>> well, hindsight is brilliant. hindsight is 20/20. i will preface by answer by saying, i think it was unprecedented, the scale and the scope of what we saw them doing. and there have clearly been intrusions before by a number of state actors, as i'm sure you are aware. in retrospect it would be easy to say i should have bought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the dnc in late summer with the benefit of hindsight. i can tell you for certain that in the late summer, fall, i was very concerned about what i was seeing and this was on my front burner all throughout the pre-election period in august, september, october and early november to encourage the states to come in and seek our assistance. i'm glad that most of them red and blue did. hindsight is perfect 20/20. but i'm satisfied that this had my attention, it had the attention of my people, because i pushed them at every step of the way to make sure we were doing everything we could do. but obviously, there are lessoned learned from this experience. for the future, there's pr

>> well, hindsight is brilliant. hindsight is 20/20. i'll preface my answer by saying i think it was unprecedented. the scale and the scope of what we saw them doing. and there had very clearly been intrusions by a number of state actors, as i'm sure you're aware. you know, in retrospect it would be easy for me to say that i should have brought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the dnc in late summer. with the benefit of hindsight. i can tell you for certain that in the late summer/fall, i was very concerned about what i was seeing and this is on my front burner all throughout the preelection period in august, september, october and early november to encourage the states to come in and seek our assistance. and i'm glad that most of them red and blue did. hindsight is perfect 20/20. but i'm satisfied that this had my attention. it had the attention of my people. because i pushed them at every step of the way to make sure we were doing everything we could do. but, obviously, there are lessons learned from this experience and for t

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>> well, hindsight is brilliant. hindsight is 2020. i'll preface my answer by saying i think it was unprecedented, the scale and the scope of what we saw them doing. there had very clearly been intrusions before by a number of state actors, as i'm sure you're aware in retrospect it would be easy for me to stay that i should have bought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the dnc in late summer with the benefit of hindsight. i can tell you for certain that in the late summer/fall i was very concerned about what i was seeing. and this was on my front burner all throughout the preelection period in august, september, october and early november to encourage the states to come in and seek our assistance. i'm glad that most of them, red and blue, did. hindsight is perfect 2020, but i'm satisfied that this had my attention. it had the attention of my people because i pushed them at every step of the way to make sure we were doing everything we could do. obviously there are lessons learned from this spernsexperie. and there's probably mo

it's one of those things in hindsight that could look significant. >> any thoughts why tapes see to show up in quotation marks. any thoughts on that? >> i don't. i wonder if he was implying some other sort of recordings. i thought it was in line with what the president was doing at the beginning of his tweet which was casting this broad net and sort of suggesting there could be other ways that conversations were picked up. he puts tapes in quotes as to suggest that's one but perhaps not the only way these conversations would have been recorded. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> with me former senior counselor with the cia. bob, first to you. we now have tapegate. the lawyers are going over the tweet to explain the first tape about whether tapes exist or not. your thoughts on this. >> first of all, i feel sorry for the lawyer who is have to get up in the middle of the night to review tweets. i don't understand why the white house is being so coy about this. they must know the answer. i don't think delaying a correct answer serves anybody's purpose. no doubt a subpoena will issue saying we wa

hindsight is brilliant. hindsight is 2020. i will preface my answer by saying that i think it was unprecedented, the scale and scope of what we saw them doing. there had very clearly been intrusion's before by a number of state actors as i am sure you are aware. in retrospect, it would be easy for me to say that i should've brought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the dnc in late summer. certain thatu for in the late summer and fall, i was very concerned about what i was seeing. this was on my front burner all ,hroughout the pre-election encouraging states to seek our assistance. that most of them, red and blue, did. hindsight is perfect 2020 but i am satisfied that this had my attention and the attention of my people because a push them at every step of the way to make sure we were doing everything we could do. there are lessons learned from this experience and is probably more we can and should do. >> you had a conference call or otherwise communicated with the states to offer them your assistance prior to the elect

in hindsight. >> yeah, i was so mean to my mom growing up about having no money.ing a few times because i was so mean about it. >> reporter: today, however, the ingrate couldn't be more grateful. >> yeah, you realize how lucky you are, and you're like, "what was i do?" like, "what an idiot." >> maybe i'll do some laundry. >> reporter: saun pierre says what really set him straifts a voice mail he got from his mom last summer. >> i just got fired. i just want you to know that. call me, bye. >> reporter: that was it, short and bitter. >> end of message. >> i was in shock. i never expected it to happen to me. my job and my kids were my life. >> so this was one thing that kept her going and i think my biggest worry was, if she loses her job what, else does she have? >> reporter: rebecca worked in housekeeping at a hotel here in boston. she was a single mom who sacrificed everything for her children. and although sian pierre says he didn't really appreciate that as a kid, he clearly does now. after his mom was fired at 75, sian pierre started showing his gratitude in th

lloyd: i started having some what in hindsight were symptoms at the time.asily explained in other ways. i had a cough. summer allergies, i thought. i had pains when i exercised. i have never been this age before. i started to lose weight. but i was always trying to lose weight. i just thought i was unusually disciplined. but when i collected that stuff i went in to see a doctor. first, saw nothing because they didn't even think to test me for what i had. they prescribed allergy medicine and then a couple of weeks later, it didn't go away so i took a full cat scan. that lit up like a christmas tree. so they called me and said i had lymphoma. david: when a doctor tells you, did they say you could treat it? it is just a matter of treatment, or did he say it was life-threatening? lloyd: life-threatening, for sure. there are 70 different kinds of lymphoma. hodgkin's, non-hodgkin's, different things. each one carries its own risks. i have the more aggressive type which is dangerous. more dangerous, obviously. but it is curable. david: so you had to go in three or

serious as its army positions and the goal in hindsight have once again come under fire from israel as the second strike in the area in two days to middle east correspondent well this year as more. well the tsunami has issued a statement in which it has accused these rabies of targeting syrian army positions on the side of the golan heights now the syrian army is currently fighting the terrorist group. and they say that the israeli attacks are only hoping. they have been to such israeli attacks since saturday as for the israeli side israeli air force has its. knowledge conducting those strikes it says that it is in response to projectiles that landed on the israeli side of the golan heights of course the golan heights is disputed territory but the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying quite clearly at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting that they would be a price to pay even if such projectiles and and are not targeting israel but land on israeli territory by mistake. walked policy is clear we will not tolerate any spillover or trickle whatsoever neither morse's nor rock

from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty i want to get to the white house. our t. washington d.c. . we spoke to alexei pushkov head of the communications committee for russia's upper house he says washington should explain why its actions contradict its official position gives us at tech a syrian fighter in the syrian sky it means an act of war and the united states should give an explanation for this act of war the explanation that was given until now is definitely not sufficient i think that the united states want in this way to show that there are two serious one syria headed by the government in damascus and the other syria which is comprised of the military opposition the armed opposition to president assad and some other forces that are supported by the united states but this is a very dangerous policy because basically it leads to. division of syria into parts of fishel of the united states recognize that they want to have a united syria syria that will keep its territorial integrity but if they deny a certain territory for the military activity of th

it's only funny in hindsight. so when it entered the united states to o'hare airport in chicago, i was using a canadian passport and i had settled into a piece of luggage i had the birth certificate of jack persky. i went to a hotel and that is very killed off the canadian and brought to life, became jack persky. the killing was much harder than expected. had you destroy passport? not that easy. they are flame retardant. he couldn't even bring the paper. never mind the plastic outside the picture. it started snowing. you start sweating. you're making a stink in the hotel room. hopefully nobody will stop by and ask that going on. the fire alarm didn't go off so eventually i took a pair of scissors and cut it into a million pieces and flushed it down the toilet. that part of the curriculum of the curriculum had to destroy passport. >> there is hilarious moments in the book i put myself in your shoes than i imagined i have a bit undergrad in the long time. you will be a chemistry professor before your body into the k

there are a lot of things in 2020 hindsight we say he may have done. he testified saying he was stunned about this and he did go back to talk to his colleagues and report it in his memo but to say -- i mean, that does not change what the president said, at least he alleged of what the president said to him. you could talk about what should have been done or you can talk about what the president should or should not done. >> given the fact that your company is probing of this issue of russia's role and you are leaving the rest to special counsel. you heard director comey said he never has been asked about russia and the role it played. other than the first meeting of january 6th with the intelligence committee representatives, do you think the president understoods tand sense of gravity of this and share your sense of gravity of what he's up to. >> the disturbing moment was when joe mansion asked o of -- what the russians did and the answer was -- he did qualify a little bit. there were some discussions but in the eighth subsequent conversations, there

so let's not fall victim to the hindsight fallacy. >> but you say the hacking occurred, crystal ball.>> the hacking occurred. we should remember, too, that this president did publicly, now he claimed it was a joke, he did publicly call on the russians to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails, so let's keep that in mind. but it really is astonishing that this president, according to betsy's comments and i think this is right, is more interested in saving face than in protecting our democracy. i mean, director comey said -- former director comey said that they were here and they will be back. we have elections ongoing. we have to figure out, not only what happened but what we can do to protect ourselves in jurisdictions across the country. and it is shocking, no matter what you think of whether this president colluded and his campaign and all of that -- >> we don't know. >> it is shocking that this president is not more concerned about a fundamental attack on our democracy. >> i want you to respond to that. saving face. >> yes. i don't think that's the issue. the real issue -- >> isn't th

with this in mind, and with the buyinbenefit of hindsight, prest obama should have been more transparent and specific with the american people during the campaign about the nature of the russian threat. he should have reacted earlier and much more vigorously to be fair to him, this was an extraordinarily difficult choice. a new and unexpected trip. president obama would have been accused of intervening in the context between secretary clinton and donald trump and he did make the right call in the end by imposing sanctions. but, we in america and europe have to learn from this experience and try to avoid that in the future. second, the u.s. and europe should adopt stronger sanctions against russia for its actions. we learned an important lesson and they ran nuclear negotiations. sanctions were much more effective when the united states and the e.u. aligned them together, specifically the financial sanctions. i hope the house of representatives will back cannot dilute, in the sense the very strong senate sanctions bill against moscow that passed by 9. it be a great mistake for president tr

>> again, clarity is perfect in hindsight.country would have benefited going to the polls knowing that russia was conducting this attack, that they were trying to help donald trump, that it was ordered by their president, and that it wasn't just the hackeders mails, it was social media trolls that they were going into voting sis 2e78s. but greta, also remember, president obama made it hard for president trump to do that. he had his own misinformed ideas that the election would be rigged. the president should have just gone forward and said it. >> sean spicer saying today that russia probably hacked the election, probably, and that's all. he and the president had a hard time on this one. they can't give a straight yes or no answer. now listen to this. >> as far as hacking, i think it was russia, but i think we also got hacked by other countries, and other people. >> you don't think it's phony that the russians tried to meddle in the election? >> it could have been china, it could have been a lot of different groups. if russia h

there are a lot of things in 20/20 hindsight we say he might have done. as he testified, he was sort of stunned by this. he did go back and talk to his colleagues at the fbi and did record it in a contemporaneous memo. but to say that doesn't change what the president said to him, at least he alleges the president said to him. you can talk about what he should have done. you can also talk about what the president should or shouldn't have done. >> given the fact your committee is probing this issue of russia's role, as you said, you're leaving the rest to the special counsel, you heard director comey say that he had never been asked by the president about russia and the role that it played, other than that first meeting on january 6th, with the intelligence community representatives. do you think the president understands the gravity of this? does he share your sense of gravity about what russia was up to? >> i thought that was one of the most disturbing moments of the hearing this morning when joe manchin said, did the president ask you any questions abou

. >> but those are -- with hindsight potentially, that could have been ominous. he also as you know congressman, he had some very disturbing social media posts on facebook. >> right. >> he wrote this back in march, trump is a traitor. trump has destroyed our democracy. it's time to destroy trump and company. now, when he says destroy trump and company, that potentially could be seen as a direct threat to the president of the united states which is a crime. >> you're right. and because we didn't even look at his social media until yesterday, we didn't see a need to, but we deal with these -- this situation in our office quite often. you have people disagree with you all the time whether you're republican, democrat. and you have people that get on and can say some pretty rough things. we have in times turned things over. but this one never climbed to that level. >> the whole notion, though, of a threat like that on facebook to the president with hindsight should someone have reported that to the secret service? >> well, that didn't come through our office. >> i kno

>> well, hindsight is brilliant. hindsight is 20/20.ace my answer by saying i think it was unprecedented this scale and the scope of what we saw them doing. in retrospect, it would be easy for me to say that i should have bought a sleeping bag and camped out in front of the dnc in late summer with the benefit of hindsight. >> that sort of puts it right out there, doesn't it? >> yeah. i think what we're missing is it was a two-pronged intelligence failure. the first one is we should recognize as a country this was a pattern of the russians in other countries. we had seen it in ukraine, czech republic, they were there during the brexit vote as well. and the other one that we should anticipate was why were the russians doing this hacking? i think in the u.s. we were very obsessed with why are people breaking in and stealing secrets, but what we should have been asking is what would you use these secrets for? with criminals it is easy, they take money or with hackers that are part of a collective oftentimes it is for notoriety or political

hindsight is a wonderful thing.you look back, where do you think you missed opportunities? there were opportunities where he wa nted there were opportunities where he wanted to make a difference. he wa nted wanted to make a difference. he wanted to make a difference. he wanted to do something within the community and make good. that's something i always encouraged with my children. there was one where he wa nted my children. there was one where he wanted to help the muslims within oui’ wanted to help the muslims within our community. in birmingham? absolutely. he made an appointment and they didn't turn up. he had made effort to wake up early, which was unusualfor him, effort to wake up early, which was unusual for him, and effort to wake up early, which was unusualfor him, and they didn't turn up and that really disappointed him and he felt sort of demoralised about it. i think then the recruiters came in and they gave him something else to make a difference and that was in syria. so i could have actually at that p

i know it's easy to say that in hindsight, but at a time when you need complete stability, there wasjust no need for it at all. i think it was a really bad error of judgment. of the ones who voted conservative, which of you like theresa may as much, or more, than you did before the election? 0k. ifeel the same. i didn't find her a hugely warm character. when she appeared on the one show, it was embarrassing. so, what is the bit that you warm to? you don't warm... her stability. the confidence she gives me in the way she's going to continue to run the economy. let me ask the labour voters, which of you likejeremy corbyn as much or more since you voted, or since the election? yes. i've liked him since i saw him as a local mp in islington, actually. ok, but you like him more? he has grown in stature? do you think this is just about who won and who lost, not in actual numbers, but in terms of who was seen to have a good campaign, and who wasn't having a good campaign? i think this is something that doesn't necessarilyjust come down to the campaign. i personally supportjeremy corbyn because t

. >> hindsight is 20-20. i think we need to concentrate and move forward to make sure these eye stakesed. >> i wrote to president obama in an attempt to protect our country more than that the current trump administration is. >> reporter: i think what is clear is we have a president that is too cozy with vladimir putin. we have a president who minimizes the intelligence community. we also have a president who mineralizes and unearth all the great work that has been done. >> are you saying the entities including what the russians are doing now besides intervening hacking is worse than was done during the obama administration? >> i'm not suggesting anything, wolf. what i am saying is the method in which president obama has attempted to undermine president trump -- president trump, pardon me -- has undermined president obama is unacceptable and unpresidential and it goes against all that is great about this country. for someone who claims to love this country so much, why is he so protective of vladimir putin and

in hindsight. >> yeah, so mean to my mom growing up about having no money.w lucky you are. what was i doing? what an idiot? >> maybe i will do laundry. >> sean pierre says what set him straight a voice mail from his mom last summer. >> i just got fired. want you to know that. call me, bye. >> that was it. short and bitter. >> end of message. >> i was in shock. i never expected it to happen to me. my job and kids were my life. >> this was one thing kept her growing. biggest worry was if she loses her job what does he have? >> rebecca worked at house keeping in boston. a single mom sacrificed everything for her children. though sean pierre says he didn't appreciate that as a kid, he clearly does now. after his mom was fired at 75. sean pierre started showing his gratitude in the sweetest possible way. he took her bucket list together started ticking off items one by one. milk a cow in vermont. done. take a hip-hop lesson from a "hamilton" dancer. check. learn to use instagram. just press the heart. >> getting there. >> here we go. >> he flew his mom back to he

in hindsight was it a mistake, it was, wasn't it, not to include them in that debate? mistake it was deliberate. the reason for it there are five parties in northern ireland who are described as major parties. parties of significant support in the constituencies in northern ireland. we cannot put the dup into a networked programme without also putting sinn fein, the sdlp alliance, and the ulster unionists. that would have taken cambridge from a 7 handed debate to a 12 handed debate. it would have been completely impossible to marshall. people in the rest of the uk don't have the option to vote for the dup, whereas everyone on the cambridge debate was facing each other in some part of the uk or another. so what we did instead was we did a northern ireland only debate on the tuesdayjust before polling day, which went out in northern ireland, and was then seen on the bbc news channel across the uk. viewers have complained that the bbc presented the election result is a triumph for labour and defeat for the conservatives. now, that was just wrong, wasn't it? i don't think

. >> well, you know, i think with 20/20 hindsight, i think they were focused on the vote itself.ut i think what really ended up happening the fruits of the hacking activity that was carried on, including of my personal e-mail account, by russian intelligence, wasweapon ized. it was used to damage hillary clinton and elect donald trump. i assume many of the people in the -- who serve president obama, i'm not trying to second-guess their judgments at the time. i think they had a difficult set of decisions to make, but i'm sure many people look back with 20/20 hindsight and wish they had been more aggressive in putting that out to the public at an earlier time frame. but did october 7th issue a letter from the director of national intelligence and the secretary of homeland security that the russians were interfering in our electoral process. >> but the president's restranled reactirestranl restrained reaction that has come under criticism from a lot of democrats was it because he simply assumed that hillary clinton was going to win the election and he didn't have to worry about dona

i do think that hindsight is 20/20, regional people can disagree about whether we should have done more. i will grant people that. we were worried about looking too partisan. we were worried legitimacy about provoking the russians to do more to try to change vote tallies. what i'm worried as i read all these stories and look at what we did or didn't do, what i'm focused on today, this administration is in power doing things to prevent it from happening again? i am not confident of that, are they correcting some of the mistakes they said we made. >> martha: both are very interesting points, i want to get your thoughts on why the obama administration might not have done more especially if they were truly concerned that the voter tallies might be messed with in many states across the country. secondarily, is the trump administration not wanted to get too close to this issue because of this investigation was to mark calling russia out on future electoral concerns. is the president worried enough about this in your mind? >> a number of questions there. first, what you see here is this is goi

looking back in hindsight, you say gee, maybe there was something there, but if you look at it without the hindsight, there's a lot of people that have a lot of things to say on facebook that don't go shooting up the congress. adam: that's correct. thank you very much, jeff flock, chicago, illinois, thank you for joining us. >>> and joining us now is alabama congressman gary palmer. he was at the baseball practice this morning and witnessed it all. i want to thank you for joining us here this evening, and i know there's a great many questions we have for you, but the most important, after what you've been through is how are you? how are you coping with all of this? >> i'm fine, i'm very grateful to have gotten away uninjured and i'm very, very grateful that those who were wounded are recovering and particularly grateful for the extraordinary courage and professionalism shown by the capitol police. there would have been no telling how many people shot and possibly killed if they had not been there, and in particular, crystal griner. i saw crystal wounded on the ground pulling herself in

internal spats that do look a little damning when you read that post report, at least by today's hindsight, but any ongoing inaction now does fall on the current president's desk. trump's mixed messages on russia had led to bipartisan last year and trump has apparently not exercised options on russia, as teed up by obama as the post reports. there are network attacks against russia if it is warranted. joining me for more is former watergate prosecutor nick akreman and david priest, a former briefer of the cia and the author of the president's book on secrets. what did you make of the articel and how atypical or concerning was that level of bureaucratic terper. >> it wasn't that surprising to me. the president's daily brief is the highest level daily intelligence document that the president gets and it is usually restricted to a small number of people. president obama did expand that to the widest readership it's ever had. so to read, if it's true, if the sources in the article are saying this was so sensitive that they couldn't give to to the leadership, they had to limit it to a few peopl

were trying to influence me, that in hindsight you look at and wonder. attorney general sessions: i don't believe in my conversations with the three times -- senator rubio: just in general. attorney general sessions: no, well, i met a lot of people, a lot of foreign officials. who wanted to argue their case for their country and to point out things that they thought were important. for their countries. but that's a normal thing i guess we talk about. senator rubio: as far as someone who is not an official, just a businessman or anyone walking down the street who struck you as someone trying to find out what you were up to, what the campaign was up to, you never remember any interaction in in hindsight appears suspicious? attorney general sessions: i'd have to wrack my brain but i don't recall it now. senator rubio: the republican platform was changed to not provide defensive weapons to ukraine, were you involved in that decision, do you know how that change was made or who was involved? attorney general sessions: i was not active in the platform committe

. >> hindsight was last year, that interaction happened, so that a greater good could happen. it wasn't even about jayson, or about jude. it was just a much bigger thing in my opinion. >> reporter: that bigger thing was the $13,000 she raised. her desire to always give to others, and showing people the love she has for family. her family is very proud to see that jude is sharing her blessings. diane roberts, wusa9 sports. >> great story there. two points to make on that. first, i know exactly what it's like to have a young daughter running the household. >> i have three. >> secondly, will she be making that same reaction when she sees your forecast. >>> probably not. but it's not a horrible weekend forecast. it's pretty typical. again, if we had to decide what it was going to be in january. >> we're used to sweating around here on the 4th of july. >> exactly. no exception here. let's take you through the weekend. we're going to go saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday. tuesday is the 4th. saturday, a fair amount of storms ie evening. you have plans in the daytime. you're okay. a f

what i would say to that is it attempts to impose a 20/20 hindsight requirement on the attorney general and mueller and ziglar, who are involved only as having condoned the policy, that does not exist. the plaintiffs say there were no allegations of terrorism ties against us. but the attorney general did not know that at the time. he had a list that had somewhat ties. the policy to merge the lists and hold until cleared was facially constitutional if it was -- in some instances, took too long to clear, and certainly the oig report suggests that was the case, things did not move as smoothly as they should have -- that is not attributable to attorney general ashcroft, director mueller, or commissioner ziglar. chief justice roberts: is the argument you are presenting a bivens argument or a qualified immunity argument? >> we have been discussing qualified immunity, the iqbal argument, personal participation. we do agree the evidence argument should not be extended here. it would be quite an extension of bivens unprecedented to apply this to national security and immigration decisions. with

>> it's easy, 20/20 hindsight, we all come up with great solutions, at the time why wasn't there enough reason to think to say stop it. >> the chief reason was they didn't want to be too public about it because they didn't want it to be political. they assumed hillary clinton was going to win. they were concerned if they went out publicly beyond that limited october 7th statement that they put out, that it would look like they were buying into what had become the clinton campaign's theme about going after the russians, that they would be looking like they were trying to tilt the scale in favor of the clinton campaign. they didn't want to do that and so shay stayed silent. >> and you have the october 28th letter from fbi director comey which is a problem for secretary clinton. >> that's a separate issue. >> separate issue. >> but it will be coming up thursday when comey testifies. >> i'm sure the clintons are burning tonight. >>> with me ranking member of the democratic house committee of foreign affairs. good evening. >> good evening. >> there's proof, not that anybody had any doubt tha

but the guy in hindsight clearly knew that they were members of congress there and he wanted to knowther they were republican or democrat. once we got back to the hill, heard the news, jeff and i both said, we got to report this guy, it just sounds fishy. once they are identified him and we saw his photo, i said, jeff said, and jeff's aid, we said, that is the guy. >> martha: it is unbelievable story. he came over to you. it was there any indication, was a caring anything? what can you tell us about his bearing, and his mood? was he sweating? that he looked calm? >> he was a little abrasive. i didn't see anything below his trust because i was in the back seats. i don't know if he was carrying anything. it is interesting, and the parking lot where we were, we were behind the first bayside bleachers. the capital police were not that far away, probably about 100 feet further up the first base line. there were security there. he went to the other side of the diamond and from that perch, by the third base line, which i had a couple of members of my team tell me when they got back to the h

force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene and not with 20/20 hindsight. >> he's got his hands up there for her now. >> reporter: though some officers lose their jobs, the objective is to avoid the court cases all together. ron hosko is the president of the law enforcement legal defense fund. he says better de-escalation training is needed. >> you know, not every occasion in america do we need an aggressive bulldog or certainly a pit bull. we don't need police officers barking at the end of their chain and snapping and snarling at citizens. >> reporter: of those 29 officer convictions, 15 were found guilty by a jury. there are at least 20 police officers currently waiting to stand trial across the country in use of force cases. anthony? >> mason: mireya, thank you. and coming up next on the "cbs evening news," wildfires in the west chase hundreds out of their homes. >> mason: hot, dry winds are fanning flames in the west, where more than 20 large wildfires are burning tonight. the largest has burned more than 67 square miles in southern utah. jamie yuccas

force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene and not with 20/20 hindsight. >> he's got his hands there now. >> reporter: though some officers lose their job the objective is to avoid the courthouse altogether. he says better deescalation training is needed. >> you know, not every occasion in america do we need an aggressive bulldog. or certainly a pit bull. we don't need police officers barking at the end of their chain and snapping and snarling at citizens. >> of those 29 officer convictions 15 were found guilty by a jury. at this moment there are at least 20 police officers currently waiting to stand trial across the country in use of force cases. cbs news, new york. >>> well, coming up on cbs this morning, jeff glor is in alaska where attacks by black bears are up. how the state locals and tourists are reacting and tennis hall of famer john mcenroe joins us in the studio with his memoir. that's the cbs morning news. thanks for watching. i'm anne marie green. have a great day. the energy conscious whopeople among usle? say small actions can add up to some

in hindsight, if something happens, everyone says, how could that happen?t some trading date -- seen it some trading days. the future will tell. ben: uncharted territory. i will have more business later on in the night. brent: time to talk about a nasty peacock. that is right, it ruffled more than a few till feathers when it wondered into a california -- wandered into a california liquor store. it started creating havoc among the bottles. a startled customer notified of shop attendant. he tried to bait and capture before calling for backup. an animal control officer, it, but not before it sent $500 worth of booze c crashing to the floor. all right, here is a reminder of the top stories. the islamic state has claimed responsibility for twin gun and bomb attacks in tehran, many people injured. five suspects are in police custody. after a short break, i will take you through the day. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> welcome back, if you're just joining

in hindsight, i realize the gravity of the situation. i was born on the cusp. i was old enough to experience apartheid and the change in south africa, but young enough to not be scarred by the memories and the realities of the country at the time. >> you were talking about how you were loved and chosen and you felt all of that. also given to preferential treatment as a child. somebody who didn't want to meet you because i will let you tell the story. i cracked up when i read this. >>>. >> i grew up in a world where i did not know i was special because of my skin color. i didn't feel it because my mom never told me. that was good. my country told everyone that. because of my skin color, i was superior to half of my family who was black and inferior to the half of my family who were white. they lived through apartheid and abided by the law. they were like this we have this white kid in the house and we don't hit him and so i was petrifi petrified. my grandmother would spank all of rest of the kids, but with me she said i can't hit you. i don't know what happened.

hindsight is brilliant.should have done in national security. but that's the benefit of hindsight. i know that in the fall we were very concerned about this. it was a front burner item. lots of very good discussion about what we needed to do, and at the end of the day, we took the unprecedented step of going public with the intelligence so we could tell the american people what was going on. >> do you think it had an impact on the outcome of the election, the russian mettling? >> that's for a pollster or social scientist to figure out. >> josh, i want to ask you to follow up on this line of questioning. one of the things the post story notes is that one of the factors you were weighing, the president was weighing, i know you weren't involved in the decisions because it was a national security decisions, but one of the factors he was weighing was if you took stronger action, it would feed into a narrative that donald trump was propagated about a rigged election. the notion was let's not look political. but, i

. >> hindsight, yes. a lot of folks feel differently. i want to get to that in a second. the quote greg miller had from a former administration official. it is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of chokes. do you feel like that? >> no. maybe the judgment was wrong and we should have done certain things we didn't do. given everything we were dealing with, the perception of russia's main objective is undermine confidence, that was one thing that motivated us, be careful how you play it in public. later, there was consensus they were trying to undermine the elections, they were trying to defeat hillary clinton and get donald trump. we thought this was important to try to speak with one voice. we went to congress to bring this to them. the post article reflects this. >> yes. >> to our surprise, even shock, a number of leaders accused us of playing politics. they didn't believe it. they said we were making it up. >> mitch mcconnell did not believe the intelligence and did not respond to a request for comment to "the washington p

a more aggressive response would have been appropriate in 2020 hindsight. one thing that hasn't been mentioned too much is the use of compromise. is that not part of the strategy of a lishes material against candidates they don't like? that has happened in other countries, has it not? dr. stelzenmueller: it's one of the open questions about the 2015 bundestag league whether they were looking for that and found t they had not posted anything yet. that's kind of the james bond version. they may just have done this for the simple purpose of espionage. the point about compromise is often you don't find out because you are not supposed to. senator king: yes, sir. director sarts: compromise has been heavily used typically by ussr. the relative importance has decreased because they have learned actually having one is not always essential. you might make it up. senator king: you don't have to have the data. you can make something up. king kicks dogs every morning. then i'm denying it for the next three months. or much worse. i want to thank you again for your testi

hindsight is often 2020 and often judgmental. was that enough security there? should members of congress be out in a public setting like that? it's a crazy question to ask. anybody should be able to practice baseball. >> here's the thing. paul ryan say he told stevi need you, i got something. there would have been no security out there. the only reason there was security is because steve rates it as a member of the leadership. they usually stage behind the first base dugout and have the suv. they usually stand outside the vehicle. you know they're armed and security. the shooter was obviously on the other side of the diamond but had steve not been there, i think you would have seen many more injured and probably many killed. it would have been a really gruesome day. having the capitol police there saved hives today. no question about that. >> take me back into the parking lot. describe again in every detail you can recall the gentleman who asked that question. >> i got into the car first. i'm in the back seat. jeff duncan is walking into the front passenger sea

h hindsight one raised the red flag. >> if you vote this way, we'll remember you. that means if you're a political activist, that means you're going to work harder against me next time. you don't take that as a physical threat. >> reporter: hodgkinson also wrote in the local newspaper. he talked about policies too often favoring the rich. >> president trump wanted to attend the white hou attend the game but because of protocols that's not going happen. >>> the gunman 60-year-old james hodgkinson had been living out of his van in the area for months. he had a history of grievances against the president and the republican party. >> reporter: in 2011 hodgkinson who was active politically was interviewed at an occupy wall street protest. >> 99% are getting pushed around and the 1% are just not giving a damn. >> reporter: he was also known to post anti-republican comments on line. on facebook he was direct about his disdain for the president. trump is a traitor and he's destroyed our democracy, he wrote on march 22nd. it's time to destroy trump and company. two days lat

>> well, you know, they say hindsight is 2020, but i'm not talking from hindsight here. in real time, senator feinstein and i were urging the administration initially to make attribution to call out russia publicly on what it was doning. it was clear to in the feinstein and i that russia was the responsible party and you probably remember, that failing to get the administration to do that, senator feinstein and i issued our own statement of attribution in september. ultimately the administration did issue a statement, but only a written statement signed by two administration officials. the president himself didn't speak about this until after the election, didn't seek to impose sanctions at the time the russians were interfering. i do think that was a mistake. that was what we were urging at the time that the administration confront russia on this. it was important i think to tell the american people in very plain terms what a foreign adversary was trying to do. now i understand the reasons why the administration was hesitant to do that. they didn't want to be seen as in