Nunu. Su your to find the president has to get off the sidelines. The administration once this information declassified. An investigation that resulted from the enhanced interrogations that this president has stopped. I have worked closely with john brennan. He has made strong declarative statements here. I believe he is speaking true. They will work this out. For the american public, they get caught up in the nsa thing and it is a murky story. In everybodys enters to bring this to a close. The administration is giving the cia veto power. Why not release the senate studies . The panetta review . Put it out next week. Ultimately having all that information out useful. You think it will all come out . Eventually. It all comes out eventually. Your point is a good one. Trying to get ahead of this, very soon, will be important. The president is not doing this. I dont think he can. This is where lameduck status makes a difference. He doesnt have the authority within his own party to step in and shape where Diane Feinstein is headed. Brennan doestor not have a lot of credibility among those same senators. There is division in the senate on this issue. This has got to be worked through. He does have the confidence of his republican senators. Senator feinstein has been a strong leader of the committee. Supporter of the cia. As good ats her in position as anyone in the senate. Director brennan has to participate and come to some accommodation. Whatever we think about the senate there is accountability. We give the cia latitude because they are accountable. The senate over Intelligence Committee is the oversight committee. This is a question of making sure they have access to the documents needs to conduct an independent investigation. It has to do with the cia and the agency, allowing them to do that and an unfettered way. Not obstructing it and appearing to obstruct it. When they looked at the data logs come of the computers, they raised suspicion and undermined their own credibility. The acting counsel is the one that referred to what he misconduct. As isnt that a conflict of interest . I think it is. Again, the staff misconduct, how did they miss handle the documents . Evenhey take a document though it was leon panettas assessment . Document that is central to the investigation. Itther that was done or not, is understandable that is going to happen anyway. Let me circle back to you, david. You say the president wants this out but john brennan is an honest and forthright guy. But what gives . He doesnt want to stuff out. The other guest talked about, there may have been some occupants that might not have been it is in everybodys interest to move past the episode and move on. Diane feinstein the people believe in what the cia does. This doesnt help anybody. Lets switch to florida. Many democrats thought you were going to win the special election. Not by much. You lost. That is a harboring or for the er fpoor harboring the year . I dont think this is an obamacare problem. We have a turnout issue. The same problems that affected us and 10 and we have attempted had a tougher off ears than president ial years. The problem is that turnout. Bad turnout. Whats we have a bunch of red states like louisiana and arkansas where you have minority populations. We have to work overtime on turnout. The candidates are going to have to do a good job. There were 25,000 fewer votes in this election than 2010. But the republicans doing what the democrats are doing . They are painting it as a moral lisa. Desperate train it as a model lisa they are portray net as a model lisa they are p ortraying it as a mona lisa . You can see where the trend was going. We sat here and david said, the republicans will run on obamacare and will not be successful. Agreed we want a broader assist than just obamacare, but the so but this election was about obamacare. He prevailed against the democrat that was more widely known. You should offer a more broad message. We can and should offer different alternatives for improving access to health care. This is an indication that the issue will drive the elections and it is a loser for democrats. The president does not have any clout in off year. You thought democrats should embrace obamacare. They are not going to embrace it now. This swing voter handled herself fine. The problem was to turnout. Elections, 2006 and 2010. What was different. Republicans have terrible numbers. And 94, they were seen as a safe alternative. Parties are not held in high regard. At the end of the day, those conditions we are playing a lot of away games. To win the senate, the republicans have to have a clean sweep. Im not a believer in colorado. Udall strong. This is a huge warning for our democratic campaign. That turnout will be harder than they thought. Wey have an in their have another eight months revisit this. Thank you so much. When we come back, welcome back. We are joined by bloombergs john. John, lets start with ukraine. With russia to lie on sunday. Will they pay a price . Not enough to do what they want to do. That is the question. Ukraine is gone. Ukraine or crimea . Probably ukraine. Crimea this early gone. The next question are the cities in Eastern Europe craned. In eastern ukraine. That is what the u. S. Intelligence people are watching right now. Forces on thean border. Put in talking about the putinment being the talking about the government being illegitimate. Is there any way for him to get to an off ramp . There are a lot of off ramps. But i dont know anybody that thinks he is going to take one. This is not going to stop. There is no way to stop it. No way for the west to stop it. That is what encourages put in. Putin. Ciaet me turn to the versus congress. Give me a portrait of john brennan. He is a longtime officer. He was involved in the bush miss rations war on terror at the cia, before the white house. Bush administrations war on terror at the cia, before the white house. He is deeply involved in what most people call torture. Cia, butthe site the obamas refusal to give up documents to the senate about what happened during the bush and administration. That is one of the things Diane Feinstein is concerned about. Not just the agency but the current white house. Whether it was in the 70s or very cold water barry goldwater, the cia when they take on congress, ill usually they do not win. We are giving our age away talking about barry goldwater. They almost always lose. They lost in the 1970s. Bigtime. With the church committee, the hike committee. They cannot win this one either, whatever the truth is. Congress has the power of the purse. Edward snowden. The controversies over the drone. Intelligenceens agency a rogue elephant . It has to be. What they do is by definition not exactly legal. You dont know one want people to know about it. Did they go too far and lie to congress . How credible is the oversight . Doesntagency really really answer to its overseers in congress . Or has it been lying from them and hiding stuff from them . Obama anda, has Edward Snowden they cannot keep stride while he stonewalling. They are treading so lightly. You can sense their frustrations. What about the timing . They say, you will have to ask her. They made a point of telling reefing, at the press you might be asking about this, but of the 41 questions, there was just one on this issue. This is the first time i have seen the whats fit to switch to the poll. It depends on how you ask the question. Lets take health care. Voter,are a likely will you favor repealing obamacare, youre more likely to vote. But only 30 some percent favor repealing it. How about looking ahead to the elections . There are more likely voters for republicans. The good news for democrats, looking up to 2016, Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate out there. Chris christie has been hurt by rich gate. Bridgegate. He had a guest. Who was it . Barack obama. This is the last month to sign up for health care. They need young people to allens out the risk pool. If you look at the numbers in february, the pace of young people declined. This is something they have been encouraged to do for months. At one point, the funny or die website was the single biggest driver to healthcare. Gov. Lets take a look. Would you come here to plug . I would eat with you if i didnt have something to plug i wouldnt be here if i didnt have something to plug. Healthcare. Gov works great now. Was that impromptu or rehearsed . So much was at let. Bed. Dlib went back and forth on the script. There was a whole page that bd. D, zak tropes jokes tv the white house is getty it is beating Justin Bieber giddy it is beating Justin Bieber. Even if i call him neck, if you want to reach young people, you have to go where young people are. Coming back from the popes first year. Fox welcome back. We will go to phil mattingly. But first, we will discuss the pope one year later. You were in st. Peters square a year ago when they announced did you new pope have any sense that he would become a rockstar . Expectations were so low. He started out his remarks in a monotone, saying my dear brothers and sisters. He took a beat and then smiled. He said good evening, like a how you doing. From that moment, the expectations were he would be different. It has turned out that way. He has not changed the doctor changed doctrine, but he is changing emphasis. But he is a reformer. Going to do stuff about doctrine on gay issues . Child abuse . Hot button issues . He can change that. Cant change that. Those are church issues. But establishing a Financing Ministry for the vatican. These are real internal governance changes that he is doing. That has substance. American isa, every riding his coattails. Arack obama will visit john boehner is inviting him to join address congress. Is a blank slate for people. He can be the issue people want him to be. It if you want to help the poor, he is there for you. If you want to have dialogue across different religions, he has that. It is driving the tradition he has something for the traditionalists. He cant back down a lot of that stuff. Everybody that he meets is going to find something in him they can latch onto that supports their agendas. He may be the most captivating man on the planet. Thank you very much. We will talk to him about him again. We are turning to something i would call almost a sleazy. It is not uncommon for rich and trysts to higher rich hire lobbyists. He had a 1 billion bet that the firm herbalife would go under. He hired big democrats. Theres something unseemly about this. He is following a traditional advocacy playbook. You see big interests, big trade groups do this. You have never seen one man with a big bet in place take on one company and start pulling the levers in washington. The question becomes, is this a paradigm shift . What we see shortsellers do this all over the place . Whether they are good or bad, they sell supplements. We will see. Question is, the judge these rich guys, an obama fundraiser. The democrats are the ones with 30 hands. Irty hands. Destroyying people to the company. His perspective is the company is hurting people. The problem is, he is paying and running up Interest Groups to do his bidding. And his firmsey money. He benefits from it. Finishests if the ftc the investigation and find out they are at that company. He is a guy that makes a lot of money, not a guy was worried a lot about poor people. Dollars would seem to matter more than his compassion. He plays the game to win. Not for charity. He doesnt put these bets on because it is fun. He puts these bets on to win. Members of congress who gave speeches against herbalife i have no idea whether it is good or bad these were written by this guy and his cronies. This is interesting. We have seen this for years where trade groups have their policy experts right legislation or letters. They give them to Congressional Staff and get their lawmakers or buses to sign off on them. Again, a bigger and broader issue. This is one individual with a bet on. He had lobbyists that were connected. Lawmakers responding. If you didnt think money and politics was a problem, this certainly raises one. Is not just an interest group. A guy who stands to make 1 billion. Whatever he does with that, his clients will make a lot of money. I think it takes the sleazy money race to a new level. Phil mattingly, you covered it beautifully. Thank you for watching. We will see what you next week. Political capital is a production bloomberg television. This is taking stock for friday, march the 14th. 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