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Author of "enhanced interrogation techniques" pretext for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me on. >> shannon: we understand there is officially a federal criminal investigation, how in the world today go about tracking this. i asked our inside team to tell them, how many contractors are the cia, they couldnt break it down, but they said within the intelligence community as a whole, at least 27,000. >> the assumption is that it is a contractor. because that is what it has been in th...

Author of "enhanced interrogation techniques" pretext for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me on. >> shannon: we understand there is officially a federal criminal investigation, how in the world today go about tracking this. i asked our inside team to tell them, how many contractors are the cia, they couldnt break it down, but they said within the intelligence community as a whole, at least 27,000. >> the assumption is that it is a contractor. because that is what it has been in th...

Were back the "hardball" round table. margaret, tell me something i dont know. >> last week trump wiped out a rule that said people on social security mentally impaired or mentally ill list have to get additional background checks on guns. so now mentally ill people can more easily get guns there is something he is pushing and his son don jr. the hearing protection act which will allow people to buy silencers for their guns under the pretext to protect the delicate ears of hunting dogs an not mu...

>> whether or not this was a pretext for muslim americans or muslims around the world. if thats the case, youre going to have that same hurdle. the other ones are not as slam dunk against the administration. >> youre a lawyer. how do you see it? >> a recovering attorney. >> tell us why most muslims around the world are not impacted by the muslims who live in saudi arabia or egypt. the largest arab country, or indonesia, the largest muslim population, or even pakistan. >> im going to go on intent...

From the district court in seattle and the ninth circuit. and they crafted it in a way to try to satisfy those concerns. the overarching program remains that trump during the campaign said i want to ban muslims. its still up on his website. so the argument that this is just a pretext for a muslim ban is still there. but that is a much tougher argument for any plaintiffs to make at this point because at least in this executive order the administration has spelled out that we picked these six coun...

You know, right and left. to kill and murder and maim and pillage. its a way of creating a rationale and a pretext for the policies he wants to do which is mass deportations and -- >> you think hes going to engage -- why did he drop the story yesterday afternoon that hes not going to do the mass deportations? hes just going et rid of felons -- >> he created hours -- he created hours of poz psitive coverage about a potential shift in immigration, did this on the campaign trail as well. >> did he ...

That he can persuade a fraction of the american public he is, in fact, creating jobs because that will be critical to this never-ending campaign that donald trump is in. >> the thing about it is, nick, the -- he made this, what do you call it, the -- whats the favorite number? he talks about the country being -- the carnage. everything is carnage. his description of the country was probably better used for, say, april of 2009, when obama came in. >> right. >> everything is going to hell in a han...

A very important reason. we come on the heels of donald trump speaking at cpac and hes talking about the fake news. reince priebus was reported to have a meeting with some members of the press where he said were going to go after every story, were going to go after the fake news. you got steve bannon speaking and he says that one of the objectives of this administration is to deconstruct the administrative state and so what we see is its not just a perception, it is real that people who are invi...

Does it feel different this animosity between the press and the white house? >> it mostly feels different, jonathan, because the president has called the media the enemy of the people. the first amendment gave us the right to free speech and then talked about free press. this is a -- for people who are strict constructionist, i want all though conservatives to step up and say the founding fathers of this country decided this was something that was important. we need to protect it and not attack ...

Decide what it is on paper. >> laura, youre a legal analyst. we did learn that the new travel ban has been completed. theyre now going through how best to implement it to make sure that the requirements are fully met, but this issue of a muslim ban, that rhetoric that the president as candidate delivered did you the campaign, how much of a problem is this for getting round 2 approved? >> if due process is your minor technical point, you have a big uphill battle. remember, the court made very cle...