nations important to our national security. he brought up a couple examples. he talked about the importance of getting kenneth bae out of north korea and talked about the christian pastor detained in iran since 2012. what does he say the united states needs to do to win their freedom and the intersection of those two? well, i know the u.s., the obama administration and a lot of others in congress are doing everything they can. there are limited opportunities clearly with north korea. maybe there s some greater opportunities with iran right now in the midst of the six-month interim nuclear deal, and there are conversations now going on between the secretary of state, the foreign minister of iran. so maybe there s an opportunity to do something in iran that didn t exist let s say a few months ago. so far both of these americans are still being held captive in north korea and iran. there are other americans being held captive other places including cuba right now as well. so this is a s
opinion. which seems to have evolved since our polling early in may. numbers are dwindling when it comes to support. jay, gloria mentioned iraq. we heard the president make a big distinction on this. he said it would not be like iraq. take a listen. if, in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of, you know, iraq, which i know a lot of people are worried about. jay, you wrote an entire piece. time magazine. give me a couple examples. first of all, when president george w. bush finally made his case to go to war to the american people in 2003 in iraq, he already had 130,000 u.s. troops mustered along iraq s border. we re not talking about boots on the ground. we re not talking about putting american lives at risk. we re talking about a short
mass routine location tracking warrantlessly. that s a threat to privacy, civil liberties and the character of our society. what we re saying, we re not asking law enforcement to throw technologies out. we understand they are useful. we think there should be a retention period of this data of days or weeks and not months or years. you gave a couple examples. in maryland their license plate leaders, housed at the fusion center, spy center, captured 89 million plates in one year, over 99% of which are were underogatory, information on perfectly innocent people. this the real threat. it s sort of a corollary to the nsa scandal with the metadata program where you have the government making an argument it needs to collect vast quantities of private information about perfectly law abiding people and use that information maybe in the future just in case.
ignorant, a lot of times there is a sense they don t care much about the rest of america. and you can come at it from either side of the political divide which is exactly what i want to see happening because i don t think this book is a partisan book in that sense. i think it speaks for everybody. what is your intent? having just written the only book of my life and having it be the most physically challenging, painful, psychologically torturous experience i ve ever had i can only imagine you must have had a very specific i had a very good reason i wanted to write the book i wrote. i presume to publish something like this you have a goal. i ve been watching this for a long time. i live in a small town in rural maryland and also worked in the washington elite group and i can see these the two worlds don t interact. and you can see that not primarily economically. i m not denying the economic inequality. i am saying there are cultural separations that are alien to the american tr
nbc s jacob rascon joins me from maine at trump rally. jake, have you been there talking to supporters listening to what donald trump saying. seems he s hitting a different gear in the words he s using against hillary clinton but also an energy difference to be said as well. jacob? reporter: this is as defiant we ve seen him. the fourth rally and also where he s addressed sexual assault. he doesn t deny it and let it go. he keeps going, attacking the accuser specifically and as well as you heard there talking about the ricked election. we ve heard that argument before from trump. in fact, during the primaries he made that argument many time, but it s now become almost a central argument. we talked to his supporters. asking about the women, about the rigged election argument to see what they said. here s a couple examples. i think they re very unfair. i think the networks do cater to