testimony back in 2015 and about hillary clinton. he said yeah, i don t want you to call it an investigation. and he said really she says i want you to call it a matter. steve: in fact, we have got that exchange right here with senator james burr. at one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it a matter which confused me and concerned me. it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate. we had a criminal investigation open. harris: all right. so to get on a record a source familiar with loretta lynch wanted to respond to that discussion and did so this way. no one,including the director, contested that view. it didn t take long to say that. steve: that they called it a matter. if you remember back in the time there was a story, i think it was in the new york times where they referred to
this is part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the iranian government. one of the principles of international behavior is that our diplomats, we send them around the world and they are going to be protect it. they are not targets for threats or physical violence. and for iran to have been involved in a plot like this indicates the degree to which it has been outside of accepted norms of international behavior for far too long. this is just wanted ample of the series of steps that they ve taken to create violence and to behave in a way that you don t see other countries doing. so with respect to how we respond, our first step is to make sure that we prosecute those individuals that have been named in the indictment and i will leave it to the attorney general the task of describing how that will precede. the second thing we re going to continue to do is to apply the toughest sanctions and continue to mobilize the international community is further and further i
that mandated the vaccine for girls as young as 12. this morning on the today show, she continued her attack on perry and made an extraordinary claim. i had a mother last night come up to me here in tampa, florida after the debate and said her little daughter took that vaccine injection and suffered from mental retardation there after. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the concern and people have to draw their own conclusions. the suggestion that the hpv vaccination may have caused mental retardation had experts scratching their heads. rick perry was having none of it. you heard the same arguments about giving our children protects from some of the childhood diseases and autism was part of it. we subsequently fun to out that was generated and not true and i would suggest to you that this issue about gardasil and making it available was about saving people s lives.
suffered from mental retardation there after. it can have very dangerous side effects. the mother was crying when she came up to me. i didn t know who she was before the debate. this is the concern and people have to draw their own conclusions. the suggestion that the hpv vaccination may have caused mental retardation had experts scratching their heads. rick perry was having none of it. you heard the same arguments about giving our children protects from some of the childhood diseases and autism was part of it. we subsequently fun to out that was generated and not true and i would suggest to you that this issue about gardasil and making it available was about saving people s lives. is there evidence to support what michele bachmann said this morning or is bachman using this public health issue as a line of political attack? i m joined by dr. holly phillips who practices internal medicine in new york city. good afternoon. have you heard the suggestion or read it in a med
keep saying we made this happen, we the people and that s what they re so proud of. today president obama said young egyptian haves shown the world what can be achieved through nonviolent protests. reporter: we saw the protesters chant we are peaceful again and again. egyptians have inspired us and they ve done so by widing the idea that justice. reporter: the president said there are few moments in our life where we have the privilege of witnessing history taking place. this is one of those times. robert wentrum is part of the investigative team at nbc news. he has significant expertise on issues involving the middle east. he joins us live from new york. robert, egyptian president hosni mubarak steps down. what happens next in the country is what everybody wants to know in the days and weeks to come? the first question is whether hosni mubarak who is now in sharm el sheikh at the southern tip of the peninsula will be moving on. there s some indication he may be l