complete. he s had to go back and reverse the disclosures and this meeting was part of that. kate, may i add something? one second, michael. one thing we have from the president consistently now, it does seem, on the plane and off, is that anyone would have taken that meeting. i haven t spoken to a political operative that has told me they would have taken that meeting. as a former intelligence officer, what do you say to that? i worked in operations for a long time. after that, i had been involved in commercial intelligence for over a decade. what i would say is anybody who wouldn t entertain taking a meeting with someone who says they have derogatory information on the other side when there s a campaign going on is blowing smoke. they would entertain it, the difference is that a disciplined group with experience would have done vetting.
requiring legislation. in 2008 it appears she backed off that point. she says i don t want the federal government preempting state and cities like new york that have very specific problems. perhaps a change in tone. back to you guys. keeping them honest. thanks, elizabeth. 36 minutes after the hour. other stories making headlines. the family of the san bernardino terrorists picking up belongings from the couple s home finding it draped in stars and stripes. syed farook s mother, brother and brother-in-law were seen packing a u-haul with furniture, boxes and toys for the orphaned daughter. they believe the landlord or a neighbor put up the flag they believe. tashfeen and they killed 14 people and injuring 22 others. the couple later died in a shootout with police. take a look at this. a student blatantly disrespecting his teacher. the arkansas high schooler senior, he s blowing smoke in his teacher s face. why? because the teacher apparently
they try to clean it up. we then have a dispute, perhaps within the p5-plus one, and whether the other countries will go along with it. i m trying to work my way whether this is really workable. we have to balance all that against what s the alternative. and there, i think all of us are operating somewhat in the dark. you bring up very good points, all of which need to be addressed. what happens if this deal does not go through congress? that s the big question. you know frankly, anyone who says they can tell you with certainty is going to happen is blowing smoke. we can make an educated guess about it. probably it would be reasonable to expect that if we sink the deal effectively, that russia and china will go on and do business with iran. we will maintain our sanctions. we will fight with europeans to see if we can get them to retain theirs. iran could decide to comply nonetheless, making the deal with europe, or it may decide to
the newspaper says biden s son hunter is also in favor of his dad waging another presidential campaign. let s discuss what s going on with our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny and chief political analyst gloria borger. you ve been doing reporting, gloria, what do you hear from your sources? well i have one source close to biden and this source said to derive from the last month that joe biden is in a better frame of mind to think about a presidential run is completely incorrect. this man is in mourning in pain suffered a great loss. trying to get people back to work. there are people who would love to see joe biden run but he is probably in less of a position to run today than he was a month ago. this is somebody who is clearly in mourning and as this source said to me there are a lot of people out there blowing smoke
additional legal opportunities to block government or private subpoenas in criminal administrative, or civil cases. so if this becomes a trend among politicians politicians, that should be concerning to an american public that s concerned about transparency and government. kasie, great to see you. thank you. we have some new numbers from colorado s first year of selling recreational pot. now, get this. it was such a success that other states could make a potent argument to follow in colorado s footsteps. our frances rivera has more on the story. growing dope. growing dope and no blowing smoke when it comes to bringing you these numbers. we re talking about just extraordinary numbers. here are the top five things you need to know about colorado s weed sales. this is the first number we re bringing you here. 833, that s the number of stores that had licenses to sell weed in 2014. wait until you see how much they sold. this amount right here. 20 tons of weed if you can believe that.