Rahm Emanuel
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There was a, the federal government loved our OEMC, which is an emergency management department, modern technology.
They take it.
We coordinate with them.
There's heads of state, foreign ministers, defense ministers from 60 plus countries that
There are 25,000 protesters each night for four nights.
Nothing bad happens, meaning from either property damage or otherwise.
That's the type of coordination you want.
That's the type of trust you want.
And that's the ability of this โ when you have a major event, you have other types of things that are crises that happen.
But here was a major international event held in what I consider the most American of American cities, the city of Chicago.
Sure.
And the federal government โ and I'm not talking about one single entity.
There's national security.
There's FBI.
There's Homeland Security.
A lot of entities, Chicago Police Department, state troopers.
There were protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.
all went off without a hitch.
And everybody high-fived at the end because people were able to express their protest, their First Amendment right.
There was an agreement at NATO that was historic as it related to Afghanistan.