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One is that there are limitations in resources. you can follow someone -- you cant follow someone all the time for a number of years. theres a vetting process. >> a priority list? >> yeah. even the 7-7 bombers back in july of 2005 in london were monitored by intelligence but vetted and put down on the list, categorized as less of a threat. number one, theres limited resources. you cant track everyone all the time, and number two there are thresholds. if someone fails to cross a certain threshold...

What he has done, and the nominated ambassador to israel, this is a man who has completely and utterly sort of denounced the two-state solution, and thats a clear signal, under the trump administration there will be no pursuit of a two-state solution, and anytime any sort of criticism comes up against israel in the u.n., trump will use the veto, as every american president has done at various times, including this one. >> how do you see it in terms of the -- from what you have seen form in terms...

>> first, let me say the dreamers, the daca kids, this is a very successful program. 750,000 people signed up and were admitted. this is a group of people who were brought here as children. theyre students. they work hard. and as a class, they are remarkably responsible group of people. and in terms of our priorities for deportation, they are at the bottom of the priority list. >> your priority list. >> correct. so my hope is that the next administration will come to the view that we have, which...

President has options here to protect them? >> first, let me say the dreamers, the daca kids, this is a very successful program. 750,000 people signed up and were admitted. this is a group of people who were brought here as children. theyre students. they work hard. and as a class, they are remarkably responsible group of people. and in terms of our priorities for deportation, they are at the bottom of the priority list. >> your priority list. >> correct. so my hope is that the next administrati...

Dreamers, the daca kids, this is a very successful program. 750,000 people signed up and were admitted. this is a group of people who were brought here as children. theyre students. they work hard. and as a class, they are remarkably responsible group of people. and in terms of our priorities for deportation, they are at the bottom of the priority list. >> your priority list. >> correct. so my hope is that the next administration will come to the view that we have, which is the top priority for ...

With at all. the sanctions have been in place a while now. the administration should take a look and say, are the results what we were looking for. brand-new administration. its a good time to revitalize -- >> they want the sanctions lifted, just to be clear, because they think it will be a business opportunity for them if the sanctions are lifted. they will be able to make more money and do more business in russia. >> yeah. businesses traditionally have their own view of things. the businesses ...

>> in august of 2001, we first got word that these eight individuals, including two young americans, had been arrested by taliban security in kabul. the u.s. embassy procured the assistance of pakistani lawyer and he is dealing with the legal authorities inside afghanistan. this was not an intelligence matter for us at that point. so gathering information concerning these arrestees was not high in our priority list. in fact it was basically off the bottom. >> the cell was a concrete room with a ...

She will be joining donald trumps cabinet as transportation secretary. this is not her first time working for a white house. she served as labor secretary under a george w. bush. all of it by the way as president-elect trump continues to have rumors swirling all about the pick of secretary and state and set to meet with mitt romney for dinner by the way outside of trump tower tonight. joining me now is political editor and reporter and msnbc contributor sam stein. at the white house. on the nort...

Okay? >> well, that must be kind of frustrating when you get prank calls like that. does it happen often? >> it happens a lot. but ill tell you what, id rather take a prank call than an actual -- you know, somebody with a gun. >> so whenever a call comes in that someone has a gun, you always respond? >> yeah. always. its number one on our priority list. a lot of people take advantage of that. >> the reality is many cops dont know what kind of situation theyre responding to when they answer a cal...

Infrastructure. but the overall look at this, we probably need $3 trillion investment, but $1 trillion in ten years would be that bolt of energy that we really need. >> when we consider fdrs new deal public works project, how massive does an infrastructure project under the trump administration have to be though for the level of job creation that hes promising? >> i think that depends on how smart it is. if its extremely targeted, then i think that the $1 trillion figure is a great start or a gr...