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New opportunities to have his people playing crucial roles in americas intelligence services. the first you probably heard about. thats texas congress began john ratcliffe who trump announced for his pick for national intelligence. it hasnt gone great since as "the new york times" reports aides of the congressman were forced to clarify his claims that he had won terrorism convictions as his background came under scrutiny. ratcliff never prosecuted a terrorism case. and then there is the other tr...

She invited arizona state university. you prosecuted the blind shake. who is lynn stewart? >> he was my chief adversary in that case. the defense lawyer for the blind sheik. after he was indicted for conspiracy, basically was a formative figure of a new york, which bombed the world trade center in 1993, which plotted to blow up new york city landmarks right after that, after he was convicted, after all phase process was run through, after e was no longer an accused, lynn stewart continued to fun...

Arizona state university, you prosecuted the blind shake. who is lynn stewart? >> sean, lynn stewart was my chief adversary in that case. she was the defense lawyer for the blind shake. after she was convicted of a conspiracy involving a jihadist organization that he basically was the formative figure of a new york, which violates -- which bombed the world trade center in 1993, which plotted to bomb the new york city landmarks right after that, after he was convicted, after all of his process wa...

National security entry-exit registration system, nsears. this was a completely failed counterterrorism tool. zero out of 93,000 people were actually convicted of terrorism. let me repeat that. there were 93,000 people who actually registered under this program and there were zero terrorism convictions that were yielded from this mass profiling program. >> i can hear some people saying thats because they knew they were fingerprinted and they would be interrogated and maybe this prevented them fr...

The world. i think im in that camp that says its the right thing to do. u.s. district torts have a terrific record. almost 200 terrorism convictions since 9/11. jenna: youve worked in tere rims, counter tere rims, what do you think about it? >> i think this was a big mistake. we talked about this a few weeks ago, jenna. i think he holds a lot of information in his head about the relationship between iran and al-qaida. we learned about it from the 9/11 commission report. there were a lot of quest...

Existed at that time with the shore accounts controlled by bin laden. he was part of the council charged with communications and propaganda. that is a very potent message that al qaeda got out there, the message of death and violence. jenna: so you have no concerns, just reading between the lines, of having him in the criminal court system because the people needed to get to him got to him already, the interrogators and now that is playing out in court. what kind of precedent do you think it set...

The obama administrations claim that the justice department has successfully prosecuted more than 300 people on terrorism charges within the criminal justice system. senator kyl, for example, said, "there havent been 300 high-profile dangerous terrorism cases in the united states. if there were, we would have heard about them." senator sessions called the 300 number unsubstantiated. dana perino said it was, "as false as false gets." again, sadly, no. it was the bush justice department that made ...

Senator jeff sessions, former bush press secretary, dana perino. they all have adamantly rejected the obama administrations claim that the justice department has successfully prosecuted more than 300 people on terrorism charges within the criminal justice system. senator kyl, for example, said, "there havent been 300 high-profile dangerous terrorism cases in the united states. if there were, we would have heard about them." senator sessions called the 300 number unsubstantiated. dana perino said...