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Directors. we shot in eight countries. its not the intelligence that i was thinking of. >> no. >> for a story teller, its a great medium. >> and ali, this is a great dramatic series. if you didnt know it was true, it would just be good television. but you think that there is -- you ended your last comments on the cia with accountability. you think that we have to explore accountability in 9/11. what do you mean by that? you mean accountability on u.s. intelligence services? >> well, you know, 9/...

Republican congressman, tim murphy, at that time, people viewed this as a district, right, plus 20 for trump, mccain won it, romney won it. when youre looking for republicans, theres going to be about 15 open competitive seats in which republicans have left their post. its going to be a kind of similar situation as what you see here. the question for republicans, what type of candidates are dthy able to field in open congressional seats like here? the democrats had a field day. f they theyve tak...

Order to destroy videotapes documenting those investigations. in 2009, former president obama ordered the secret cia detention centers to close down. i have former fbi special agent, a ali sufant with me. he served on the joint terrorism task force. hes also an outspoken critic of harsh interrogation tactics. ali, let me just ask you about this. 83 times, this particular suspect was waterboarded. this suspect was abu zubaydah. and in fact, you wrote in 2009 there was no actionable intelligence g...

Concerned, i very much appreciate his commitment and his service and i wish him well. hes a good man. >> mr. president, mr. president, what did you tell -- >> rex and i have been talking about this for a long time. we got along actually quite well, but we disagreed on things. mike pompeo, we have a very similar thought process. i respect his intellect, i respect the process that weve all gone through together. we have a very good relationship, for whatever reason, chemistry, whatever it is, why ...

Cold and snowy election day in western pennsylvania. polls in district 18 will close? a little over four hours. because of this special election. the deciding between conor lamb, democrat, rick saccone, the republican, who president trump tweeted his endorsement for mths morning a few minutes before dropping the news also on twitter he fired rex tillerson. vaughn hillyard is in mcke mckeesport, pennsylvania. vaughn, what is going on, how are things looking there? >> reporter: good, despite, snow...

The most surprising thing about roger stone is we actually have to take these discussions seriously, because he may have actually had contact with all of these people. if someone wrote this as a script and submitted it, they would be laughed out of time. >> totally agree. and look, at the end of the day, theres so many disparate accounts here. "the washington post" has two sources, one nunberg and one anonymous source saying that stone appeared to have advanced knowledge that wikileaks had these...

Siege" with denzel washington. and -- but i -- honestly, it was a mission more than an assignment. it took five years of my life. and its probably the most important thing ill ever do with my career. >> you feel that its a ten-part series, right, on hulu? you feel that its pretty faithful to the story? >> well, we only take a part of it. you know, we take the john oneil section and alis involvement. but theres a lot of history that is in the book that i hope that we may have a chance some day to...

Environment, over marijuana policy, over gun policy. youre not going to see any sort of protests happen here, because, of course, this is a military crowd. i would point out, though, that youre also not going to see any california elected officials. the governor of this state, jerry brown, says that the trump administration is to use his words, waging war against the state. as you well know, attorney general jeff sessions has sued the state over californias sanctuary cities policies, which give ...

Our country. and i hope that series will make the american people realize what happened, what are the events that led to 9/11? so we can have some kind of closure. only then we can have some kind of closure and turn the page and understand a lot of these threats thats going around us and know how to deal with it in a logical and systemic matter. >> "the looming tower" you can watch it on hulu, ali and lawrence wright, author of "the looming tower: al qaeda and the road to 9/11." you have to read...

Who knew what about his interactions with russians is going to be very important, i think, as to whether robert mueller can prove collusion and coordination between the trump campaign and russia, ali. >> all right, ken, thanks very much. ken dilanian, nbc news national security and intelligence reporter whos staying on top of all of this for you. all right, i want to go out to san diego. president trump will be speaking there tonight. right now hes checking out prototypes for the border wall. ...