hand. it was at the lab in quantico. an ap ran with that story and when it did people started freaking out in the administration. how did they get this, what did they know. there was a briefing given by brennan. john brennan, now head of the cia. he was. someone who knows about yemen, counterterrorism. he went out to try to also calm some public opinion. he said, look, yes, there was this plot but the bomb has always been in our possession. it was always under our control was the specific word, which means that there was never a threat that this bomb that was being made in yemen was going to blow up an aircraft. that the u.s. or u.s. friends because what was under our control, it wasn t under our control. it was under the uk s control but since we re all friend in this, the u.s. and uk, it was under friendly control. so him saying i think
departure but did not pick him coming back, correct? the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. napolitano s pluck contradict briefing given by the fbi director. after talking to the fbi they told me they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back. the name was misspelled. and when we say there was no broader plot here, i don t know how in the world we know that at this early stage. the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committee also held the closed door hearing tuesday to address the conflicting reports. we had a full discussion back and forth over the process that followed. and we need to keep at that and we need to see if there are any loopholes in it that we fix those loopholes. during his trip last year, russian media reports that tamerlan tried to renew his passport and left the country without explanation. one newspaper editor told
operating procedure here, his deputy would take that kind of meeting but i was told the issue was such it could only be taken by the c.i.a. director. i learned from intelligence officials it was on thursday that the c.i.a. director asked the president if he could submit his letter of resignation for personal reasons. i was not told anything more and, today, that letter was accepted by the president. while the request was for personal reasons we need to lay out a couple of things that happened in the last few weeks. i was also told this was considerable angst by a briefing given by the c.i.a. that laid out the timeline or their version of events what happened benghazi, the emergency response in benghazi. i was today, was it possible the white house did not sanction that and the white house did not approve of the timeline because it said that what happened there was not our problem but it was
you talk to, for instance, the afl-cio is going to not advertise very much on television this cycle and instead, they re putting all their money into a big ground game to try and overcome these ads. it s a real clash of strategies that s been caused by this emerging financial imbalance. you know, josh, it s not entirely inappropriate that the cover story this week is about pornography because this is a version of political pornography. the vast sums of money being raised on both sides which automatically means the vast amounts of time that both candidates have to spend on raising money rather than talking to the country about what they re going to do about the economy. that s right. and again, i think it goes back to the citizens united decision. i was at a briefing given by the afl-cio s political director on wednesday who said they went back and did a pretty rigorous analysis of how money has affected politics just since that decision in 2010 and what
what we have seen is a real, as we began this process of winnowing down the field, the number of undecides has reduced not only over the past month but over the past three days. ppp had a poll today that had only 11% undecided. that poll is one we don t put a whole lot of stock in it quite frankly. what we know is that the field is that voters are making their mind up on the field. we ll see as those candidates who have the best organization in the state are probably going to be those are the ones who do the best on caucus night because they ll have representatives in the 1,174 different precinctses making that closing case. there is reporting out of a briefing given in hawaii to the white house press corps reporting that the president is coming back with a strategy of just running against congress. white house officials have been advising that s a little bit overwritten. obviously, he did very well in the closing weeks of the payroll tax fight by going against congress. what a