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Offer? >> michael, do you think thats a defensible statement he kept us safe? >> yeah, i do. i take a lot of exception with whats just been said. because youre looking at this contextually. did bill clinton keep us safe in the first 9/11 attack? what did our intelligence community tell us about that? did franklin roosevelt keep us safe in pearl harbor? because -- >> no, he did not. but thats -- >> but -- >> thats a great -- >> i got it. but this is my point. >> pearl harbor was massively controv...

Early on in the administration that non-state actors were the greatest threat. that is an arguable position. but the idea that he kept us safe is like, well, but for the cake i just ate im on a great diet. the bottom line is he didnt. and so they cant let go of that because once you let go of that, what does the republican party offer? >> michael, do you think thats a defensible statement, he kept us safe? >> yeah, i do. i take a lot of exception with whats just been said because youre looking a...

Comments. lets listen to that. >> i believe that if i were running things i doubt those families would have -- i doubt those people would have been in the country. so there is a good chance that those people would not have been in our country. with that being said, im not blaming xbrornlg of george bush, but i dont want jeb bush to say, my brother kept us safe, because september 11th was one of the worst days in the history of this country. >> so did trump give chris wallace a better answer cont...

Street journal" story of october 1 or 2, somewhere in that neighborhood, where executive director floyd leaked this memo to the press weeks earlier. i said to two former federal prosecutors, my chief of staff and my chief counsel, find owl for me whats going on here. the way you do that is in a normal circumstance where you look like youre dealing with an operational issue with the port authority is to go to our people at the port authority and ask them whats going on. they came back and said th...

Leaked his memo to the newspapers. he had written weeks earlier. and i said to two former prosecutor, the chief of staff and chief council, find out whats going here. the way you do that is, in a normal circumstance where you are dealing with an operational issue, to go to the people and ask them whats going on. they came back and said this was a traffic study and we blew the notifications to the executive director. thats our fault. it was a traffic study and he is just upset because he didnt kn...

Is. sometimes it isnt. it depends who youre talking to. >> i agree. i was brought up that way and i think the majority of people do treat people that way. >> they should be. >> thats what the american dream is. >> it is not always that way. >> i dont know fits always that way. >> i think it is about the color of the skin. >> i ten to think more contextually the personality. thats not the norm in some areas. >> as much as we would like to say it is not about how you look. >> because of the color,...

Second phase was, is it such a cruel murder that the death penalty is justified? the jury again found yes. so now the final phase, which is where they look at the facts of the stabbing, the shooting, the near-decapitation of travis alexander, the victim here, in 2008. yes, its especially cruel. lets look at the circumstances and see if there are any mitigating effects. you have aggravating and mitigating. aggravating is what it sounds like. these are things that make it even worse than other mur...

But to have the attorney general of the united states get up and focus on backlash against muslims, has there been backlash against muslims in the wake of boston? is this a time for the attorney general to be effectively scolding americans, not to be bigoted and not to be ignorant? >> megyn, the attorney general of the united states needs to do us all a favor. catch the terrorists. thats what he needs to be doing. catch the terrorists and dont allow individuals to be mirandized after only 16 hou...

Pressure cooker bomb. and ammonium nitrate. so he did a mixed bag using every aspect of his training. so when you see a case where youve got a bombing and a crowded public event, following the al qaeda narrative, you have to wonder, why did he go away for six months, and was that where he either trained, built the test bombs and/or fired them off to make sure they would function when he got home. thats not fact. those are questions. but it also fits in contextually with past history. >> yeah. jo...

And of course, though, contextually, they havent dealt with the kind of depth of scandal and of understanding of what was going on that we have here. some argue thats because it didnt because of people like him. well have to see. >> theres a story in "the washington post" this morning, and i think it will gather traction as the day goes on. saying that pope francis, when he was archbishop, did not choose to deal almost in any way in sex abuse accusations going on. he didnt have the role where he...