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Attacks by comey and the russians aided and abet ted. its a great piece. i read it in one single sitting. it strikes me. i was going back. and it was striking how much they were talking about it during the campaign and freaking out about it to the extent i felt at the time was too much, i think. >> both pre and post-election theyve gotten the rap for it being too much. pre-election, stop focussing on this. especially from the left. this was a weird conspiracy theory and it was taking ah way from...

Being too much. pre-election, stop focussing on this. especially from the left. this was a weird conspiracy theory and it was taking ah way from what we should really be talking about, and thats -- theres a real argument behind that. >> in terms of politically, right. >> why isnt she making a positive case for herself. those are the critiques before the election. now the election has happened. theres increased evidence a lot of the stuff she was saying before the election was prescient and prett...

For nefarious outlaws to organize. we constantly have been to be ardent in fighting against this new form of lets call it cyber nuttiness. the fact that young people are susceptible to whats being put online. hopefully the trump administration will be focussing on ways to shut down the use of social media in some of these places like syria, libya and other countries. >> toii want to ask about north korea. three ballistic missile launches in as many weeks in three weeks or even less. general hert...

Focussing on him. why? >> well, poppy, first the significance of this is that jared kushner, who has become the presidents indispensable man in many ways, a member of the first family now becomes the first person we know of currently inside the white house to get looked at in the investigation. its not our understanding. as you said, kushner is the subject or target of any investigation. not suspected of any wrongdoing. however, he is believed to have a health of knowledge about a lot of things,...

Clinton campaign, releasing e-mails, timing the release of those to gain the most impact. was there quid pro quo. >> right. >> did the curb her meetings call into that category? >> that is the big question. as mad is saying, they arent saying what theyve discovered here. theyre saying they are focussing on him and they want to know more. we know about meetings with the russian bank, we know multiple meetings with the russian ambassador. we know some of these things were not reported on that. the...

Remote areas of libyas interior and from there they have increasingly have been focussing on attack planning. there was that strike, the two b-2 aircraft traveling on a round-trip from missouri to libya on the last day of the obama administration that took out to the training camps at southern libya. that was because of one of the reasons was because of the possible presence of two individuals there linked to the berlin attack. a lot of concerns. but isis really hasnt as you said provided any ev...

Are putting out, something also al qaeda are putting out. we are fighting a narrative. we are fighting an ideology. were not fighting organizations anymore. >> a group or this or that. >> no. its mutated with al qaeda and isis. a lot of times when we see these kind of people who are inspired or acting on behalf of terrorist organizations, especially in the west, we see a flurry boundary between the way they view isis and al qaeda. rahimy in new york for example, who was the chelsea bomber. he re...

Have, which is that the congressional committees have a different job. they want to present this to the american people who are really concerned about whether there was collusion, the russia hack and all the things that we have been writing about and talking about for these past months. the special counsel wants to figure out whether any crimes were committed. he wants to prosecute, and again, to jeffrey, this is what happened with lawrence walsh and the congressional committees on iran contra. ...

Go ahead with criminal charges. he has all these powers. lets take obstruction of justice. its not going to be easy. that is not something easy to prove. it is incredibly difficult to prove. >> mr. trump has made it a lot easier to prove than one could imagine. first of all, people have been focussing on the memo that comey created. the fact of the matter is if you look at the circumstances surrounding this, the fact that he didnt fire his national security director until 18 days after he was wa...

Is we have serious problems in this country. i got that note i shared with you and other people in the news that we got a message that social security would be cut by 25% within 12 years. weve got a growing debt, interest on our debt is going to collapse this country. we need to focus on these things. and let these committees -- >> yeah. >> why is the president waking up in the morning and this morning starting to tweet about tapes of these conversations and issuing these thinly-veiled threats t...