countrywide s ceo, oversaw the program giving a lot of people on capitol hill this preferential treatment. it was called the whole program was called, if you can believe it, the friends of angelo program. now, the report today names a string of lawmakers and regulators from both parties, democrats and republicans, who benefited from this vip treatment. senate budget committee chairman, for instance, democrat kent conrad. former democratic senator chris dodd. republican house armed services committee chairman buck mckeon. all three deny any wrongdoing. the former ceo of fannie mae, officials at freddie mac and a secretary of housing and urban development were also in this friends of angielo program. so were congressional staffers from both parties that played a role in legislation that affected countrywide. these vips got favorable mortgage rates and points. one was a chairman of the house oversight committee, the very same committee investigating countrywide. he also denies
ago, the u.s. had a travel alert, not a warning, but just be on alert traveling through europe. now you have this. what s going on in europe? i think europe is a powder keg. i was in london about three weeks ago. police are everywhere. they ve got more cameras than you can imagine. and the fear is there. now what you have to do, you have to keep saying you re not going to stop me, but they re going to do everything they can, the terrorists, to push their agenda. we re just going to have to be ready for them. last thing here. i just want to hit you on this. you re an intelligence guy yourself. there was so much made about director of national intelligence, james clapper. you re smiling because you know what i m talking about here. he was asked a question about the terrorist arrest in london and just a bad moment for him, just an embarrassing moment, he had no idea about. it was clear he did not. what did you make of that moment? is too much being made of it? maybe too much is bein
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it s also interesting to note that we are in the midst of an election campaign in the u.k. and fact campaign has been suspended due to this attack. kelly: everyone is suspending the campaign right now. the interesting thing about this is that no one talked about this type of a terror attack in any of the platforms or campaign, why? it s not really a political topic at this point in time. that may change now following this. certainly is not the forefront of people minds to get here in the u.k. there s a lot of talk about the economy, about welfare. that s the kind of the fate the u.k. has been happening. the u.k. has not suffered a serious mass casualty terrorist attack in quite some years now, not since 2005. certainly, it s out the form of the people s minds. as i mentioned, there has been a series of terrorist arrest and abilities have been made to at the size of the hip disrupted many plots in the past.
programs as we hear more from the police as they continue to investigate this? this has now become a national investigation. manchester police are you working with national intelligence agencies and police. what will happen in the coming hours as the government will hold an emergency meeting here at 9:00 local time. the prime minister said that she is also treating it as a potential terrorist attack. don t forget here in the u.k., the country has been on a high level of alert, second highest level of alert, severe, for many years now. there has been a number of terrorist arrest in recent years. sources say that they have always managed to disrupt plots to date, apart from the attack that you remember in the month and a couple of months ago in westminster. usually, police and intelligence services in this country have been fairly certainly is this proved to be a terrorist attack, it s one of the most severe over the past decade or so.