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Days ago and that the special ops guys, the afghan commandos, they spread them thin in many of these capitals, these provincial capitals and they were fighting and they were dying. and they were trying to defend their homeland. so, this notion that the taliban showed up at every place and the afghans handed over their weapons is not true. thats one thing i noticed in the past couple days is people trying to connect that narrative and that intelligence, that statement on background statement. tha...

Department in advancing their own personal agenda? >> no. i dont know if he knows who the sources are in our story. but the only thing id point out is that in our story, we say that a spokeswoman for the justice department provided us with a background statement from someone that was in the room who said that rosenstein had said this. they dont contest the fact that he had said this but that it was done sarcastically. and that is in our story but as we pointed out earlier, the -- rosenstein was ...

Not sure if thats meant to reassure any of us. but an interesting parse denial. do you have any idea who hes talking about when he references anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department in advancing their own personal agenda? >> no. i dont know if he knows who the sources are in our story. but the only thing id point out is that in our story, we say that a spokeswoman for the justice department provided us with a background statement from someone that was in the room who sa...

Those moments for you. >> lets go back further than that. we could go, james comey was fired and the president got very upset about the fact that his communications shop didnt seem to have an instantaneous plan in place. we were left to run around and collect as much information as we got at that point. last night, we had h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor, come out about two hours after the news broke about the russian story. tonight we have a background statement from the white house...

Addresses in that statement and heres what ill read to you. these particular individuals are hardened terrorists who have the blood of americans and countless afghans on their hands. i am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent taliban extremists never return to the fight against the united states and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in afghanistan. the american people and our afghan...

According to mike allen, obama hates romney. the president took a shot at romneys lack of military service saying, " -- im quoting again, "no g.d. war hero." should president obama be taking shot at mitt romneys military service when i remember he never picked up a gun, pulled the trigger or blew anyone away. oh, thats right. he shot bin laden, right? >> bob: your only source is a political off-the-record or background statement, that is your statement? >> eric: its not a background statement. p...

According to mike allen, obama hates romney. the president took a shot at romneys lack of military service saying, " -- im quoting again, "no g.d. war hero." should president obama be taking shot at mitt romneys military service when i mbremeer he never picked up a gun, pulled the trigger or blew anyone away. oh, thats right. he shot bin laden, right? >> bob: your only source is a political off-the-record or background statement, that is your statement? >> eric: its not a background statement. p...

Laws. >> you dont prosecute the candidate or the candidates so son, if the material was obtained unlawfully, you could prosecute if you can. there is a first amendment right of the candidate to use information. >> jay sekulow took to the sunday talk show yesterday to defend the meeting. >> i have wondered why the secret service allowed these people in, the president had secret service protection at that point, that raised a question with me. >> that in turn prompted the secret service to respond...

White house and john roberts. good evening. >> good evening to you. white house is disputing report in "the new york times" tonight that back in february in a private meeting in the oval office, the president asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into lieutenant general michael flynn, former national security advisor. according to a note that was reportedly written by comey about the meeting, president trump allegedly said to the director about the flynn investigation, "i...

White house and john roberts. good evening. >> good evening to you. white house is disputing report in "the new york times" tonight that back in february in a private meeting in the oval office, the president asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into lieutenant general michael flynn, former national security advisor. according to a note that was reportedly written by comey about the meeting, president trump allegedly said to the director about the flynn investigation, "i...