publications of isis, and for instance, in one issue which was 82 pages long, there s only one mention of abu bakr al-baghdadi. so he never had a high profile. he only made one public appearance in july of 2014. unlike bin laden, who played a key role in leading the so-called arab against the afghanistan and had a high profile after that, even during the 1990s, given an interview to cnn. abu bakr al-baghdadi never gave an interview to anyone, not even isis publications. appreciate it. a quick break and we ll continue to cover the stories. we re trying to get more details on this remarkable u.s. forces raid in syria and we re waiting to hear directly from the president of the united states. stay with us.
how do you think that shakes snout who has the claim to be the sort of successor candidate going forward? well, the nice thing is they both do. you have an heir and a spare. you have a two good back-ups. and let s take thomas jefferson, because the presidents who have done this in the past are ronald reagan, franklin roosevelt, abe lincoln and thomas jefferson. thomas jefferson hands off power to his secretary of state james madison. so, both secretaries of state historically and vice presidents have been plausible successors. you know, in your advice to the president to make sure his second term is a success and not a failure, like we have said, appoint a successor, you also say to go big with things like immigration reform. you tell him to campaign aggressively in 2014. unlike in 2010 against republicans. all of which you think might
i would say those two are going to be important. so, in the republican side, you d sigh christio or rubio? i think marko is going to be a lot of talent, but fthere are other stars that can block him out. i don t know if this person should be considered a rising star yet. but i do think he s interesting for what he could possibly do. and that s senator elect, i guess is what you call him, tim scott of south carolina. no, senator select. tim scott has to run for real in 2014. unlike herman cane, al nl keys,
force one on the 747 rather than as is often done in war zones switching to a c-17 outside of theater so that you would have a plane that was better able to evade perhaps stinger attacks or other kinds of other kind of attacks? to my none, the plane he was on had every capability necessary to protect the president and prosecute the mission. the more important thing is we felt it was very important for the president to go to afghanistan. he felt it was very important. we had been negotiating this strategic partnership agreement for about 20 months and it finally came to a head about a week ago. it was important that it be signed before all of the nato corrupts come together in chicago in a few weeks. we thought by signing it in afghanistan it sent a very strong mess and to the afghan people, to people in the region and the american people that we re turning the page on the war but not turning from afghanistan. we re going to build a partnership with them after 2014. unlike in 1989 wh