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Ignacious in the washington post. it reads, secretary of state writes, david writes have had private contacts since the job was create wanted. so its a mistake to get too indignant about hillary clintons e-mail exchanges about libya with her long-time friend sydney blumenthal. still, these messages offer some useful insights about the court politics of walk and the way most of the messages is going down the drain is almost an afterthought. you cant escape the feel tag clinton and her aides were ...

>> i think david raises a fair point. it is an odd system where somebody who has business interests to write these memos and have them get forwarded around the state department. we also dont know the whole thing. weve seen a few 100 pages out of 55,000 pages of e-mails. i think we should suspend file judgment until we see the rest of them. >> until we get the server and get everything off the server. >> lets see them all before we reach conclusions. >> i totally agree, lets get the server. i thi...

Republicans are using this rhetoric. too. a month ago i was at a firefighters union hall where ted cruz got up. he started talking about two america, one for the well off. i was like this is john edwards embodied if ted cruz. >> i want to believe that is her message. its a great message. >> i think you can look. even alan greenspans message two or three years ago, david ignacious. ive said it on this show a thousand times over the past several years, there are two americas. there are two america...

With democratic senators and congress. you have a hard time believing they would blow up a deal. >> let me get to some other news this morning. because there is a report that claims hillary clinton was questioned more than two years ago about using a personal e-mail account when she was secretary of state. according to "new york times," congressman darryl issa was investigating the personal e-mail by obaum administration officials. one of the questions from the december 2012 letter to clinton as...

Way that the administration understands the prerogatives of congress and that our role needs to be carried out. >> all right. thofs senators bob corker and ben cardin deciding the 19-0 vote to let lawmakers weigh in on any deal with iran. just hours before the vote secretary of state john kerry was on capitol hill trying to urge lawmakers to oppose the bill. what did david ignacious call him this morning? he was like a beached whale? i would not say that about secretary kerry. >> i would say i d...

Overside a veto. >> we are all united. today iran cannot become a nuclear state. today we became closer to making that a reality. >> all right, welcome to "morning joe." we are in walk. we have the washington post david ignacious, hes here in his regulation grey suit as he says. >> i was told to wear this. >> you were? >> please you look great. >> senior political editor and white house correspondent for the huffington post sam stein and senior national correspondent for bloomberg "business week...

Make sure these things were never done again. obviously, when you peck your conclusion, you can cherry pick your documents to make them fit. i think any president in that circumstance, given the information either as a cia representative or as senator fine teen thinks it should have been presented, the american president i think shill would have ordered these interrogation methods. >> that the a part of an exclusive with john yu, who approved enhanced techniques for the bushed a men strax. welco...

Actionable intelligence that was, quote, otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> okay. lets start with david ignatius in washington. you say, david, this was necessary to release for public accounting but what about national security? >> i found the report absolutely devastating. weve known about these techniques. weve known about this chapter in american life. but to see what it felt like for a young cia medical officer ob...

President george bush new the details of the program early on? >> it was my understanding, certainly, in the nsa program. he and i talked about it before we launched it. it was not something he would buy or forget. i wasnt there for the personal briefings of president bush. i just ever you to the presidents own auto biography, in which he said he personally approved the waterboard. >> we have the washington posts david ignacious with us as well. david. >> i want to focus on what mike barnacle wa...

Actionable intelligence that was quote otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> all right, david ignacious, the issue of legality on many levels could be pivotal as we take a look at this we bunked in, we came in with a sound byte from john yu, you say is correct, al. >> john yu is the young lawyer of the question of the techniques the cia contractors opposed using. the 12 techniques that included waterboarding were real and...