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Devoted to this topic. it has a great cover as you can see. gideon opines in the magazine and will do so here as well. meghan osullivan and elliott abbrams, both top officials in the national security council in the george w. bush administration. both national security advisors. meghan is professor of international affairs at harvards kennedy school and abrams is a fellow at the middle east studies. peter beinart, a senior columnist and senior fellow at new america and cnn political commentator....

So it has been done before, right? >> it has been done before. >> do you think that this would actually be ever any kind of an idea that would happen? >> it could conceivably happen. there may be broad support for it. understand as you pointed out in the lead-in. it would take a bill passing by 2-3 majority. and an amendment to be approved by 3/4 of the state legislatures of the 50 states. >> three-quarters of the states. if you look at california and new york, you know it wouldnt pass there. wi...

Difficult tonight. i was impressed with all of these women i had the honor of being with. we negotiated pretty much every step of the way from where to cross, how to cross between the north koreans, the united nations command. diplomacy is whats needed now. after 70 years of a stalemate. i heard your lead-in and i do agree that the people are suffering. its always dangerous to have the 1% really having it all or having the majority of the resources. theres a huge imbalance both within the countr...

? >> yeah. i think they really had others involved like they said in the affidavit, reverend al. we dont know exactly what they had. one thing that did stand out in the affidavit is they had a witness who saw the porsche drive on u.s. avenue northeast going out of washington towards maryland, and the witness said that the man had short cropped hair and was wearing a neon vest which was found in the burned out car, the neon vest and similar vests were in the savopoulos house. now wint does not ha...

Obviously, listen carol. i dont want to paint police with this broad brush. police protect us they serve with decency, respect communities. for that they deserve a debt of gratitude. i want do limit my discussion to this particular issue. its very troubling for a variety of reasons. the first reason, of course the videotape speaks for itself. carol, the lead-in to this there are there were concerns with martin releasing the dash cam. we all want to know how did the incident begin and what led to...

Denounced innocence. they all said, we did it, were appealing on technicalities, not on innocence. the people who have been put to death in utah, i have no problem with the fact that they were put to death. >> thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. joining me now, professor of jurisprudence, author of the book gruesome spectacles, botched executions, and americas death penalty. it occurs to me theres a particular kind of american exceptionalism at play in which we are one of the only,...

They all said, we did it were appealing on technicalities not on innocence. the people who have been put to death in utah i have no problem with the fact that they were put to death. >> thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. joining me now, professor of jurisprudence, author of the book gruesome spectacles botched executions and americas death penalty. it occurs to me theres a particular kind of american exceptionalism at play in which we are one of the only if the only developed demo...

Washington. thanks for coming on this morning. >> good morning. >> so this american citizen has already spent ten days in jail in the uae, looking at another five years behind bars for slander. is the united states government -- i know you are. but is the executive branch intervening in any way to help this man? >> im pushing them hard to. i want to clarify something from your lead-in. and this is very important. the singular issue in this case is ryan engaged in this online behavior on u.s. soi...

>> i thought we were coming in on boxing with the lead-in. but harry was once a boxer. >> he was. >> he looked pretty tough in that photo. >> when he fist did his home video explaining i know i look like i have been run over, he gave a litany saying i wasnt fighting a boxer, i was not riding a bull. i slapped myself in the face with exercise equipment. it feels like were in a new fighting era in washington where we dont know what the contours are. president obama vetoing this legislation and a p...

The internet so very well done. but you know jake the thing that happens right now, while the high fives are going on about taking this cell down the intelligence part of it is going on full speed ahead. thats paramount, we talked about this in the lead-in to the segment, about how important it is to find out how broad or not this cell is. so that work continues as we speak. >> phil i dont want to make light of this case. obviously we all take it seriously. but if you read the court documents, a...