deaths in the history of the planet, the world's middle class went up a billion people. that's got to be the ground foundation and i think it's working overall in this country. >> as long as the economy continue to trend the way it has been, that's one indicator of whether you can see petty crime, more serious crime. i would also look to baltimore because that's a city that has its issues as well. and i would lean on -- vince gave his solutions. fostering a better relationship with the police officers instead of the rice in the protests. they're the ones who are keeping us safe. >> we see a spike in murder and crime and back then the police were connecting it to a so-called ferguson effect. there was a viral video effect where the police officers felt like they couldn't do the responsible duties of policing because their lives could

steve: that's the very latest on her and other bit of news yesterday regarding politics is rahm emanueluggesting that, you know, he spent a lot of time away from his family. time to spend a little more time at home. brian: when which is kind of odd when you are in congress that's whether you have to be in two cities aopposed to the city he grew up in. i'm suggesting is he a failed mayor that knew he had no shot at re-election and he wanted to catapult that position for a run for the presidency. he made a calculated risk when he left the house and, of course, joining the obama administration. and it failed. he failed. ainsley: whoever takes over that position needs to do a really good job of cleaning that up city because these are lives. every day when we report these, we are seeing pictures of children's bicycles where a kid has been shot and these are families that are torn apart. and we need to really focus on that area. steve: indeed. he certainly couldn't win on the crime record in chicago. all right. that's some of the politics. meantime 7:10 here in new york city. jillian joins us

lou: chicago mayor rahm emanuel refusing to let a good crisis go to waste. mayor emmanuel is considering government handouts to alleviate poverty in the windy city. he couldn't do it through prosperity, he couldn't keep the city from going bankrupt. so mayor emmanuel set up a task force to look into whether universal basic income is the solution to chicago's many fiscal problems. showing us again exactly just how smart chicago's leaders are, they're broke, they have a high murder rate. their big ideas to give away money that the city doesn't have. fun to watch, huh? be sure to watch our poll results tonight -- cast your vote on twitter, follow me on instagram. up next, more violent gang members caught crossing the border with mexico, but paul ryan and mitch mcconnell don't want a wall, and they really don't want to get in the way of ms-13. it would be inconvenient for them. we take it up with congressman andy biggs right after the break. stay with us. racing isn't the only thing on my mind. and with godaddy, i'm making my ideas real. when i created my busine

. >>> plus, chicago's mayor rahm emanuel announced he won't seek re-election and not seeking a thirdter serving since 2011. he was president obama's chief of staff before running for mayor of chicago. we're coming back after the break. we )re getting more compl about stolen mail - from porch delivery thefts to mailbox burglaries. how you can see what )s coming n the mail, and when - from your phone! and any breaking news from overnight. when you join us tomorrow from 4:30 to 7. >>> we are in the operation center here at nbc bay area with your question of the day. now, earlier in the show kris sanchez explained about the talker. .of nike of colin kaepernick and had controversial views and brought a whole new discussion to the nfl and beyond and today we are talking about that beyond. her poll of the day as she mentioned it, what would you think of the new nike ad featuring former quarterback kaepernick? some folks applaud the move. others burning the sneakers. the choices given i support ka p or don't care. about 60% of the people answering right now do support kaepernick. 30% say the

now with the city into chaos, what is the democratic mayor rahm emanuel doing? today he announced he is not running for re-election. maybe they will find a mayor who can get a grip on the violence. but it's a heavy lift. joining me now, dan propp, and a democratic state rep from chicago. representative ford, are you surprised by this development today? >> i am surprised and i just want to thank you for being concerned about the violence in chicago. thank you so much for covering it and giving it the attention it needs. >> laura: thank you. we had mayor emmanuel, he was a star. i mean, dan, he was considered, like -- some people talked about him as a possible presidential candidate down the road. what was he not able to do? violence has been a problem for some time but it's been especially bad during his tenure. what was he not doing among many things? >> he didn't do anything right. he was a disgrace and a disaster. in the seven and a half years that he was mayor, we're talking about upwards of 4,000 people murdered on the streets of chicago, 20,000 shot, so cat

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chicago mayor rahm emanuel setting up task force to see if the city should issue universal basic incometh, future file legacy creator and former investment banker. carol, are taxpayers okay with this? >> well, the financial considerations aside, we don't have money to pay for anything this is a ridiculous plan doesn't make sense. the people struggling in chicago don't need another hand out. they need a hand up, david. they need access to better education, to more jobs, to jobs training, to investments in these underserved communities and we somebody to tackle rampant gang violence so all of this matters. david: that is the thing. this is a city, this is a city is at war with the deadly violence that is happening. every week it seems to get worse. are there resources to pay for this? because it will be quite expensive? the primary concern would be safety and this war on violence? >> yes, and certainly there is a economic consideration here but the challenge is, giving somebody money doesn't make them a producer, it makes them a consumer. we need to transition these people from being the

>>t'ca mayor rahm emanuel saying he will not seek a third term next year.f of staff to president obama before becolinwe m.daly,h >>> a first in sonoma county. >> the first rebuilt house ready for moving in less than 11 months after the sonoma county fire storm. abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman took a tour today. >> ama, a lot of times a story turns out more than you expect. sometimes it's about something else entirely. that's the story about this house behind us right here. we knew it had been built fast, but there is so much more. let's check in on a sonoma county fire storm survivor. tom is still living in a rental duplex, but not for long. >> it's all candy bars and ice cream, man. >> reporter: he's the most optimistic and grateful person we've met. he's 77 years old, a widower. >> this here is a picture of my wife and me. >> reporter: she passed at age 70 after 52 years together. she's tom's and ins precipitation. >> what would she say about the situation you were in with this fire? >> acceptance. she was very philosophical, even with the cancer. >> r

major announcement coming from mayor rahm emanuel this afternoon as protesters took to the street over the weekend to demand his resignation. the head of the afl-cio says unions will vote for democrats. because they have been better for american workers than republicans. that despite those historic tax cuts and record low unemployment. famed reagan economist art laffer will sound off on that one. among our guests this hour, former assistant u.s. attorney andrew mccarthy, new york congressman tom reed, and "wall street journal's" james freeman. >> we love them all. the dow closing in negative territory for the third trading day in a row. again it was much worse earlier. it was dragged down by shares of 3m, nike, disney. we know why nike cowas down. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. i want to focus own a positive. amazon, a trillion dollars, didn't stay in that category but hit it today. >> it was exciting, amazon, and apple, new all-time highs. we'll get to amazon's trillion dollar mark in a moment. let's look at the major averages. as you noted another posi

chicago mayor rahm emanuel fired police superintendent garry mccarthy amid calls s own resignation.lier this month, emanuel announced that he will not seek re-election in february. three officers are now being prosecuted for allegedly covering up for van dyke and lying about the events of that night.as he trial continues, it remains unclear if van dyke himself will testify. >> woodruff: let's take a look at some of the important moments of this trial so far-- and therg impact of this case. jennifer white is with wbez,ic o public radio/media. she's also the host of a podcast done in conjunction with thetr chicagune about this case, "16 shots." jennifer white, lcome to the newshour. i want to ask you, the defense today began to lay out their case for however van dyke buta for 11s before that the prosecution's turnr aying out thgument. what was the thrust of the case they were making? >> the crust of thee is that the shooting wasn't justified. that jason van dywas not reasonably in fear of his life or reasonably in fear that mcdonald was a danger to others before he fired his weapon. t

chicago mayor rahm emanuel has also been sharply criticized for his response to the killing, namely in the delayed release of the dashcam evidence. the miami herald reports that a former police chief in biscayne park, florida, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge of depriving innocent african-american men of three their civil rights by framing them. raimundo atesiano admitted to directing police officers to frame innocent men in cases of unsolved burglaries and break-ins to benefit his department's crimes record. atesiano had previously boasted about the department's 100% -- sucuccess rate. atesiano reached a plea deal with the u.s. attorney's office and will face sentencing in president trump has taken the november. unusual step of ordering the intelligence community to declassify a trove of documents and messages related to the ongoing investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election. the documents include the fisa warrant application targeting trump campaign foreign policy adviser carter page as well as the text messages related to the russian probe of a number of

>> you have to ask the mayor rahm emanuel for that answer. our opinions don't count.e part of the problem. that is what has to change. >> laura: we also highlighted the horrific human and emotional toll this violence takes and there are few examples more upsetting to the core then the cause of demetrius griffin jr. he is a 15-year-old boy who was reportedly burned alive in 2016 after a gang tried unsuccessfully to recruit him. demetrius' aunt, rochelle sykes, spoke with us about the murder. >> he wasn't in a gang. he didn't do drugs. what is it that he could have done so bad that a monster would take his life like that? and then two blocks from his home? we have to pass that block every time we visit my mom. i can't go into the house without hearing him say -- he was looking so forward to high school. he only did two weeks of high school. he wanted to be on the swim team. he loved dogs, he loved animals. why would you do that? why would you burn someone alive? and then why is there such a code of silence that you did not hear him hollering for help and did nothing? >>

paul begala, who was one of the president's advisers, went after you, rahm emanuel said thing.ent now, that president trump himself is going after robert mueller and calling it a witch hunt? bill clinton didn't use those words. the president didn't. do you think it's different that the president of the united states is now doing this? >> president clinton had a different style. and there was no twitter. so there was no social media. i wish the president would stop the tweeting. i wish he would stop the attacks. again, it does not, to put it mildly, promote confidence in the administration of justice to do that. but we have who we have. and again, as i recount in the book, president clinton just had a very different style. he was very charming, but i tell you, he also had a very, very aggressive campaign propaganda campaign that howard kurtz rightly called the spin cycle. >> do you think that robert mueller's investigation is a witch hunt? >> no, i don't. i have concerns and express concerns about some of the people around paul, b -- bob, bi have great confidence in bob as a per

back in this country, chicago otyor rahm emanuel announced today he'sunning for a third term next year. he did not addre rising criticism over gun violence, police conduct and race relations. instead, the two-term democrathi mayor said: has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not a job for a lifetime." >> through thick and thin we try to do right by our city's future. no matter how difficult the path we never wavered or shrunk from our responsibilities. i will never forget the honor it ics been to serve alongside you, the people of o. >> woodruff: emanuel had served as white house chief of staff for president obama, and before seat, three terms in the u.s. house of repatives. the u.s. environmental protection agency misspe5 more than $llion on security for former chief scott pruitt. e.p.a.'s inspector general reported that finding today. e office said the costs included travel for pruitt's 19 bodyguards. his predecessor had six. pruitt left in july amid scandals over his spending and other alleged abuses. and, on wall street, amazon briefly joined apple as the only mpanies valued at

- [woman] call the hartford at to get a non-obligation quote or go to ♪ >> bret: chicago mayor rahm emanuelrd term next year. the former chief of staff of president obama says being chicago mayor has been a drop of a lifetime but is not a job for a lifetime. there has been speculation that he might run for president. we'll see. the environmental protection agency's internal watchdog is faulting the agency for spending millions of dollars on a round-the-clock security for a former administrator scott pruitt. the epa inspector general said the epa failed to document why he needed more than three and a half million dollars in security spending in 2017. pruitt left the epa this summer he made a barrage of scandals overhead spending and other alleged abuses of office. nike is making pro football player and activist colin kaepernick the face of its new marketing campaign. kaepernick began what has become a widespread protest movement in the nfl when he staged a silent protest during the playing of the national anthem before a game. now many nike customers are doing protesting of their own. corres

he also wants chicago mayor rahm emanuel to resign after another violent weekend that left at least sixilestone, more than 1,000 people shot just since memorial day. at that according to the "chicago tribune." when we return we will shift to an international focus. the president may be playing to unveil a mideast peace plan some point after the midterms. but with the president taking aim at syria and iran in a new series of tweets and israel warning iran as well in the u.s. defunding some money to the palestinians, is peace really a pipedream? with a mideast, even more dangerous in the days ahead? former israeli ambassador to the u.s., current deputy to the prime minister. he joins us and asked for an inside look. i never knew there was a different solution to my constipation until my doctor recommended miralax. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your body unblocking your system naturally. miralax . mike and jen doyle? yeah. time for medicare, huh. i have no idea how we're going to get through this. follow

stuart: did you see the story about rahm emanuel? >> i saw the story.reated a tax force to look into universal basic income program. free money. >> that's right. free money. stuart: what do you think? >> i think it's a terrible idea for chicago. i said this before. stuart: you wait a minute, professor. you think it is a terrible idea for chicago. it is okay elsewhere? >> no, i didn't say elsewhere. we're talking about chicago. the fact that rahm emanuel doing this on the way out the door. funny he is doing it out the door. he knows he can't execute it in the real world. but to take credit for the idea when you leave. stuart: i can't figure out whether it is replacement for all other forms of wealth but -- >> that is how it is spoused to work but politically never works that way. nobody wants to take away old benefits. which means it is way too expensive. by the way it doesn't fix fundamental problems in illinois, which is being at thats, regulation, legal environment unfredly to businesses. you can dump all the money you want on people but if you don't

neil: you probably heard the news the chicago democratic mayor rahm emanuel is saying he's not goingright now. a lot to talk to jonathan about but as someone who knows that neck of the woods well, was this expected? do you know? >> not at all. not at all. stunning. the mayor was holding his normal morning press conference. his wife happened to be there at the same time and dropped the news on all of chicago and really, all the world quite stunned. when you go back, take a moment and think about it, he came back to chicago and became mayor at a time in which president obama was of course president and the democratic wave was really sweeping through the nation. that's changed and i think much to the frustration of many chicagoans, a lot of the problems rahm said he would fix, pensions and the debt, are still unfixed nearly a decade later. neil: was he going to face a challenge, even a party challenge? was he looking free of that? or was there going to be an uphill battle? >> he was facing increasing challenges, neil. unsatisfaction among americans from both sides of the aisle. primaril