ky just for him up, you mentioned that you mentioned that no one had pointed the finger at him, but actually the cia did, the intelligence community. i cannot comment on the intelligence community. i m not i guess i m allowed do what i want to do in terms of that. right? we can declassify unlike hillary clinton, she decided to just give it out. we can declassify. the truth is i don t want to talk about intelligence. but i will say this, a lot of people are being prosecuted and they are taking it very seriously. and they have done a great job in saudi arabia from the standpoint of women and from a lot of different things happening in saudi arabia. one of the other things very important with saudi arabia that not only are they afternon ally only have theyspeak!$!nt tremes
american will come on his side. but i believe the leak diminished him. and it pains me to say that. so social media i ve been called a comey shill. i think he s an accomplished career public servant, but the leak diminished him and i believe he ceded the moral high ground to the white house. ky just a can i just ask jame question on that? i understand that if about director comey had actually handed off a copy of an fbi 302 or some fbi official doimt that was in an investigative file to on his friend then to the media, that i do see the point that you re making that that would be maybe a breach of his past role as director of the fbi. but do you think that he had creeded oig t e ceded the moral high ground just because he told a story after he was fire and after the president basically went on national tv and said that he was thinking about the russia investigation in mind when he fired direct or
and republicans talk about economic theory. it comes off as cold and mean. not with everyone. what about the moderators. like why aren t you spending more money on climate change, things like that. they might get climate change in there, actually. interesting though, top of mind at the table we were talking about candidates. is somebody, it s not somebody who actually arguably has some of the best federal experience in terms of cutting taxes and balancing the budget, that s governor john kasich of ohio. he does, this is is a governor who has a huge amount of experience. and was a leader both on capitol hill in the private sector and then he goes to ohio and turns the economy around in a swing state. so i think that actually he might be able to, the way he talks to people about the economy, annoys a lot of people on the right. but the way he does it is very persuasive. he probably read your book. ky just mention one other thing, an a.p. poll out today says that 54% of people say t
as a transitional authority with very specific narrow transitional tasks transitional to what? transition to a constitution, a referendum, and an election. it needs to be focusing to on those tasks. meanwhile create legitimacy around a government that can exactly. exactly. we have to diversify our points of contact with whatever authorities with we find operating in somalia that are legitimate and authoritative. even if they are fairly islam knick nature? anything short of a group designated as terrorist. and that gets us to the interesting question, too, to what extent can and should the international community and the transitional federal government try to engage parts of the shabaab, the parts that are winnable, the parts that are more nationalist than al qaeda? this is sort of like the talking to the taliban issue? exactly. we have got laws on the books that make that, at present, very problematic. ky just enter one thought? there are parts of somalia that