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In fact, he has kind of taken a little bit of a backseat, at least in the eyes of the public, since this interim civilian government has been put in place. theres no doubt he still carries a tremendous amount of weight. a lot of the security decisions in the country are certainly being done or at least being carried out with close consultation with the military. right now most of the public comments are coming from the presidency and the prime minister, and they have vowed to crack down on any t...

It is currently under u.n. sanctions under orders to stop enriching uranium. the world is watching to see what approach the new president takes. con or powell has more. >> reporter: he has long been a member of irans senior political leadership, but his victory in june was a surprise in and out of iran. he is known as a reformer and pragmatist. he vowed to jump start the economy and end international isolation. irans economy has suffered greatly from international sanctions in place because of i...

Because of their nuclear ambitions. he has limited power and control over the future of iran. real authority, of course, is ayatollah. they make all nuclear and security decisions. so rouhani is seen as negotiator, someone that can bridge the gap between iran and the rest of the world. he wants to change the tone from tehran if not the overall policy. he is unlikely to convince the religious leaders to end the nuclear program. still, the white house says they will work with rouhani if he engages...

Conditions on the aid and say it is not endless and if you dont move forward our goals of democracy and not only elections, but greater freedom and democracy, our aid is conditional. >> the death toll is rising there. and many in the muslim brotherhood will fight to the death and will not go away peacefully. how does this resolve? >> it is a very scary situation and we should condemn any type of killings or violence and we should put pressure on the military to make sure they understood that the...

Here is urban legend, rudy guiliani pretending last night back in his days as mayor of new york he was a successful terrorism fighter. >> i truly believe that if competent decisions were made, the four people in benghazi who are now dead would now be alive, and im not just talking about that night. im talking about in the six months before that. i believe that political necessities trumped sensible security decisions. there is no possible way, if i had found out for six months that one of my pol...

Here is urban legend, rudy guiliani pretending last night back in his days as mayor of new york he was a successful terrorism fighter. >> i truly believe that if competent decisions were made, the four people in benghazi who are now dead would now be alive, and im not just talking about that night. im talking about in the six months before that. i believe that political necessities trumped sensible security decisions. there is no possible way, if i had found out for six months that one of my pol...

>> sean: i would bet no. >> start to treat them like government oh officials stepping all over our lines. i think that if competent decisions were made the four people in benghazi who died would still be alive. i believe that political necessities trumped sensible security decisions. there is no possible way if i had found out for six months that one of my police precincts was being attacked that i would deprive it of security and if i did there is no way the new york press corps would let me ge...

>> sean: i would bet no. >> start to treat them like government oh officials stepping all over our lines. i think that if competent decisions were made the four people in benghazi who died would still be alive. i believe that political necessities trumped sensible security decisions. there is no possible way if i had found out for six months that one of my police precincts was being attacked that i would deprive it of security and if i did there is no way the new york press corps would let me ge...

Our coverage of the tornado will continue in a few minutes. first, the justice department wasnt just targeting the associated press. it also went after a fox news reporter. our own chief washington correspondent james rosen. federal investigators tracked his comings and goings at the u.s. state department and secretly obtained copies of his personal e-mails to build a case against one of his sources. >> this is the first time that the federal government has moved to this level of taking ordina...

From the senior most officials is not really justification. in fact, that probably scares me more. what bothers me is four and a half months after the attack, the secretary of state hillary clinton herself came here and said i take all the responsibility, but then says well, the security decisions were made at the local level. but that we heard from the regional security officers, eric nordstrom who said i was never allowed to implement what i thought we needed in order to secure libya for the a...