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I dont know what hes going to say at noon today. can he legally do it? you are talk being a statute written in 1959 by the conscious and signed into existence by president eisenhower. that can only be changed by the conscious. but this president believes he can rewrite laws. he will likely announce a radical change at noon because he has a different view of the presidency than his predecessors. bill: the congress can challenge that. >> if they have the political will, yes. if this ends up before...

Obviously we have a debate all the time in this country about whether stricter gun laws here would prevent mass shootings. the argument against that here, is that then only the criminals would have guns. what, how do you explain what happened yesterday, even though you had all the gun laws in australia? >> well i think the, i pay tribute to my predecessors, prime minister mr. howard, who outlawed semiautomatic weapons in australia altogether after a horrific mass killing back in 1996. this was t...

Answers, but theyre only raising more questions about the agencys use of harsh interrogation tactics and whether they worked. some say john brennan tried to have it both ways -- defending the c.i.a., while admitting major flaws in the system and they were all outlined in that scathing senate report. >> so needless to say this has done nothing to quiet the calls for brennan to resign. despite his promises to improve the agency. however one of his predecessors is defending the c.i.a. with a contro...

Contain items like old coins, documents, newspapers and a metal plate once owned by revere. the hope is for it to be x-rayed and opened next time. >> pope francis has weighed in on do animals go heaven. though lie father said the pearly gates are open to all of gods creatures. while he was comforting a boy who recently lost his pet dog. that question has been debated for some time with many predecessors who say animals do not have souls and do not go heaven. >> all dogs go heaven. >> the "los an...

Officials, these cabinetadminis? >> number one, theyre right to raise the threat level. but listen, weve learned that isis doesnt need an excuse to attack america. thats what they do, thats what their predecessors have done for ten years. if we say, were not going to release information to the american people and the world because were afraid somebody else is going to misinterpret it, that would lock up our entire effort to inform our public. the other piece is, its not the report thats likely t...

Its amazing. you know me, i love me my kate. thank you for joining me today. im carol costello. "@this hour with berman and michaela" starts now. >> hello, everyone, im john berman. >> and im michaela pereira. were waiting to hear from the white house for the first time since that explosive senate report on cia torture. president obama standing by the decision to release it publicly but the fallout is intense and on going. >> there are fears this morning that the report is putting u.s. service m...

Got to do with the presidents attitude since the election. and that is different from every other president that i have served with in their second term, mid-term elections which have been defeats. and that is all his predecessors in face of the defeats have admitted it and reached out. this president has gone on television to talk about the two thirds of the people that didnt vote. i dont get it. >> its extraordinary. senator always wonderful to have you on this program. thanks very much. >> th...

Unfortunately, like his three predecessors in this six year period understands that he has no influence on the overall strategic decisions or tactical decisions that generally the secretary of defense is made part of. former secretary panetta and former secretary of gates and now youll see now secretary hagel have been very, very strident in their dissatisfaction of being excluded from the decision-making process. its in the hands of three or four people in the white house and the result has bee...

Is he the man for the job? >> im not sure theres anybody in this administration who could be said to have that qualification. and its not because of ash carters experience with nuclear weapons rather than terrorism. you could put the best counter insur engineer sin professionals in the world in, its not going to change the obama administrations approach. i think what carter has in store for him is at best two years of frustration. >> you talk about frustration, look, some of his predecessors hav...

By the president last week should have seen it coming. having fought as an infancy sergeant during vietnam, he may have thought his military experience would count for something in the pentagon but discovered that doesnt mean much when youre up against four stars. having bucked the republican party to go to work for mr. obama, he may have thought the special political privileges of a convert would insulate him from flying too close to the sun. perhaps he thought he could weather the lethal inner...