here on september 20th when president bush spoke to congress that night as recall. after that we were in the meeting room together you and i and others working on the airline bill. there were other things going on the patriot act was going on. i was involved in all of those discussions, but what i want to know, did you ever raise questions about warrantless under surveillance? i can t rule anything out leak that. there was so much going on in the wake of september 11th, senator, as you recall up here, too. but in the white house, in particular and in the counsel s office in particular, we had eight lawyers in there, eight or nine as i recall. there were so many issues to consider for the president and for the legal team and those issues, leak i said, for problem, every day for the next seven years was september 12th, 2001. and for the legal team.
deferral of suits. not immunity but deferral of suits for presidents if congress so wanted. so in the minnesota law review article, i put out some ideas about whether congress may want to think about that. why did i do that? i think senator durbin asked yesterday, what changed, that made me think about that from the time? what changed was september 11th. that s what changed. after september 11th, i thought very deeply about the presidency. i thought deeply about the independent counsel experience. i thought very deeply about how those things inter acted. i thought very deeply about seeing president bush, when he came into the oval office on september 12th, 2001, in the morning, president bush said, this will not happen again. this will not happen again.
wounding, one count of failure to stop at an accident which resulted in a death. he s going to be arraigned tomorrow morning, aa. brian todd reporting there in charlottesville. we ll check back with you. just a few days ago, sebastian gorka a deputy adviser to president trump was asked about white supremacist violence during an interview with breitbart. here s what he said. it s this constant, oh, it s the white man. it s the white supremacist. that s the problem. no, it didn t. so the government tracks domestic terror attacks and according to a recent report between september 12th, 2001, just after september 11th attack and the end of last year, there were 85 domestic attacks. 62 of them were carried out by far light violent supremacists. 23 committed by radical islamist extremists. i want to bring in james galliano, a retired fbi supervisory agent. is enough attention being paid
we learned from a reporting in politico today that members of his own national security, we learned that general mattis, h.r. mcmaster, rex tillerson, had worked with him. they believe in the speech that they helped put together article v was in there. the president would be talking about that. would you detail what that is? ivanka trump just walked in. kristen, we won t take sudden offense if you leave because someone told you to do that. but article v says, an attack on any one of the 28 member nations is an attack on all of them. and they must respond. in the entire history of nato, it s only been invoked one time. september 12th, 2001, the day after the 9/11 attacks. the united states is the only one that has had to call on the help of the other nato countries. it is stunning to learn that article v was written into the
afghanistan. you remember it was on september 12th, 2001, that the germans, the french, and the prettyibrit decided to go with us. i will never forget it. it is good to have friends in the world, where we would be without them, and i they is what president trump is missing here. he needs to recalibrate and treat our democratic allies as our best friends in the world in europe becausehat is who they ar and very briefly, nick, some security concerns about his other habit. he has been criticizing them on one hand, but he has been giving them his cell phone number. for them to be giving out his phone number to other leaders, is that good i don t know, good security? the presidents for whom i worked, george w. bush, president clinton, george hw bush, you speak to your allies