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Director comey. there is one area and dan can speak to this as well as i can that is different. that is, who do you pick as allies around the world? this president has said if there is a dictator around the world, for example, the president of egypt who will fight extremism, i will favor that dictator at the expense of language about democracy. that is an area where president trump has been clear. >> daniel, your take? >> right. i think phil has it exactly right about the continue yties. and by ...

Just two days after trump acknowledged for the first time russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. the senate intelligence committee continuing to look into just how far that interference went including were there any political campaign people in connection with the kremlin directly. daniel benjamin now director of the john sloan dickey center for international understanding at dartmouth college. first your reaction to what donald trump has told "the wall street journal," which is th...

This country is 1 in 4 million on an annual basis. i think we do need some perspective from time to time. >> i was just talking to ambassador daniel benjamin who was saying its the cycle. you have this political rhetoric and some members of the media are to blame as well, but its this political rhetoric and the terrorists want to terrorize, that is the sheer definition. once they do, theres more payback for them to strike, whether its an organized cell or someone whos self radicalized and a lot ...

Is stoking so much of this. ambassador daniel benjamin, thank you for your perspective, i appreciate it. >> thanks very much. >> you can see the fifth republican presidential debate right here on cnn moderated by wolf blitzer. the first debate starts at 6:00 eastern tonight only here on cnn. as were watching and waiting for more of these candidates to live here at the venetian hotel before they take a tour around the stage, did you know that tonight is not the only debate this week? we will talk...

Hell make more remarks in the wake of that. all of it before he departs for his own holiday to hawaii. kate? >> all right. kristen welker at the white house, thank you so much. lets turn to jonathan benjamin at dartmouth college and coordinator for the state department. nice to see you again. >> good to see you. >> lets pick it up where kristen left off. the president clearly trying to calm americans today but it looks like he has work to do if you look at the poll numbers. a poll shows 29% of...

It must be different for you because you live there and you have to keep going and you have kids in school. >> i try not to let that association influence my memories of the beautiful little sandy hook and that beautiful little school that i used to love to be in. i was there with daniel the morning before for his little french lessons that he would have before school started. and i used to volunteer there as a reader and just loved being in that environment, so i want to preserve it like that. ...

That just the president trying to reassure people were working on this? >> of course, the president is trying to reassure people and also true that the united states has increased the number of strikes. it has taken on new targets in the last month and going much after, for example, the oil infrastructure and getting more and more successful in terms of targeting isis leadership and we gather more intelligence as time goes by in that the ter. the news is getting better. of course, everyone wants...

Some grievance of some kind in which he imagined that he needed to take revenge. there were some reports that he was recently fired from his job with the jordanian police. all of that is under investigation. but we should not hesitate to point out here that jordan is one of the strongest allies the u.s. has in the region and vice versa, but theres no question that the jordanians will conduct a fair and thorough investigation, get to the bottom of what happened here, kate. >> jim at the pentagon,...

Since lost control of a wide swath of the country and now the chairwoman dianne feinstein wonder if its time for al maliki to hit the bricks. >> it seems to me that maliki has to be convinced that it is in the greater interest of his country to retire and to for this newly elected government to put together a new government. >> joining me now is robin wright, senior fellow at the woodrow wilson center and daniel benjamin who was the adviser to hillary clinton on counterterrorism and is with the ...

Cnn he got out of the al qaeda business and that may be true. but one way to score the relative importance there was a $5 million reward for him. the leader of al qaeda has a 25 million dollar reward. he is 20% less important than the leader of al qaeda which makes him important but its not the most seismic thing that has happened in the war on terror. >> you know, i think he is right but also daniel benjamin who was in the state department anti-terrorism coordinator and others said he was instr...