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For hillary clintons 2016 presidential campaign. and tim obrian is the executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and with us from washington, my colleague, ken, who covers intelligence and national security issues for nbc news. ken, let me start with you and ask you what was appealing about this candidate to the president. it wasnt the resume featuring the fudged line about how he was a u.s. attorney, it wasnt about the terrorism prosecutions, that warrant. it was about that meeting in the ray burn...

John ratcliffe worked during the time that he was there. >> zero, none? >> zero. and we find his name on no terrorism prosecutions. now, when we asked his office about this, they pointed us to a prosecution in a different district in dallas of the holy land foundation that. was a terrorism financing case. but when we looked into it what we found was that ratcliffe while he was u.s. attorney was appointed special prosecutor in this case to look at not terrorism but potential juror misconduct and ...

The questions. he is not going to be like jeff sessions. >> i absolutely hear what you are saying and i was actually just in an event for attorney general whitaker held at one of the most hallowed grounds for terrorism prosecutions and investigations in the united states and the person who introduced him is jeffrey burrman and people asked the same questions of whether the new u.s. attorney to do trumps bidding here in new york. and, in fact, you know, now that we look at it in hindsight, heres ...

Did not want trump to be there while their loved ones were being buried. suspected shooter robert bowers faces federal charges including murder and hate crimes but no terrorism charges. the reason is that there are no domestic terrorism laws in the united states. the fbi defines domestic terrorism as actions by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily u.s.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies. but the feds have never created criminal charges to match acts o...

Explain that to people. >> its because there are big terrorists and what you might call small fish terrorists. what happens in these cases is you want to give protection to people who know whats going on, give them a new identity, protect their family and get the bigger fish. its hard for people to separate the big and the little terrorists. the truth is, if you can get information about a big terrorist enterprise or any criminal enterprise, that is good. you sort of give up getting the smaller ...

Nephews body could be laid to rest. he also said he had a conversation with his brother, tamerlans father, yesterday just to give him an update. and the point was he didnt ask me where he was buried, he has no information that his brother will be returning to the united states any time soon. and he told me, frankly, it angers him. he thinks he should be here for his children and should be here to help out with the investigation if he can. suzanne. >> paula, speaking about the investigation, any ...

Hina you want to respond with something don just said. >> i agree with don. the best way to spontd to terrorism is use the tools we have with our article three courts. i think that calls to treat either foreigners as different are unnecessary, ineffective, and irresponsible. thats what we did when we treated the acts of a fringe group after 9/11 as a global war. thats where we expanded it to and look where weve gotten, military commissions that dont work, that are an embarrassment, and allow all...

Are unnecessary, ineffective, and irresponsible. thats what we did when we treated the acts of a fringe group after 9/11 as a global war. thats where we expanded it to and look where weve gotten, military commissions that dont work, that are an embarrassment, and allow alleged terrorists to claim they are warriors. >> weve decimated al qaeda, gone years without a successful attack. >> and one of the best tools weve had is through law enforcement, through the hundreds of terrorism prosecutions in...

One, we should be clear, this administration has committed not to send any other new detainees to guantanamo and thats what the administration is doing and absolutely what should be done in the future. theres been close to 500 terrorism prosecutions since september 11th, including approximately 67 detainees who were captured overseas and brought to the united states to stand trial and that should be the model going forward. there is clearly a political will problem and its both -- congress bears...