Declassified how torture derails the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know him from events weve done together. Hes a visiting special agent with the fbi and hes investigated highprofile terrorism cases after the 9 11 attacks. He has investigated skills to the private sector and these ceo of the Stephan Group and author of the Fordham Center and his specialty is global security, everything from governance culture and state actors, nonstate actors and im going to try to cover as much of that today as we can. One thing i want to point out is each day the center publishes the Stephan Group intel brief which is something you should really, you should read every day. Its a wonderful insight into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines, everything from White Supremacy to whats happening with al qaeda and isis geopolitics in Washington State and i encourage you to read it every day. Id also encourage you to read the Steph
Have seen it coming. In theory i would like to start with what was my personal favorite moment in the book which is the first meeting between donald trump and steve bannon who would become a very influential political strategist in his world where he explains to trump that if hes thinking about running for president , he cannot do as a traditional republican. Can you describe the scene. Sure, thanks for having me, i was fascinated buy the book, it made no sense by this, one of the reasons you have to remember donald trump did not, as a bolt out of the blue, he had been speaking for years for running for president but he was not quite sure how he would really have an identity, sometimes he was a democrat, sometimes he was a republican, he flirted with the idea of running in ross perots at one point but in 2012 he was getting serious about it and david bossi, a conservative activist a hardline conservative activist was a friend of Donald Trumps and he decided to talk to him about running
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Msnbc i asked you for your reaction to say the words president elected biden and your response to me was interesting. I would love for you to expand on this, you said it will be great for you to not have to explain to your daughter where the president of the United States was saying mean things about you. Yes. I dont know if you remember this, but the president when running for president came to minnesota two days before the 2016 election and basically went on attack against somali immigrants and Somali Refugees and for me in the community that i represent for my children, it has been a fouryear assault on everything that we believe and stand for down to our basic identity as american refugees in this country. So i have had many long days and nights having to explain to my youngest child who is eight and the two older ones who conceptualize what is taking place with the political discourse before her it has been challenging for this to happen. For a lot of our kids they hear about the