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Get ready for the second debate, apologize for what happened and move forward. in fact, that's exactly what he did. he turned that second debate around and then went on a three-week, five-speech a day disciplined campaign and won the operation. and look, if i didn't believe in the president, i wouldn't have transferred the millions of more dollars that were put into his campaign and the field and data operation to boot. >> where did the condie rice/mike pence -- >> i have no idea. it's not true. others in that circle when that story came out, we all talked to each other and said this craziest ...

British soldier who was beheaded in the middle of a street on camera, that was may 22nd, 2013. obviously we don't know if that's significant. might be a coincidence. did that strike you as a relevant factor to look at in terms of ascertaining what happened? >> that's a universal way in terms of the terror group we know as isis at least. in 2013 isis had not yet declared its caliphate, for example. at that point al qaeda was really the big dog on the scene. so at this point counterterrorism officials that i speak to say isis has a greater capability of carrying out these attacks than al qaeda. ...

Campaign. now you have to run the country. how do you have time for that? i don't get that. >> now the numbers. >> let me walk you through the numbers. a couple of things. sean spicer said there had never been these white ground coverings on the mall for an inauguration. we have photographs from 2013 where you can see the national park service unloading the white ground coverings to cover up the grass. if you look at the back of the photograph, you see the nag ral set up at the front of the capitol. that's 2013. obviously that was not correct. they also said that the fact that there were magne...

Speech that secretary of state john kerry will give today. he was, frankly, more successful at one point than others before him in terms of getting the two sides of the table. he got the two sides of the table for two months in 2013. obviously, they did not get the outcome that the united states was hoping and there has been a lack of progress and then this. what do you think he'll say, ron, in his speech today and the timing. 23 days out from the end of this administration. >> you know, the timing. like so many other things that president obama has done since the election. this is about layin...

Nearly 8,000 civilians and more than 1,000 members of iraqi security forces were killed in iraq. the highest death toll there in five years. let's talk about this with the director at the center for the study of terrorist radicalization. you wrote an article a few days ago called "al qaeda's big year" and are we talking about the core leadership of al qaeda, talking about these affiliates, even more loosely affiliated groups? what do you mean by al qaeda's big year? >> when i say they had a big year i'm talking about affiliates that are recognized affiliates. that is, they took an oath of loya...