snowden. it s been such an interesting conversation for the country. and we wanted to know just about how his own words speaking to the public might have changed views, and, chuck, you did some new polling around this to gauge people s attitudes. let s look at some of the findings that you put together. yeah, let s do. new polling we conducted before and after snowden s interview that we are revealing for 9 first time here shows at least for now his appearance does not seem to have changed many minds. more americans disagree with snowden s decision to leak nsa documents than agree. that number essentially unchanged from a january 2014 nbc news/ wall street journal poll. when it comes to snowden himself, 27% of those surveyed have an unfavorable opinion of him, while only 13% view him positively, but note the age gap. when it was limited to 18 to 34-year-olds, the numbers nearly flip. 32% view snowden positively, 20% negatively. and that younger support may be
not always by going to war. it s a striking irony now of where we are today. it s a different world now, david, and gratefully it s a different world. we ll never see the likes of d-day again. there had never been anything like it before and there won t be again in our future, but at the same time d-day will be a reminder of what can be accomplished when allies work together and when everyone understands what s at stake, every citizen, all the way from the best directors and the biggest stars in hollywood down to some kid living on a dairy farm who signs up and nine months later is piloting a four-engine bomber. so it was a unique time, and the interest in it seems to grow i think in part because of the magnitude of it. so much was at stake and we re just now beginning to understand that, david. tom brokaw for us. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. my pleasure. we ll take a break. coming up here, the isla vista, california, shooting rampage took place despite californi
i think that s where it should come out and the lesson to other kids ought to be that watch out here, this is very dangerous. i want to move on and talk a couple minutes about hillary clinton, the issue of benghazi which is going to be a hot political issue here going forward. as her new book hard choices is coming out and an excerpt released to politico on friday. here is a portion, i will not be part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead americans. it s just plain wrong, it s unworthy of our great country. those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me. she wants to take this on. and get it out of the way. clear the deck she said this week. this is what she s up to, and it s a very concerted effort. you have to be looking at it just as a press rollout. you have to be impressed with what they did. we know that benghazi chapter will be all the news and we don t want to be the news the first time the book comes out. it looks like she s runn
these guantanamo prisoners who were released. athe five detainees were on the obama administration s list to be held indefinitely without charges. how big of a risk to release these detainees to qatar. this is significant, david. there s always a range of people in guantanamo, the low level fighters up to the other al qaeda operatives. these guys are very close to the khalid sheikh mohammeds. they are serious leaders. the deputy defense leader of the taliban, a key governor. these are people who helped lead taliban s relationship with al qaeda pre-9/11, helped fight against u.s. interests post-2001, and they will be in the coming years once they finally are released from qatar, they will be key in the future of the taliban. and they could be back in afghanistan. you re a terrorism expert. part of your job in the government was to protect america or our forces in the field in war against terrorists.
debate about all of these measures, and so there was a security apparatus that was put in place that got beyond the debate of the american public and congress failed to really keep that debate going. well, i was there, and we did have a debate once it was disclosed by the bush administration in its first term that the authority used for the program was the president s commander in chief authority and it didn t go through congress and it didn t comply with the foreign intelligence surveillance act. congress remanded fisa in 2008 and we had a debate. i wish more people had listened in seven years later we had a debate. well, yeah, but four of them were in secret. we had a debate. we tried to amend it earlier, it took a while, congress doesn t move very fast, especially since newt left but can i just finish my thought. we should have had a better debate. labeling this guy a traitor before he s convicted i don t think is fair, but i think what he did was, one, he wasn t a whistle-b