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Special counsel have a person with a target on his back. theyre trying to get trump. theyll use every means possible to try to get trump and that includes going after people who have committed less serious crimes, squeezing them, threatening them and getting them to provide evidence. sometimes it backfires like in the manafort case because he didnt provide truthful testimony. we dont know whether it backfired in the cohen case or not. but its a tactic that is widely used, long condemned by civil...

Was being prosecuted. prosecutors are not supposed to investigate not criminal conduct. they dont have a roving commission to see where the political sins have occurred. theyre not supposed to look into whether with there was improper political activities, theyre supposed to look only for crime and the problem, and i said this when the special counsel was appointed for clinton and jeffrey toobin approved it when i said it then. i have been principled and consistent from the beginning, i always p...

The evening. how much of life can we police? what was it, the -- where was the bombing in europe where it was the departure lounge where its not secured, brussels, i think. if this tonight was a public area where the public is invited, where theres no magnemagne magnetometers. >> would we make our country safer? potentially. but theres always a balance between privacy, civil lib tis and security. and we have to determine what the right balance is. so were not going to completely secure our entir...

Military exercise across half a dozen states only added fuel to the fire of conspiracy theories swirling around president obama. >> we did a military exercise in texas and a whole bunch of folks were sure that this was the start of marshall law. >> reporter: it was in march months before the exercises would even begin that a conservative radio talk show host called it a preparation for civil war. soon the conspiracy theory spread and got weirder if thats even possible when actor chuck norris pos...

The midst of this, were doing the bombing that you demonstrated but, you know, where is the health of the state and when you have wars going on and constant war and terrorism, the war turned against the american people and thats why we have the attack on civil lib -- liberties. there will be a problem in the liberties and economic policy. i think these wars are needless, they are inmoral and hurt us. we ought to stop them and thats what rans message is going to be this thursday. he has to try to...

Then the people will find out it was a total failure just as the soviet system collapsed. it wasnt because they decided to be peace, they went broke. i think thats what is going to happen to us and right now in the midst of this were doing the bombing that you demonstrated but, you know where is the health of the state and when you have wars going on and constant war and terrorism, the war turned against the american people and thats why we have the attack on civil lib r -- liberties. there will...

Are putting forward that you dont need to be spying on all-americans and where does it end? and by the way, the other thing is under informed congress people. wow. what a shock. and yet they were briefed and they could have known this if they had paid attention and if they had read the legislation. >> the point was they were informed, they did know about it and they do this. >> then they are hypocrites. >> that was my point. >> i agree with you. >> heres the thing. we have to go. i have under tw...