there are reports that a number of senior officials are connected to the russian investigation. like the attorney general who is forced to recuse himself. members of this committee have urged the deputy attorney general and he has that authority to appoint a special counsel, to protect the independence of the investigation. i was here and december 2003, shortly after we were confirmed as deputy attorney general, then attorney general ashcroft recused himself into the valerie plane leak. you appointed patrick fitzgerald. will lead you to that decision? in that particular investigation, my judgment was that the appearance of fairness and independence require that it
if you d asked me back in june or july that donald trump would continue his lead in the republican race, that ben carson would be in second place, and you d have a surging ted cruz, all the republican outsiders, i would have said this is a crazy result. but here we are with two months before iowa caucuses and we have a situation where the outsiders around the insurgents are leading the insiders like marco rubio, jeb bush, john kasich, chris christie. but you mentioned the surprise and still go back into history, which is why there is still so much to go on over the next two months. newt gingrich was leading mitt romney by 17 percentage points nationally. i remember having a conversation with the late, great tim russert in december 2003 when it seemed howard dean was going to be the sure bet to win the democratic nomination in that presidential cycle. so there are a lot of strange things happening but i would say
december 2003. we didn t see it again until 2011 after the bin laden raid, the raid that killed them and then again on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. in all the previous cases, it wasn t just u.s. military bases under threat, it was other civilian targets, military bases added on. this is unique because it is specific to u.s. military installations. some 3200 around the country. because that is believed to be what isis in particular is pushing its members to target and the military taking it very seriously. victor and alison. all right. this morning we re also following breaking news out of north korea. the communist country fires three rockets off its eastern coast according to a south korean defense official. this just one day after news broke that kim jong un reportedly test-fired a new underwater ballistic missile. let s get to our report. you just returned from a trip to north korea where you had incredible access. what are you learning about this
qaeda. in the holidays december 2003 bases but also general areas around the country that were under threat. not specific to u.s. military bases. we saw force protection bravo come up again just after the benjamin netanyahu raid inbnin laden raid in2011. remember the color-coded scale and rail travel not specific just to bases. finally again the last time we saw force protection bravo at u.s. military bases on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. again, a situation when there was a more generalized threat general raising of the terror threat level, not specific. unique about this it s specific to military bases. no specific credible threat but the force protection raising of the threat level is specific to u.s. military installations. how difficult jim, is it for authorities to keep track of these isis-inspired americans? there may be hundreds if not a thousand recruited through online propaganda? we know isis is very good at
their pinot noir. beautiful grapes. may i taste one? of course. nice and ripe, sweet, but not too sweet. jamie: amazing. the idea behind pino is to have berries and fermentation allowed inside the berry. jamie: how many bottles of wine am i looking at? about 120 gallon, roughly 50 cases. jamie: by december 2003, jimi s wines are noticed around oregon and beyond. he hopes that one day his winery will be his son s inheritance. he stated clearly he wanted his winery to be a legacy for pascal. jamie: then one saturday morning in september 2004, jimi is arguing with his ex-wife about whose turn it is to be with pascal. after that call, jimi makes