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Relationship that the administration has had towards the muslim world. on the one hand, good, we got bin laden. good, we surged afghanistan. but playing to muslim cultural sensitivities, but by the most extreme versions of those sensitivities, including burqas and so forth, that we are currying favor with people who always look at us as an enemy. >> thats a good point, as relates to the idea of currying favor with them -- its impossible. we are at war with them. it seems naive that even in the r...

Countrywide influence the people that bought the toxic assets. >> this seems to be one of the questions people about the financial crisis, the housing market. >> we hear about buying elected officials and very much a part of this story, but its actually buying the currying and favor of non-elected, appointed employees at all levels whether it was the president of fannie mae or all the way down to people not much beyond the mail room but people who could do favors specifically for processing coun...

He arrived at the white house, lurking in the background. it wasnt until they got on the grounds of the white house itself and headed to the doors he realized he outing to be front and center, scurrying to the front and he was front and center when he came out to issue an apology. >> i would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the american people on behalf of all the employees in bpa. bpa. many of whom are living on the gulf coast. and i do thank you for the patience that you have in t...

How problematic is that? >> heres a bit of history. on september 10th, 2001, the nsc staff where i was then working had in mind a whole different week than the one we got. on september 12th, the day after the attacks, i was in conde rices office as she was talking to the french about having them help invoke article 5, the nato defense guarantee, on our behalf. sometimes even america needs friends. does president trump really believe that we will never again need our friends, that he can throw aw...

He is not the guy you want to pick a fight with. him having been a navy s.e.a.l. for decades and rising to that four-star level and said despite having four stars on his -- he said the real badge of honor is to have your security clearance revoked and asked the president to revoke his so he could stand with brennan. >> and they will introduce legislation to revoke the security clearances and we juxtapose his plans to republican senator richard burr who criticized brennan and said this is within ...

Caught up in a scandal, but they can themselves be a scandal. they can be opaque if youre not careful. they can very easily become slush funds where you take in money from people you shouldnt be taking money from. you pay it out to people who shouldnt be getting paid. even when you do it super carefully and try to be completely aboveboard, something rotten always happens with these things. in the whitewater scandal in the clinton years, the clinton administration set up legal defense fund, and t...

No opinions. if general. thats pretty credible, though, thats like a lot of companies are giving a thousand dollars to a lot of their employees. i think it comes in january. thats a lot of money. >> but, joe, not to be cynical. >> ratter? here. >> at&t started this with a thousand dollars. at&t is trying to buy time warner. i think boeing jumped if. they are trying to get export financing from the federal government. i dont want to sound cynical. >> you think theyre all that way? wells fargo $15...

Is something you have to do with on a daily basis but what we found is that the humanitarian aid workers are really you know marty they did but of course at times it gets to you when you have this little baby in front of you suffering from you know untreated meningitis and there is you know nothing really you can do very powerful moments youve been reporting in crisis regions like somalia for a long time in your report we heard one of the aid coordinators saying that much has been learned from p...

And we now know that they received contributions that were in violation of that agreement. then another question is is it appropriate for her at a time when she is thinking about running for president, and its clear that everybody knows she is thinking about running for president to have further accepted foreign contributions? is that a smart thing? did those foreign donors of those foreign governments say you know what? we are going to be currying favor with the person who is going to be the de...

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