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For hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. and tim o'brian is the executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and with us from washington, my colleague, ken, who covers intelligence and national security issues for nbc news. ken, let me start with you and ask you what was appealing about this candidate to the president. it wasn't the resume featuring the fudged line about how he was a u.s. attorney, it wasn't about the terrorism prosecutions, that warrant. it was about that meeting in the ray burn building. >> reporter: that will be no surprise to our viewers who follow this issue closely an...

John ratcliffe worked during the time that he was there. >> zero, none? >> zero. and we find his name on no terrorism prosecutions. now, when we asked his office about this, they pointed us to a prosecution in a different district in dallas of the holy land foundation that. was a terrorism financing case. but when we looked into it what we found was that ratcliffe while he was u.s. attorney was appointed special prosecutor in this case to look at not terrorism but potential juror misconduct and nothing ever came of that. so the claim that he prosecuted terrorists, convicted terrorists, put ter...

The questions. he is not going to be like jeff sessions. >> i absolutely hear what you are saying and i was actually just in an event for attorney general whitaker held at one of the most hallowed grounds for terrorism prosecutions and investigations in the united states and the person who introduced him is jeffrey burrman and people asked the same questions of whether the new u.s. attorney to do trump's bidding here in new york. and, in fact, you know, now that we look at it in hindsight, here's a u.s. attorney that brought a case against the sitting republican congressman when's president tr...

Did not want trump to be there while their loved ones were being buried. suspected shooter robert bowers faces federal charges including murder and hate crimes but no terrorism charges. the reason is that there are no domestic terrorism laws in the united states. the fbi defines domestic terrorism as actions by individuals and/or groups inspired by or associated with primarily u.s.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies. but the feds have never created criminal charges to match acts of domestic terrorism. the ap says historically the justice department has reserved terrorism prosecu...