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Legitimate reason for this to have happened. these people are not incompetent. weiss does not have a reputation as being an incompetent person, and in particular, the guy who looks like the lead prosecutor, leo wise, is a very competent and aggressive prosecutor. the idea this could be left to chance is ridiculous. the judge said two things today, she said this agreement is not straight-forward, number one. number two, she said, it contains atypical provisions. it is not straight-forward and it contains atypical provigszs, that again, is unacceptable. >> laura: "new york times" chimed in on th...

Absolutely there is no legitimate reason for this to happen. these people are not incompetent. weiss does not have a reputation as being an incompetent person and, in particular, of the guy who looks like he is the lead prosecutor, leo wise, has a reputation as a very competent and very aggressive prosecutor. so the idea that this could be left to chance is ridiculous, the judge said two very important things today, she said these -- this agreement -- this agreement is not straight forward. that's number one. number two she said and it contains a typical provision. it's not straightforward and...

Defense lawyers didn't simply present a case where they said look, we thought we were justified to pursue him because we thought he may have been committing some crimes, but we were wrong. we were wrong, and we apologize for that. not once did we ever hear that type of defense. instead, they blamed ahmaud arbery for being there. they blamed ahmaud arbery for not having socks on, for having dirty toenails. i don't know how in the world they expected that to resonate with any jury, even an almost all white jury, so from the beginning of the case to the end i think the defense really missed the b...

>> in rebuttal law americas say their constituents want fnothin to do with the war. some such as senator rand paul wouldn't convinced by the president's address. >> we are not going after assad. we have no plans of victory. in fact in my mind the president a arguing to a stalemate. i can't see committing my son or your son or your daughter or my daughter to a war when the goal is stalemate. >> they maintain posture but stand down they are going for lawmakers. in fact house democratic leader nancy pelosi said last night she may be less inclined to take on a vote based on military action. >> eli...

U.s. soil, and the answer is no. are you satisfied? >> i'm quite happy with the answer, and i'm disappointed it took a month and a half and a root canal to get it, but we did get the answer, and that's what i have been asking all along. it really is what the senate should be about. >> just to be clear, you're announcing right here on cnn that you are going to let john brennan's nomination now go through? maybe they could even hold a vote today? >> yes, we'll hold it as soon as people want to now. >> the senate voted hours ago to confirm brennan. dana bash joins me now. it's interesting. today,...