he knows more than the generals know. he doesn t need a lot of briefings, does he? so i assume that s how he still feels. all you have to do to understand what s going on in the trump tower is to understand that while others are out trying to figure out what should happen in his administration, he stays in his tower. much more of my interview with harry reid coming up. ad hoc trump s approach was during the campaign, his transition seems to be even more unfocused. trump held his first in-person meeting with shinzo abe. japanese told reporters they have not finalized when in new york, who would be invited or who to call for answers. japan is one of many u.s. allies facing serious existential questions about trump s leadership and america s role in the world. throughout the campaign, trump threatened to break with core aspects of our alliance with japan only to contradict himself later.
it. a lot more. that is very likely behind a major political move on marijuana policy this week. the mayor of washington, d.c. announced his support on wednesday for a measure to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot. right now, possession of less than an ounce is punishable by six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. d.c. lawmakers want to make it more like a traffic ticket. punishable only by a small fine. the measure gets the support of ten of the districts 13 council members and it s expected to get a vote in the next few months, but the news from d.c. is just the latest from one that is about to be one of the most rapidly transformational in all of american politics. polls show that legalizing marijuana is now for the first time, a majority position among americans. it has been legalized in colorado and washington state. the feds made it pretty clear they re not going to interfere
every american is at risk for getting caught up in the nsa including average citizens not suspected of a crime. we have been been misled. does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? no, sir. joining me now, roanen, a former lawyer, special adviser to secretary of state in the obama administration. he ll be hosting his own show early next year. good to see you. national security and human rights director, nbc news terrorism analyst, roger cressey, member of the national security staff and senior vice president at alex hamilton. it seems like there have been two acts to the snowden revelations. in the first, it was largely about domestic surveillance and largely a series of revelations that indicated the spread was
on million of americans. first, the three awesomest thipgs on the internet. the inescapable truth, the 2016 presidential race is really underway. ted cruz is in iowa and in order to provide voters with moring information, he did a q and a which included this nugget. do you have a favorite movie? answer. the princess bride. cruz didn t say why, but maybe because it was directed by rob rheiner or he has an affinity for all we know is that everyone reacted with the response you would expect. tweet after tweet were quick to point out how inconceivable his answer was, but since it is a classic, i think this is the proper response. i do not think what you think it is. it s a miracle we didn t get any princess bride dialogue
and we had a conversation. it was interesting for sure. we talked about the fourth amendment. warrantless wiretapping, surveilling foreign leaders, the kind of spying on our allies. interesting part about the conversation is he talked about kind of the what i would describe as overreaches of the last ten plus years as a pendulum and he said these things kind of swing back and forth. there are times when you know, i m paraphrasing now, there s more of this and there s less of this. by this, i mean the spying. i thought that was an interesting perspective. i m not sure i disagree with him. i think we ll look back on this as kind of a dark period in our history. i assume with all the spying, much like the japanese americans in world war ii. one of the things i found fascinating, was not only you have this guy who was the chief