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The other day, I spoke with a friend who asked about how I liked my time at Cornell. To that I said, “I got lucky.” I got lucky starting a fantasy football league with two podmates on the fourth floor of Kay Hall. I got lucky randomly sitting next to a student at Appel, who later that night introduced me to a fellow physics major. They are all now my closest friends. I got lucky that home was a two hour bus ride away, and I could go see family and reset whenever I needed. I got lucky that I had a support system around me that talked me out of stupid decisions like pulling unnecessary all-n...

If it's a threat, we'll teal with it. in the case of these three balloons that we engaged before, they were all operating in airspace that would present a hazard to civilian air traffic and they had travel routes that passed by our, some of our sensitive sites. whether or not they had the ability to collect, we don't know. but in exercising an abundance of caution, we decided to take them down. >> is that a pretty jarring blind spot that the u.s. had when it came to what we learned about the balloons that actually happened during the trump administration that those top officials, you know, you...

Basically trying to determine what threat to u.s. national security was there from this intelligence collection platform in and to the extent that the intelligence apparatus of this balloon actually survived, the fbi would be trying to look at that to determine what were its capabilities? was this the realtime collection that we've heard about is this was it stored collection? a lot of questions there, obviously. i can tell you, having worked in the fbi, a lot of people, when you think about the fbi laboratory, you think about dna analysis, firearms analysis. there's actually an entire divisio...

Given a preview how afghanistan could complicate the political ambitions on those of both sides of the aisle. your response to that and taliban are in general. >> we were trying to deliver the outcome president trump had promised the american people. we were trying to get every american soldier home. we weren't successful at that president trump wanted out. nobody needs to doubt that i wanted to get everyone home, too. would he be couldn't do it. we could not go to the president and say we could get everybody out and still solve the problem set. not just getting our soldiers home but doing in ...

Someone was murdered. no, no one is going to say that's okay. we didn't say that was okay. we were never naive about the reality of the world. it is, indeed, a nasty, brutal place. it was far -- this is a man who praised usama bin laden when he passed away. it's just -- we can spend a lot of time going into the details. most of them are public. but, suffice it to say, this wasn't somebody working for the wichita eagles covering soccer games. this was -- he was a multifaceted person. but none of that, none of that is intended to diminish the fact that he was murdered just simply to say that thi...