you mentioned his name, john wolf, a senior state department official who was asked to drop his job in political military affairs and come out for a few months and john was a strong diplomat but had no background at all in the arab/israeli conflict and no background at all in trying to resolve the arab/israeli conflict. and it was a series of errors, and problems over the course of three months, some of which actually impeded the efforts of israelis and palestinians to reach small agreements on what we called then the road map that president george w. bush had unveiled a short time before. now during that period i came back to washington for a couple of days, went in to see the then-deputy secretary of state rich armitage and i said, rich, i like john wolf, why did you appoint somebody who didn't know anything at all about this conflict or this job? and for those of you who know rich armitage he said, that was exactly why i did it. he wanted somebody who would be tabular rasa. in some situations make it works. it doesn't work when you're dealing with two entrenched parties in a protrac

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wolf? >>> john brennan defending the cia after a blistering report. mislead congress about its interrogation techniques. >>> body for sale. ooi isis is trying to sell the body of james foley for $1 million. how officials say they are trying to carry out a depraved plan. >>> capital protests. and a show of support for the families of michael brown and eric garner. what impact are the ongoing protests having? >>> defectors revealing the horrors that

you mentioned his name, john wolf, a senior state department official who was asked to drop his job in political military affairs and come out for a few months and john was a strong diplomat but had no background at all in the arab/israeli conflict and no background at all in trying to resolve the arab/israeli conflict. and it was a series of errors, and problems over the course of three months, some of which actually impeded the efforts of israelis and palestinians to reach small agreements on what we called then the road map that president george w. bush had unveiled a short time before. now during that period i came back to washington for a couple of days, went in to see the then-deputy secretary of state rich armitage and i said, rich, i like john wolf, why did you appoint somebody who didn't know anything at all about this conflict or this job? and for those of you who know rich armitage he said, that was exactly why i did it. he wanted somebody who would be tab lar ross is a. in some situations make it works. it doesn't work when you're dealing with two entrenched parties in a pr

could call in all-star list donald rumsfeld, general leonard , richard fairbanks, dennis ross, tony, john wolf george mitchell. you would expect if we were using our baseball and now the now achieved at the scoreboard with a would look pretty good but the scoreboard shows no hits or runs or errors which suggests that this is one of the case studies which needs to be undertaken to find out whether or not it is the idea of an envoy in the situation or the individual selected as the envoy, the conflict itself for the criteria that the report has suggested. was it an absence of empowerment by the president or absence of authority. i think you'll find if we did a case study and we have not done it yet but it's certainly certainly not report it should stimulate it and i am a granted the opportunity to do it myself, there are a combination of factors that suggest even some of the smartest and most senior people selected for this job were not necessarily the right choice and not necessarily the right choice for this conflict. if you look back at the last 35 years and conflict resolution process for th

wolf? >> joe johns monitoring the situation over there. stand by to you. rs are also gathering in times square right now. what is it like? >> reporter: hi, wolf. we started at times square where we had about 200 protesters. a crowd was joined by another group which doubled the size, and now you can see, after staying in times square and chanting and protesting there for a while, they have begun marching north. we know this is the general direction towards where that rockefeller tree lighting is supposed to happen tonight. people have been chanting, shut it down, shut it down! talking about the tree lighting. but at the same time, i want to point out people have been chanting. they've been raising a lot of signs, but they also have been very, very measured. they've been staying mostly on the sidewalks. they've been blocking traffic to let people cross the street. so people are very passionate about what's happening here. but at the same time, they are trying to make sure that this stays for now, what we've seen so far, a peaceful, loud, but peaceful protest.

wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." john brennan held an extensive news conference in response to the report released about the torture at the hands of the cia. overall, he strongly deefended the agency, putting the white house in an awkward position. we're covering the story with our correspondents and guests and bill harlow, the cia spokesman. but we begin with michelle kosinski. what is going on over there? >> reporter: the white house refusing to even say whether it agrees with john brennan, that these methods led to good intelligence and saved lives. well, today, a big change. we hear brennan now publicly agreeing with the white house, saying that it is unknowable whether that intel was knowable or could have been gotten by other means and this has become yet another question, when the techniques were used. the cia direct for today defended his agency in an unprecedented press conference. >> the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united states thwart, attack plans, capture t

wolf? >> joe johns, reporting from times square. let's go to another protest under way in new york city. lch is at foley square. chris, what do you see over there? >> reporter: wolf, since we last spoke last hour, this crowd has grown significantly. just take a look behind me. you can see this crowd very vocal. they've been chanting, no justice, no peace. we've heard, i can't breathe, which is what we heard eric garner cry in that video. this crowd is significant. it's very difficult to get a good sense of how many people are now here. you probably have a better view from some of our local new york city affiliate helicopters flying above us. but i would say it's easily over 1,000 people, probably well over 1,000, maybe 2,000 at this point. people with signs, we've got law students right here, chanting now black lives matter. you can hear that. it's definitely turning into a very large demonstration. so far, everything is peaceful. >> there were about 85 arrests last night. you haven't seen any arrests tonight, have you? >> reporter: at this point, we have not, wolf. but we are seeing a lo

we'll talk about it with rear admiral john kirby. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the national guard is on the move tonight in missouri and there's now new post-ferguson fallout, hundreds of high schoolers who walked out of class. this is the latest in the decision not to charge the police officer in the death of michael brown. and now we're learning off-duty police officers from the police union are volunteering to protect wilson who has been forced into hiding and faces continuing threats. and michael brown's stepfather is under investigation for his actions last monday night and the rioting that devastated parts of ferguson. our guests include emanuel cleaver of missouri. let's begin in ferguson with cnn's george howell. tell us the latest. what is going on there? >> the headline in ferguson is really the investigation. what led up to all of the damage and the destruction here in ferguson? who is behind it? police are promising to look into all angles to find the parties behind it, including comments from louis head that were

john. look, the problem with -- this is not meerly a lone wolf, one deranged guy. deranged guy who's been inspired by an ideology. he got the idea to act and he was inspired to act by the islamic state. and so it adds fuel to what is already the tremendous challenge you've just outlined of the lone wolf. you know, just last week we hear from american officials there's no imminent threat here in the united states. i would suspect you would have heard the same thing from the australians the day before this attack because this is not the kind of attack that has a loop, an operational loop that you can get inside and disrupt because, as you say, one guy goes in with a gun and takes hostages. >> you talk about that ideology, we know this ideology is spreading and in some ways, i suppose, is spreading like wildfire that poses both an interesting footprint when you're tracking it as law enforcement, but it also is really dangerous. >> i started the counterextremism project solely to devote itself to this problem. that is, trying to get these guys off the internet. to chal

john mccain. he never served in the military or congress. >>> barack obama invited wolf and five other newly electedernors to the white house to talk about the economy. wolf is the only democrat among the others. >>> they are stopping to provide social security to nazi criminals. that may sound obvious. one such recipient a guard jacob denzinger that fled to the u.s. in 1989. he still gets 1500 a month living in croatia. they found that the justice department offered payments to nazis as incentives to leave the united states. that is an allegation that they deny. >>> the insurers should pay for circumcism it can lower cancer. >>> and much plagued wildlifes in california, it may be too much too fast. a highway has been shutdown because of mudslides. it takes half an hour to cause flooding on scorched soil. >> and a boy is representing the delaware valley. they wished ryan elkin to watch him on the hit game show. the seventh grader says that the experience was amazing. they were not surprised that she was chosen. >> it was fun, amazing, exciting and nerve-racking all at the same time. >> he reads all

we have had and lost certain foreign service officers in one-off attacks, lone wolf type attacks, including john granville in sudan, not too long ago. we've had rpg attacks, truck bomb attacks, car bomb attacks, car bomb attacks on our motorcades, we have had aircraft that has been shot at. we have had almost innumerable attacks on our facilities over the last 20 years. and you are right, they are going up. it is a challenge. i would first say that it's a testament to the foreign service that our officers still want to get out and implement the important foreign service goals that we have to. it is a testament to their willingness to take new types of training and for the department to take on these security risks. congress has been a very important partner in how we have met these risks, particularly since the 1998 bombings in dara salam and nairobi and we appreciate that. we'll continue to work on these things. i don't think it's a surprise to anybody that we are living in a world where there's a high degree of instability in many countries. there's a lot of open discussion about how extremism

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wolf things. freedom of expression and equality. and like john mccain said, it's about us. when we torture detainees, which contributes our values, it makes our foreign policy aims quite frankly more difficult to achieve. >> president bush yesterday called the members of the cia patriots, and those talked about in the report patriots, so what do your colleagues say about this tonight? >> well, certainly, anybody who works in the intelligence community is a patriot. they love their country and they want to do right by it, and keep it safe. that's beyond reproach. i know what senator fienstein said in the forward of this report, look, context senior important. in this situation, we had a heightened swarm situation, and a tragic terrorist attack that killed 3,000 americans, and those in intelligence wanted to prevent another. she offered that as not excuse, but in context, and yes, the people in the tremendous community wanted to do everything to prevent another attack. so the existence of this report is not to scold those working in the national security arena, but look, with

. >> john, what's your reaction to this new development that there is this formal investigation under way right now? >> well, wolf, one thing that i've done along with the family is to promote peace and encourage people to react in a peaceful and dignified way. those were the requests of the family. but there really is no way to excuse or validate the actions of mr. head that day when the announcement was made. however, one thing that we do have to consider is that the announcement was made at night which angered many people. if you listen to the prosecutors -- really his almost op-ed to "the new york times" as he spoke and explained why michael brown -- why darren wilson was not indicted, et cetera, it angered many people. however, that does not excuse what mr. head went on to say. but we must also take a look at what the family of michael brown has done. his direct parents, leslie mcspadden and michael brown sr., they've been sincere and consistent in promoting peace, asking the community to act in a dignified way. since this ordeal in august, we have feared there would be rioting and looting. so i think it's a

we have had and lost certain foreign service officers in one-off attacks, lone wolf type attacks, including john granville in sudan, not too long ago. we've had rpg attacks, truck bomb attacks, car bomb attacks, car bomb attacks on our motorcades, we have had aircraft that has been shot at. we have had almost innumerable attacks on our facilities over the last 20 years. and you are right, they are going up. it is a challenge. i would first say that it's a testament to the foreign service that our officers still want to get out and implement the important foreign service goals that we have to. it is a testament to their willingness to take new types of training and for the department to take on these security risks. congress has been a very important partner in how we have met these risks, particularly since the 1998 bombings in dara salam and nairobi and we appreciate that. we'll continue to work on these things. i don't think it's a surprise to anybody that we are living in a world where there's a high degree of instability in many countries. there's a lot of open discussion about how extremism

john: you would be fine with that being legal? >> you got it here in new york city. i know doggone well, executives, we saw the film, "wolfll street" and what he was doing. now if you're an adult, if you can make the decision, you can be responsible for that decision then fine but i don't want -- john: what do you mean fine. it is illegal you would locken people up? >> i don't want to be responsible or one that suffers consequences of john stossel out high on cocaine and i lose my life because of it. that is why we have laws. john: well, the argument goes in circles. few libertarians support drug use. we say a matter best left to adults to decide for themselves and that the laws against drugs do much more harm than the drugs. as he said, greater number of laws, the more thieves and robbers there will be. >> don't touch me. [bleep] >> eric garner was can killed when police arrested him violating a law. what law? rule against selling unlicensed cigarettes. the new york state government levies huge taxes on cigarettes. not police's force america has too many laws. but the police are special. we give them the power to legally

this was a lone wolf gunman which brings relief, but the vigilance is more than it was, john. sydneyites are going about the business. will this change how your life goes on and they say no. they will watch closer. >> what are we learning about the two hostages who died and how they died, andrew? >> reporter: the details are very sketchy. none of the reports has been confirmed. we have not heard much from the hostages at all, john, which is unusual given social media is alive and well across australia. what we know, tori johnson was the manager, described as a hero. there is suggestions that he tried to take the gun from the hostage taker. the hostage taker may have been dozing and johnson grappled with him to get control of the gun. it went tragically wrong. johnson died in the process. those shots triggered the police response. they were in within seconds with flash grenades and another hostage died. that was kate dawson. she is a mother of three children. all of them under the age of 10 years. a tragic story. she was a rising young star in australia's legal circles. she had

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we have had and lost certain foreign service officers in one-off attacks, lone wolf type attacks, including john granville in sudan, not too long ago. we've had rpg attacks, truck bomb attacks, car bomb attacks, car bomb attacks on our motorcades, we have had aircraft that has been shot at. we have had almost innumerable attacks on our facilities over the last 20 years. and you are right, they are going up. it is a challenge. i would first say that it's a testament to the foreign service that our officers still want to get out and implement the important foreign service goals that we have to. it is a testament to their willingness to take new types of training and for the department to take on these security risks. congress has been a very important partner in how we have met these risks, particularly since the 1998 bombings in dara salam and nairobi and we appreciate that. we'll continue to work on these things. i don't think it's a surprise to anybody that we are living in a world where there's a high degree of instability in many countries. there's a lot of open discussion about how extremism

> it will be critical to find out if this was a lone wolf situation or this is a concerted attempt against americans. thank you so much for that, johnay president obama will announce his pick for secretary of defense. the president is said to have selected ashton carter, former second in command at the pentagon. he's a former chief weapons buyer and helped accelerate the production and shipment of weapons to protect american troops from road side bombs during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >>> a second attempt at a test launch for the orion spacecraft is set for three hours from now. thursday's launch was postponed and if all goes as planned today, the unmanned spacecraft will blast off just after 7:00 a.m. atop a delta 4 rocket. the capsule is designed to take an asteroid or mars. how soon could that be? it could take maybe seven years before an astronaut flies in orion. they have to do the test flight first. >>> people in the philippines evacuating ahead of a typhootyp. hundreds are helping folks get out before the storm strikes. the category 4 storm, a dangerous storm, expected to slam the central philippines saturday. it is e

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wolf isis terrorists here in the u.s. >> it's interesting and you contrast that with what john pistol told catherine harris in the pieceyou just played, he said what keeps him up at night is these mass coordinated attacks. i think they're both right. but it's so hard to detect his jihadist lone wolves, whether they're islamic radicals, it's hard to detect whether they're acting on their own or coordinating with one or two people. on the other hand their capacity for conducting major attacks is necessarily limited if they're lone wolves. on the other hand you've got these radical groups that are still trying to hit the united states. they spend much of their time concentrating on how they can hit the united states, and cause mass casualties. they are i think the more formidable threat, they are alied with governments that sponsor and support them. >> i want to talk about russia, we're talking about a development, as oil continuings to plummet and the sanctions now stiff, russia has a problem. >> russia is on a brink of a cia sis, what can they do when you get into this kind of a currency crisis, there's not much you can

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i might add, wolf, that investigation ended 2 1/2 years ago. let me add a further point, johnhe house intelligence committee to answer questions about the destruction of videotapes which was part of the investigation that senator feinstein is claiming made it impossible to talk to any human beings. i wasn't subject to that, none of us. >> if they would have called you, we want you to testify, you would have said? >> well, i would have to think about it, wolf. because if it was a star chamber, i would have to think about it long and hard. if i thought it was a legitimate investigation, which could have been evidence by calling people in to talk, then i might have gone to talk. >> let me play a little clip. this is what she told me, she was very blistering when it came to the cia. you used to be the director of the cia. listen to this. >> the cia spent $40 million to prevent us from issuing this report. that is fact. we did not spend the money. we used our staff to do this report. they went into our computers illegally to take out information. not once, not twice, but three time

john mccain. to democrats who respect him as well. he served for an awfully long time. i think what you'll see in the confirmation process, wolft so much ash carter being put on trial front and center, you're going to see republicans trying to point out the differences that he might have had with the president. for example, on keeping a residual force in iraq. did the administration fight hard enough for that? we heard leon panetta, former secretary of defense say to the president didn't do that. should the president have walked right up to the red line that he drew on syria and then walked away from it? ash carter may have had some different feelings about that. so i think what republicans will do is say, okay, we respect you. you differ from the president. what kind of influence can you possibly have on this tight circ circle of white house advisers. >> and let to be confirmed by a republican majority in the u.s. senate, could be 54 if mary landrieu loses in the runoff. >> and i think he will get confirmed but i think they are going to point out the difficulties that he might have with the administration. he said to the pres

wolf. >>> let's bring in our panel right now. joining us, the community activist johnkin, our cnn anchor don lemon, our cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and our cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, this is an awful situation. you lived in new york. you know the mood over there. do you remember a time when there this was bad a relationship between a sitting mayor and cops on the street? >> going back to john lindsey. he had a very bad relationship with the police department. but that was a long time ago in the '60s. i think the union leadership of the new york city cops has been totally disgraceful. the kind of language they're using, saying the blood is on the hands of mayor de blasio is ridiculous. there is nothing that mayor de blasio said that inspired this evil man who killed his girlfriend or shot his girlfriend earlier in the day, this psychotic to kill these two brave police officers. i think the union officials have done nothing but poison the relationship in the city, and i don't think you can blame mayor de blasio for that. >> don lemon, go ahead

john kerry concerned about u.s. diplomats and their security right now. there seem to be so many conflicting messages out there coming from these folks here in washington. >> look. and, wolfuldn't there be. this is the most sweeping condemnation of the central intelligence agency in over 40 years. and what it shows when you lift the veil is what was very often a rogue operation, disagreement in the cia whether what they were doing was appropriate or even worked, deception at all levels, including to congress and perhaps to the president of the united states. and i think that there's got to be conflict over whether this should be released, particularly if you're sitting at the cia. these people are not going to be prosecuted. leon panetta saw to that. but if you're sitting at the a cia, it's like a scab has been removed. and there are people there who are trying to do their jobs under difficult circumstances. and they're all now being lumped together. and i think it's a real problem over there for morale. and it's also a moment this country can step back and sort of set the reset button on how we continue to address the war on terror. and it's a public conversation that ac

wolf. if not opposed messages from the white house and state department, certainly one of inference, it seems to be a gentle nudge from secretary of state from john kerry to dianne feinstein, the timing is up to you but please consider all of the things that the u.s. is facing, including the fight against isis right across the border as you make that decision, which seems to be something of a different message from josh earnest which we heard just now. >> i want you to stand by. we'll come back to you in a moment. much more of our special coverage coming up right after this quick break. hey what are you doing? i was thinking about taking this speed test from comcast business. oh yeah? if they can't give us faster internet or save us money, they'll give us 150 bucks. sounds like a win win. guys! faster internet? i have never been on the internet and i am doing pretty well. does he even work here? don't listen to the naysayer. take the comcast business speed test. get faster speeds or more savings, or we'll give you $150. comcast business. built for business. >>> nato folded up a flag at the headquarters in afghanistan's capital. this marks the end

and a wolf is someone that sees a weak person and uses that as an opportunity to take advantage of them. and sheep dogs we take out the wolves. >> well, john thanks for your service, thanks for all you've done. >> we can all do more. >> yep. and we will together. >>> one of the biggest challenges veterans face in rejoining the civilian workforce. so i sat down with u.s. army veteran and chairman and ceo of johnson & johnson. discuss his time in the military in the ways companies can help not only help hire veterans but utilize their unique skill sets. this is up next on "taking the hill." [ male announcer ] take zzzquil and sleep like... the kids went to nana's house... for the whole weekend! [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil, the non habit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. because sleep is a beautiful thing. when i crave a smoke that's all i crave. that's where this comes in. only nicorette gum has patented dual-coated technology for great taste. plus nicorette gum gives you intense craving relief. and that helps put my craving in its place. that's why i only choose nicorette. >>> welcome back to "taki

wolf, three times during our discussion. >> let's go to the question, then. here's what the cia director, john brennan, an official statement from the cia said today in response to your report -- our review indicates that interrogations of detainees on whom e.i.t.s, enhanced interrogation techniques, were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. the intelligence gained from the program was critical to our understanding of al qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day. john brennan, a man you know well, a man i know, he was appointed cia director by president obama, not by george w. bush. what do you say to his reaction to your report? >> we disagree. an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> so he's lying, is that what you're saying? >> wait a second, wolf. i'm not going to get into this kind of discussion. what this says is clearly there's a big difference of opinion. what we asked is that people read the report. everyone said the repor

la, eric chapman, john -- [inaudible] lorenzo -- [inaudible] andrew grotto, test saw -- [inaudible] michael noblitt, michael pesner, tommy ross, caroline -- [inaudible] and james wolfe. and finally, david grannis who has been a never-faltering staff director throughout this review. madam president, this study is bigger than the actions of the cia. it's really about american values and morals. it's about the constitution, the bill of rights, our rule of law. these values exist regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves. they exist in peacetime and in wartime. and if we cast aside these values when convenient, we have failed to live by the very precepts that make our nation a great one. there's a reason why we carry the banner of a great and just nation, so we submit this study on behalf of the committee to the public in the belief that it will stand the test of time, and with it the report will carry the message: never again. i very much appreciate your attention, and i yield to senator mccain. >> plaid dam president -- madam president, i would like to begin by expressing my appreciation and admiration for the hen and women who serve -- for the member

john carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security. thank you very much for coming in. i assume north korea is the main suspicion. is that true? >> well, wolf you for having me here tonight. this is an ongoing investigation and fast moving one, so i'm limited what i can say about the investigation itself. from the beginning, sony has been a great partner in the investigation. they reported this incident within hours. they worked as a partner with the fbi. as we seek day in and day out agents across the country and prosecutors looking to find who's responsible for this. >> how close are you to finding the person or persons or the country or whoever is responsible? >> it's like putting a puzzle together. we have a lot of pieces of the puzzle now. and people are working day in and day out so that we can find and say who kid this act and find the bad actor. >> was in a problem that the sony computer system had that made them so vuler vulnerable? >> this is a sophisticated attack. as we head yesterday, this is an attack that over 90% of u.s. companies, they estimate, would fall prey to. >> in other words, if they can do this to sony, they can do

john chambers says the internet of everything. >> at least it is better than m to m. >> let's all agree not to call it iot. >> thank you very much, brian ray. michael wolfith us. >> coming up, it is taylor swift's other breakup -- find out more about why her crusade against spotify and others has put her in the lead. you have spent all years racking points up on your card. it is time to use those air miles before they are worth nothing. we speak with the points guy brian kelly, on how to maximize your travel. ♪ >> first. bloomberg. >> it has been quite a year for the music business. a gi azalea got "fancy," and taylor swift "shook it off." she also led a campaign against spotify because they do not generate enough profits for artists and staying -- think -- sting agreed. >> it was good. people need to talk about this -- what is good for music -- music is important to our society and it must not die out because it is a vibrant part of society. >> for more on the new economics of the music business, i want to bring back our cohost, the former president of mtv networks, michael wolf. you were saying in music it seemed like it was the year of women women ar