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>> brilliance. brilliance. >> on the cnbc website. >> thank you, jeff. we appreciate you giving us john oliver, by the way from the uk. his guest hosting duties on the daily show have paid off. he's getting a weekly comedy show on hbo. he'll be leaving the daily show. the sunday night show will be a topical comedy series. the show is slated to launch next year. obviously, he's a role-player making it big. that bridges us to twitter. #waytooearly. name your favorite bit player on tv who made it huge. we're going all the way back. some of the stuff we have done already in the office, we went b...

Efforts he made to recruit other people into al qaeda. there is nothing in there about any particular plot. and to me that was going to be what was likely to be in there. there is no record of this guy knowing about the 9/11 attacks. he was informed about them after they happened. he's really been a sort of bit player. not to say that isn't important that he goes on trial, but -- >> pete, you've written about the evidence that actually might substantiate that he was a bit player, a private al qaeda video that we obtained, this was something that we obtained luckily, this was not handed over to...

I think they came to a good place in their relationship, not that they are necessarily best friends or anything like that, but the president sets the foreign policy, the secretary of state executes the foreign policy. influences his foreign policy, at the end of the day, i think you saw hillary clinton as somebody who did what he wanted her to do as secretary of state and was a effective player nor t player for him in the world. what does it say about 2016, joe biden is clearly positioning himself for 2016, president obama will have a hard call to make if it's joe biden versus hillary clinton ...

Book called "hubris" going into the case of al libi who the fbi was getting information from. the cia came in and took him away from the fbi. he ended up in an egyptian cell, and it wasn't just that he didn't give information that was useful. he gave false information. he cooked up a whole story that saddam hussein was working with al qaeda and training them to use chemical weapons, and george w. bush, president of the united states, used that information, which ended up being false, to sell the war in iraq. so sometimes this stuff not only doesn't work, but it goes in the opposite direction, ...

Sell the war in iraq. so sometimes this stuff not only doesn't work, but it goes in the opposite direction, and this is why i'd love to read that 6,000-page report. >> so would i. david, speaking of going in the opposite direction, let's remind everybody, this is the movie that critics of the president feared would cement his re-election. it was supposed to be a valentine to president obama being released in october of the presidential year, and he's a bit player at best. he's not even in the movie. there's a portion of the "60 minutes" interview, and it's of no consequence. people should go s...