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Business of executing people even if a terrible crime placed them in prison. oregon has not had a death row execution since 1997. its one of 15 statements that has not executed anyone in the last 5 years. other states include california, louisiana and. and and as of -- and utah. as of now at least 23 states do not authorize the death penalty. >> gradually, there has been this chipping away at the death penalty the as more people have come to recognize it many flaws, the risk of executing innocen...

Celebration was added to the white house holiday schedule. the first menorah lighting in the executive residence was in december 2001 with george and laura bush. in 2007, the parents of slain reporter daniel pearl, a victim of terrorism, lit the menorah at the white house. the menorah had been in the pearl family for generations. >> the menorah we light tonight has special meaning. it once belonged to pearl, the great-grandfather of daniel pearl. daniel was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists. ...

In december 2001, ten months after the valentines day killing of his wife susan, dr. john hamilton was being tried for her murder. a crowd lined up to attend the proceedings. loyal patients, former employees and fellow physicians, all standing behind the doctor. >> i have never, ever one second, not one moment in time, thought he was guilty, ever. >> wes lane, the prosecutor, was surprised to find he had an unpopular case on his hands. >> there were people that thought this guy was being sandbag...

All the information she had. you werent giving him what he needed, he want to meet with you. >> he never said that. >> he says he did. >> he never asked me to come down, ever. >> instead, ellen male the detective some paperwork that she had found in mikes desk. a western union money transfer from mike snider today simmons, and the amount of $200. a u-haul receipt was dave simmonss name and number, and a copy of mikes cell phone bill, from december 2001, right before he disappeared. it showed a n...

Political establishment does he really think he will make americans forget what he did? instead it has done the exact opposite at times us to remember that george w. bush let osama bin laden slip through his fingers december 2001 because he was too busy dialing up plans for the invasion of iraq. we remember bush took us to war on a lie and according to those around at the time he did it just to look tougher than his father the actual war hero. we remember the bushes war of vanity squandered the ...

Political establishment does he really think he will make americans forget what he did? instead it has done the exact opposite at times us to remember that george w. bush let osama bin laden slip through his fingers december 2001 because he was too busy dialing up plans for the invasion of iraq. we remember bush took us to war on a lie and according to those around at the time he did it just to look tougher than his father the actual war hero. we remember the bushes war of vanity squandered the ...

Political establishment does he really think he will make americans forget what he did? instead it has done the exact opposite at times us to remember that george w. bush let osama bin laden slip through his fingers december 2001 because he was too busy dialing up plans for the invasion of iraq. we remember bush took us to war on a lie and according to those around at the time he did it just to look tougher than his father the actual war hero. we remember the bushes war of vanity squandered the ...

Whether more could have been done to make peace with the taliban in the years afterwards.— make peace with the taliban in the years afterwards. yes, there were so many missed — years afterwards. yes, there were so many missed opportunities _ years afterwards. yes, there were so many missed opportunities including | many missed opportunities including evenin many missed opportunities including even in december 2001 who i have spoken to the taliban who said they gave a letter to hamid karzai w...

Shifted to a posture of trying to, on its way out, broker a peace process. that failed. that ultimately wasted a lot of time. the wasting of time here is measured in real peoples lives as we can see at the airport. the war was lost in december 2001. the war was lost when the united states decided it would go for unconditional surrender. >> spencer, whose new book is out now. you should pick it up. i learned so much from reading it. i cant wait to talk to about it on our podcast. thank you. >> th...

War. what do you think? >> i think this is both things at once. the biden administration, wasted a lot of time, deciding that it was going to shift posture, in the beginning, months of this year, remember august 31st is not a deadline negotiated with the taliban. its a deadline that the biden administration imposed on itself. the actually deadline that the u.s. negotiated with the taliban, was from may 1st. for a full withdrawal. instead the administration shifted to a plaster of brokering a pea...