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Republicans agree with barack obama on is how he pursued these nsa policies and war on terror in some suspects. in a republican primary you wont win by opposing the patriot act. thats a silly thought. i think the civil liberties, civil libertarian wing of the republican party will like rand pauls position. ted cruz is trying to replicate a part of that. ultimately speaking we know that national security will play a major role in 2016 and it will be hard to say that this policy on a whole has fai...

Whats your reaction of what was released to you had? -- today? >> theres no question the cia systematically lied to the congress and therefore the american people including the top officials at the agency. but at the same time, lawrence, ive been writing about torture for almost ten year nous. and although there are some new details in this report, its been very well known for a long time in washington that the cia was brutally torturing people, not just at guantanamo, but at bagram and the enti...

And thats part of what he has to put forward tomorrow night. and i suspect that thats part of what he intend to put forward. but you are right on target. martha: we heard about the zingers and one liners that have been worked on to a certain extent. what do you think about that? >> im not a great believer in zingers unless they are fact based. i think the key to a debate is to be precise in what you say and precise in your responses. maintain a tone that the public thinks is not demeaning to the...

Two-mile radius around the plant is evacuated. ministry of defense forces, self-defense forces as theyre called in japan moved into the area. this is a very, very delicate situation. we should know over the next couple of hours whether theyre able to get it under control. >> joe, with that as a fact base to steve liesman who knows everything about the situation politically and economically in japan, you have a country thats been with negative growth and a government that has been dysfunctional. ...

So, rick, taking what joe has just said, if we learn the person indicted was indeed a big player in the trump campaign what happens then? >> it all depends who it is. legally, there is no collusion. collusion is not a legal term. there could be conspiracy, there could be other things. it also could be just simply a witness. they put out a wide net. they have thousands and thousands of he mails. they went through them all, assembled a timeline. so they have a fact base. then they bring in witness...

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When you talk about someone like a krugman, people who have the luxury of having an opinion, well, thats when i think the criticism is better leveled when they write about things that they dont have a fact base to support it on. >> bill, one of the things that struck me, there were banner headlines on the, i dont know, maybe second or third day that suggested that this guy had held a grudge or some kind of a beef against the congressman since maybe 2007. if thats the days, that pre dates this wh...