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The majority in the senate starting january. that was clearly dianne feinstein s thinking, which is she is no longer going to be chairman of that committee. and there s a long history here, wolf. they ve been working on this report for years. they have accused the cia of spying on senate investigators. this is a total breach of trust, the people who oversee the cia and the cia itself. and, again, i totally see david s point about the timing on this. we know what dianne feinstein did this. but i also think it s a moment where we can as a country take a look at what we re doing and our behavior and understand the fear that drove it and what we ought to be doing going forward. david? i just don t agree that this is an appropriate time. of course we need to be transparent over time. i think there are time and places where you can do that. when you can have a more ....
Prosecuted. leon panetta saw to that. but if you re sitting at the a cia, it s like a scab has been removed. and there are people there who are trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances. and they re all now being lumped together. and i think it s a real problem over there for morale. and it s also a moment this country can step back and sort of set the reset button on how we continue to address the war on terror. and it s a public conversation that actually, i think, we ought to be having. all right. david, you ve heard all of the sides now. what goes through your mind. wolf, i m mostly concerned about what may happen to american personnel, american troops, american diplomats overseas. i thought secretary kerry in calling dianne feinstein and asking her to delay the publication of the report should have been taken seriously. ....
scene to investigate and was shot and killed. 1991 troy davis was convicted for the murder based on eyewitness testimony. seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted or changed their testimony raising doubts that have gone global. joining us is david mattingly. also senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, what is happening right now? explain this. the state won t go forward with this until they get word from the supreme court? right. what happened this morning was troy davis lawyers filed suit in the trial court in georgia saying we want a stay of execution based on false testimony given in a hearing that took place last year. late this afternoon the georgia supreme court excuse me. first the trial court denied the stay. late this afternoon the georgia supreme court denied the stay. at around 6:00 eastern sometime, an hour before the execution was supposed to take place, troy davis lawyers went to the u.s. supreme court asking for a stay. we have not ....
Effectively, he was the enforcer, he could make things happen and has good political instincts of anyone i know in the long time i ve been around the game. with a month to go, everything starts to come apart in an election like this, and you need someone to make sure where the fundraiser don t want to do the things, you need someone to be the enforcer. gergen had that role in our white house. and at the end of the day, ron will be terribly missed. david, how much of a difference does it make who is sitting in you can say that seat is it noticeable when a presidency or an administration changes a chief of staff in the middle of the administration? it can be extremely important who s in that job. as ed will remember, many often thought that there were three presidencies during president reagan s eight years in office. the first was the jim baker chief of staff period when things went well and he got a ....