Page 56 - Back Row News Today

Three years of spending time in the back row communities to understand that wow, we really speak different languages to understand that language. >> and why arent more journalists doing this work? >> i dont think people have the resources to do it. and i think, you know, just sending someone around the country in a car and saying, go to these 30 communities, spaend week and a half in each one, i dont think any of those -- any media level -- any senior media person would approve that. >> last que...

Officials during the election? >> we would be crazy to try to draw conclusions from where we are in the investigation. i think mark and i have committed to let this process go through before we form any opinions. and i would hope that thats what you would like us to do. as much as wed like to share minute by minute, even the snapshots we get as a team going through it, are not always accurate and we find the next piece of intelligence. let us get a little deeper into this before you ask us to wr...

There may have been surveillance of some kind. can we get a microphone over here in the back row? this woman is shaking her head. you feel like the other side of the story perhaps is the part people need to pay more attention to? >> i believe so. the obama administration had no problem targeting conservative groups throughout the irs. he has politicized a lot of the powers he should have as president. i dont think its a far stretch at all that he possibly whether his hands were directly on it or...

Democrats. they didnt think the obamacare bill was liberal enough. they voted and said this doesnt give me what i want. these republicans are saying they dont think this bill is going to make it better so its different than the obamacare debate. >> and you know what will happen, theyll sit in the back row as they do in the house and say okay, if you need my vote you can get it, but some of these real conservatives are ideological and believe this is obamacare light. they believe they can make th...

Service. compounding that problem is that theres no director of the secret service right now. joe clancy has retired and theres no acting director. the onus is on dhs. >> brynn gingras, cnn, new york. in that piece you just so, jonathan back row, hes a former secret service agent with the obama white house and tom fuentes. thank you for being with us. jonathan, want to start with you. everything were hearing this morning, the three particular mistakes being made, is there any one that bothers ...

Tran scaled a treasury department fence last friday and set off several alarms. but still managed to sneak past a secret service security post before being caught in the inner portion of the white house grounds. a criminal complaint shows he was carrying two cans of mace and walking close to the exterior walls of the white house while the president was home. trump praised the secret services response. >> secret service today, fantastic job. it was a troubled person. very sad. >> but former secre...

Something you said at the beginning. you said you felt like most of the people there were your concerned constituents. weve heard the president dismissing the outrage as being planned by liberal activists. thats not what you saw. >> well, unfortunately, the majority are great constituents, but we had 20 in the back row from the resist movement, and they self-identified that way on camera. right? the indivisible document. it had 15 million downloads as of yesterday. those folks are instigating th...

>> a signal from the trump white house that anti-abortion policies are a priority. while in congress pence led you efforts to defund planned parenthood and he came with a promise from president trump. >> i like to say over there at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, were in the promise keeping business. thats why this administration will work with the congress to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers. and we will devote those resources to health care services for women across america. >...

You were in the back row about 25 years ago as a student. >> you remember that. >> your claim to fame. >> that was a great show. this is great show. >> big picture, donald trump president-elect is frosty relationship apierpears with th intel -- >> the intelligence professional are going to be maining the watch, at the watch center, counter terrorism center. they will be in the white house situation room to see who is going to try anything. he going to need the troop. its important he repairs his...

Republican party. guys, i know you are both on different sides of this issue, so roland, lets get to you first. how do you feel about donald trumps children sitting in at the very least, the latest thing, on this tech summit meeting yesterday? >> they have no business in the meeting. jack dorsey, the ceo, co-founder of twitter, wasnt even in the meeting. i saw my buddy sean spicer, hes a great guy, saying, only so much room at the table. let me ask you, who was more valuable at the table yesterd...