president maybe this is the kind of thing our next guest meant when he wrote this week these are not normal times. these are extraordinary times and extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. the man who wrote that joins us now. dan rather. host of the big interview on access tv and the proprietor of news and guts which he describes as his new digital news feed. great to see you. thank you for being here. always great to see you. when you say extraordinary times call for extraordinary measure what is do you mean by both of those things. first of all, extraordinary times, absolutely unprecedented. we have never been through a time like this any time in our history. this twilight zone, never in our history. now calling for extraordinary measures, such measures as if you don t like what s going on,
senate and legislative offices has been remarkable but it remains just as amazing to see these large groups gathering almost spontaneously. this is new york city tonight. i saw fliers for this event posted around the city this morning when i was out doing errands. it didn t seem like it was necessarily going to be any big thing but look at all the people who showed up. people are just ready to do this right now. ready to converge in open fast physical response to this new president maybe this is the kind of thing our next guest meant when he wrote this week these are not normal times. these are extraordinary times and extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. the man who wrote that joins us now. dan rather. host of the big interview on access tv and the proprietor of news and guts which he describes as his new digital news feed. great to see you. thank you for being here. always great to see you. when you say extraordinary times call for extraordinary
president who put them in an incredible position. remember what happened after those came about there was a big argument about whether individuals in the cia could be prosecuted and a big argument about whether the president was going to protect them. and there s another element to this, there s a big debate about how useful it is in i way. david sanger, chief washington correspondent for the new york times, i know it s not the easiest thing for you to be on late night cable news. thank you for being here. appreciate it. lots more ahead. stay with us.
week, he gave this extended floor speech ripping the media, praising the new president and concluded with an admonition to the american people that you d be better off getting your news directly from the president. it s the only way to get the unvarnished truth. at the end of november, congress passed the bill that funds the military. it s called the national defense authorization act. one of those bills that basically has to pass every year. it funds the department, funds the u.s. military. this year, that bill was 1,587 pages long. this is roughly you can see can you see that there? all right. this is roughly 1,587 pages. so this was the length of the bill. 1,404 pages into it so, like, if you were reading from the beginning you d get down to here. 1400 pages into it and this bill
years ago, 2014. and you almost never get any good news when it comes to stories about isis. but in this case there is good news. the iraqi prime minister announced yesterday that at least in the eastern part of mosul, east of the tigris, isis has now been cleared out. the military offensive to reclaim mosul started last year. and east of the tigris, they say that mission has succeeded. isis is out. the iraqi government has liberated east mosul. and it absolutely was iraqi forces who retook that city. but american troops are there in pretty big numbers too supporting that fight. u.s. troops, u.s. air power, u.s. special forces have been there advising and supporting iraqis in that fight against isis. a couple of of days ago on this show we showed the images we got of u.s. air strikes blowing up nearly 100 boats on the tigris. boats that isis was using to