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Victoria nuland e-mailed, she being the spokeswoman for the state department. page 37 of the e-mails. she talks about the ultimate point, the point where at that point the talking point said there was multiple warnings of terrorist attacks. she says it could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to warning. why do we want to feed that either? question mark, concerned. as you said, there are things in this e-mail that can exonerate the white house....

Terrorist attacks. she says it could be abused by members of congress to beat the state department for not paying attention to warning. why do we want to feed that either? question mark, concerned. as you said, there are things in this e-mail that can exonerate the white house. but that line itself does come off as very political. >> well, first of all it speak to the distrust of members of congress as much as anything else. and i think there really was a sense of, wait a minute, this is not our...

Middle of the morning rush hour. doesnt happen as much in the capital these days. an insurgent group linked to the taliban has taken responsibility for the attack. president obama welcomes the turkey prime minister to the white house today. it comes days after two days went off in turkey killing dozens in one of the worst terrorist attacks there in years. turkish authorities blame syrian intelligence for those blasts. refugees are going across the border there. in political news, a new poll fi...

It was really driven by intelligence. >> again, i have a question to you on that front. victoria newland, the spokeswoman for the state department. page 37 of the e-mails. she talks about the ultimate point, the point where at that point the talking point said there was multiple warnings of terrorist attacks. it could be aused by members for not paying attention to warnings. why do we want to feed that either? question mark, concerned. as you said, there are things in this e-mail that can exoner...

Publicly on television this week since the president made his comments about benghazi. this is what he said monday. listen and react to his response. >> suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there is something new to the story. there is no there there. bill: there is no there there, senator. >> the well-known right-wing conservative periodical "washington post" fact checker gave the president of the united states four pinocchios, thats the maximum they can give. we have been saying all...

Would insist otherwise. nonetheless it is a terrorist organization. they say at that time it was not -- they couldnt be certain that was the case. they at no time want to prejudice the investigation already being launched by the fbi at that time. and thats why that language wasnt used at the time -- >> wait a minute. they put it in the talking points because they believed ansar sharia was involved. then they took it out because they put it in? this doesnt make any sense. it was put in by the int...

Would grow up but some people never do. martha: some people never do. more on that later. here is a question for you regarding the boston marathon bombings. and it is, could they have been prevented? well the answer is yes according to former connecticut senator joe lieberman. he joins us live on that next on how it could have been detected ahead of time. >> i believe that though it would not have been easy, it was possible to have prevented the terrorist attacks in boston. money, and i avoid fr...

According to former connecticut senator joe lieberman in testimony on thursday. senator lieberman told a congressional panel there were significant intelligence failures leading up to the attack that killed three people including an 8-year-old boy and injuring and maiming more than 260 others. joining me now is former connecticut senator joe lieberman. senator, always a pleasure to talk to you. youre convinced though it would not have been easy the bombings could have been prevented. how? >> yea...

Have prevented the terrorist attacks in boston. >> do you think it was possible to have prevented the terrorist attacks? >> its very difficult to know. i worked very closely with joe lieberman and have enormous respect for his views. and we held a series of hearings on the growing threat of home-grown terrorists. i believe that better information sharing might have allowed us to prevent this attack. first of all, i dont think there was aggressive enough follow-up when the russians first alerted ...

Report last june. it showed that terrorist attacks worldwide had dropped by 12% from 2010 and were down 29% from 2007. the global terrorism index also released last year systematically ranks countries by levels of terrorist incidents. over the ten-year period it analyzed, 2002 to 2011, the region least likely to suffer from a terrorist attack was north america. the most comprehensive studies show that terrorism was declining in the united states, even in 2001. and it dropped even more sharply af...