trump, however, didn t bother renaming it. he called it torture. he used the war torture either unaware or unconcerned torture is by definition a war crime as well as a federal crime. trump made those statements on a day when both the new york times and washington post published what appeared to be draft of an executive order entitled detention and interrogation of enemy combatants. it would lift a ban on cia black site prisons which detained and tortured suspects during the bush administration in which president obama had ended. now, while press secretary sean spicer claimed the draft was not a white house document, today he tacitly acknowledged the document could have been circulate bid white house staff. torture is not the only thick the president appeared to be advocating that would violate the geneva convention while increasing the tangible danger our service members face, we ll talk about that with msnbc national security analyst jeremy bash who served as chief of staff at
i think the diplomacy is by definition a rather dangerous profession. there have been more ambassadors killed since the end of the second world war than flag officers or jerrells. that needs to be understood. what this committee has done has made it more difficult for a diplomate to do his job or her job, which is to go out into the community, get to know the people, understand their concerns, understand what drives their behavior and report that. you are not going to do that if your sense is that if something goes wrong, and things do go wrong in life. if something goes wrong, you are going to have some clown like trey gowdy calling the secretary of state and yelling at her. ambassador, joseph wilson, thanks so much. appreciate it. be sure to watch cnn monday
necessarily play well, but also i think is a reflex where he finds himself in some of these key battlegrounds. he s in a tough spot particularly in ohio, virginia. he needs to win the states. if he doesn t he can t win. jon: tucker the fact that the president is taking, you know, one of the last campaign opportunities he has to appear in wisconsin, a state that traditionally votes democratic, that shows, you know, some trouble for the obama campaign? anything, anything a candidate does in the final weeks of a campaign is by definition a campaign appearance, no matter what he is saying. i would say natural disasters in general favor the incumbent. it puts any challenger in a tough position. what do you say that is seemly but effective? in this case it allows obama to play president, to pretend he hasn t run this incredibly devisive nasty campaign literally singles out groups of americans and blames them for america s problem which is what he has done he strikes a bipartisan tone. we r
striking to me is the key piece of evidence, the federal election commission rules, and they specifically state that this kind of money cannot be by definition a campaign contribution, it has to be a gift. and, in fact, edwards treasurer took the stand, and she said that s why it was a gift and not a campaign donation. i mean, if the jury believes that, acquittal, right? yeah. and it s very difficult. they have to show he had the intent to violate the campaign finance laws which there hasn t been evidence of that. we don t have the two people to be able to say what kind of arrangements they made with him or what they thought his understanding was, and nobody testified that he said anything specifically about this money or that he knew specifically other than andrew young, and even there it was murky. and he s just lied about so many things, it s a very weak case. gregg: it sounds like a gift. good to see you both. thank you. gregg: we re on standby for a verdict in the john edward
also asking us to pander to a certain narrative, which journalists don t do. we put out what he said. we played it live and reaction is what it is. right. he s talking about the reaction in the room. and look, he might be right about that. this was a saturday, not a work day. it was lottery based audience. people who worked for the cia who wanted to go got their names into a lottery. by definition a self-selecting crowd. regardless if on their feet cheering and whistling doesn t answer the question about knowing that the place and knowing the moment and playing to the moment despite the interact he clearly had a lot of supporters in the room. and question about whether or not that was not just presidential but also respectful to the 117 people who lost their