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To and belief in the importance of speaking truth to power and he encouraged both of the candidates in those letters to accept that and to support the intelligence community's efforts to do that. so, two letters here, very common for jim clapper to do this sort of thing. i worked for him for a long time and i've known him to do this kind of thing so that's what the president's referring to. and so, i think that the suggestion that there was some beautiful, personal letter to the president is perhaps a little bit overboard. >> okay. thank you for the clarity there. let me ask you about our new ...

York and l.a. and all over the country where people are saying this kind of thing has got to stop, whether it's the executive order, whether it's a whole host of executive orders, whether it's the affordable care act. the country is rising up against the repeal of the affordable care act. you can see the change over the last three weeks and that's because they watch the chris hayes show and speak out because they do. >> it's interesting you say you can see the change in the last race because i feel like the ground is shifting almost income prehence blee rapidly. now you have a thousand showing...

>> jon: so, you said that the proximity to the decision-makers in the west wing is important. i am sure that the president-elect would make the argument that oh, you could email your sources. you could pick up the phone and call from another building. give us your comments. >> must be really precise. we do not have proximity to decision-makers. we do not go up the ramp can talk to the policy aide or the president himself. for the national security advisor. we are talking about proximity to the white house press and communication staff. that is who we are able to go up without an appointment, p...

Writing with president clinton. what was that like? >> each one of these speeches is a place where presidential personality and politics and policy all come together. and bill clinton, as you can imagine, loved this format. he loved the chance to talk. >> there you are. look at that. >> with now justice elena kagan, supreme court, who worked on the speeches. you can see she was a policy aide and a lawyer. but she was working on the state-of-the-union address because it's not just a speech. it's really a critical political and policy document. so president clinton would reserve weeks to try to ...

it's 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. a doctor, father, and authority on near death experiences in children stands accused of water boarding his own daughter. that story is it ahead. also, a hot dry summer translates to pain in farmer's fields and supermarkets. check out supermarket lanes all over the world. and curiosity is out of this world, way out of this world, but it is keeping in touch via tweets. much of that coming up. first, a very tough story. accusations of water boarding not against a prisoner of war but against an 11-year-old american girl. the man arrested, th...