assumes very large symbolic significance in what standard are we going to set going forward? annie carney, to that point, i ve talked to many women, all privately because none of them want to come forward, about their experiences with sexual harassment or assault in and around politics. and one thing i hear from them repeatedly is this idea that it does get immediately politicized and for one reason or another their side seems to think they re above it and not part of it. what s your take on that and the role politics plays here? i mean, we everyone in a heated political environment, i talked to some former white house aides about trump weighing in on franken on twitter. some saw it as stupid when you re dredging up a story that when you have a president who has his own 16 accusers. why would he want to do that? others said, you know, in this
information and internet access. the president s top spokesman says it was not an intelligence operation. when you have a program like that in a nonpermissive environment, ie a place like cuba, you re discreet about how you implement it so that you protect the practitioners, but that does not make it covert. we are going to take another look tonight at the testimony of a key obama administration insider about the benghazi terror attacks. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge talks of what role politics play in the infamous white house talking points. in his opening statement former cia deputy director michael morel claimed to be an intelligence professional who was willing to put out the facts, no matter how damaging. the ethical code under which intelligence officers carry out their responsibilities calls for total objectivity. reporter: but his testimony contradicted the claim. on the talking point morrell said he dropped the cia warnings which were factual an
ourselves sad. we haven t been acting as americans and we can do these great big things again. i think he had in mind something different. payne was an important player and conservatives in america have always had the challenge of being conservatives in a society founded in revolution. that s a complicated challenge. pete weiner writes this in the commentary. many on the right speak about liberty as an unqualified good with hardly if ever a mention of the selfish liberty and the role politics plays in reenforcing our common bond and the role the state plays in reenforcing the common good. there is a fuller and richer conservative tradition as embodied by burke that is worth reclaiming. you know, burke had a rule for himself, to not say liberty without saying order. to not say rights without saying obligations. but you have to think of the way these things were balanced out. so he was a friend of the fre