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New opportunities to have his people playing crucial roles in america's intelligence services. the first you probably heard about. that's texas congress began john ratcliffe who trump announced for his pick for national intelligence. it hasn't gone great since as "the new york times" reports aides of the congressman were forced to clarify his claims that he had won terrorism convictions as his background came under scrutiny. ratcliff never prosecuted a terrorism case. and then there is the other trump loyalist who was promoted this week. the daily beast reports former congressional staffer cas...

She invited arizona state university. you prosecuted the blind shake. who is lynn stewart? >> he was my chief adversary in that case. the defense lawyer for the blind sheik. after he was indicted for conspiracy, basically was a formative figure of a new york, which bombed the world trade center in 1993, which plotted to blow up new york city landmarks right after that, after he was convicted, after all phase process was run through, after e was no longer an accused, lynn stewart continued to function commit out as his lawyer, but as his confederate for purposes of getting messages out of him, ...

Arizona state university, you prosecuted the blind shake. who is lynn stewart? >> sean, lynn stewart was my chief adversary in that case. she was the defense lawyer for the blind shake. after she was convicted of a conspiracy involving a jihadist organization that he basically was the formative figure of a new york, which violates -- which bombed the world trade center in 1993, which plotted to bomb the new york city landmarks right after that, after he was convicted, after all of his process was run through and he was no longer accused, lynn stewart continue to function not only as his lawyer...

National security entry-exit registration system, nsears. this was a completely failed counterterrorism tool. zero out of 93,000 people were actually convicted of terrorism. let me repeat that. there were 93,000 people who actually registered under this program and there were zero terrorism convictions that were yielded from this mass profiling program. >> i can hear some people saying that's because they knew they were fingerprinted and they would be interrogated and maybe this prevented them from committing crime. >> what the program showed after several years and the inspector general said ...

The world. i think i'm in that camp that says it's the right thing to do. u.s. district torts have a terrific record. almost 200 terrorism convictions since 9/11. jenna: you've worked in tere rims, counter tere rims, what do you think about it? >> i think this was a big mistake. we talked about this a few weeks ago, jenna. i think he holds a lot of information in his head about the relationship between iran and al-qaida. we learned about it from the 9/11 commission report. there were a lot of questions that went unanswered. the commission asked for more information about this from the intellig...