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Has, i should say. and injected a lot of safeguards to prevent that from happening again. because of that experience, and my having lived through it, thats why my confidence level is so high and the veracity and fidelity of the information of the intelligence community assessment. >> you know, john, one of the changes thats been put in place by the intelligence community since the failure of the iraq wmd assessment is including at times in classified intelligence reports dissenting views, in oth...

A medium confidence level in their assessment back in january. >> you know, gloria, theres a lot of looking back, 20/20 hindsight now and a lot of criticism of president obama. why didnt he do more? he heard about this last summer a year ago and really not much was done? >> thats right. you heard jeh johnson, former head of homeland security, testify the other day that there was a sense that they were in the middle of this election. they became paralyzed it seems to me, and he said, in his testi...

Hoyer is the number two democrat. he attended that briefing with rod rosenstein this morning. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, katie. >> what did you learn from rod rosenstein, what in particular stood out to you? >> you understand this was a classified briefing. but i think what i knew and what i was made comfortable with, i think he has proceeded in a way, he clearly wants to raise the confidence level of the american people on the facts that are going to be discl...

You know, to see that in the marketplace. this optimism, greater confidence level, and i think were going to see some great things as our small businesses continue to grow and we have more start-ups. >> okay. i want to part out a few things that you said. so if we start with regulatory reform, yes, theres concentration on it on the federal level, but a lot, as you probably know, for small businesses. its the local and state level. is there anything that you can do in this position to have any in...

Biggest challenges. one is the cost of health care. we are looking at that coming down. hopefully the new bill will get passed because i hear from so many small businesses, the cost of health care is really tough for them. the biggest issues that small business brought to my attention is lack of access to capital and also, the fact that they need mentoring, they nd counseling. the regulory environment is so burdensome, its tough to get their head above water. president trump already started by r...

About the future. thats what you need for companies to commit capital. the problem in the slow growth obama years, companies were buying back stock, merging. they werent building plants in this country. outsourcing jobs. you need to change that sentiment, that environment and that confidence level. thats whats changed. businesses feel more confident about tax reform and regulatory burdens being diminished. theyre more willing to commit capital and look to invest in the future. thats a change tha...

Its not the iraqi forces doing this alone. >> its a complicated situation, and the confidence level is not great based on what we saw in the past. in terms of their ability to execute at this point. >> well bring you updates as we have them here. remember when secretary kerry said this is a safer time facing fewer threats than ever before, and a day later clapper declared 2014 the most lethal year for global terrorism. we thought kerry would say, you know, i was wrong. no, he actually doubled ...

What do you say to those afghan citizens about the u.s. presence in so far as weve prevented the taliban from winning the country? >> i think what were seeing and hearing from afghan citizens is they want a continued international and american presence which were providing and what we heard from both of the leading candidates for president, abdullah abdul and both of them this support it and have indicated their intent to sign it promptly upon being elected president. but theres clear support in...

Here because we are brothers from another mother here. we need to close this gap. for you and me this is something that has tortured us for decades. and i think if we had a little more confidence we may have gone further in this crazy world. >> you and i could learn from that. >> we can, yeah. >> whats interesting is our talent far exceeds our confidence level. >> katty, can men really learn from what youre saying? >> we have asterisks at the end of them. this does not apply to scarborough and d...

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