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Is isis is a good deal predictable by virtue of the presidents failure to act appropriately at the extraordinary time it was prese presented. >> you dont have to believe me. >> at some point even isis was saying -- and this is got into the dispute with al qaeda leadership -- we want to do external operations and by the way we know we have these westerners who have come to jihadist disneyland. >> only the americans can help the iraqis broker across these secretary and ethnic lines. there is nobod...

Information, its even more shocking that were not allowed to know. is this one head rolling this week? is that the sign of an agency thats starting to get its house in order, or is this the sign of an agency, a really big and important agency with a ton of political pressure on it that might be in the process of falling apart? joining us now is john stanton, washington bureau chief for buzz feed. john, thanks very much for being here. >> good to be here. >> i understand you have been doing some ...

Important agency with a ton of political pressure on it that might be in the process of falling apart? joining us now is john stanton, washington bureau chief for buzz feed. john, thanks very much for being here. >> good to be here. >> i understand you have been doing some reporting on this story specifically, and that youve got some new stuff. what have you learned? >> well, sources of mine have told me that he was actually supposed to testify before the senate oversight committee on monday. th...

Might be in the process of falling apart? joining us now is john stanton, washington bureau chief for buzz feed. john, thanks very much for being here. >> good to be here. >> i understand you have been doing some reporting of than story specifically, and that youve got some new stuff. what have you learned? >> sources of might be have told me that he was supposed to actually testify before the senate oversight committee on monday. the same day that he was conveniently fired or removed from offic...

Picture of an empty chair that had a picture of an empty suit on it labeled eric cantor. he made a big show out of calling him he would only call him mr. cantor. he would not call him representative cantor because eric cantor, according to him, doesnt really represent anyone. empty chair. maybe eric cantor knew then that tonight was coming, that a month later his congressional career in all likelihood would be ended by a tea party challenger right there in his home district. maybe we should have...

There are still gop primaries to come in june, including a suspiciously, in virginia, where cantor is trying to fend off a tea party challenger and his team released on monday, the headline, eric cantor is the number one guy standing between the american people and immigration reform. the question is -- just weeks after relishing the title of immigration reforms grim reaper, will cantor be willing to change his tune? joining me to discuss this is case from buzz feed. this challenge cantor is fac...

>> buzz feed has edited those out. greg, lets stay with you. hugging someone of a vastly different height with uncertain arm placement. >> that has happened to me all my life. ive learned to accept it. ive enjoyed the smell of a belt buckle. >> what about this, bob, the denied vastly different hug that turns into a weird side hug? >> this is erics watch. it weighs about five pounds. it has mrsa, bed bugs. the chest forward, the chess bump. >> no, no. the hug, like this, where its trying to frojt...

>> buzz feed has edited those out. greg, lets stay with you. hugging someone of a vastly different height with uncertain arm placement. >> that has happened to me all my life. ive learned to accept it. ive enjoyed the smell of a belt buckle. >> what about this, bob, the denied vastly different hug that turns into a weird side hug? >> this is erics watch. it weighs about five pounds. it has mrsa, bed bugs. the chest forward, the chess bump. >> no, no. the hug, like this, where its trying to frojt...

Legitimate tea party challenger. the battle between longtime congressman mike simpson and his tea party challenger bryan smith attracted an unbelievable amount of outside spending. through millions of the tea party groups that bet big on bryan smith. republicans thought they had the perfect candidate the in a pediatric neurosurgery and believed to have a real shot of revelations that two different men, an ex-husband and ex-boyfriend accused her of stocking and harassment. joining me now the sena...

For buzz feed. all right, how do you follow that? >> how do you follow that? a very honest thing to say. you are a political operative. do you think the wehby stuff has been fair game, coming from emilyslist if that was a candidate. democratic woman, how would you be playing this, how would you be reacting to it? >> i think any time that the phrase "police reports have come to light." can be used in a story that means that story is fair game for an election. i think that the national republican ...