RUSH EXCERPT:
EMANUEL: "Yeah. Look, Michael, look what happened here is absolutely abhorrent. This young woman read her story. She volunteered to be part of the National Guard so she can go to college. She chose to serve us and then be away from her family on Thanksgiving. This shooter killer drives all the way from Washington state, all the way across the country to kill somebody. And then another guardsman is hanging on by his life. As somebody who is a mayor that used to go by the side of officers at hospitals who were shot. My uncle was a police officer in Chicago, or kids who were shot by random violence. So the notion, look, nothing justifies what happened. Nothing. She is exactly what you would want to see. Worked hard, try to go to college, try to better her life. Volunteer to serve others. She deserves to be honored. But the National Guard is. The original question was about public safety. The National Guard is not about that. And that‘s not the effort. And we shouldn‘t confuse it and try to score political points.”