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Broad, over arching narrative story of what happened you try to pin leon panetta down we don't have answers from secretary of state clinton or frankly from the president of the united states. >> i went to the president of the united states and i asked him. >> i do. >> if panetta told him on the day of the attacks, september 11th did he tell you it was a terrorist attack? he would not answer the question. panetta won't answer it however, i understand in florida i did say that he did tell the president that. but if that comes to light, if panetta tells president obama-o

That's why one of the super committee members, a democrat, told us today he's optimistic of a grand bargain, but very skeptical. >> i've always been in the camp that hoped we could go big, get sort of a large over arching agreement that tackles a lot of these issues. i don't know am whether we'll be able to get there or not. only time will tell. but i think that there is a seriousness of purpose among the members of the committee to work very hard between now and our very short deadline to get the job done. >> now, if they don't get $4 trillion in deficit cuts, they have to at least get 1.2 tr...

Reception in the room? >> well, you know, i thought ahead of time this mixed seating might mute the applause and i think it did. i think we saw fewer applause lines in this state of the union than any in recent memory. the sharpest and most partisan line came when he said we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cut for the wealthiest 2% of the americans so when he immediately went to relitigate the issue of the last congress his party lept to its feet with strong support. it was also the single most specific sentence about governing proposals in this speech. it is very soft la...

Speech and use this sort of over arching language. we'll work out the details later. >> exactly. we don't know what out innovate means and he doesn't want us to. >> the one way it went above platitude is by saying we need innovation. every president sings prayers to innovation and entrepreneurship and he said we need to pay for it. it doesn't come from the innovation fairy. there is a role for government here. >> can i talk about the music not the words? we're caught up in the lyrics appropriately. we're all literal people. that is what we do. there is a music to it tonight. first of all we ha...

Father'ses, sons, manafort's son-in-law, trump's sons and son-in-law, and now flynn that is part of this over arching vague generic russia topic? >> yeah, at least in the case of flynn, certainly in the case of jared kushner. this is not like take your child to workday. these people are intrictally involved in aggressively pursuing some of these opportunities that have become subjects of interests for mueller and the special counsel investigation. in flynn junior's case, he and his father were in a big rush to sign lucrative contacts after flynn senior got out of the military in 2014. that's n...