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Open a lot wider. >> yet, vermont democrat senator patrick leahy praises the move because he claimed the original interpretation had been too broad and, quote, it resulted in deserving refugees and asilees being barred from the yunls for action so tangental and minimal no rational person would consider them supporters of terrorist activities. they offered examples of people who would have been barred. a parent feeding and clothing a young adult part of a resistance movement. an aide working hand...

Soldiers. >> they put munitions in school from hezbollah tactics in lebanon. they will fire mortars in israel from somebodys who is inviting retaliation. this sort of behavior is fundamentally contrary to our values. but when you are in it for their objectives, they believe the end justifies the neens means. >> its clear exploitation. you have seen that not just with the conflict in syria. you saw tonight iraq and cases in afghanistan. in some ways this story is as old as time. >> it has a parti...

Joint select committee in congress to investigate what happened in benghazi. we dont know why nothing was done in response to the multiple reports of terrorist activities. we dont know why the state department repeatedly turned down requests for security. we dont know why there were not attempts in place to save the four brave americans and we want to know why nobody has been held accountable. at the state department, and none of the terrorists who carried out this terrorist attack have been bro...

Benghazi in the state of the union tomorrow night? >> well, you know, gretchen, its interesting. the pattern with hillary and the pattern with president obama is virtually the same. president obama says, im sorry you lost your health insurance, but he doesnt do anything to fix it. so hillary clinton today apparently says she regrets that four brave americans lost their lives, that we lost the first ambassador in active duty since 1979, but at the same time, she doesnt want to do anything to fix ...

Edward snowden that u.s. allies were being spied on. congress is not waiting for this white house to add more oversight. that massive spending bill actually has a provision in it that requires the administration to provide more details about the phone records being kept at the national security agency and whether or not that practice actually that watered any terrorist activities. >> well have to hear exactly what the president says and the reaction that will quickly come from capitol hill. al...

This and extremely dangerous if we dont. katie, i dont think people are satisfied with that answer anymore? >> they shouldnt be and when you have james clapper essentially either lying to the american people about what kind of data, their personal data being collected or grossly misleading the american people about their data being collected and finding out they are actually collecting data when he said they werent and should be skeptical of the government saying just trust us. lets not just for...

Providing material support to terrorist activities, jay. how does she get a pass out of prison early? >> she gets a pass because the bureau of prisons had a policy that changed under eric holder which changed the criteria upon which compassionate releases -- shes ill with cancer -- they changed the policies. shes been able to fit within the policy and the national lawyers guild which is to the extreme left petitioned eric holder twice for her release. the director of the bureau of prisons who re...

Providing material support to terrorist activities, jay. how does she get a pass out of prison early? >> she gets a pass because the bureau of prisons had a policy that changed under eric holder which changed the criteria upon which compassionate releases -- shes ill with cancer -- they changed the policies. shes been able to fit within the policy and the national lawyers guild which is to the extreme left petitioned eric holder twice for her release. the director of the bureau of prisons who re...

People in the world who are members of the organization. and it is considered one of the better run organizations of that kind to date. and yet, a lot of people within egypt are saying that the brotherhood brought about a lot of positive changes in the past apart from terrorist activities and people are feeling uneasy. >> this is a situation where there is no white hat. we had all of the progression of the arab spring democracy and result in a muslim brotherhood government and moved to a system ...

Setting up safeguards when they return home to deter terrorist activities. defense secretary chuck hagel says this legislation offers officials more flexibility. >> we would anticipate to continue this effort of transferring these detainees, and i think were making good progress toward that. that objective. >> reporter: the deal lifts previous restrictions on transferring detainees to countries that are declared state respond sponsors of terrorism as long as the administration determines it is t...