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Ben smith, who it must be noted, sam stein drew this to my attention yesterday, according to the "jerusalem post" ben smith is the 28th most important jew in the world. >> thanks for mentioning that on air. >> youre so welcome, its a big title and congratulations. >> sam was actually 51. >> just saying. >> well get into the actual rankings. melissa i want to go to you first on this. i feel like -- there are some things that we should be talking about. including 501(c)4s, our tax code, embassy se...

Would like to come out. there are only two real issues. this was an attack on a cia operation house and the cia was heavily involved with the state department. could you really have defended this more rigorously without -- they were involved with intelligence gathering. could this have been any different? tom pickering and his team said not really. and this back and forth between the cia and state department. how much is the cia working its usual game or also protecting the operational security ...

Sources and methods of intelligence gathering. what happened here is clearly that the cia well understood what was up, as did the state departments own employees on the ground in benghazi, and it was higher levels of authority back here in washington that were trying to put a different cast on the facts. >> finally, ambassador, should there be a select committee to investigate this? >> i think absolutely. weve learned a lot just in the past few days but its clear theres a lot more to go here. le...

She was about to marry jason collins and she had no idea that he was gay. ill talk with his ex-fiancee in just a moment. first, breaking news now, the big stories of the day. president obama is defending the fbis handling of the intelligence in the boston marathon bombing. critics are saying the u.s. is dropping the ball when it comes to intelligence gathering. joining me are abby huntsman and mark lamont hill. lets start with the big story yesterday and its been bubbling on today as well about ...

The administration to arm the opposition, provide them weapons. sources in the administration are telling me that will not happen because there is still a great deal of concern about who really is making up the opposition right now. it could cause even bigger problems. but what these u.s. officials will also quietly tell you is that, yes. the cia has been helping train some of the rebels in neighboring countries. wolf? >> all right. barbara, thanks very much. well have more on this story later i...

Weapons. chemical weapons, are you sure? >> the u.s. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale. these are preliminary assessments based on our intelligence gathering. we had varying degrees of confidence about the actual use. >> preliminary assessments, varying degrees of confidence, some degree of varying confidence. there have been claims by the syrian opposition for months now that the syrian govern...

>> as someone who works in a municipal government, im curious, what did the boston authorities know about the fbi contacts with these guys. it would probably have been a useful thing for boston police to know that the fbi had interests in someone in their community. i dont know whether or not that information was quaid, but as somebody who works for new york city, i think i would like to know if the fbi thinks theres sufficient reason to interview somebody whos living in new york city. >> and if...

More out of the trip than we could have ever given any of those that were injured. >> im sure you did. marine captain cameron west, thank you very much for joining me tonight, but more importantly, thank you very much for going to boston and telling them your story. >> its my honor. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up, the sequester cuts are finally hitting home, and if you think its bad for air travel, wait until you hear what the director of national intelligence says it will do to intelli...

This administration is allergic to paradigm. despite drones they are disinterested if classifying anybody as enemy combatant. for every incident in a knee-jerk fashion they run to criminal justice paradigm. the typical defense is we can successfully prosecute him in the civilian court. that is not the only issue. intelligence gathering is important. the other issue that is important the symbolism. do you want to tell the american people were not waging war against jihadist, that this is an isola...

What is the issue here? >> a lot of variables here, the question is he in any kwan condition to answer questions with or without miranda? what is his health situation? also, even if he doesnt get miranda warnings, he may decline to answer questions in any case. they cant force him to answer questions, but if he does not receive miranda warnings and if he then anticipates questions those answers cannot be used in a criminal case against him. they can be used for intelligence gathering. they can b...