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>> sean: i agree. heres whats interesting. you know, for stephanie cutter to go out for the obama campaign and complain that the new york times poll, which over-sampled democrats by 6 percentage points, is the methodology is off because it doesnt show what they want. if they think theyre losing cbs news and the new york times -- how big a problem is that in the end for them? >> its a huge problem. it is going in the wrong direction. if a new york times poll shows the president obama is behind wi...

Plan. use covert activity -- >> which is already being done. thers covert activity to set back their program by the israelis, by the united states. >> we know by the israelis. we dont have any evidence, if you look at whats being done, mostf the evidence to actually trails back to the israelis and the methodology that they use. theres no evidence the ited states is at all compcit in working at that. thats what -- i would be very direct that we wou, in fact, and openly talk about this. w? because...

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Correspondent chuck todd has our daily fix today. republicans are now saying that they are looking at all of these candidates, newt gingrich says he is the front-runner. on what does he base that? >> reporter: hes basing it on what hes seeing in the polls and the fact is its been sort of a hard thing to judge post thanksgiving day polls, we havent seen a lot of numbers. there will be new numbers on "meet the press" on sunday out of eye way and new hampshire. but when you see the robo polling out...

So the speaker has a lead nationally but by no means does he have an impenetrable lead and the race is over. thats why the speaker has to be careful about saying things like im going to be the nominee, and when you look at the polls, theres nos, ands or buts about it. >> those poles are in the same region. the rasmussen poll is a departure. >> its the only poll out of these held on one day, and you do try -- most pollsters like to have their polls conducted over several days and it has slightly ...

Control for the methodology, we do find that what money can do is buy lots of time, effort in committee meetings, and also, over time, if you look at incumbents, they do switch their votes, as sometimes correlated with the cash. >> if you look at the data in 08, it says 93% of the winners in 08 raised more money than their opponent. it says obama out-raised mccain by two to one. obama raised $39 million in 08 alone from finance and wall street. a 94% sounds pretty determinative to me, jimmy. how...

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Anniversary of 9/11. now another piece of threat information, hey, maybe their guy is coming here to do that? what do you do? you have to protect the public, put the information out there, respond. perhaps the wording of the way this threat warning was put out there, you know, credible, but uncorroborated. i dont -- >> trying to figure that out ten years, tony. what does that mean? >> well i think theyve thrown in the kitchen sink and everything else in, too. remember here basically this fits th...

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Machine. this was a prison whose sole function was to document you coming in, document your torture, document your confession and document your execution. it was almost like a compendium of everything that we could do bad to you. it was the first time i ever saw a water board. the entire function was to get you to confess that you worked for the cia, that you worked against the khmer rouge government, and that was necessary of the your death. whether you told the truth, whether you told a lie, i...