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Stand behind those decisions and come out beautifully on most of them, i -- i think that romney is afraid that he cant do it. thats why he doesnt say anything about it. theres no other explanation except that hes afraid. he knows he ought to be talking about it. >> now, richard, romneys team, 17 of his 24 advisers served under the bush administration. and the reason that becomes relevant today is kurt eichenwald in the new york times came out with intelligence briefings in 2001. may 1st presiden...

Transferring so as not to be blamed when the attack took place. all told, its a devastating portrait. roger cressey is an nbc news terrorism analyst and was deputy for counterterrorism at the national security council on september 11 shg, 2001. michael tomasky is special correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily beast. let me start with roger. let at the start with roger. you have been on this show so often about this question, about what we knew, what we could have known. where do you think yo...

We previously thought these m.o.s in the report -- the memos and reports are correct, yet some of the people from that team we dont know if these are the ones that saw this, but we dont know whether or not, theyre part of the bush strategy in terms of being advisers to him on foreign policy. >> right. i find it hard at this point to be shocked by many things around 9/11. but this -- actually, this reporting by kurt eichenwald is great. people should check it out because it is shocking. its still...

Attacks, i thought about why didnt we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didnt want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didnt you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the leadups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take si...

Attacks, i thought about why didnt we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didnt want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didnt you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the lead-ups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take s...

Its going to press tonight and the cover of "newsweek" tomorrow morning. it says "how trumps business ties have put america in a mind." now, kirk eichenwald is a veteran investigative report and has done work on business scandals, including enron. and with that skill set as a reporter, he has gone hammer and tongs as the intersection of the president-elect as a politician and what the president-elect is dragging into the political field from his business life. including his active business ties ...

Kurt eichenwald has been on a terror. there are new allegations that at least in one case a foreign government may have already taken action to threaten the private business interests of the president-elect as a way of trying to get something that that foreign country wants from the u.s. government. again, this is "newsweek" reporting. its not out yet. we have an advanced preview. this is exclusive to us. its a serious allegation but its not a complicated one. it starts with something called the...

We are back with my panel. i want to let kurt eichenwald finish his answer from our previous segment. curt, go. >> i just want to start off by saying, you know, this is whats happened with comey thats so wrong. we have a very serious situation of, you know, a very narrow set of facts. and hes created a situation where political advocates are able to go out here and start talking about broad, sweeping things. here is what we know. and this is all we know. there are a series of e-mails that were f...

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