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The amount of coordination that was occurring there in that little office in denton, texas, with the coordination between the state agencies and the federal agencies. that was much earlier in the sequence. but they were doing a great job understanding what each other were doing and so that there was a minimal of duplication and people werent getting in each others way. but the critical need was getting to the people that needed the help. but this is going to -- make no mistake, this is going to ...

But over the last two years, you have increasingly heard u.s. military commanders and intelligence officials say they are worried about the rapid progress that north korea has been making. and for the last several months, we heard top pentagon officials say that their working assumption is that the north koreans have the whole package, that they can put it all together, that the u.s. military has to plan against that worst case scenario against that worst case assumption. you have to plan like t...

Desert that you begin to understand the innumerable challenges that come with physically securing this lawless land and why the u.s. aerial presence is so valued by nigerias government. finally, some ten hours after we leave the city, we see lights signalled. the migrants have been stranded here for three days after their truck broke down. they dont want their identities revealed. as we speak, one of the women starts praying under her breath. we hear the agonizing wails of another woman and go t...

Challenges that come with physically securing this lawless land and why the u.s. aerial presence is so valued by nigers government. finally, some ten hours after we leave agadez we see light signal. the migrants have been stranded here for three days after their truck broke down. they dont want their identities revealed. as we speak, one of the women starts praying under her breath. we hear the agonizing wails of another woman and go to speak to her. i heard you crying. >> i want to see my babie...

Damage the democratic nominee. and elect her opponent donald trump. cia director kept it out of the presidents daily brief, to guard against leaks, 20 meetings in the situation room followed the osama bin laden raid. for months, that i struggled to find and appropriate response, only to set on a modest set of sanctions issued late december, well after the election, for more i am joined by a congressional reporter for the washington post and a senior writer for the wall street journal. its your p...

And that was in fact because there was a great deal of agonizing over what to do over whether in fact to even call out russia and blame russia for the hacks of the democratic national committee, computers and for sbrefrg in the kban and then if so what to do about it, whether to take any action at all. >> and you detail those divisions with the great anecdote about secretary of state kerry who it reminded me of his own presidential campaign where i think a two, three days before the 2004 electio...

Banking or defense or i.t. or you could possibly done some very forceful cyberattack type of options that would have disrupted portions of russias national security networks why why did they decide against. >> why did they decide against telling people? there was some discussion about actually going public with this and when they did decide not to tell people about it, why did they decide on modest responses as opposed to forceful responses? >> that was the big debate over the summer whether or ...

Response only to settle on a modest set of sanctions in late december, well after the election. thank you both for joining me. it is your paper that reported this today. it is a fascinating read. let me ask you this. the bottom line question i took away from this, how much of the agonizing that the obama administration went through last fall and how much of the fact the sanctions didnt come down until well after the election. how many of it is a simple assumption that hillary clinton has this el...

Its bringing in armchair quarterbacks in the political and legal realm. its agonizing to hear this and to see this impressionable cadre of millennials thinking that they know whats going on and the -- >> neil: it work both ways. you have the trump supporters and -- >> people theres a trump tent. theyre gaining weight because of it -- >> and hes breaking marriages and all oh this -- >> the protest. people getting exercise. >> no politics, no religion at the bar. >> neil: just be drunk. okay. we d...

He obviously gets a certain relief, a certain pleasure, perhaps, from viciously attacking his critics. but he is sitting there tonight in the white house, staring at that overused tv without having had that relief, that pleasure. how agonizing is that for him? for someone who fills with rage so easily to be able to release that rage is so important. weve had reliable reports that the president explodes in rage at his staff inside the white house, sometimes even worse than his public explosions o...