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>> and he was related with the investigation and how it was que squech theed. i feel the leaks are conducted for the purposes of we want to get back to the president for what happened to director comey. >> the fbi, frank, was leaking in the clinton administration. they were doing interviews with people and her e-mails and leaking the content. the fbi does this on the evidence trail or influence a particular result. they did in the petraeus case. this is conflict with the executive. the key point...

Balloons at one another. in washington, we recognize this. this is the way the media works which is to capture the people who leak for a variety of reasons. it is important for people to understand that. some people leak because they are disgruntled and concerned about what is going on. some people leak because they feel it is the way to put concerns out there because they are minimized by the process or white house or anyone else and being ignored. some have worries about where it is going. thi...

King, bobby kennedy, tet offensive, all the things that shaped all the institutions that we have are important for our young people to understand, and i think what kens done here is just spectacularly important, and really will help do that over many years. >> ken, you often say of your work that it explains who we are. and in this case, its also about who we thought we should be in the world and we still think about what america should be in the world, and im thinking this morning about the fac...

Is not important, but you are key to fighting isis. i did not hear one statement about the president about how we need europe, especially france, britain and germany, in the fight against isis. thats key. their military assistance as we move into fighting isis. i did not hear that. all i heard was lecturing and negativism. >> he played a role and certainly in saudi arabia a priority about how to confront isis. congress member, lets pick up on the paris climate deal. they know president obama neg...

And how substantial it was and whether there may be a divide between the fbi and the justice department. we saw this with the petraeus case. the fbi wanted to proceed but originally ag holder did not but was convinced by the new fbi director to proceed. thats the tea leaves you want to read here. what was it the fbi had. did they think it was sufficient for charges? in the end the justice department has the final say on whether that can proceed. at this point it will not proceed and the investig...

Week on "meet the press," they are not shy. >> no, they are not. it takes a lot of sense of self to run for the united states senate, and they certainly displayed that. one of the underlying issues here is these senators who are talking about the details of what happened with susan rice make the argument that this was a case where the american public was told one scenario, that not only was slight of what happened but in contrast to officials say was a terrorist attack. while they are kind of pi...

Picture in foreign policy. we have so circumscribed our secretary of state, we evaluate them by how many million-mile markers or how many countries they visited, but not sort of the big breakthroughs because of some of the problems we have with china, with russia. this world is a very complicated place that john kerry is likely going to inherit. >> is indeed, and i think one of the big questions that we have at the end of secretary clintons time is, is this an administration that wants to empowe...

Domestic challenges for barack obama, and as we talked about, his inaugural speech was very domestically focused. look, we just had elections in israel, john kerry not in the same place benjamin netanyahu is regarding a two-state solution, at least right now. there are huge challenges, iran, there are huge challenges in the foreign policy front that dont get talked about as much, but are clearly things that not only will be difficult for the president and his team to navigate, but will also have...

Channel for secret communications. a back channel to bypass u.s. surveillance. >> this is off the map, michael. i know of no other experience like this in our history. certainly within my life experience. >> my dashboard warning light was clearly on. i think that was the case with all of the intelligence community. concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russi russians. >> reporter: kislyak surprised by the president. according to intercepted communications with russia officials. o...