his former law professor lawrence tribe, about whether or not he is eligible to be president. he is eligible to be president. it s a total nonissue. we should be focused on what matters here, and that is which republican can win this nomination and turn this country around. he is eligible, you think, but do you believe it is settled? do you think that if he is the nominee it could end up being tied up in courts look, anyone can take you to court. the bottom line is you can only by naturalized or natural born. he wasn t naturalized. it s a nonissue. if donnell wants to spend his time talking about it, but i want to focus on the future of this country. you re a lawyer. is it settled? yes. thank you. our chief national correspondent john king, michael mer conish, gloria borger and david axelrod. david, you ve been in the white house in these rooms when
suspected terrorist activity back in 201? that is a good question? depends on whether the lead if it was from the russian fsb went to the joint terrorism task force or fbi field office. the task force are there very well could have been talk in there. for perspective on this okay because it is a major leadership decision when there is a situation like this we still don t know how much information there was on tamerlan that would have geraldo: the older brother, the dead brother. that could have kept him in the database. we have executive order 12333 intelligence oversight which governs collection on u.s. persons. he would have been a u.s. person. he wasn t naturalized. geraldo: he never got citizenship, tim. but still a legal resident alien gets the same protection. the point there is after a certain period of time if it there is little to no evidence of the decision whether to keep
that could have kept him in the database. we have executive order 12333 intelligence oversight which governs collection on u.s. persons. he would have been a u.s. person. he wasn t naturalized. geraldo: he never got citizenship, tim. but still a legal resident alien gets the same protection. the point there is after a certain period of time if it there is little to no evidence of the decision whether to keep him in the database. geraldo: here is my thing and this is why i believe, ladies and gentlemen, this are many, many questions unanswered. if the russians feel strongly enough about this guy in 2011 to ask the united states to check him out, how then do they grant him a visa to go back to russia and he stays six months and in six months you could learn to do any kind of that fairous. that is a valid question and the kind of things full speed ahead being looked at right now. interesting to know if the
that could have kept him in the database. we have executive order 12333 intelligence oversight which governs collection on u.s. persons. he would have been a u.s. person. he wasn t naturalized. geraldo: he never got citizenship, tim. but still a legal resident alien gets the same protection. the point there is after a certain period of time if it there is little to no evidence of the decision whether to keep him in the database. geraldo: here is my thing and this is why i believe, ladies and gentlemen, this are many, many questions unanswered. if the russians feel strongly enough about this guy in 2011 to ask the united states to check him out, how then do they grant him a visa to go back to russia and he stays six months and in six months you could learn to do any kind of that fairous. that is a valid question and the kind of things full speed ahead being looked at right now. interesting to know if the