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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120507:23:42:00

Again and again and again, mitt romney has played footsie with either birtherism or the far right excessive rhetoric. he doesn t say what they say but he says barack obama doesn t understand the uniqueness of america. he doesn t understand the american experiment. so he s out there sort of doing a more light version of this idea that there s something foreign or there s an other quality to barack obama. it s been part of his campaign from the get-go and he doesn t seem to be moving away from it, even as he tries to court independent voters now. well, that s a question, chris cillizza. can he keep getting away with this, i m the american home team? i m america s team? this guy is not quite on the team of americans, without the press saying, wait a minute, objectively speaking you re playing to the worst elements in american society when you try to get in to this nativism, this sense that people are crooks if they don t agree with you politically, or they re traitors, even? well, let ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120507:23:07:00

That these are connected. chris? andrea, step back from the what we re doing now. the police reporting on this, the news breaking part. give us the context. maybe it needs to be explained one more time. what s al qaeda trying to accomplish in the saudi peninsula? why is it targeting us? why is it using people from yemen? what is it trying to disrupt geopolitically with these attempted attacks? well, as you know, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula now mainly located in yemen, is considered the greatest threat against the united states. these are the terrorists, first awlaki and then his successors who have been trying repeatedly to attack the american homeland. since osama bin laden was pretty much removed from any kind of operational leadership. and we know from his final letters and his communications that he was aspirational. he did want to attack president obama. he did want to attack the then-leader of u.s. forces in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120507:23:05:00

We re all reporting on this at the same time. first of all, the white house, the national security council, has put out a statement now, chris, that the president was first informed of this in april by john brennan, his top counterterrorism official. he directed homeland security and law enforcement and intelligence agencies to take whatever steps were necessary. i am told separately that we were working very closely with saudi intelligence on this, because this man al asiri who was the master designer of bombs and still is at loose we believe in yemen had also designed the bomb that did successfully explode. it was an attempted assassination in 2009 against a top saudi official, the son of prince nayyaf, the interior minister, who is himself a top counterterrorism official. he was injured in that attempted assassination in jeddah, saudi arabia. so you had three known instances where al asiri did design bombs. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120507:23:04:00

In many airlines, many airports for flights that are bound to the u.s. now they say they can t be certain, but they suspect it s built by al qaeda s and yemen s master bombmaker, the same man who designed the underwear bomb, and also the bombs that were hidden in printer cartridge, toner cartridges that were sent on cargo planes, intercepted on flights that were destined for chicago. so it s described as a great success, chris, for intelligence, and a further sign that al qaeda in yemen is still the number one plot number one threat to the u.s. let me go to andrea mitchell for the political context. if you were to blow up an airliner flying from yemen to the united states, filled with people from yemen, people from our side working with them, what would be the fire power politically of blowing up a plane in that route? well, certainly that would be okay i m gone. a huge political explosion, as well. let me give you a few more details. as you just heard pete williams is ru ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120508:06:04:00

Who designed the underwear bomb, and also the bombs that were hidden in printer cartridge, toner cartridges that were sent on cargo planes, intercepted on flights that were destined for chicago. so it s described as a great success, chris, for intelligence, and a further sign that al qaeda in yemen is still the number one plot number one threat to the u.s. let me go to andrea mitchell for the political context. if you were to blow up an airliner flying from yemen to the united states, filled with people from yemen, people from our side working with them, what would be the fire power politically of blowing up a plane in that route? well, certainly that would be okay i m gone. a huge political explosion, as well. let me give you a few more details. as you just heard pete williams is running off. we re all reporting on this at the same time. first of all, the white house, the national security council, has put out a statement now, ....

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