from athis whole story series, i took it to herrera hassan. i asked him to tell me his story without telling him the details in mind. his story matched my story detail by detail. when you get to completely different sources cooperating the same story without them knowing, you are confident. >> at some point in this chapter you write the kernel from ambassador approach, u.s. state walker, flies to and by the time he gets here, there is a line that says we don't want him anymore. who is that? >> it wasn't that they didn't want him anymore. this man was being used by the state department. is at war with the pentagon. the state department was the hawks. they wanted military action. they were the ones that suggested commando raid that would bring in noriega. the pentagon where the dogs. >> these events began a war between a militaristic state department. i want to ask you to name names so we know, this is 1988. the last or the reagan administration. who are the militarists? asked the military of the state department would have been allete abrams. t

i took it to herrera hassan. i asked him to tell me the story without telling him the details of my story. he matched my story detail by detail. if you get two different sources corroborating the same story without them knowing what you knew from the other, you're close to accurate. >> you wrote that the colonel -- the ambassador from panama to israel approached from a u.s. state department man, walker. asked him to come to washington. by the time he gets here, there's a line that says we don't want him anymore. who is that that said they didn't want him anymore. >> it wasn't so much they didn't want him anymore. this man was being used by the state department as part of their game to push through something in the bureaucracy. we weren't only at war with noriega, the state department was at war with the department. they were the hawks in this episode. they wanted to militarily take action. they wanted to suggest some sort of commando raid that would bring noriega's kidnap and bring him to justice in the united st

we have heard a lot about hassan in college station, texas and many others besides those. but today, the gunman in sudden any australia, he's a guy that police and authorities in australia certainly should have been aware of, they were to some extent, he came to australia from iran in 1996 as a refugee, he first came to the attention of the police when he sent hate mail to the families of dead australian soldiers from 2007 to 2009. later arrested for sexual assault of a woman at his healing clinic and 40 other assault charges in october after more victims came forward. let's bring in a panel, singd indicated columnist george will, juan willwill--you got to wondey this guy was not under 24-hour surveillance given his track record? >> the problem is enough people who are marginally sane, that you can't keep track of them all, civil liberties issues and law enforcement and all kinds of issues involved. but if lone wolf threat are the worst threat we face, then we're in better shape than i think we probably are. because a lone wolf can cause terrible damage and cause individua

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. >> mold hassan jose firefighters on the move. it forced relocation of 8 firefighters from fire station 16 on south king road to 2 other stations. they have also moved app engine and truck. department says it won't affect fire coverage in the area. mold at station 16 a problem in the past. one of the oldest station in the city. >> this stretch of polk street in san francisco ranked first in new top 10 list of lanes in america. pro cycle group conducted survey. license allow bicycle legislature to travel against the flow traffic on busy one way street of polk near market strichlt one final holiday gift next on abc 7 news. man known as mr. christmas hangs up the lets for the last time. tonight how the community thanks him for the countless years of holiday cheer. >> plus tough test for the new i-phone.so what happens when you boil the pricey gadget in soda? >> and perfect stocking stuf stuffier. if they are ever used. problem with giving gift card this holiday season. >> calendar says winter but tomorrow the brings us a breath >> ca

and the best information came from an al qaeda operative named hassan ghul who officers said sang like a tweetie bird before being tortured. he was subjected to 59 hours of sleep deprivation. the report says he began hallucinating and never provided further threat information. dana priest who won a prize for uncovering the secrets in 2005 was surprised by the report's new details. >> there was more systemic abuse that seems more sadistic than it does any kind of technique to extract information. >> reporter: cia critics on the intelligence committee say the agency is still not coming clean. >> the cia is lying. this is not a problem of the past, madame president, but a problem that needs to be dealt with. >> reporter: at the cia morale is shattered. >> these folks having the rug pulled out from under them, people who thought they were doing what we wanted them to do, that's unprecedented. >> reporter: officials say cia director john brennan spoke to the workforce today. many of the newcomers hired since the interrogation program ended trying to "pick people up off the ground." brennan

. >> mold hassan jose firefighters on the move.forced relocation of 8 firefighters from fire station 16 on south king road to 2 other stations. they have also moved app engine and truck. department says it won't affect fire coverage in the area. mold at station 16 a problem in the past. one of the oldest station in the city. >> this stretch of polk street in san francisco ranked first in new top 10 list of best bike lanes in america. pro cycle group conducted survey. license allow bicycle legislature to travel against the flow traffic on busy one way street of polk near market strichlt one final holiday gift next on abc 7 news. man known as mr. christmas hangs up the lets for the last time. tonight how the community thanks him for the countless years of holiday cheer. >> plus tough test for the new i-phone.so what happens when you boil the pricey gadget in soda? >> and perfect stocking stuf stuffier. if they are ever used. problem with giving gift card this holiday season. >> calendar says winter but tomorrow the brings us a breath

. >> mold hassan jose firefighters on the move. it forced relocation of 8 firefighters from fire station 16 on south king road to 2 other stations. they have also moved app engine and truck. department says it won't affect fire coverage in the area. mold at station 16 a problem in the past. one of the oldest station in the city. >> this stretch of polk street in san francisco ranked first in new top 10 list of best bike lanes in america. pro cycle group conducted survey. license allow bicycle legislature to travel against the flow traffic on busy one way street of polk near market strichlt one final holiday gift next on abc 7 news. man known as mr. christmas hangs up the lets for the last time. tonight how the community thanks him for the countless years of holiday cheer. >> plus tough test for the new i-phone.so what happens when you boil the pricey gadget in soda? >> and perfect stocking stuf stuffier. if they are ever used. problem with giving gift card this holiday season. >> calendar says winter but tomorrow the brings us a br

we're talking about the hassan air base where people were told to stay inside their quarters or workplaces details are being released at this time. the base is home to more than 28,000 troops. it was drill. >> well, in shopping news, charge your smart phone it could save you serious money for tomorrow on cyber monday. millions of americans are expected to shop online tomorrow and mobile shopping is gaining momentum. objection black friday purchases from mobile devices was 30% of all shopping. amazon is planning to cater on mobile shoppers. it's offering lightning deals op mobile app. consumers are expec expected tot $2.5 billion tomorrow. now people want to know is black friday shopping weekend maybe losing its mojo. survey of shoppers released today by the national retail federation suggests early discounting more online shopping and an improving economy may have fewer people shopping on the weekend that kicks off the holiday shopping season. overall, a little more than 133 million people shopped at stores and online over this four-day holiday weekend. that is down more than 5% from last

>> we should learning from lone wolf attacks since major knee tall hassan in -- major nidal hassan inhis is not something new unfortunately. it is a symbol of how terrorism has now become so instantly attainable to anybody. you don't have to be a member of any group. you don't have to be vetted. you don't have to be selected. you can become instantly famous and become a national symbol around the world and we've had this all over. it's not the 20 people who volunteered to go to syria and iraq. it's the potential hundreds of radicalized muslims in the united states. we're not talking about the majority of muslims. we're talking about a select small percentage. those that rise above the threshold of willing to carry out a violent attack. and there are scores and scores of them. >> were you frustrated at all listening to prime minister abbott's description. to anyone else it looks like a terrorist attack with someone tied to isil. he seemed to think this guy is inconsistent and weird. >> to tell you the truth, i was watching him last night at 12:30. i knew i had to get up at 5:00 a.m. af

hassan kills 14 fellow soldiers and calls awlaki his inspiration. they exchanged e-mails.c turned terror leader takes credit. his website reads, "nidal hasan is a hero." >> we all knew that he would have to be killed. it was clearly stated. >> just one month later -- >> breaking news. >> awlaki sends the so-called underpants bomber to blow up northwest flight 253 as it lands in detroit christmas day 2009. >> a passenger tried to detonate some kind of explosive. >> the plot is foiled, but cia agents now know there is no time to lose. anwar awlaki is raging a relentless bloody war against americans, more than ever, storm says, the cia is realizing they need him. >> america as a whole has turned into a nation of evil. >> awlaki must be eliminated. but storm says his officers from british, danish, intelligence agencies disagree about how to take out awlaki. controlling the plan means controlling storm. in a bizarre courtship, the spy agencies lavish attention on storm trying to win his loyalty. first up, the danish. wooing storm on behalf of the cia. >> we went to iceland, up

and i don't care whether the fbi or the white house wants the call the shooting by hassan or the severing of a woman's head in north carolina about she complained about her killer trying to convert people to islam workplace violence. this is jihad. the lone wolves are here in the united states. america was founded by people who gave up everything, their family bs, their fortune and their livelihood to ensure through the first amendment that we would have religious freedom, that quote congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof of abridging the freedom of speech. so why does it feel like we're moving in the direction of our first amendment rights being sub gentleman gaited to the religion of others. when the president says an american should be prosecuted for exercising his first amendment by making a video perceived as negative about islam, when the former secretary of state, hillary clinton says, we need to understand and empathize with our enemies, we are on a downward spiral. our first amendment free speech and freedom of

the intelligence committee and the cia are sparring over the importance of another detainee named hassanoul, who gave the cia information on bin laden's currier. the most accurate information on abu ahmed al kuwaiti was provided by a cia detainee had not been subjected to the enhanced interrogation techniques. the cia and john mcglocklin said ghoul gave up a very important piece of information after his interrogation. >> this guy delivered a letter from bin laden to the operations chief. that sort of nails the fact that he's in touch with bin laden and that he's actually doing things for him. >> but mcglocklin acknowledges the information given by those detainees who got stressful interrogation was just one piece of a much larger intelligence mosaic that led to the bin laden raid, years of signals collection, overhead photography, other human intelligence were crucial in taking down the al qaeda leader. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> at this moment we want to get you live to pretoria south africa with the judge is now reading her decision on the prosecution's appeal of the pistorius se

. >> here is what is scary about this and scary about major hassan. there were warning signs. army law enforcements or law enforcement did not look in the warning signs. this guy was not quiet. he made threats on military people, right? he did this in australia. major hasan was getting up every day and making radical speeches. does that mean you put him in jail? i don't know. but it means you investigate. >> the problem that exists here, we don't know the full extent of how much his threats were or what his threats were. melissa: we do know about the threats he made to soldiers families and things he said to them and enough to incarcerate him for a period of time. he was definitely on the radar without question. >> he was on the radar but do you then allot the amount of law enforcement needed to to follow him on a daily basis. melissa: everybody that makes threats. i understand that. >> do a report on that. >> not political enough. >> we take for granted our freedom. >> right. >> stuff you guys do and other first-responders and we take it all for granted but what the cia does,

and yet when you have real life terrorist threats, let's take for example, in the doll hassan, hassanmajor in the army communicating over e-mail with a known terrorist, we had the communication back and forth inquiring about the permissibility of jihad, and yet somehow they failed to connect the dots and stopped them from carrying out that act of terrorism. likewise, the design of brothers who committed the boston bombing. we knew we knew in that instance. the russians had told us that they were radical islamic terrorists. we had gone and interview them. they went back to chechnya. and yet apparently when the elder brother posted on youtube, i think it was, a video calling for jihad, we were not focused on that, and we did not prevent that bombing. and one of the problems with an administration's approach that is sweeping in every law-abiding citizen, there is so much information, too much to distinguish good guys from bad guys. and i think that we can maintain tools to protect the national security, to monitor and surveilled foreign terrorists abroad while at the same time, listen, y

harris: is this a case of who told the story first hassan rouhani. >> i like a bit of a performance.ly believe who over has more detail and is wearing a costume. and i think that he should be able to share it. and i think that this is 2014 and it is the year for apology and so maybe ncis just wants to share and i'm sorry and then we can move on and we can focus on these issues. harris: he deliberated to come out and do that. and he came forward only after books were released on this rate, there is tons of details put out there. it's not like he went out there initially and was the first one to talk about this. he waited to deliberated by the time he came out we had the most information, the most of the information that was out there. >> at the case of who told the story first. in terms of all those other investigations that you brought up, we do have a few things on the ballot sheet, if you will. >> oh, yes. and people -- the problem is that people get really excited in the moment about "fast and furious" and then somehow this administration pushes things under the bug until long eno

intelligence committee and the cia are also sparring over the importance of another detainee named hassan gul, who also gave the cia information on bin laden's courier. the intelligence committee says, quote, the most accurate information was provided by a cia detainee who had not yet been subjected to the cia's enhanced interrogation tech next. the cia and its former deputy director john mclaughlin say gul gave up a very critical piece of intelligence about the courier after his interrogation. >> takes us pretty far by saying this guy delivered a letter from bin laden to the operations chief, abu faraj al libi. that nails that he is in touch with bin laden and he is doing things for him. >> reporter: but mclaughlin acknowledges the information given by those detainees who got stressful interrogation is just one piece of larger intelligence mosiac that led to the bin laden raid. he says years of signal collection, overhead photography, other human intelligence were crucial in taking down the al qaeda leader. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> and thousands of u.s. marines were placed on hei

in fact, the person who gave the best system, a guy named hassan guhl gave most of that testimony beforewas tortured. afterwards, he clammed up. there was no evidence. the evidence is that they gave false and misleading at best. >> let's listen to mr. mitchell once more time just so you can hear the full professionalism of this expert. listen to this. >> a very good friend of mine named don hutchins who was captured by kashimiri separatists under the same guy that kidnapped daniel pearl before he turned him over to ksem, they let the women go but eventually killed the men. and i started trying to figure out, what is this about, you know? who are these people? so even though personally, i don't give a damn whether you worship, what god you worship, which way you face when you worship, what kind of building you worship in. i don't care. but literally, when you want to kill my friends and kill my family and you want to destroy my way of life, you've got my full attention 37. >> of course he doesn't care where they worship because he doesn't know anything about where they worship or anything

they say there's a clear connection, not organizational, but inspiration between men such as hassan, the man who shot 13 people dead in ft. hood, the brothers in boston, et cetera, there are people who may not be actualized but may still act in these ways. >> look, the american defense budget announced last week that it was spending $585 billion on defense. $67.5 billion on military operations abroad. what i would really like to see is the answer to this problem is not bullets, mortars, bombs and rockets. the answer is understanding the ideology on what turns people. did someone is a lone wolf, part of a terror network, very sophisticated of al qaeda or appear rative, it doesn't matter. the end result is the same. what this guy has done is manage to tie up news cable channels for 24 hours, which is the biggest propaganda took isis could ask for. and he didn't actually kill a hostage himself. >> there did seem to be a very strategic selection of a place downtown, in sydney, in the financial district, in sort of a square where there are lots and lots of cameras, where he'll get lots an

>> actually, the initial information came from a facilitator called hassan ghoul going back to 2002 and 2003, he actually told us about the courier. that's when we first heard about the courier. al-libi told us that he knew about the appointment to become the chief of operations through the courier and then ksm, of course, we intercepted a message that he sent to his fellow prisoners in which he says do not say a word about the courier. so we gained a lot of insight from our prisoners at the black sides about the importance of the courier, which eventually led to the takedown of bin laden. >> so in other words, you're saying that the accusation that these enhanced interrogation techniques were used beyond what we had already been disclosed you're saying is false, number one, and that, in spite of their suggestion that they were not successful, you're saying that, in fact, that's not true. you were there, it was successful? >> it was a very successful, and for those of us who were there, it's just amazing that they could have come to this conclusion. those of us who read the intelligence

and i agree with leith, he's an inspired, sbrg, lone actor, much like major hassan at ft. hood, the hatchet attack on the london soldier, the canadian attack on the parliament, they're inspired actors. they're not part of the connected organization, but they're still deadly. >> isn't that even more dangerous, laith, than organized groups that can be looked upon, monitored, spied upon? that you have these lone people that no one has any way of knowing they're going to come out? how do we protect ourselves from that? >> most definitely, these are the unknown unknowns. you don't know whether they're going to strike. they leave very little evidence behind. they don't cooperate or organize with other individuals. they don't act on behalf of a group. they act inspired by an ideology more than anything else. what we need, we need a counter narrative, a deradicalization campaign that can take off in a be in of societies where we believe isis is trying to infiltrate, or its ideology is trying to infiltrate, in australia, the united states, europe and all across the middle east. >>

do you distinguish between the committed jihadist, one thinks immediately of someone like nadal hassan at ft. hood, and some of these cases which seem to be deranged, sick individuals who kind of latch on to islamic teachings as a kind of cause or a script. >> hard to argue you're not a de ranged individual if you're inspired to chop someone's head off. don't care if you're stable one day and not stable the next day. same as loeb wolf candidates. earlier in australia which fundamentally changed theth way we saw isil or d.a.s.h. operate, they had people identified in aus tlal yeah who were going to come to fight in syria. they made a significant change. they called back and said, no, don't come. got plenty of people coming. stay in australia. randomly kidnap people. chop their heads off, film it and we'll use it for propaganda purposes. that is a fundamental change. so, if they're doing it in that case you know they're pushing out this notion to inspire others to commit these actses. canada, germany, france, united states, great britain. it's getting worse. not better. >> final lishgs l

the intelligence committee and the cia are sparring over the importance of another detainee named hassan laden's courier. the intelligence committee says "the most accurate information on abu ahmad al kuwaiti was provided by by a detainee who has not yet been subjected to the enhanced interrogation techniques." the cia say ghul gave it up after interrogation. >> it takes us pretty far by saying this guy delivered a letter from bin laden to the operations chief. that sort of nails the fact that he's in touch with bin laden and that he's actually doing things for him. >> reporter: but mclaughlin acknowledges the information given by those detainees who got stressful interrogation was just one piece of a much larger intelligence mosaic that led to the bin laden raid. he says years of signals collection, overhead photography, other human intelligence were crucial in taking down the al qaeda leader. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> checking other top stories at 50 minutes past the hour. an aviation task force is calling for all commercial planes to be tracked every 15 minutes. the new global

also information from detainees before they were coercively interrogated, particularly someone named hassanl who was held by the kurdish regime in the northern part of iraq. and one other thing, five of the most senior al qaeda detainees who were held who were subjected to these techniques all provided misinformation about the courier. so i think the cia has pushed back and -- >> so there's a legitimate debate under way -- >> this thing about misinformation, that was valuable to us, too. we learned stuff, we knew for sure some of these senior detainees had contact with this courier. and at this point in time, they were providing enormous amounts of correct information to us. they were providing information we could verify. and when they started lying to us about the courier, that said, there is really important. if they're going to be telling you a lot of stuff that's really good and accurate and go out of their way to lie about it, this highlights -- >> well, they would have lied about it if they weren't coercively interrogated presumably as well. >> only a handful of people knew about thi

threat are lone wo wolves, and to you distinguish between the committed jihadist, somebody like nidal hassan at ft. hood, and some of these cases which seem to be deranged, sick individuals who kind of latch on to islamic teachings as a kind of cause or a script? >> hard to argue you're not a deranged individual if you're willing to be inspired to chop someone's head off. i don't care if you're stable one day and not stable the particular day. same with the other lone wolves. here's the problem. earlier in australia, which fundamentally changed the way we saw groups like isis, isil, or dash operate, they had people identified in australia who were going to come to fight in syria. they made a really significant change. they called back and said, no, don't come, got plenty of people coming. stay in australia, randomly kidnap people, chop their heads off, film it, and we'll use it for propaganda purposes. that is a fundamental change. so if they're doing it in that case, you know they're pushing out this notion to inspire others to commit these acts. canada. we've seen arrests in germany, franc

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basically, the government came in and told the biggest oil producer that when you sell your oil and hassan get dollars, you must now by rubles and they are doing that. that's according to a russian newspaper. buying $1 billion per day in russian rubles. they have until march 1 to get their foreign currency levels down to where they were at the beginning of october. want theputin did not central bank to spend the $400 billion of reserves so we found another pocket of gold. that appears what is propping up the ruble. >> the kremlin is ultimately the source of that pocket of gold of those companies. what about the facebook page that has been taken down? it's an event page for a visiting gathering and now it has been pulled, what is the fallout? >> basically, one of the opposition politicians this weekend posted an announcement for a demonstration set to take place on january 15 in moscow. this is a demonstration that was planned, times to the verdict and sentencing of one of the opposition leaders. he has been charged with left and embezzlement of a french company that says he did not do anyt

opened fire and hassan said he was inspired by al qaeda.s sentenced to death in 2013. >>> georgetown university's gaston hall seats over 700 people although the big space seems like maybe overkill during hillary clinton's latest visit. photos and videos show scores of empty seats during the former secretary of state's speech. the balcony nearly empty as clinton takes the podium. it is claimed students were busy studying for final exams. >> a shocking video. luggage handlers at the airport caught on camera stealing your stuff. the latest incident seven workers at new york's jfk airport charged with swiping ipads, laptops and diamond earrings. they are said to have carried out the scheme for more than two years. if convicted they face between four and seven years in prison. >>> oxford adding a new pop culture term to its on-line dictionary. up first, duck face. yeah. unfortunately, here i am attempting a duck face earlier this morning. i don't know about that. moving on, obamacare, that also made the list. the last but not least, man crush. c

hassan ghul opened up right away and was cooperative from the outset.was stripped, he was chained to a wall for 40 minutes with his hands over his head and that didn't provide any more information. >> in some cases, coercive mechanisms, in others, they don't. it's a mixed bag, alisyn. but the fact is you've got to have people to have good judgment who are managing these programs, and clearly, there were mistakes that were made, but the reality is the people that were doing, that were involved in this process, didn't believe him in the beginning and moved to a second phase. was it a mistake in that case? maybe. but again unless the problem with the report is they didn't interview the people involved. if you're just looking at paper, maybe half of what goes on goes on paper. but if you've got a 12-hour interrogation center, do you think they covered every minute? 1,000 pages per interrogation. you've got to talk to the interrogator, the case officers and the chiefs of station that are managing these operations most closely. if you don't interview those, i

so i get on the plane and they said, do you want to set up your hassan rouhani and i thought, okay, so i sit next to them and we get to talk to him about this and then there was this wonderful moment when he asked an aide to bring him jfk's overcoat and it was very poignant. so we talked about that. and then as we were about to land in portland, we are driving through this driving range and we don't see that another plane is headed directly towards us and my stomach turns over and bobby kennedy quits and says i know gene mccarthy was desperate, but i didn't know he was that desperate. [laughter] and so that story convinced me that it was okay to dare. you never know. two nights later, his own life was ended. at the point of a gun. >> you had left that morning? >> yes, we had to save money and it was a very well-capitalized magazine. so i was taking the redeye back. i had just left home and i was getting off the plane and had this for bidding sends and it was then and they said why are they bending over that man two and of course it was ethel kennedy bending over her husband. and we sai

intelligence committee and the cia are also sparring over the importance of another detainee named hassan ghul. the intelligence committee says, the most accurate information on al kuwaiti was provided by a cia detainee who had not yet been subjected to the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques. but they say he gave up a critical piece of information about the courier after his interrogation. >> takes us pretty far by saying, this guy delivered a letter from bin laden to the operations chief. that sort of nails the fact that he's in touch with bin laden and that he's actually doing things for him. >> but he acknowledges the information given by those detainees were just pieces of a much larger intelligence mosaic that led to the bin laden raid. he says years of signals collection, overhead photography, other human intelligence were crucial in taking down the al qaeda leader. >> brian, didn't some of those interrogations lead to what were described as fabricated information about bin laden's so-called courier? >> yes, he said when the cia built confidence that they knew all about bin lad

hassan's radicalization was well-known to the f.b.i. and the d.o.d. as early as 2005. hassan plotted with the known terrorist al-waliki and he expressed his radical views to his classmates. this administration dismissed these concerns in the names of political correctness. five years ago, the president promised to take care of the victims in the shooting. shortly thereafter he turned his back on him and declared it to be work force violence. these families are still waiting for justice. our communities have suffered long enough in the name of political correctness. i'm very proud that my colleagues in the house and senator cornyn and senator cruz have not dropped the ball. we have stood for fort hood community and the victims of this terrorist act even as the president failed to act. . the house and senate have agreed on this legislation that they will allow these heroes to receive the purple hearts to make them eligible for the benefits they deserve. the victims and their families will soon receive justice and closure. i'm proud to support this legislation and i'd lik

and i fought very hard for, concerned the victims of the terrorist attack at fort hood where nadal hassan murdered 14 people, injured 31. for a number of years now the administration has characterized that attack as workplace violence, instead of acknowledging it for what it was which was a terrorist attack by a soldier who was in communications with anwar al-awlaki, a known terrorist, asking about jihad against american soldiers and so the current draft of the the mda has an amendment that i authored and introduced to provide for the victims of that shooting should be eligible for the purple heart. that is something the administration has resisted. very proud to see that amendment adopted. it was adopted unanimously. support i have a cross the aisle coming together despite resistance from the administration. senators on boeing sides of the aisle it was more than enough time and needed to recognize that. there were lots of other provisions in the mda that are good and worthwhile. what we have seen happen at end of the day is typical example what frustrates people with washington. we took