he had something to say but i wanted to get your response to for a specific case which was the david petraeus case. this is hip saying i thought david should have been prosecute the not just nor the mishandling of confidential information but lying and in the end, the attorney general decided he would be charged only with a misdemeanor mishandling of classified information. did you go too easy on david petraeus, do you sthep into the chain of authority to reduce the penalties he faces? >> no, i followed the recommendations of all the lawyers involved in the case include kooth united states attorney and taking into account all the facts in that case and taking into account the recommendation that cape from jim. from jim comey. i thought that that the resolution we ultimately decided was appropriate into it was not a political determination that david petraeus, his political capital meant that charging him with a felony would be politically toxic? >> no, that never entered my calculation at all. i knew general petraeus for a very limited amount of time. in terms of politics that, never entered

then colonel stanley mccrystal and david petraeus. >> could you imagine that. lonel mccrystal and petraeus. they are like jedi knights in training. >> they are the best we ever fielded, bar none. the least amount of ego and self-serving action. the most incredible history. they have all grown up in combat operations. >> this is the level where all of these combat doctrines, how you fight a fute war, would have been developed. early 1990s is a very significant point. >> combat is changing. the cold war is over. a new stateless enemy is emerging. prior to flynn's arrival at fort polk, al qaeda sets off a truck bomb in the underground garage of the world trade center. flynn, mccrystal and petraeus recognize the new threat. >> mccrystal in special operations, petraeus in the senior staff and flynn in intelligence, these are guys who can talk about their strategy and then bring them right out into the field and practice these things. >> what major michael flynn is preparing for becomes apparent as the new century downs bringing changes and placing him at the center o

know repeatedly over the next couple of years and at the same time you had hillary clinton and david petraeus and others in his administration pushing for a much more aggressive policy that's been the pattern now for years now today you have trump as everyone knows really expressing repeatedly the desire to get out of syria and to to have a very strict time limit on the war against isis and the military saying no we can't do that and others in the administration clearly not in sympathy with it and so there's a there's a kind of. uncertainty about how that's going to play out but if you look at it in the larger picture of geopolitics you know that basically the president united states and the president of russia are both not interested in having a war continue in syria and i think that that ultimately is going to play a big role in how this plays out in the next year let's see how this plays out mohamed let me go to you in doha it seems to me one of the reasons why the u.s. is staying there first of all doesn't like the current condition in it wants to be a power broker it wants to be part of

he had lots of conversations with very important people like david petraeus and henry kissinger and so he's kind of learning on the fly and jared has said publicly going out to the middle east, i don't care about the past, i care about the future. but you can't walk into a room in the middle east and say "i don't care about the past." you just can't. and it's like the past is everything, and it goes back a long way. and so i think that some of the things that we've seen happening in the middle east over the past year, some of which are detailed in my piece, it's like i don't care about my piece. >> we'll get to that when we talk about jerusalem but first on prince mohammed bin salman. you've described him, and others have, as charismatic and yet ruthless. we have all this talk about liberalizing life for women in saudi arabia, trying to liberalize the economy and diversify and trying to crack down on corruption but in your article the famous rounding up of 200 of the richest, most powerful, and putting them in the ritz-carlton, they were told to remove their clothes and were given a un

netflix you tube it was shown to tribes former chief strategist steve bannon former cia director david petraeus ex defense secretary leon panetta just to make it clear foreign money gulf arab money used to make a fake propaganda film by professionals and then shown to millions shown to some of america's most influential figures to promote international conflict on fake grounds this is psyops the big time league of propaganda the film was released on a time when gulf states cut diplomatic trade and transport ties with qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism something doha has repeatedly denied back then the arab states also urged qatar to close a turkish military base and shut down the cable news network al-jazeera so the arabia took the lead in the isolation campaign well the kingdom's foreign minister is now warning that the tory government could collapse if it doesn't pay for washington's military presence in syria. could starr should finance the u.s. military's presence in syria and send its own military forces there before the us president american protection for qatar if the u.s. is to w

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know repeatedly over the next couple of years and at the same time you had hillary clinton and david petraeus and others in his administration pushing for a much more aggressive policy that's been the pattern now for years now today you have trump as everyone knows really expressing repeatedly the desire to get out of syria and to to have a very strict time limit on the war against isis and the military saying no we can't do that and others in the administration clearly not in sympathy with it and so there's a there's a kind of uncertainty about how that's going to play out but if you look at it in the larger picture of geopolitics you know that basically the president of united states and the president of russia are both not interested in having a war continue in syria and i think that that ultimately is going to play a big role in how this plays out in the next year let's see how this plays out mohamed let me go to you in doha it seems to me one of the reasons why the u.s. is staying there first of all doesn't like the current condition in it wants to be a power broker it wants to be part o

know repeatedly over the next couple of years and at the same time you had hillary clinton and david petraeus and others in his administration pushing for a much more aggressive policy that's been the pattern now for years now today you have trump as everyone knows really expressing repeatedly the desire to get out of syria and to to have a very strict time limit on the war against isis and the military saying no we can't do that and others in the administration clearly not in sympathy with it and so there's a there's a kind of uncertainty about how that's going to play out but if you look at it in the larger picture of geopolitics you know that basically the president united states and the president of russia are both not interested in having a war continue in syria and i think that that ultimately is going to play a big role in how this plays out in the next year let's see how this plays out mohamed let me go to you in doha it seems to me one of the reasons why the u.s. is staying there first of all doesn't like the current condition in it wants to be a power broker it wants to be part of s

here we have welcomed leaders such as general david petraeus , former british foreign secretary and former u.s. ambassador to the uk matthew. [inaudible] actor gary oldman who collected this green actors guild award last night for his role as churchill and distinguished historians including tim schneider to discuss not only particulars of his life and career butl' also their application to our present-day challenges. today i'm the honor to welcome robert harris, one of the worlds for thriller writers and a novelist who has brought to life in ancient rome, london and world war 1 ii and in 1960s berlin hunted by an aging hitler who won the second world war. in his latest work he takes us to downing street as the prime minister was haunted by the devastation of the first world war attempts to avoid a second. his efforts lead to the infamous munich conference of 1938. it is vividly portrayed and laced with suspense and intrigue. roberts many best-selling novels include the cicero trilogy, fatherland, enigma and also a spy, and conclave. several of his book have been filmed including the ghost

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know repeatedly over the next couple of years and at the same time you had hillary clinton and david petraeus and others in his administration pushing for a much more aggressive policy that's been the pattern now for years now today you have trump as everyone knows really expressing repeatedly the desire to get out of syria and to to have a very strict time limit on the war against isis and the military saying no we can't do that and others in the administration clearly not in sympathy with it and so there's a there's a kind of uncertainty about how that's going to play out but if you look at it in the larger picture of geopolitics you know that basically the president united states and the president of russia are both not interested in having a war continue in syria and i think that that ultimately is going to play a big role in how this plays out in the next year let's see how this plays out mohamed let me go to you in doha it seems to me one of the reasons why the u.s. is staying there first of all doesn't like the current condition it wants to be a power broker it wants to be part of some

david petraeus said you cannot capture and kill your way out of the industrial-strengthr insurgency. it is through negotiation the war cabinet through the obama years he said there has to be a political solution to accommodate some elements of afghan politics.re a but if the afghan war was settled only by what was incorporated from those defectors and why was this line of diplomatic actions prioritized year after year? this was a stove pipe toward the pentagon minutes war cia ran its war holbrook who is estranged from the white house there was not a whole of government by any stretch with strategies when i went back all of this even building my diaries and interviewing people in real time but to unpack together i found it particularly frustrating because of the achievement in diplomacy holding russia and china to negotiate talk about a hard problem they decided to reverse decades of policy to cuba despite the treacherous politics. they worked on it sometimes a secret sometimes in semi- secret yet they have all the soldiers on the battlefield with 2000 plus dead, 20000 wounded, we did

and contrasting clinton's use of an unsecured personal server with the case of retired general david petraeus and sandy berger, the late national security advisor under president clinton. sources tell fox news some or all of the comey memos were shared with one person beyond prof. richmond and patrick fitzgerald identified as a likely recipient. mr. fitzgerald, a former special counsel and comey's personal attorneys did not respond to requests for comment. >> all that business goes on at the white house, tim cook met with donald trump today to discuss trade tensions with china, the president has criticized the technology joined in the past over its decision not to cooperate with law-enforcement and pre-encryption. and met with larry kudlow. news on the health of george hw bush, 41 if he is called affectionately has been moved out of the intensive care unit where he is expected to continue his recovery from a blood infection over the next several days. doctors are pleased with his progress. he is alert and talking with hospital staff, family and friends. a rare chance to hear the justice's voi

the book by comey, he puts an enormous premium on prosecuting people like martha stewart and david petraeusho he says lied in the course of an investigation. well, is that a standard that's going to apply to fbi agent as well? >> well, we'll find out. i mean, that's going to -- the prosecutor in d.c. is going to make the decision about mr. mccabe. but what's becoming clear, paul, is that the fbi in the director's office at the highest level under jim comey was in complete political disarray. it should have been accountable to someone. it doesn't look, paul, as though the comey operation was accountable to anybody at justice. >> paul: and jason, rudy giuliani coming on-board of president's team with a couple lawyers from floor, jane and martin raskin. he needs the help. >> he does need the help. he's turning to someone who he trusts very much. rudy julialy was with him -- giuliani was with him throughout the campaign. the president is having difficulty putting together a legal team to defend himself. that's something i'm sure that keeping him up at night. >> paul: when we come back, presiden

it never made sense that people like david petraeus and sandy berger, half a dozen other people or prosecutedor doing the exact same thing that hillary clinton did. and yet comey stood in front of television cameras in 2016, in july, and said no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. he seemed to have amnesia thatec many reasonable prosecutors, including his own, had done the exact same thing. it's very curious here. >> sean: we warned him. right here. you warned him. i warned him.ri no good lawyer would let him write this book or go on this w tour. >> the other aspect is that we've learned today that he'sis hired yet another lawyer. the first lawyer, daniel richman, is that person to whom comey leaked seven stolen presidential memos, four of which were classified. >> sean: is that a conflict? >> so now he can hide behind the attorney-client privilege with richman, and if he also gave those same memos to fitzgerald, and i believe he did, he has now hired him to hide behind the attorney-client privilege. >> sean: the guy that puts scooter libby, who was recently pardoned, he's the one

here we welcomed leaders such as general david petraeus. former pakistani president pervez musharaff and actor gary oldman who collected a green actors guild award last night for his role as churchill and tim snyder discussing not only the particulars of churchill's life and career, but also their present day challenges. today, i have the honor to welcome robert harris, one of the world's foremost thriller writings and who brought to life, ancient rome, london in world war ii and 1960's berlin haunted by an aging hitler who won the second world war. boo. [laughter] >> in his latest work he takes us to 10 downing street, the prime minister neville chamberlin, haunted by the devastation of the first world war attempts to avoid a second. his efforts lead to the munich conference of 1938 which is vividly portrayed and laced with suspense and intrigue. robert's many best selling novels include the cicero trilogy. fatherland, enigma, officer and spy and conclave. several of his books have been filmed "the ghost", directed by roman polanski. his w

it's been alleged against hilary clinton, david petraeus and other high officials, that's the more likely statute. >> thank you very much. gregg jarrett, you lead off on this one. the documents, he may have been wrong, may have been unethical, may have been underhand, but was it illegal? >> absolutely. in the federal regulations, code of federal regulations, and the privacy act, as well as the federal records act, anything that's in the course and scope of your employment is government property. and every fbi agent signs a document that says when you leave government, all of that is the government's to remain behind. you are not to take it with you. comey took it with him. >> does it make any difference that he created the documents himself? >> no. everything you do in the course and scope of your employment is government property. he was acting as the fbi director when he spoke to the president. he wrote about their conversations. it is clearly government property. and he stole that government property, including according to senator grassley, four classified documents, which would make

the case of retired general david petraeus and sandy berger, the late national security advisor under president clinton. sources tell fox news that some or all of this beauty memos were shared with at least one other person beyond richman and former u.s. attorney patrick fitzgerald identified as the likely recipient. former special counsel and now one of comey's personal attorney did not respond to multiple requests from fox for comment. >> bret: thank you. i will ask james comey about this and much more during my interview with him tomorrow night live here onset of "special report." be sure to tune in or recorded. 6:00 p.m. eastern time. the time for a friendly chat with president trump is over. today french president emmanuel macron wrapped up his vision to the u.s. with an address to members of congress, one that directly challenge president trump once again over the iran nuclear deal. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reports. >> president emmanuel macron used a good portion of the nearly 50 minute speech to continue his appeal for the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear

i think it was david petraeus during his tour in 2011 us and you cannot capture and kill your way out of an industrial-strength insurgency. these wars and through negotiations. in the war cabinet in the obama years repeatedly affirmed that they would have to be a political solution that accommodated at least some elements of the caliban and afghan politics. but if it can be settled only by negotiations that incorporated many defectors from the telegram as possible, why was this line of political and diplomatic action not prioritized year after year? this was a war, the pentagon ran its work, -- told to run his diplomacy. there was not diplomatic strategy by any stretch. when i went back to all of this i was present when a lot of this was going on and filled in the diaries and experience people in real time. when i went back and unpacked this particular failure i found it particularly frustrating. we think about the obama administration achievements, in diplomacy, working with russia and china and europe on site to negotiate an agreement with iran over the nuclear program. talk about a

hehe then attacks general david petraeus.ccording to comey, petraeus should have faced more than a charge, he should have gone to prison for lying. comey's words come out lying "strikes at the heart of our rule of law in this country." fair enough, the probable should be held accountable for their misdeeds, but then comey goes on to talk about the marc rich case. your member that? on his way out of office, bill clinton sold a presidential pardon to a wanted felon who had fled the country. "i have never heard of another caseworker a fugitive was pardoned. thenen stephanopoulos answers te question, did you draw any conclusions about the clintons? comey's response, not at all. selling apart into a fugitive tells him nothing whatsoever about the clintons and their character. by the way,s hillary clinton is awfully smarter than hardworking. loretta lynch gets the same soft treatment. comey conceded that lynch did in fact pressure him to describe the clinton investigation as a "matter" rather than what it actually was, criminal inv

express horror in the book when public officials or celebrities lie to investigators, whether david petraeusooter libby. >> martha stewart. >> martha stewart. i would assume you would be upset at andrew mccabe. i haven't heard you criticize him the way you criticized the others. >> i don't think i criticized them. >> the act, though. >> the act is something i take seriously and so is the department of justice. what is going on so far is the mechan mechanism of the department workling. i don't know what will happen, but that is part of accountability and examination of what the consequences would be if there was material lying. >> how do you feel about your former deputy, according to the inspector general, lying for a leak that was only motivated to preserve his own reputation, having nothing to do with the fbi or the public's right to know? >> it conflicted. i like him as a person. but even good people do things they shouldn't do. i read the report. i'm not the judge in the case. i'm not the decisionmaker in the case. the accountability mechanism is working and it should work. it's not acce

clinton's use of an unsecured personal server for government business with a case of retired general david petraeus and sandy berger, the late national security advisor under president clinton. three sources tell fox news that to some or all of this be if memos were shared with at least one of the person beside professor richman, patrick fitzgerald was identified as a likely recipient. mr. fitzgerald, a former special counsel, now one of comey's personal attorneys, did not respond to requests for comment. shannon? >> shannon: catherine herridge, thank you very much. i met all that business going on to the white house, apple ceo tim cook met with president trump today to discuss trade tensions with china. the president has criticized the technology giant in the past, specifically over its decision not to cooperate with law enforcement and break iphone encryption. he also met with economic advisor larry kudlow. positive news to report tonight on the health of former president george w. bush. 41, as he's called affectionately, has been moved out of the intensive care unit at houston methodist hospital

we welcome leaders such as general david petraeus, former british foreign secretary lord owen and former u.s. ambassador to the u.k., matthew barsen, actor gary oldman, and distinguished historians including tim snyder to discuss not only the particulars of churchill's life and career, but their application to our present-day challenges. for as churchill himself observed, the longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward. this notion of applied history is near and dear to our very special guest this evening. miami ferguson -- niall ferguson came to stanford full time after a dozen years as the lawrence tish professor at harvard. his many books include the house of rothschild, the ones who made the weather today as you probably heard -- [laughter] war of the world, the ascent of money, civilization, colossus and empire as well as volume one of his official biography of henry kissinger, volume two is on the way. in 2012 he was asked by the bbc to deliver the prestigious reith lectures after time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. he was edu

in vietnam i got very kind endorsements from both general mcchrystal and david petraeus. i did not know them before. it is not an inside job. and they agreed with me that this was, they, the united states did not pay enough attention to the tribal identities to the smallest sectarian identities. and in vietnam for example, it was the asians, the vietnamese, chinese, japanese, korean. just all the same, what is the difference? and general mcmaster did something very successful. he was the first person to really pay attention and he turned it around the time he was there. one thing he specifically said was if you use a derogatory term a racist term to refer to all arabs or all muslims, were basically handing the enemy a victory. i think that is another reason. they all look the same, we have some negative view of all of these brown people are chinese or asian people. >> and the domestic policy realm. i remember being in new york city the night of the election. i was attending a party held by a number of republican party leaders who expected election not to go very well. aro

of horror in the book when public officials or even celebrities lie to investigators whether david petraeus or -- >> martha stewart. >> i would assume you would be upset at andrew mccabe. i haven't heard you criticize him the same way as the others. >> -- >> >> oh sure. that's anct i take seriously and the department of justice. so far the accountability mechanisms of the department working and committed to the truth and so it's working. i don't know whether there's a criminal referral what will happen. that's part of accountability and examination of what the consequences should be if there's material lying. >> how do you feel about your former deputy according to the inspector general lying lying to you, lying to investigators for a leak that the inspector general said was only motivated to preserve his own rep vags and nothing to do with the fbi or the public's right to know? conflicted. i like him very much as a pen and even good people do things they shouldn't do. ir've he the report. i'm not the judge in the case or disciplined decision maker in the case. they should work because it's

in vietnam, i got very kind endorsements from both general mcchrystal and david petraeus. do not note them and they agreed with me that the united states did not pay enough attention to the tribal identities to, to these smaller sectarian identitieses, and in vietnam, for example, it was just the asia -- the vietnamese, chinese, chines, their all gooks. what's the different. and in iraq i general mcmaster did some things very successful. he was the first person to really pay attention to these tribal and sectarian identities and the turned it around for the time he was there. one thing he specific by said was if you use a derogatory term, racist term to reefer to all arabs or all muslims, you are basically handing the enemy a victory. so, i think that's another reason. they all look the same, we have some negative view of all these brown people or chinese people, asian people. >> to take this to the domestic policy realm and then political realm, so, i remember being in new york city the night of election and was in a party of republican party leaders leadero expects the e