that was it. then he was gone. and to figure out exactly what had just been announced, the press and the american people were reduced to performing cryptographical analysis on this powerpoint slide that they held up and showed to the cameras. for real. as far as we can tell, they sealed the deal, such as it is, by signing a print-out of a powerpoint slide. this is how we figure out what our incoming administration is doing. and if it s not this exactly trick with the zooming in on the photographed unexplainable scribble, then it s something else, like the president-elect s one in-person meeting with a foreign leader. in that case we weren t looking at a powerpoint slide in someone s hand, we were looking at released images because they wouldn t let reporters in to take their own pictures. they had handout photos curated by the transition team and the
the big reason is because california doesn t have african-americans. the state wide population is like 5% or 6%. you re going to have less than the average school. latino and asians, it s huge. so that s why do we need a racial class diversity requirement? i think this happens because there was an uglee racial incident at ucla. there was a surgeon who was at this end of the year roast and these residents posted up a powerpoint slide of this black surgeon. they posted his photo on a gorilla. this is racist. and i think the chancellor got scared, the rumor i hurldeard is the attorney general threatened to
done by european services, not by the nsa. that it was not in fact the citizens of those countries, france and spain, but collected from a number of sources by the u.s. and nato allies in support of military operations abroad. here s how they made that case at the hearings today. the assertions by spain, italy, that nsa collected ten of million of phone call are completely false. to be perfectly clear, this is not information that we collected on european citizens. it represents information that we and our nato allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations. so in effect, they re saying that one of the strongest reasons for this anger we ve been seeing from europe started with nothing. the misinterpretation, erin, of a single power point slide.
taken hostage, 22 people on board were executed. these were shiite pilgrims who were leaving from the city of karbala, heading up to shiite areas in iran, as they were passing through in iran going to shiite areas in syria, as they were passing through ramadi, the bus was taken over, all the men and women were separated. the 22 men, and some teenage boys, were executed in their seats. and the women and children were then returned to their families. i think there were 15 of them. and i spoke with people in baghdad today, they re concerned that the civil war is coming back. coming back. as we are packing up. as we were packing up that palace that you saw on the powerpoint slide. ready to move on two fronts, and where are we? richard engel, obviously to be continued. yes. thank you. and developing now, potentially good news for the two american hikers imprisoned in iran. nbc s ann curry was granted an