scandal. admiral kirby at the state department today took a bit of a benign interpretation of some of these e-mails. you can interpret it that way. listen to what he had to say. when we say classified, everybody thinks, you know, you think about spy thrillers, classified. sometimes classified can be high. sometimes it can be low. and most of these are at a very low level, what we call confidential, so 63,000. that s a pretty small percentage. now we have the chairman of the senate judiciary committee asking whether clinton s attorney had a security clearance. he was given a thumb drive with copies of the e-mails. did you have a security clearance? did you have a safe place to put that thumb drive? if you didn t, you have a thumb
scandal. admiral kirby at the state department today took a bit of a benign interpretation of some of these e-mails. you can interpret it that way. listen to what he had to say. when we say classified, everybody thinks, you know, you think about spy thrillers, classified. sometimes classified can be high. sometimes it can be low. and most of these are at a very low level, what we call confidential, so 63,000. that s a pretty small percentage. now we have the chairman of the senate judiciary committee asking whether clinton s attorney had a security clearance. he was given a thumb drive with cop e-mails. did you have a security clearance? did you have a safe place to put that thumb drive? if you didn t, you have a thumb
publisher haven t released information on where he passed away or where he died, only that it was in baltimore. we expect to have more details shortly. his resume, so impressive. he wrote 28 books both fiction and nonfiction. 17 of them were best-sellers. and you were talking about some of the titles there. you think about it, gosh, a who s who of political spy thrillers. i was thinking just a personal aside. we were talking today about what was our favorite. i have to think because of the writi writing, i thought patriot games was so well written. as a movie, i thought clear and present danger was my favorite. his publisher called him the consummate author, and that book summed it all up. he told cnn at one point, he would get all this intel and all this military minutia, he would never guv up his sources, but he would write up it and get us to the movie theaters each and
confiscated this time because they thought it was a security risk. but first, with eight days to go until the iowa caucuses, it s a virtual dead heat and that ee s bad news for the previously soaring newt gingrich. some are wondering if ron paul might actually take the hawkeye state. hi, joe, so just how close is it now? well, you said it, it s very close, a statistical dead heat among the top three presidential contenders right now. the des moines register said it all this morning asking the question, could ron paul win? which would be quite a surprise for a lot of people here, so ron paul 21%, followed by mitt romney at 20%. gingrich at 19%. ron paul, what s happening with him? very good organization in the state of iowa, there s some people also suggesting that because he s kind of flown under the radar for much of this contest, he hasn t been attacked as much as some of the others and perhaps that has something to do with it. newt gingrich, just two weeks ago flying h
i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we re also awaiting a statement by the secretary of state hillary clinton. she s about to make a statement on all of the breaking news. an alleged terror plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states. the justice department says iranian agents were seeking help from a purported mexican drug cartel to carry out the killing and the fbi and the dea busted the plot wide open. the attorney general of the united states, eric holder, gave details just a little while ago. today the department of justice is announcing charges against two people who allegedly attempted to carry out a deadly plot that was directed by factions of the iranian government to assassinate a foreign ambassador here in the united states. mansor arbabsiar, a naturalized citizen who holds an iranian passport and was arrested last month in new york is accused of working with members of an arm of the iranian revolutionary guard corps to devise an i