and they got caught up. it s been lying. sean spicer has been out there lying about what the nsc did and didn t do in this instance. the fact they can t get the national security advisor s office straight is really troubling. is this what people worried about when they talked about the plitization of the nsc by mr. bannon? absolutely. there is an internal war i think is going on and that war is between the grown ups and there are a few of them at the nsc. he s not a partisan guy. rumor has it he has been trying to out the people that are political hacks. he s obviously working against the bannon way and we ll see how that turns out. i think as david says, the depressing thing is this is not just some kind of reality show. this is actually america s national security we re playing
was to provide support for the department of justice, civil rights divisions attorneys. i reviewed, co-signed clients, motions and pleadings and briefs filed during high tenure as u.s. attorney i provide aid assistant and guidance, had an open-door policy and cooperated with civil rights attorneys on these cases. for the cases described in 6 i supervised litigation and signed the pleadings. now that is consistent with the 1986 testimony that you provided help every stecht way, is that correct? well, i think so, yes. there s no question you ve been forthright with this committee and i would note members of this committee don t have to search far and wide to know who jeff sessions is. we ve known every day sitting at this bench alongside you. i want to shift to a different topic, a topic i opened with, the plitization of the department of justice. the office of legal counsel has a critical role proef vieding sound legal and constitutional
let s not forget, this is not just about russia, this is also about the dnc and podesta as well. i actually don t think there s a problem with what donald trump is saying about some of the plitization of intelligence. i think the question is, where is he getting this alternate theory, right, so if you are going to say that the analysts aren t giving you good information and you re coming up with this other stream of information, where is it coming from? who s giving it to you? that s what i don t understand. he knows more. but from whom? he s going to present more in the next day or so. but who is he getting this information from, even theoretically, i don t understand. this is what donald trump said about julian assange in 2010 about the wikileaks documents. he s going to talk about wikileaks, you had nothing to do with i think it s disgraceful. you do think it s disgraceful? i think it should be the death penalty or something. he said he should get the death
appears he doesn t understand that what went wrong with the iraq war was that. it was the plitization of the intelligence. that is what we learned in hind sight. somebody part of the bush administration and supported the war in iraq, that is what we have learned from that and we hope not to repeat those errors again. 17 intelligence agencies have concluded that russia was behind this. that is very different than the iraq. all i m trying to communicate to you and i fall back on the business career which until he takes office, he knows how to make judgments based on facts. not supposition, facts. you re assuming the daily presidential brief is not saying the same thing. if they say the dog is red and the next day they say the dog is possibly red or the dog is red again. have you gotten those
it s the exception rather than being the norm when it comes to surviving crisis. it s an island of stability compared to its neighbors. what kept turkey stable was its institutions, from the military to the police. now we saw the failed coup plot last year. this guy, who is a cop, carries out a political murder, is part of that. so i m deeply worried about turkey s future, because i m seeing a trend of the plitization of this. clarissa, what is your reaction to this? reporter: i think the russians are trying to keep a level head about this. make no bones about it, they are upset and called it an act of terror and demanded a full investigation. they have themselves sent investigators to participate in the turkish investigation. but president putin, when he gave a speech some hours ago, essentially said that while this would be met with the highest,