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That this was in effect, political damage control in the midst of rebound's row election campaign. >> that part we would not have been able to get at it was beyond the scope of the report. that is what is unfortunate. most of the people who are out publicly have not read the report and they have never accessed the classified annex which is an important of why the concludes were arrived at and the classified evidence including some members on the committee. >> do you think this was political damage control by the obama administration? >> what i believe and what the report, i make very clear, ar...

Former f.b.i. agent that worked branch robberies and bombings, sometimes in a very high adrenalin combat environment impact people's version of events are a little different. the goal here was no piece of information could go forward if it wasn't substantiated or corroborated. that was done in the report and it was very narrow. it was not designed to be a huge end of the conclusion. there are serious questions yet to be answered. >> let me ask you about that, you have been criticized for going easy on the administration talking point where among other things, susan rice case to the morning tal...

Critics say you're ignoring the fact or glossing over the fact that this was in effect political damage control in the midst of president obama's re-election campaign. >> well, that part we wouldn't have been able to get at because it was beyond the scope of the report. most. people who are out publicly beating up the report have never read the report and they've never accessed the classified arch annex and the classified evidence, including some members even on the committee. >> let me ask you a quick question. do you think this was political damage control by the obama administration? >> wha...

There are some real prescriptions in the helms/burton act that the administration has to follow specific steps before they lift the embargo. the president has not followed those. in other words, a determination there's actually been a transition government. that hasn't happened. so there are a number of things we can do to try to ep enforce the law that this president is simply ignoring. >> senator cardin, look at it from your point of view, how effective can opponents be in blocking, for instance, the establishment of full diplomatic relations? you're certainly going to have a problem if the ...

Sponsors of terrorism. others are suggesting we once again freezes all transactions with a bank in macaw, which has acted as a money launderer to provide oodles of cash for the kim regime. liz, it turns out that both of those were sanctions that were in place but were taken off during the bush/cheney administration. were you guys too soft on north korea? >> i think the north korea policy in the latter half of the bush administration didn't work. it was primary state department pushing this notion. secretary rice signed the document removing them from the terrorist list over the objections of t...