joining me now is lanny davis, a white house special council during the clinton administration and authorf "crisis tales: five rules for coping with crisis in business, politics, and life." lanny, good to see you. always a pleasure to speak with you. heartbreaking stories. we just saw two of them and really many more when you include their families. you wrote an impassioned article after seeing a news report about civilian casualties in gaza. i read it. it's amazing. it's heartfelt. tell what's prompted you to write that. >> i watched a network news broadcast of a young palestinian girl in a hospital, paralyzed from the neck down. and i got sick. i literally felt nausea. and i had to turn away in pain. and i was equally outraged that the broadcast didn't mention the human shields that hamas has decided to use little girls like this in order to hide behind children while they shoot missiles intentionally aimed at israeli populations, intentionally aimed, not accidentally, but intentionally. they brag about that. and so the issue for me is the tragedy of these children, these innocent child

bob livingston represented moammar gadhafi and joe trippy represents the government of bahrain, lanny davis represents every tyrant on the planet and none of those people who are similarly situated and who have greater contacts and are aren't muslim seem to be on this list and that's the reason why it raises the suspicion along with documents like the one we published like the fbi on the fisa form for a sample is writing things like mohammed raghead and usingeth lick slurs against arabs and muslims and do you means that we've seen before from the fbi and nsa raising what the motive is. >> ethnic slurs are horrific part of this story, but let's get back to your case. i understand you're an attorney. >> right. >> and there's attorney-client privilege. >> absolutely. >> but being a lawyer does not shield you from a fisa warrant and these cases, either a fisa court or before the the bush administration was called out on this, the attorney general himself, somebody thought that there was something worth looking at and they looked into it, it might have been ultimately to clear you. >> well, i'm

lannie davis joins us from washington, d.c good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you are one of thewhy? >> i am a great supporter of eric holder and mr. cole. i think he's right on the law that a special counsel isn't warranted, but i think as a crisis manager, the irs e-mail, missing e-mail story raises so many questions that special counsel that reports to eric holder, not an independent counsel -- from a standpoint of public optics would be a good way to instill confidence in that investigation because i never believed it was political targeting. at the end of the day, we have no evidence of that. this is a matter of public confidence and those e-mails missing bothered me and the fact that we still have no explanation, a special counsel might actually help eric holder, who i. >> ly admire, conduct that investigation without raising questions that some people might raise in a political arena. >> one of the reasons a lot of people say something went on there was the irs in the form of lois lerner actually came out and apologized. yeah, we shouldn't have done this and we did it and