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Special counsel have a person with a target on his back. they're trying to get trump. they'll use every means possible to try to get trump and that includes going after people who have committed less serious crimes, squeezing them, threatening them and getting them to provide evidence. sometimes it backfires like in the manafort case because he didn't provide truthful testimony. we don't know whether it backfired in the cohen case or not. but it's a tactic that is widely used, long condemned by civil libertarians but all my friends on the left have forgotten about civil lib tease. when it's us...

Was being prosecuted. prosecutors are not supposed to investigate not criminal conduct. they don't have a roving commission to see where the political sins have occurred. they're not supposed to look into whether with there was improper political activities, they're supposed to look only for crime and the problem, and i said this when the special counsel was appointed for clinton and jeffrey toobin approved it when i said it then. i have been principled and consistent from the beginning, i always place principal over partisanship and civil lib beb tearians nightmare. it shouldn't change becaus...

The evening. how much of life can we police? what was it, the -- where was the bombing in europe where it was the departure lounge where it's not secured, brussels, i think. if this tonight was a public area where the public is invited, where there's no magnemagne magnetometers. >> would we make our country safer? potentially. but there's always a balance between privacy, civil lib 'tis and security. and we have to determine what the right balance is. so we're not going to completely secure our entire society. what we are doing, though, in law enforcement, with the intelligence agencies, is us...

Military exercise across half a dozen states only added fuel to the fire of conspiracy theories swirling around president obama. >> we did a military exercise in texas and a whole bunch of folks were sure that this was the start of marshall law. >> reporter: it was in march months before the exercises would even begin that a conservative radio talk show host called it a preparation for civil war. soon the conspiracy theory spread and got weirder if that's even possible when actor chuck norris posted on the world net daily website, the u.s. government says it's just a training exercise but i'm ...

The midst of this, we're doing the bombing that you demonstrated but, you know, where is the health of the state and when you have wars going on and constant war and terrorism, the war turned against the american people and that's why we have the attack on civil lib -- liberties. there will be a problem in the liberties and economic policy. i think these wars are needless, they are inmoral and hurt us. we ought to stop them and that's what ran's message is going to be this thursday. he has to try to challenge these other individuals because he's the only one anywhere close to that position, so...