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Relationship with iran? >> well, its -- you would expect the white house to issue warnings or to push back or to condemn or, you know, make other kinds of complaints but not in this open-ended threat without kind of a background. often it would be the other way around. we wouldnt have heard from an nsc member at the podium. there would have been a white house organized background call, reporters, then followed by some statements, very carefully, methodically chosen language. this was clear langu...

Of times. today they said that snowden had not formerly requested a pardon. he has not been convicted of anything yet. the only recourse is for him to return to the united stas and face the crimes hes been charged of. that gets insights to the thinking on this perhaps. were expecting there to be a background call thats happening soon, probably sort of while im talking to you now that will offer insight as well into the thinking of the administration as to why they did this. again, it had been th...

To go on a listening tour for the next six or eight weeks, not do any major campaign rallies. whats up with that? >> hillary clinton is one of the only candidates whos already a celebrity. everybody in the world knows who she is unless youve been living under a rock somewhere. so what hillary clinton has to do is reintroduce herself to people who think they know her and newer voters and do it in a different way. she cant behave as if shes entitled to this nomination. so shes got to go out and ea...

So the white house had a green light to move forward. one other thing i want to point out in listening to this background call with senior administration officials, this is not lifting the embargo. this is not ending the travel ban. americans will not be able to go to orbitz or travelocity to buy tickets to cuba. you have to go to a third party. you cant go to the store and buy cuban cigars. people can travel to cuba and bring back cuban cigars, but they cant go to a cigar shop in the united sta...

Choreographed. obviously kept under tight wraps for a long time. but it looks like this was something that was in the works for at least weeks, if not months. >> reporter: wolf, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters on a background call within the last hour, this has been going on since june of 2013. and to put all this in perspective, youll recall when the president went to nelson mandelas memorial service last september and he had that handshake with raul castro, ...

Released and theyre heading back to havana. that was not an exchange for alan gross. instead theyre making it clear that was an exchange for an intelligent asset of the u.s. who had been imprisoned in cuba for 20 years, tamron. im being told that the contents of the background call that we received are now able to be reported out. im going to be give you some of the details. president obama will be announcing a shift in policy between the united states and between cuba. hes going to announce tha...

And our approach as the united states is not to see these as some cold war chegs board in which were in competition with russia. >> this difficulty handling president putin crosses administrations, youll remember in 2001, early in his presidency, president bush said he looked into putins eye and he saw his soul. he thought this was someone he could deal with. a few years later, in 2008 there was an invasion of georgia on president bushs watch, just six years ago, on a background call with report...

He saw his soul. he thought this was someone he could deal with. a few years later, in 2008 there was an invasion of georgia on president bushs watch, just six years ago, on a background call with reporters. yesterday white house officials made a big backhanded reference to that saying, we didnt look into putins soul. both sides, both parties have had trouble dealing with vladimir putin. in the span of ten years, you have two different invasions that the u.s. administrations have had to deal wit...

He looked into putins eye and he saw his soul. he thought this was someone he could deal with. of course, a few years later in 2008, there was an invasion of georgia on president bushs watch, just six years ago. on a background call with reporters, yesterday, white house officials made a big back handed reference to that saying, we didnt look into putins soul. both sides, both parties have had trouble dealing with vladimir putin. in the span of ten years, you have two different invasions that th...

Tad you peered to possess confidential tax information on coke industries. i will not interrupt you. go ahead. >> i appreciate you doing that. that is totally inaccurate. that was then true at all. what happened in 2010 is there was a call about the economic recovery advisory boards tax reform report that had 58 different proposals in it. one of them was about the fact that our corporate tax system treats big private companies differently than public corporations. and i mistakenly used on a back...