or things like that that we ve discussed that is that we have the same problem in america all of the presenters on the mainstream news on the cable news are centered entirely out of new york entirely out of washington d.c. all of the newspapers across america we used to have local television we have local newspapers we have used the regional newspapers regional press outlets now we only have from the major financial centers and it reminded me of a contact i have in the intelligence community i know that s big now and these days i would be a hero on m.s.n. b c but he was telling me that under dick cheney that dick cheney was really furious when the intelligence community basically did not agree that there was working in iraq and that saddam hussein s was friends with iraq with al qaeda and that they were w m d s there so he basically got rid of all of the agents in the field. and the reason why he did that is he said they had gone native and they had too much sympathy with the
have from the major financial centers and it reminded me of a contact i have in the intelligence community i know that s big now and these days i would be a hero on m.s.m. b.c. but he was telling me that under dick cheney that dick cheney was really furious when the intelligence community basically did not agree that there was working in iraq and that saddam hussein s was friends with iraq with al qaeda and that there were w m d s there so he basically got rid of all of the agents in the field and the reason why he did that is he said they had gone native and they had too much sympathy with the natives and that they needed to just have the imperial line and said so it strikes me as that s very similar to a scene in the media space is that we haven t had anybody child we don t have rachel maddow when was the last time she ever left new york city arm and hand right she doesn t have the perspective and that s why they missed it that s why they failed so much and had. concoct the
we have to have a better understanding from the israelis about what they want to do. we have had several staff talks with them. we intend to do that more. they have assured us they were not going to rafah until we have had a chance to share our concerns with them. reporter: there have been working level conversations between the israelis and the biden administration over the last several weeks about the administration s concerns and thoughts about what israel could do differently in rafah. we are still waiting to hear, alex, exactly whether the u.s. recommendations are being taken to heart and will be used in rafah to try to mitigate some of the death we ve been saying in gaza over the last 6-7 months. the donald trump trial through the eyes of a former insider, sarah matthews. she gives me her take on her testimony in our next hour. hou very good day to all of you. now to donald trump busy week ahead in the hussman trial. there is no hearing on monday. trent will be bac
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decade ago. tell us what happened. back to 2002. flaws in an suv that leak fuel. he was concerned this would be a hazard and dangerous and potentially fatal. he says he ran into a lot of problem spirit court records we have. recall.ly, they do a after the fact, he fell like his career had been hindered. he felt retaliation. protection under michigan law. in part, we believe he did this because he saw other problems that had not been addressed. he was trying to get attention for the issue and host a higher level executive would take care of the problem. the retaliation he faced? he was the brand quality , aager for the caliber predecessor for the cobalt. he was taken off of that and was put on what they termed special assignment. oh assignment. he essentially, his career stalled at that point. he had a hydrogen or he up until that way. into today ss fits hearing. an old gm and there were problems when executives ignore problems for other employees. if you take the side