Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100427:19:22:00
Anticipated would happen. they figured they'd put out this video of abdulmutallab reading out this statement and immediately show their role in terms of coordinating this, planning this, even executing it. i think to some degree they've achieved it even if the attack itself was not successful. >> we keep hearing how al qaeda is diminished. how they don't have as much power as they did. what are you thoughts about that? >> al qaeda is diminished. we've cut al qaeda off into spee pieces. each of those pieces is able to operate without the other parts of it. in other words, we've made it less let...