that is without the media that felt the personal life of general petraeus. >> you describe how petraeuswere close friends with him, and his wife. asking the fbi to drop the charges. he did that and then, he resigned after obama's reelection and your note saying i screwed up terribly. you write to general petraeus, i know i won't totally recover from the irreversible damage, so i don't think it's wrong to take back what we worked hard to earn. how disappointed did you feel hearing a witness say you were innocent? >> looking back he was in a very difficult position. between poor holly, what she endured, what the family experience, the fact he was compromised by not only his staffer, but by his bosses. >> you repeatedly asked him to help clear your name. he didn't want to do that. >> it's disappointing because of the damage his political enemies did to us to get to him. >> by releasing your personal e-mails, both petraeus and others aren't you doing to him what you say government leakers did do you, invading his privacy? >> no. our privacy was destroyed by these leakers. what i'm doing is

how petraeus deceived her and why it was a mistake to stay silent. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "media buzz." >>> ted cruz easily beat donald trump in wisconsin this week. the pundits offered a mixed verdict on when this was a major defeat for trump or just made it slightly harder for him to reach the magic delegate number of 1,237. >> there's something about his support that is so solid that despite the loss in the face of all this, it shows a remarkable staying power. >> cruz victory making it almost impossible now for donald trump to reach the magic 1,237 delegate number before the republican convention. >> trump's campaign ripped cruz saying he's a trojan horse for a gop establishment that's trying to steal the nomination from the billionaire. and some in the media found that too harsh. >> i think he acted like a baby. there's a time to be magnanimous, you lost, you lost, move on, shut up. >> the texas senator landing on the cover of "time" with a condescending headline, likeable enough? and some pundits struggling to understand his appeal. >> i

. >>> petraeus resigned in 2012 after it was revealed he had an extramarital affair. it later emerged petraeus had mishandled information by providing it to broadwell. >>> wells far low will pay $1.2 billion in fines to settle civil mortgage claims. they admitted to certifying some homes eligible for fha insurance when they weren't. that meant the government had to pay up when they defaulted. >> not paying up on their student debt. the latest numbers show half the students owe tens of thousands of dollars. according to a new report from the wall street journal, about 43% of students are not making payments despite the fact that they have jobs. earn caps 10% of the borrower's income. but they are backed up, lots of confusion. >> we first reported on the story yesterday. keith harwood is a freeman after three decades in ava va prison for a crime he didn't commit. he has been exonerated for the killing of jessie parone and the rape of his wife in newport news. harwood says he gave up hope. >> i had to keep my head up and keep going. i could give up. i could get depressed

anticipate general petraeus used that to buck up his staff and soldiers. that is an image that comes out of the american iliad. stonewall jackson at first manassas is also a tale of an american iliad. what kind of tales do we have that touch upon the things we've been discussing today -- reconstruction and the ugliness of it. these are stories that we don't want to look at in a mythic kind of way. the exception to this would be sherman's marches. people do know about sheridan in 1804. if people know anything the hard war operations, it's sherman's madge to the sea. and we all know that it was a december lating march, 220 miles from atlanta to savannah, 60 miles wide in which sherman's troops destroyed absolutely everything in their path. and there is a thriving folklore business in georgia there to explain why, given that this occurred, why the particular town that so and so, that a certain person lives in, you know, why that particular town was spared when every other town was annihilated. and these folklore tales usually have something to do with sherman

guest: general betray us, dan mcchrystal, the generals -- general petraeus, dan mcchrystal, the generalsut you go back to henry peopleer, foreign policy from the last generation or so. if they raise a temperament issue -- mark: i will tell you right now. let me look at this camera. in brooklyn right now, they are going hard on the people steve mentioned. clinton will try to get endorsements from the people you mentioned early on to break trump. john: coming out of that, is it imperative that trump puts someone on the ticket with national security experience? guest: it's not imperative, but he could send an important signal with who he picks to be the vice president. absolutely blue skies, open space about whom or that person iss going to have if he gets on the ticket. is he going to be a governor, someone outside of politics, someone out of the military? someonethink it will be with national security experience. that is the one thing he does not have in his portfolio. will be theey debates in the fall. we will have 390 minute debates. i think they will be the most watched global televisi

he finally came around on this after petraeus was out of a job and clinton was on her way out of stateit with the robust kind of approach that clinton would have favored. if you go forward in time, she has been pretty open about saying that some of the decisions that were made in 2012 helped open up the space that the islamic state swept in an occupied in both syria and iraq. that is the brightest line between the two of them, and even for today, she is on record as favoring a partial no-fly zone. that is a step the president is in no way ready to take. mark: they have some tactical disagreements. if you go up to the strategic level and the role of america should be playing in the role -- world today, where did they disagree on that? >> i would say in the broadest terms that president obama has set out to defined american -- define american interest more narrowly than any other post-world war ii president. there are things where he just doesn't believe the u.s. should take major military risks. one key example is ukraine. the president feels ukraine matters a great deal more to vladimi

and grant says yes, lick them tomorrow. -- general trays -- trias petraeus used that to boost his staff. and of course the story of stonewall jackson at the first manassas. what kind of tales do we have that touch upon the things we're discussing today? reconstruction and the ugliness of it. i think those things lie largely outside of the american iliad. these are stories that we do not look at in a mythical or mythic kind of way. the exception to this would be sherman's marches. people do know about the raising of the shenandoah valley. i think ed ayers was right to quote the importance. but if people know anything about what i call the heart operations of the civil war, it is the march to the sea. and we all know that it was a desolating march, 220 miles from atlanta to savannah, 60 miles wide. in which the troops destroyed absolutely everything in their path. and there is a thriving folklore business in georgia there to explain why, given that this occurred, why the particular town that so and so lives in, why that particular town was spared, when every other town was annihilated. an

mark: petraeus. steve schmidt: general petraeus or stan mcchrystal.he generals of our most recent wars. kissinger,ack, henry foreign policy dorians of the of the lastns generation, if they raise the temperance issue. in brooklyn, they are going hard for many of the people on the list that steve mentioned. the clinton campaign will try to get endorsements on the very kind of people you are talking about early on to break from. -- trump. john: is it imperative that trump but someone on the ticket that has national security experience? steve schmidt: it is not imperative, but he could send an important signal with who he picks to be the vice president. and i think it is absolutely blue skies, open space about who or what credentials that person is going to have that is on the ticket. we have no idea. is it going to be a governor, someone outside of politics, the military? john: that is the one thing he does not have in his portfolio. it will be important. mark: there will be defections. steve schmidt: the key will be the debates in the fall. they will be

. >>> well, the scandal that ended david petraeus's cia career could be headed to the big screen.office of "the memoir collateral damage" is reportedly shopping around for a movie deal. kelly says her story reads like a thriller and would make a fantastic movie. petraeus pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information and resigned his post in 2012. >> that will be interesting. thanks, heather. >>> more fallout for the state of north carolina over their transgender bathroom law. raburn pharmaceuticals threatening to back out of a deal for a $20 million plan. they say it's unjust and believe for equality. the law prevents transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice which son say discriminates against the lgbt community. >>> canadian rocker brian adams has canceled a show in mississippi over the new religious freedom law. he doesn't want to play in a state that allows denial of certain services to the lgbt community based on the religious beliefs. >> well, are you rolling to work in style? >> i don't know about that. >> america's best and worst car brands have jus

. >> a petraeus? >> general petraeus. >> mccrystal. >> stan mccrystal. generals of our most recent wars. if they raise a temperament issue. >> meet me at this camera. i'm telling you right now in brooklyn, they're going hard for many of the people on the list that steve mentioned. the clinton campaign will try to get endorsements from the very kind of people you're talking about early onto break trump. >> we have 30 seconds. just coming right out of that, is it imperative that trump put someone on the ticket with him with national experience? >> he can send an important signal of who he picks to be the vice president. i think it's absolutely blue skies, open space about who credentials that the person will have that he gets on the ticket. you just have no idea. is it going to be a governor. someone outside of politics. is it going to be someone out of military. >> i think it's got to be someone with national security experience. he does not have that in his portfol portfolio. >> he's have to counter pep the key will be these debates in the fall. we'll ha

the fbi didn't get outside of the discussions between petraeus and paula broadwell.romania listening in to sidney blumenthal's e-mails. this is revealing information that guccifer brings to the fbi. lou: one last question, she still hasn't been contacted, the feeling is if you were transmitted to us that the fbi would within a week be talking with mrs. clinton. she hasn't heard, she says, from the fbi. what seems to be the delay and why is there a greater delay than would be rationally expected? >> well, i think everybody anticipates it's coming soon. they've got to work their way through the sequencing of the potential interviews. that's very important undoubtedly as they flipped. lou: my lord, john, they've had eight months on its face! rudy giuliani says 13 federal violations. >> let me tell you, the fbi director said this week, he told it all in response to a number of questions, he said, we want to do it quickly but we've got to do it right, emphasis on the right. lou: you know what disturbs me, ambassador, why does the fbi have to make a choice between quick an

look at the prosecution of general petraeus.s similar in a lot of ways to what hillary clinton did. but it's very different in one way. general petraeus admitted on tape to paula broadwell that he knew he was passing along classified information. hillary clinton in contrast says she did not know she was emailing classified information. look at the prosecution of sandy berger, also different. a very significant aggravating factor. he took classified documents. >> he put documents down his pants. >> yes, down his pants. >> that's not even close. do you believe there is a grand jury in place right now? >> i don't know. >> all right. you don't know. that's a fair answer. all right. so,. >> and you would assume the fbi is going to have to get around to doing that i don't know when they would have already done it the intent isn't that important to the grand jury. all right. that's for trial it's what actually happened. the people, the folks on the grand jury, are they going to be presented with this is what happened. here's the law. a

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looking at a different syria today if the president of the united states had not overruled david petraeus the head of the cia, hillary clinton, secretary of state and leon panetta, who was then secretary of defense, who all you family recommend arming and training the free syrian army. >> but what if arming stopped the birth of isis? interesting, he doesn't think so. >> so if more had been done to help the rebel, help people like through the cia or military help, if more had didn't done back then, there would be no paris, no brussels, no isis? >> no, i think that's impossible to pediatric, i think that's impossible to say. i think that isis was brewing regardless. >> reporter: he resigned from the cia in frustration. he says his intention isn't to be a whistleblower but merely to describe what it was like to be a cia case officer in war time. >> reporter: isn't the cia the mantra, you sign up, say i will not tell my war stories? >> a lot of my colleagues are upset with me, i mean livid with me about it. >> reporter: it's a ground level look how the cia operated on global war on terrorism.

command to central command to advising people like general mckiernan and general mcchrystal, general petraeus and general dunford. he also is an expert in counterinsurgency, not what his book "strategic failure" is about, but he has an entire generation of young officers that he's impacted from teaching at university. during my time in the marine corps, much of our time was talking about these issues, analyzing american foreign policy. mark moyar was one of the guys we were always talking about, so i look forward to a fantastic discussion. with that, i'm going to turn it over to rick whit billion for him to talk about his book, "predator." >> thanks, scott, for that very generous are introduction. i'm honored to be part of this distinguished panel and grateful for the chance to talk about my book, "predator: the secret origins of the drone revolution." it's a book that tells what i think you're going to agree is a surprising story about the predator, how the predator was invented and how in the words of air and space smithsonian magazine, "it changed the world." this is, after all, the first

emily: there were three other future generals with you -- if david petraeus. you know they would be so powerful? gen. alexander: i knew marty well. i knew skip. they knew me. was only going to stay five years. i think everybody thought dave would be. but for me, i am as surprised as they are. emily: u.n. on from west point to rise quickly through the ranks. gen. alexander: did not feel so quk at the time. emily: ifou intended to stay five years, what happened? gen. alexander: as my five years were coming up -- i had a great entor. at the time, a brigadier general. when on to be a lieutenant general. thathad been at west point talked about how do we take the future of our army? if we do not keep good people in the army, how do we change our army from what it was in the mid-1970's to where we needed it to be for the first desert storm. he convinced me these are good people. you go out and make money, or you can help these guys. so we talked about that with my wife and my family. stay.cided to i got a job offer at 20 years. it was incredible. i would have made th

looking at a different syria today if the president of the united states had not overruled david petraeus then the head of the cia, hillary clinton, secretary of state and leon panetta, who was then secretary of defense, who all unanimously recommended arming and training the free syrian army. >> reporter: but what if arming the rebels early on stopped the birth of isis? interestingly, he doesn't think so. so what if more had been done to help the rebels? >> help people like through cia or military help. if more had been done back then, there would be no paris no, brussels, no isis? >> no, i think that's impossible to predict and impossible to say. i think that isis was brewing regardless. >> reporter: he resigned from cia in frustration. he says his intention isn't to be a whistleblower but merely to describe what it was like to be a cia case officer in war time. isn't a part of the cia that you sign up and say i will not tell my war stories? >> a lot of my colleagues are up set with me, livid with me about it. >> reporter: it's a ground look on the global war on terrorism. and a view ma

were threeact, there other future four-star generals with you -- david petraeus, martin dempsey, walter. did you know they would be so powerful? your friends? general alexander: i knew marty well. i knew skip. and they knew me. if you had asked any of us the raid -- i thought i was going to stay for five years. i think everybody thought dave would be. but for me, i am as surprised as they are. emily: you went on from west point to rise quickly through the ranks. general alexander: did not feel so quick at the time. emily: if you intended to stay five years, what happened? general alexander: well, actually, as my five years were coming up -- i had a great mentor. at the time, he was a brigadier general, a kernel and then a brigadier general, and that had been at west point that talked about how do we take the future of our army? if we do not keep good people in the army, how do we change our army from where it was in the mid-1970's to where we needed it to be for the first desert storm, and what he convinced me was these are good people. you can go out and make money, or you can help the

. >> did you have a romantic relationship with general petraeus? ever have an affair with -- >> never had an affair with anybody in my life. >> geraldo and edyta. >> if i didn't get eliminated tonight i would have demanded a recount. >> we miss him. >> i know. >> a lot of us were rooting for him. we thought he was -- >> yeah, look at those moves. >> we love running this video. >> this is just like classic dance moves here. >> it is. >> i learn so much. well, the competition does continue on monday. coming up in the week, we have national caramel popcorn day. >> okay, peanut butter and jelly day tomorrow. >> a big announcement here on monday. watch this space. >> announcer: th >>> making news in america this morning, breaking overnight, more tornadoes touching down in the south. the videos just coming this and where the severe weather is heading right now. >>> show of unity. donald trump meeting with republican leaders as a controversy surrounding the billionaire pile on. >>> plus, hillary clinton lashing out during a rally after a question. >>> col

is st intent as it was in the david petraeus case or is it gross nedges what is the standard, what is the test? >> i think what has been reported is that we received an inquiry into the handling much classified information particularly of people who were no longer in government as to whether or not it had been improperly handled or properly handled. and that's the security review that we get in a number of situations, and that was the genesis of this matter. and so beyond that i'm not going to be able to comment on the specifics of it, except to say that we do look at the issues presented. but as i said before, we look at them thoroughly, fairly, independently and a recommendation will be made. >> but i'm saying leaving aside this case, and you have had other cases, not when you were attorney general but david petraeus, and i'm just trying to say what is the standard for-- is it intent or is it gross nedges or something else? >> you know, every case is different. >> there is no standard. >> every case-- it just depinneds upon how a matter comes up. it really depends upon the facts of

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someone i would -- you can say petraeus if he hadn't gone through his stuff. gates, there's no doubt, has a ton of experience. he's definitely part of the establishment. that's the problem. how do you -- >> he worked for both parties. >> both idsides of the aisle. >> and both sides like him a lot. the debates are hard to be on the right side but he would be someone you can throw on there. >> jim vandehei stay with us. bernie sanders will speak us with live. and the must-read opinion pages straight ahead. we'll be right back. welcome to the world 2116, you can fly across town in minutes or across the globe in under an hour. whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth th unlimited clean power. in less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to sce planes, across the universe and beyond. and ifou thought that was amazing, you just wait. ♪ until one of you clipst da food truck.. then your rates go through the roof. perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accide

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>> people i like, jack keane, general david petraeus.who, president bush was first one stepped up said we had wrong strategy in iraq. he found generals who disagreed with current commanders who were current commanders came up with new approach that actually defeated isis. with the surge in 2007. so there lots of diversity. but problem is donald trump, you say that donald trump needs to find some people who share fist philosophy. what is his philosophy? we don't know what his foreign policy philosophy is all over the map. he said in the clip, went into the break he will not lay out trump doctrine because we need flexibility. we had reagan doctrine. we had truman doctrine. bush doctrine, carter doctrine. but trump doctrine we don't have doctrines. it is rudderless foreign policy without any guiding is have. he needs to lay out a guiding vision. what is the trump doctrine. what is the trump view. are we going to spend more in the military or are we going to spend less? send troops to iraq and syria to fight isis or let russia do it. what is

. >> did you have a romantic relationship with general petraeus?ve an affair with general allen? >> no. >> geraldo. >> if i didn't get eliminated tonight, i would have demanded a recount. >> we're going to miss geraldo. >> a lot of us were rooting for him. >> yeah. he's -- look at those moves. >> we love running this video. >> this is just, like, classic dance moves here. >> it is. >> i learned so much. the competition does continue on monday. coming up in the week, we have national caramel popcorn day. >> okay. peanut butter and jelly day tomorrow. >> and a big announcement here on monday, watch this space. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now," informing insomniacs for two decades. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now" informing >>> good morning. >>> good morning. i'm reena ninan. >> i'm kendis gibson. here are some of the headlines we're following this morning on "world news now." >> the virginia state trooper badly wounded in that shootout at a greyhound bus station has died. trooper chad dermyer had been participating in a traini

when petraeus was he lied to the fbi which triggered the whole thing. she is at risk in this perjury trap. that could lead to derivative charge. if it only focuses on just the business about the server, i think what they are going to come down with was a report that said she was very negligent. she made a lot of bad decisions. she risked at love things she shouldn't have but we couldn't prove this crime yard. >> this is a rare criminal statute which this is good or bad is another subject. person could be prosecuted for gross negligence. the government doesn't have to show intent. >> >> can be proven by negligent in this particular statute. >> the ultimate irony is that the reason she embarked on all of this was to hide her communications from the world, from the freedom of information act. from the congress that was the point. there is no other point in doing this. it's meant to evade subpoenas, inquiry,s congressional committees. and now it's all over the -- everything is out there. we know that 22 of these were i had extremely highly secret and it's,

david petraeus wasn't out there to intentionally hurt. the question is intentionality did you intend to hide your emails circumvent the freedom of information. that is important and the president did not address it. >> let's not say the doj indictment. let's say does the fbi request they move forward to the doj? >> >> i used to think yes. i'm beginning to think no. >> i feel the same way. and there is no such thing as a security review in the fbi. they investigate crimes. >> i wouldn't have bet that against the clintons on this. i think they have this wired. >> okay. panel. thank you. the u.s. capitol police by the way say more than 400 people were arrested for unlawful demonstration. a mass protest on the east front of the capitol was over a push for improved ballot access and voting rights. it's said to be one of the largest mass arrests at the u.s. capitol in a couple of decades. we thought we would bring you that today. that's it for the panel. stay tuned surprise guests crashes a local news report down under. >>> finally tonight. liv

and jill kelly, caught up in the david petraeus sex scandal. she is speaking out about the secret e-mails and how the media ruined her life with false reports and turning out to suggest something improper was going on when it was not. >> thank you, howard. >>> and now the senate voting down a bill to stop airlines from shrinking the size of your airplane seat. carriers have down sized width and legroom in economy seating. and some are under fire for charging premium prices for standard seats. the proposal would block airlines from reducing society side. and the thing did not pass. >> you want to see something fun. villanova wild cats celebrating the men's ncaa championship. look at that parade in downtown philadelphia. villanova cancelling classes for the day. nice job so students and faculty could celebrate the division one. >> martha vs gleeful. >> and along with peter doocey. exciting for them. >> and they get a day off school. >> probably the best. npope francis confronts religion and modern life and hinting at a new pathway for divorced an

. >> they are getting into the warfare petraeus used in iraq in the surge and in afghanistan in 2001.l qaeda and the taliban. i think they should have been doing this in 2011. had they, we wouldn't be sending more special operators with less capability and no strategy. and it probably would have helped at least present or slowed down considerably the migrant crisis that is in europe and threatening to hurt our country, too. >> infiltrating refugees and the rhetoric is hot and the other problem is, kimberly, 250 special operators not fighting isis with rebels that want to fight assad. rebels don't want to fight isis unless isis engage them. the people we are supporting and training want to get rid of assad. >> seems like we do. we are trying to train the people who want to take down assad. what kind of mess is this? 250 special forces because president obama doesn't want to commit ground forces to defeat isis. this is not moving the ball down the court or whatever you want to say to defeat isis. it's shamable. it's bad strategy. don't expect anyone to take up our back on this. the trip

power, it ice, and its risks and i was was able to observe close hand because i as advising general petraeusand out of afghanistan during at that time, virtually every decision our field commanders made she agreed and supported even though she was secretary of state. whether that means definition of a hawk, those are simplistic terms, hawk and dove we use to label people. foreign policy and national security much more complicated than those two terms. jon: the article exsented in "the new york times," how hillary clinton became a hawk. general jack keane, now retired four-star general. jack, thank you very much. >> good talking to you, jon. heather: speaking of hillary clinton apparently not feeling the bern, not at all. firing back when asked a question about senator sanders. we'll show you that heated exchange. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture every day. ♪ everything your family touches

david petraeus wasn't out there to intentionally hurt.ut, the question is intentionality did you intend to hide your emails circumvent the freedom of information. that is important and the president did not address it. >> let's not say the doj indictment. let's say does the fbi request they move forward to the doj? >> >> i used to think yes. i'm beginning to think no. >> i feel the same way. and there is no such thing as a security review in the fbi. they investigate crimes. >> i wouldn't have bet that against the clintons on this. i think they have this wired. >> okay. panel. thank you. the u.s. capitol police by the way say more than 400 people were arrested for unlawful demonstration. a mass protest on the east front of the capitol was over a push for improved ballot access and voting rights. it's said to be one of the largest mass arrests at the u.s. capitol in a couple of decades. we thought we would bring you that today. that's it for the panel. stay tuned surprise guests crashes a local news report down under. ♪ uh oh. oh. henry! o

general david petraeus once told me that the most significant strategic shift during his time in uniform was that saudi arabia went from being a tacit supporter to an aggressive foe of jihadi groups. today saudi intelligence is a major ally in fighting al qaeda, isis, and its ilk and yet saudi funding of islamic extremism has not ended and it's pernicious effects can be seen from pakistan to indonesia. the funds now come from individuals, not the government, still it is hard to imagine that the absolutist monarchy of saudi arabia cannot turn off the pipeline of money to extremists. the reason probably is that saudi arabia is reluctant to take on its religious extremists for fear of backlash. hardline preachers and ideologues have significant sway in saudi associates. they are known for vast and growing social media, last known is within that social media the biggest stars are preachers and extremist ideologues. were the saudi monarchy to fall it may not be replaced by a group of liberals and democrats but rather by islamists and reactionaries, and having watched this movie in iraq, egypt

i've read -- and she's -- she seems to be as guilty as you can possibly be when you look at general petraeus and others absolutely destroyed over much less. and it looks to me like they're protecting her. >> well, there's no question. and i think what jim comey -- if he had access to a grand jury it would be different. but let's talk about new york. you are first in new york, people love you in new york. and i want to talk to you about the 9/11 memorial in a moment. but first, ted cruz, so this guy -- you know, he hates new york values and all that stuff. so he's stumping in upstate new york. i mean, what does he think that he's going to get in new york? and how can he convince people that he really didn't mean it when he said that basically our values were in the tank? >> well, i just saw the recent poll. he's actually in third place in new york now. and, you know, when he talked about new york values during the debate, that's when i defended new york and talked about the great firefighters and policemen that went up through the royal trade center knowing there was a real possibility that t

looking at a different syria today if the president of the united states had not overruled david petraeusnd head of the cia, hillary clinton and leon panetta who all unanimously mm >> reporter: but would have arming the rebels early on stopped the birth of isis? interestingly, louts doesn't think so. >> so what about the argument if more had been done on help the rebels back then, there would nobody brussels, no paris, no isis? >> i think that's impossible to predict and i think that's impossible to say. i think that isis was brewing regardless. >> reporter: he resigned from the cia in frustration. he says his intention isn't to be a whistleblower, but merely to describe what it was like to be a cia case officer in war time. >> isn't part of the cia, the mantra that you sign up and say >> a lot of my colleagues are up why set with me. >> reporter: it's a ground level look at the how the cia operated during the so-called global war on terrorism and a view many at the agency wish was left unseen. richard engel, nbc news, new york. >>> at 9:57, winds are starting to ease around here, but wat

they didn't take that stance with general petraeus, did they? there was classified, period.t. sandra, this is troubling, this is second time in interview the president given her cover. even though he says, the investigation is going to be fair, he is saying the investigation, i agree, i think the fbi, the group investigating her will be fair. that is the not question. the question is, will loretta lynch be corrupted? will he influence her? forget the fbi. only thing that matters is whether or not the doj will recommend those charges. harris: congressman, would you consider what the president did in this interview actually commenting on an ongoing investigation which is something he said he would not do. >> let me just say, i knew loretta lynch when she was here in brooklyn. i think she is pretty straight arrow too. harris: everybody has said that. >> she is not eric holder, put it that way. he shouldn't be doing it. shouldn't be putting people in that position. yes, i say he center fearing in the investigation. sandra: where do you see this ending up? i honestly don't know.