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State, people in the bureaucracy, particularly the intelligence agencies or law enforcement. what kind of drastic action? >> im going to be very, very clear with people. as far as im concerned, that staff has amnesty. well see how they do with me at the helm. if the leaks dont stop, im going to pare down the staff because its just not right, chris. i think its not fair to the president. its actually not fair to america or the people in the government. im not going to be able to stop the leaks or...

9/11 with a cia that was spooked by past investigation and was reluctant to stick its neck out. i think the next president will be severely handicapped by going into the office with the cia, that is like the one we had back in the 90s. >> and what is interesting, with the bombings in africa and the uss cole, i mean, we were not even in a war footing. and so you know the cia was kind of gun shy at that point. but lets talk about this whole issue of water boarding for once and for all. was the cia...

What we went through in the 90s with a cia that was spooked by past investigations and reluctant to stick its neck out. i think the next president will be severely handicapped by going into office with a ciaa0zrñ lik one we had in the 90s. >> with the bomb bmings in africa and the uss cole we were not even in war footing so the cia was gun shy. like talk about this issue of waterboarding was the cia given authority to do this? >> yes. >> okay. was it torture and was it illegal? >> no. and no. t...

What we went through in the 90s with a cia that was spooked by past investigations and reluctant to stick its neck out. i think the next president will be severely handicapped by going into office with a ciaa0zrñ lik one we had in the 90s. >> with the bomb bmings in africa and the uss cole we were not even in war footing so the cia was gun shy. like talk about this issue of waterboarding was the cia given authority to do this? >> yes. >> okay. was it torture and was it illegal? >> no. and no. t...

United states, theyve heard it here from the foreign ministry as well, saying they had to do this. they had to crack down and it was for the sake of the economy. but at the same time, the crown prince here has been given authority by the king to negotiate with all sides. but the protesters are saying, how can we trust this? youre saying negotiate and talk and its time for reflection, time for calm and for everyone to gather themselves when all this is going on. yet all of this continues to go on...

>> reporter: well, as we approach that area were the people were gunned down today, theres two tall buildings. we were there at the same time as arwa, but in all the chaos we didnt even know that until we ran away and were trying to gather our breath from the tear gas. there were other journalists there telling us there was a sniper on the roof of one of the buildings there. this is in contrast to what the government said. its not just the envoy of the united states, but they said they had to cr...

Life on the ground for reporters trying to document what is happening there? >> reporter: well, as we approach that area were the people were gunned down today, theres two tall buildings. we were there at the same time as arwa, but in all the chaos we didnt even know that until we ran away and were trying to gather our breath from the tear gas. there were other journalists there telling us there was a sniper on the roof of one of the buildings there. this is in contrast to what the government sa...

>> reporter: well, as we approach that area where the people were gunned down today, theres two tall buildings. we were there at the same time as arwa, just a few meters away, but in all the chaos we didnt even know that until we ran away and were trying to gather our breath from the tear gas. there were other journalists there telling us there was a sniper on the roof of one of the buildings there. this is in contrast to what the government said. its not just the envoy of the united states, the...