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And show the princes some compelling evidence that it was indeed saudis who were the hijackers. >> its disturbing that you say the current king his initial reaction was essentially, you know highly defensive and in a way suggesting that saudi arabia did not have this big terrorism problem. >> i think they were in denial to a great agree, particularly at some of these levels. and it took a great deal of effort on our part to develop the cooperation which finally did come. >> eventually it came be...

Briefer out and show some of the princes compelling evidence that it was indeed saudis who were the hijackers. >> but its disturbing that you say that the current king his initial reaction was, essentially, you know highly defensive defensive, and in a way suggesting that saudi arabia did not have this big terrorism problem. >> i think they were in denial to a great degree particularly at some of these levels. and it took a great deal of effort on our part to develop the cooperation, which final...

Why such a big gap? >> well, you know, let me just make a couple comments. first of all, every single veteran should be proud of serving their country. they put themselves at risk, you know -- >> im sorry, i misspoke, 90% say they are proud of what they did in afghanistan and iraq. >> i think it should be 100%. but in any event, i understand when you look at -- if you take a look at these wars, all right, the afghan war, this war came to us and we were attacked and we went to the afghan war. now...

Cannot sweep these threats under the rug like we did with benghazi or the warnings from russia on the tsarnaev brothers and the boston bombing. is there anything americans should be doing about this? >> i dont really think there is. the so-called cooperation between russia and the u.s. on the terrorism issue really, as actually demonstrated by the boston bombings, has not been very successful and the terrorism problem that were talking about with the olympics and in russia itself is really the k...

Goal than weve ever been. but youre right. on a lot of those issues, on gun safety, on climate change, on early childhood education, weve had to reduce our expectations because the very dysfunctional nature of the congress and also because the dramatically reduced revenues from the recession. but i hope we can find a way to get past this. i hope that well learn from this bitter experience that weve been through and that the leadership in the house will decide to focus more on what the country wa...

Avoided having american ground troops in somalia because of the history there with the united states and somalia but also because the intelligence is so bad. so i wouldnt expect to see dozens of these or a whole lot of u.s. counter-terrorism operations in somalia. in the libya cases, its quite interesting because there is a government the u.s. deals with. it does signal that, you know, after the arab spring, with all of these authoritarian governments being toppled in north africa, the u.s. has ...

Vx, which lasts for a very long time, is in the strategic warheads. . they have their own terrorism problem. and amongst the ranks, you see chechens to the south of russia fighting alongside some of the more hard core syrian rebels. so you can imagine people thinking the last thing we want to see is that country collapsing even further and some of them getting their hands on the chemical weapons and brings them back to russia. that could be in the back of their minds. >> i want to talk about ira...

One of the things here that concerned was a political issue. the whole notion that this was a terrorist attack, which it was, undermined the narrative that they solved the terrorism problem. we got bin laden, terrorism problem solved. she peddled the party line. but i think that was a huge mistake. what she did was huge mistake. i think she lacks credibility. and she doesnt need to be confirmed. she can go in there as a national security adviser. i just question whether or not somebody whose jud...

Been part of the coverup that one of the things here that concerned was a political issue. the whole notion that this was a terrorist attack, which it was, undermined the narrative that they solved the terrorism problem. we got bin laden, terrorism problem solved. she peddled the party line. but i think that was a huge mistake. what she did was huge mistake. i think she lacks credibility. and she doesnt need to be confirmed. she can go in there as a national security adviser. i just question whe...

Transit systems, european cities, and our troops in afghanistan. simply put, these strikes have saved lives. >> of course, he was there referencing drone strikes. i wonder what is your general position, richard, in relation to the drone strategy? >> i see it as one element of an overall counterterrorism strategy. its one element, if you will, of the military element. you can use drones, you can use special forces. ideally we return to governments who would be in a position to control the territo...