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100 members of al qaeda, in afghanistan, and, given the fact that you have had more threats, more attacks, or attempted attacks on the u.s. home land from yemen in the last two years than from afghanistan, does it make sense to keep 100,000 troops on the ground in afghanistan in a long term counterinsurgency operation. >> couple of points, the principal goal of our efforts in south asia and afghanistan is a strategic defeat of al qaeda and we took a big step towards that sunday night. first poin...

Nations of the world -- if you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist. if you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. if you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, youre a terrorist and you will be held accountable by the united states and our friends. >> is pakistan guilty of harboring osama bin laden? >> well, at this point, i can tell you directly that i have not seen evidence that would tell us that the political, the military or the intelligence leader ship had foreknowledge of bin la...

More nazi that didnt include "show me your papers"? megyn: ernie goldberg is the author of "a slobbering love affair." it was just a couple weeks ago you were not allowed to demonize the opponents by suggesting that they were nazis and that kind of thing, now we are seeing more and more of that happening. >> first let me say im not commenting on the law itself. except to this extent. its my understanding that it only mirrors the federal law which the federal government has chosen for whatever re...

Opportunity to give another perspective. i certainly appreciate the comments that congressman price made. but we differ on whether or not this was a good use of federal dollars. as a matter of fact, one of the very tenets of using our funds is to improve the teacher quality so well have better student outcomes. i believe rath aer than give money to principals to have them buy equipment and manipulative, its a better deal to have our teacher goes out and -- its a better deal to have teacher goes ...

Fairness or legitimacy of the muller investigation. >> first point, by the way, thank you for having me. first point, joy, when bob muller found out about the texts, he had pete struck removed. hard to criticize bob for removing pete any earlier than when bob found out. putting that aside, there is a concern it gives rise to an appearance that investigators may not have been there but a more important way to look at it, right? at the end of the day, in whatever form if he brings charges or revea...

By the way. he made a recommendation, but regardless of recommend, i was paul: michael mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the united states. thanks for coming in. >> good to be here. paul: first point, is there any doubt in your mind that as a legal matter the president had the right, the authority to fire james comey? >> none. paul: none. >> none. the fbi director is a part of the executive, the president is the head of the executive. regardless of whether the fbi director is appoin...

Bin laden, but also gathered up all the material that they could for exploitation by intelligence services, first point. second is the scale of what weve got here. this is the largest cache of intelligence derived from the scene of any single terrorist. its about the size of a small college library. >> what does that mean? what does that actually tell us? we looked at the video we showed before. you see osama bin laden looking at images of himself on a screen. >> yes. >> where is that actually h...