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He's a cnn political commentator and a republican strategist. sher michael, my goodness. how the mighty have fallen. i mean, i remember hurricane sandy and the embrace between president obama, governor christie, that was a real moment and at one point, he was seen as white house feramaterial, republicans were begging him to run. >> he was, brooke, and if you recall, he also was the chairman of the republican's governors association. i mean, governor christie for a lot of republicans, particularly establishment republicans, was someone that a lot of us looked to, including myself, as a potentia...

Somebody doing online research about july 4 events over the july 4 weekend and crowds were congregating. somebody who was considering launching an attack during the july 4 weekend. of course we saw all of those threat warnings from the fbi. >> right. the heightened alerts. >> clearly this played into it brooke. >> i'm learning a little bit from the bits and pieces from the facebook page inspired by isis had videos of beheadings on social media. again, this sort of strikes me as another one of those examples of an individual taking it upon him or self to try to pull something off. in this case ...

Removal? when you were doing your doc, 25 years ago now, did you think that the removal of this flag would ever happen in a state like south carolina? >> no i didn't brooke. this is a really good day. but it's only a first step. i think the president said that. i think that governor haley also implied this. we have a lot of work to do to heal what is -- symbols and symbolic gestures are hugely important and this is clearly a powerful symbol and gesture is powerful and we now have to work to change the hearts and minds of people who obviously have inherited a legacy of racism and it's a more re...

Building. instead they were trying to turn the jury toward their theory, which is that dzhokhar tsarnaev was led into what he did by his brother, tamerlan. they called a paid expert to testify to some of the fact that some of the most incriminating materials on dzhokhar's laptop originated with tamerlan's computer. then they tried to make the point there were a lot of materials that could potentially been used to make bomb that's had tamerlan's fingerprints not dzhokhar's. they're trying to plant seeds of doubt, trying to build the theory that tamerlan was the leader, not that dzhokhar didn't ...