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Stand behind those decisions and come out beautifully on most of them, i -- i think that romney is afraid that he can't do it. that's why he doesn't say anything about it. there's no other explanation except that he's afraid. he knows he ought to be talking about it. >> now, richard, romney's team, 17 of his 24 advisers served under the bush administration. and the reason that becomes relevant today is kurt eichenwald in the new york times came out with intelligence briefings in 2001. may 1st president bush was informed. june 22nd, attack could be imminent. june 29th, dramatic consequences fro...

Transferring so as not to be blamed when the attack took place. all told, it's a devastating portrait. roger cressey is an nbc news terrorism analyst and was deputy for counterterrorism at the national security council on september 11 shg, 2001. michael tomasky is special correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily beast. let me start with roger. let at the start with roger. you have been on this show so often about this question, about what we knew, what we could have known. where do you think you are right now after reading this article? >> well, so, chris, the thing that was the most interes...

We previously thought these m.o.s in the report -- the memos and reports are correct, yet some of the people from that team we don't know if these are the ones that saw this, but we don't know whether or not, they're part of the bush strategy in terms of being advisers to him on foreign policy. >> right. i find it hard at this point to be shocked by many things around 9/11. but this -- actually, this reporting by kurt eichenwald is great. people should check it out because it is shocking. it's still shocking after all these years to hear that there were advisers around the president at that ti...

Attacks, i thought about why didn't we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didn't want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didn't you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the leadups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take significant action on multiple warnings by the intelligence community. on may 1st of 2001, the cia ...

Attacks, i thought about why didn't we know this. i knew we needed to figure out what went wrong to prevent other attacks, but i didn't want to start the finger pointing, you know, and say to our intelligence communities, you fouled up, you should have caught this, why didn't you know? >> perhaps one reason they failed to catch this was because his administration neglected the threat in the lead-ups to the attacks. according to an article by kurt eichenwald, the white house, quote, failed to take significant action on multiple warnings by the intelligence community. on may 1st of 2001, the cia...