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>> brilliance. brilliance. >> on the cnbc website. >> thank you, jeff. we appreciate you giving us john oliver, by the way from the uk. his guest hosting duties on the daily show have paid off. hes getting a weekly comedy show on hbo. hell be leaving the daily show. the sunday night show will be a topical comedy series. the show is slated to launch next year. obviously, hes a role-player making it big. that bridges us to twitter. #waytooearly. name your favorite bit player on tv who made it hu...

Efforts he made to recruit other people into al qaeda. there is nothing in there about any particular plot. and to me that was going to be what was likely to be in there. there is no record of this guy knowing about the 9/11 attacks. he was informed about them after they happened. hes really been a sort of bit player. not to say that isnt important that he goes on trial, but -- >> pete, youve written about the evidence that actually might substantiate that he was a bit player, a private al qaeda...

I think they came to a good place in their relationship, not that they are necessarily best friends or anything like that, but the president sets the foreign policy, the secretary of state executes the foreign policy. influences his foreign policy, at the end of the day, i think you saw hillary clinton as somebody who did what he wanted her to do as secretary of state and was a effective player nor t player for him in the world. what does it say about 2016, joe biden is clearly positioning himse...

Book called "hubris" going into the case of al libi who the fbi was getting information from. the cia came in and took him away from the fbi. he ended up in an egyptian cell, and it wasnt just that he didnt give information that was useful. he gave false information. he cooked up a whole story that saddam hussein was working with al qaeda and training them to use chemical weapons, and george w. bush, president of the united states, used that information, which ended up being false, to sell the w...

Sell the war in iraq. so sometimes this stuff not only doesnt work, but it goes in the opposite direction, and this is why id love to read that 6,000-page report. >> so would i. david, speaking of going in the opposite direction, lets remind everybody, this is the movie that critics of the president feared would cement his re-election. it was supposed to be a valentine to president obama being released in october of the presidential year, and hes a bit player at best. hes not even in the movie. ...

Under his control. from the beginning, the plan was mcveighs. nichols was a bit player. >> in october 1994, mcveigh and nichols break into a rock quarry in marian, kansas. they already have tons of the material to create the bomb, but they still need the mechanism to ignite the device. >> he steals a lot of explosives. that, a, would have been very difficult to get, and if you could get it, would have been very expensive and could have possibly left a trail or could have tripped them up. so stea...

The sunday after john f. kennedys assassination. this was the league that was going to play the sunday after 9/11 until the jets staged a players revolt which forced them to postpone the games. and the nfl is saying the show must go on. frankly, im not shocked because of this history, but i am disappointed and a little upset. it doesnt put into perspective the tragedy that just took place in kansas city. >> you talk about it the players who are going to have to get out on the field, reconcile th...

Expunged the word terrorism and ansar al sharia. some people are focused on the misleading message and others are focusod what is more important why security was not provided, given all of the warning signs in benghazi, even though it is from ambassador chris stevens. >> i believe the president more than anybody else. susan rice is a bit player. was he informed of the june attack on the consulate where they blew a hole where 40 people could go through. was he aware of the august 15th cable where...

Unemployment. they need to point. obama is going to try to take credit for that and romney needs to point out this is a republican governor whose policies are helping a great deal. thats right. theyre drawing a clear distinction between those things they believe their republican governors have done, the budget reforms theyve done and education reforms theyve done and helping the economy and making the argument to the extent that the states arent doing better that its obamas fault. >> briefly, do...

Unemployment. they need to point. obama is going to try to take credit for that and romney needs to point out this is a republican governor whose policies are helping a great deal. thats right. theyre drawing a clear distinction between those things they believe their republican governors have done, the budget reforms theyve done and education reforms theyve done and helping the economy and making the argument to the extent that the states arent doing better that its obamas fault. >> briefly, do...