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He's only been in for a week? it seems like a month or two months. make sure you tune in tonight to the cnn special town hall with bernie sanders host bid our wolf blitzer, 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight right here on cnn. in a letter released within the last hour, 58 former cwhite house officials agree is there a national emergency that allows the president to tap into funds to build a wall at the southern border? this morning, without citing a source, president trump tweeted his reasoning for the wall. >> 90% of the drugs don't come through the port of entry. 90% of the drugs and the big stuff ...

White house. >> dana: and here you are now is the anchor of "special report." he changed a lot of people's lives. it was hard to believe it's 17 years ago, because for a lot of us who were adults before hand, you can really see a stark contrast of the before and the after. there were some commentary of course today. let me read you something from an op-ed by daniel benjamin. he is a former counterterrorism coordinator at the state department, and at politico he wrote "17 years after 9/11, nobody cared about terrorism anymore. "with a subtitle "good." one of the more unlikely ones has been the ...

They expected the u.s. to help them, but -- >> no one would take the m.e.k. members as long as it was listed as a foreign terrorist organization. >> so, reluctantly, benjamin's department had them removed from the list. m.e.k. operatives are still believed to be conducting covert operations inside iran. but these days they do most of their fighting on capitol hill. where their regime change message has been embraced by politicians from both parties. >> they see this group who says they have popular support, who is making all the right noises about overthrowing them. and they see that as a grou...

After the revolution, the ayatollahs took over and the m.e.k. was force today flee to nearby iraq. from there, armed and supported by saddam hussein, it launched a deadly campaign against the iranian regime. in 1997, the state department designated the m.e.k. a terrorist organization. >> there was a long trail of violence and blood shed here. and the m.e.k. really stood out as one of the really capable and dangerous organizations in the world at that time. >> daniel benjamin was the obama administration's coordinator for counterterrorism. >> it's pretty remarkable that a group that has america...

From there, armed and supported by saddam hussein, it launched a deadly campaign against the iranian regime. in 1997 the state department designated the m.e.k. a terrorist organization. >> there was a long trail of violence and bloodshed here, and the m.e.k. really stood out as one of the very capable and dangerous organizations in the world at that time. >> reporter: daniel benjamin was the obama administration's coordinator for counterterrorism. >> it's pretty remarkable that a group that has american blood on its hands, even if it's now a former terrorist group, to have contacts like rudy g...