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For them to drive that base and oppose trump everywhere in order to prevail perhaps somewhere or at least stand on principle. theyre playing a longer game now and theyre trying to use the senate as ground zero to do it. >> obviously president trump had a fraction of his no, maam niece confirmed but theres two different narratives. two different versions of what went wrong here according to the democrats these no, maam niece didnt provide background material that the democrats wanted. which one i...

Might be following later. any assistance in terms of background material in terms of people who get identified is something we would be offering. so at this point, whats happening is mostly in french hands, but our tremendous intelligence capabilities are part of the asset that can be brought to support the french and also to make sure that were being alert for possible follow-on attacks in other parts of the world, including the united states. >> and mr. secretary, this, if true, really does br...

Baltimore. what we are seeing in this latest american city is the latest local manifestation of what is turning out to be a national crisis. it began earlier this month with that arrest of freddie gray on april 12th. we have video of that. im not going to play it over and over again as background material. it is short. this was april 12th. >> [ bleep ]. >> >>. >> after they tased like that. >> ive been recording this [ bleep ]. ive been recording it. ive been recording it. what car did they come...

Michael brown said that they were clamoring for that video. there doesnt appear to be any record at all that anybody asked to see that tape. so weve been living the story over and over month after month. shooting after chokehold after beating. this timeline i just did is by no means complete. you pick a calendar month in the last year or so. google around and up pops a story and now increasingly a video of police violence most often involving an unarmed man who is not white. day after day. week ...

It though in ferguson there doesnt appear to be any record at all that anybody asked to see that tape. so weve been living the story over and over right? month after month. shooting after chokehold after beating. this timeline i just did is by no means complete. you pick a calendar month in the last year or so. google around and up pops a story and now increasingly a video of police violence most often involving an unarmed man who is not white. day after day, season after season city after city ...

Military bases across the country. we are not ruling out terrorism at this time. once again a very tragic incidents at ft. hood, 14 people at least right now reported wounded and four confirmed dead at this point in time. >> all right. so youre saying four confirmed dead which is the first, chairman, that we have heard that. youre saying youre sure of that from the briefing youve gotten. >> yes. this is from multiple agencies, including state and federal agencies. >> and that obviously brings th...

>> there really isnt. its very difficult to tell, you know, what is any common household product. you mentioned chairs. when you walk on the beaches of oceans in the gyres it looks like a department store washed ashore. they sit in these gyres for years if not decades. to distinguish a seat cushion, for example or something from a luggage from the background material is very difficult. >> thank you, marcus, appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> i want to get my experts reaction right now. those were...

Activity consists of work in preparation for lobbying or work as background material that is intended to help lobbying. so i think again, the fact that he was reporting to a freddie mac lobbyist does raise the further questions what he was actually doing. >> michael isikoff, thank you for helping us explain this. complicate bd but i feel more clear. thank you. >> $1.6 to $1.8 to report to the lobbyist at the organization. how close to lobbying is that? alan grayson of florida who admitted is t...

The organization? >> funny you should ask. yes,we can. the contract the first pain shows he was reporting to the director of public policy for freddie mac a man by the name of craig thomas, who in fact was one of freddie macs top lobbyists. so the consulting work that newt gingrich was doing was for the freddie mac top lobbyist, but gingrich insists it did not consist of lobbying. the lobbying disclosure law and how it defines lobbying activities, it does say lobbying activity consists of work i...

There is a conservative contract here is he was not a lobbyist. is there anything we can tell, like who he was reporting to at freddie mac who could explain how he was functioning at their organization? >> funny you should ask. yes, we can. the contract, the first page, shows he was reporting to the director of public policy for freddie mac, a man by the name of craig thomas, who, in fact, was one of freddie macs top lobbyists. so the consulting work that newt gingrich was doing was for the fred...