Bring it up next week. Any help you need doing that ill help. Well, were not going to talk about that tonight on this program. Rachel has done it for us. But tonight my first guest, who was a real american sniper, has some very important things to say about the movie american sniper and the real iraq war. You got some sort of savior complex . I just want to get the bad guys. It is simplified. The film already the winner of several awards. Along with the accolades came controversy, some criticizing it with a pro war agenda. This isnt propaganda its hollywood. This one is just american hero. Hes a psychopath patriot and we love him. Chris kyle is a hero but hes a complicated hero. They say a lot of [ bleep ] in the middle of it. This is not meant to be a political film. People went to iraq under false pretenses. There is no context of why the u. S. Is in iraq. Tiny little omission. I just have tremendous respect for what he did. Im willing to meet my creator and answer for every shot i took. Be posted under the title i was an american sniper, and chris kyles war was not my war. Dont make the mistake thinking the movie captures the truth of the iraq conflict. I should know i lived it. Joining me now, former u. S. Army sniper Garrett Reppenhagen. Your reaction to the movie and the discussion it has provoked . Well, thanks for having me on the show. You know, i think the major thing that we have to put into context with this film is its have a very particular point of view. Whether its the true story of chris kyle or not isnt really my main concern. Its the fact that the American Public has a responsibility to take in as much information as possible about this conflict to understand it and understand the experiences of the people who lived it like myself and the veterans coming home that are going through a lot and not exactly what chris kyle went through. Many of them are going through other things, as well. So theres a larger context and a lot more dynamics at play here. In the article, i mentioned its like looking through that sniper scope. Chris kyle says in the movie or the character says, youve got to keep both eyes open to see the whole battlefield. Thats the analogy im trying to make for the american audience just keep both eyes open and be aware of whats going on in the larger context. You make a point in your article, which ive made, which is its just a movie. And were constantly teach thing lesson, and i think every awards season we teach the difference between movies and history books, the difference between movies and the truth and movies are pretty much the worst source of accuracy. Theres always manipulation in these kinds of movies. I want to read another line where you say, my actions in combat would have been more acceptable to me if i could cloak myself in the belief that the whole mission was for a greater good. I just want to go to a spot in the movie where the Bradley Cooper character explains his motivation for this. Lets listen to this. Do you want to die . Is that what it is . No. Then just tell me. Tell me why you do it. I want to understand. Babe i do it for you you know that. You do it to protect you. No, you dont. Yes, i do. Im here. Your family is here. Your children have no family. I have to serve my country. Im your [ bleep ]. You dont know when to quit. Youve did your part. You let somebody else go. Let somebody else go . Yeah. You find a way. You have to. Garrett in that scene the screen writer jason hall and the film directed by Clint Eastwood allows the characters wife, and i dont like to call him chris kyle, because this is a fictional character, but allows the wife to say thats crap, the idea youre doing this to keep us safe to protect me. But the whole thrust of the rest of the screenplay is to is on the snipers side in that argument. Theres no real exploration of that question beyond what we just saw. Well, yeah. I think you know, when youre in iraq and afghanistan or any combat zone, youre sacrificing a lot. Your physical health, your Mental Health your sanity, your soul in some aspects. Youre sacrificing so much. The why youre sacrificing becomes very important. You know i think when you go to war with ambiguous causes like we did in iraq, for me it was personally difficult. As that unraveled, when we found out there were no weapons of mass destruction, that there were no ties to 9 11, we basically opened the door for al qaeda to come to iraq and set up shop. The conduct of the war started diminishing with events like abu ghraib and other atrocities. I had a lot of friends, professional soldiers that i worked with every day that i respect the hell out of that have the same opinion that the character in the movie does. Its one of the ways we have to protect ourselves to go out there and leave the gate and do a mission is to believe youre doing the right thing. Its soul hurting and theres definitely moral injury involved when you start to lose that idea. I think thats the dangers of the American Public not holding our decisionmakers accountable and making sure we dont send our soldiers to war when all Peaceful Solutions havent been exhausted. In what you just described, theres a really interesting character dynamic to explore in this film, which the writer or director might not have beenible ible able to do which is how does he hold onto that rational for what he does in this war, as the information continues to pour in that the war was waged under what turned out to be untrue pretenses. Without getting to the question of whether the administration was lying about it there were no weapons of mass destruction and the situation that was visited upon iraq as a result of the United States army going in there, has not ever turned out to be something you could clearly, easily describe as being better than what was going on in iraq before we went in there. Many of the Service Members that i was there with you know, despite the information that was coming in it almost becomes impossible to stop or impossible to believe, because youve committed so much to this effort because so much has rely relied on it. You have to believe the big lie. The alternative is so destructive to your own personality and your own morals and values that you cant accept it. 7 ie you have to move on every day, drink water drive on continue mission, and thats what a lot of guys are doing. So in a lot of aspects the individual Service Members, you know, were left with the oath that we gave and the loyalty to our country. Its very hard to back up on. In a lot of ways, we werent necessarily the gun or the Person Holding the gun pointing. We were going to do whatever we had to do, and its very tough to convince yourself otherwise and the detriment to yourself after you come to that conclusion is very heavy. Garrett, if you go back to vietnam where come bass forces were filled with draftees, including people that were opposed to the war before they went, when they were in vietnam, serving in vietnam they all remained pretty vocal among each other about how, you know this is bad, we shouldnt be here. Im trying to think of nonprofane ways to describe the kinds of things i heard them talk about saying in their various camps that they were in in vietnam. How much of that talk did you hear in iraq . You know, i think theres plenty. As soldiers, you know, were prone to complain because we dont have a lot of power over our personal lives or what were doing beyond our orders and somewhat our mission is. Theres certain aspects that we hate and disagree with. I probably talked to a hundred different soldiers that had a hundred different point of views why we were deployed to iraq from oil to the holy war. There werent really good reasons given by our country so a lot of Service Members were kind of inventing why they were there, from what they were reading or hearing or what they felt. So its, like i said it was really ambiguous at the time i was there especially as these things were destructing. We thought we were going to go home when Saddam Hussein was captured. That didnt happen. We didnt find weapons of mass destruction, that didnt happen. We gave false sovereignty over paul bremer we thought we were going home that didnt home. So we just started questioning why we were there and our enemies started transforming while we were on mission. So it was a very changing place. You know i cant compare my circumstance to anybody from vietnam or really many other people who served in iraq because nobody has a monopoly on the war narrative. Its going to be different on who youre sevenrving with, and a million other different factors. So somebody might have a very different experience. I know Truck Drivers who got into way more combat than i did, because thats where the combat was, on the roads where the ieds and ambushes were. So its hard to say one individual soldier has the one perspective of what the war is like. Garrett, a branch of my family is pretty much all military including west point grads. They and one served in iraq, and some of the most negative analysis of what we were doing in iraq i have heard from them, and the most expert analysis of what were doing in iraq. Ive heard it from them. Thats one of the things i was listening for in this movie in the history of american movies about wars gone bad, which include vietnam, this is the first one ive taken seriously as a movie, not the silly stallone movies but this is an attempt at a really serious movie. Completely ignoring the context of the war, and what turned out at a certain point to be the essential hopelessness of it ever achieving the stated goal that president bush laid out in the first place, which we were going to have this jewel of european democracy right there in the middle east in iraq. To completely ignore that and to completely ignore the endless mistakes that were being made by the administration, by commanders at different points was really very surprising to me. I expected to 7 m8 someone in this film at some point to get that voice this there. And they tease it out a couple of times but they never really fully investigate it. Its too bad. It would have been a much richer fuller film if they did. Its been described as a character study on chris kyle. I dont know how you can make that character study without bringing in those dynamics which completely understand what his frame of mind was and what the environment was in iraq and the political environment here at home. I want to bring in zach beecham. Zach jason hall, the screen writer for this movie, its not contribute eastwoods script but he said when he pitched it to Bradley Cooper, he pitched it as a western. And this is the way people talk about movies when theyre in development and putting them together. They dont talk about this is how true it is. This is how accurate it is. And it isnt really the inciting objective of making these kinds of movies. So what were talking about here is a movie and because its centered on this very controversial war, this debate is getting hotter and hotter about the accuracy of it. n i think the problem is that its a movie that if you watch it and pay close attention to the dialogue, is clearly obsessed with the morality of the war. The opening defining speech is chris kyles father talking about what kinds of people there are in the world. There are sheep dogs that defend sheep. This major metaphor that defines the movies moral code and then gives this entirely apolitical description of the iraq war, and the idea that you can have a discussion about the morality of war, specifically the morality of the iraq war, and do it in a black and white way which kyle is an unproblematic protector, is to miss the broader question which is to say political questions. And so thinking about the movie as a a lot of westerns are, to go back to the original point here and to say that you can talk about that and depict that in an interesting way without totally assuming the main characters point of view is to make a huge mistake. The good guy in the western needs a motivation to get into this fight. Then he needs a villain or villains to conquer in that fight. This movie and thats the essential glue of the western. This movie invents all of those things, garrett. It indicates that his motivation was seeing these terrorist attacks on the United States, when, in fact, he tried to join the military before that. He said he always intended to join the military. And then it creates these mythical opponents in this thing, the sniper that hes working against on the other side, who is, to his credit in the book that this is based on chris kyle never made much of that and never said that he was in this direct competition with this other sniper. But thats the kind of stuff a movie needs when people are trying to figure out how do we hold an audience in here to watch a movie set in a grim war that america has turned against. Garrett, its the kind of thing that you expect from movies but i guess the stakes here for the public and the public discussion of it, the accuracy issue, is just loaded for everybody who is watch thing movie now. Yeah its you know it would be refreshing if somebody in hollywood made a less dramatized version of warfare that really kind of shows what a Service Member goes through and the struggles that they encounter. But i dont think thats likely to happen. Its easier to digest for a public to see a black and white world and not have to really make those reaches. Thats why i really rather would watch documentaries about the conflicts and i get a more intimate and real perspective on what that conflict is like. I want to keep this discussion going, so if you guys can stay with us, well come right back. Well be right back with a little bit more of this. From a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. Hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. And stay ready for everything that is still to come. I just dont believe in what were doing here. Well theres evil here, weve seen it. Yeah theres evil everywhere. You want these mother [ bleep ] to come to san diego or new york . Were protecting more than just this dirt. All right. Well be right back with former real american sniper Garrett Reppenhagen. Ive had a lot of hondas. We went around the country talking to people who made the switch to ford. I loved the look of the fusion. We test drove it. I was like this is my car. Allwheel drive is amazing. I felt so secure. You can do it, emmie ecoboost is when you can take a four cylinder and make it feel like a six cylinder. I was really surprised. I drove the fusion. And i never went back. Make the switch to americas favorite brand. 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And he wins that argument in this movie, as if thats a reality, that the people youre fighting in iraq would somehow get themselves over to san diego or new york if we werent fighting them there. Again, for that argument to end there, no room for two or three more lines from the other character in that scene is one of those moment where is the movie makes a decision, this is the argument that wins here. Yeah. I think obviously its certainly one sided and weve had similar confidences like that while i was deployed in iraq. You know, a lot of ways it seems unrealistic for that to really happen. But with our overuse of military and the other kind of practices and policies that we have worldwide, it seems like were becoming very good at creating enemies like isis and other terrorist groups that want to do just that. So its almost, i guess, the irony that the result of some of our combat in iraq was not eliminating these terrorists but creating more of them. Zach the screen writer jason hall has said that he pretty much fell in love with chris kyle and really liked the guy, really wanted to do a movie that chris kyle would like, that his family would like, his kids would like, his wife would like. The coauthors of chris kyles book the ghost writers, same thing, they really love the guy. Im sure he was probably a great guy in that way and pretty easy to really like. But once the writers of this material, and by the way, it shows you how removed from this material chris kyle was. He didnt write the book, two people wrote it for him. So are those really his words, are those really his thoughts . Theyve been adjusted by writers who were trying to sharpen them up to sell the book. Same thing with the screenplay. But that kind of adoration of the central character is one of the things that leads to this kind of movie. Yeah. I think thats the movies central problem. Its not that you cant make an honest movie that depicts chris kyles world view, but thats the problem, his view of the world is depicted as the actual world. That is to say, a world in which terrorists are coming for new york or san diego unless we fight them in iraq in 2004 seems to be actually the case in the universe of the movie. The movie does little to dispel that and uses cinematic tricks to make it look like thats the way things were. What its trying to do is give a sense of what kyle believed and how he experienced the world, but its a difficult line to trend. Its historically misremembered as the iraq war by a large number of people, and you really need to point out the actual political context, the lack of the weapons of mass destruction, the invasion was one of the best things to have happened to al qaeda for a long period of time. These are things that need to be in the movie to give a real picture of what happened. Again, this is a ghost written book, and it says this garrett, i have to get your reaction to that line in there, where he says i know what it is to kill people. Its no big deal. Yeah, its certainly a big deal to me. You know, whenever you take another persons life, whether in combat or not, it has to be a really introspective thing. I question every day, you know, will i be going to heaven or hell. Ive been working to repent ever since. One of the reasons i work so heavily to help other veterans to bring good back into the 4iworld because of the life ive taken away. Its something thats really affected me and my whole personality and how ive been ever since. So i think thats pretty crazy. I know as a sniper doing counter i. D. Counter mortar, overwatch missions countless nights 180 combat sniper missions, you know i know that they were planting ieds to kill my friends. But its not always like i said, a black and white world. The real enemies arent the ones that always die in combat. Theres a lot of Collateral Damage and theres a lot of really getting your target identification wrong in killing innocent people. Its hard. I cant compare myself with chris kyle or any other military Service Member out there. But for me personal alpersonally, its a very difficult thing. Garrett reppenhagen, thank you very much for joining us tonight, adding your invaluable perspective to this discussion. Absolutely imperative reading. Zach, thank you also for joining us. Coming up a member of congress who has just changed his mind about abortion will join me. And later i finally agree with ted cruz about something. dad i wanted a car that could handle anything. I fixed it dad thats why i got a subaru legacy. vo symmetrical allwheel drive plus 36 mpg. I gotta break more toys. vo introducing the allnew subaru legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. Next. Expected wait time 55 minutes. Your call is important to us. Thank you for your patience. 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Heres what republican congressman louis gomert had to say about republican females. In a new oped, selfdescribed prolife democratic congressman tim ryan said hes changed his position on abortion after talking to women. He writes, these women gave me a better understanding of how complex and difficult certain situations can become. While there are people of good conscience on both sides of this argument, one thing is clear the heavy hand of government must not make this decision for women and families. Joining me congressman tim ryan. How long a process has it been for you to move from that prolife position that you look as a young state legislator in ohio to where you are now . I think it started once i got into congress. I jumped right in i dont know exactly why, but i jumped straight into the abortion wars, thinking if we really wanted to reduce abortions in the United States, we had to address the issue of unintended pregnancies and how we should promote Birth Control and contraception and encourage a woman to bring the baby to term by making sure the mom and baby had health care, access to good food adoption tax credits, and really ran into stiff opposition from the prolife community, who fought on contraception. That opened me up to thinking hey, im not so sure im agreeing with these folks on a lot of these positions and then really went on a journey really trying to meet women who were in these difficult circumstances, and that happened, and then the Health Care Debate obviously brought the issue to the forefront, and then i was removed from the democrats for life Advisory Board in 2008 or 2009. And that process continued and i kept having these meetings. Its been going on for five or ten years at this point. As i read your story, its a familiar one to me. You brought up catholic, and how that helped form your early opinions about this and your evolution on it. One of the interesting things is you are now a parent, a father, a new father, and it seems that that has also helped you see why people should be allowed to plan parenthood. Well anyone who has been involved with a pregnancy like my wife and i were over the past year, year and a half you have those moments where youre sitting in a Doctors Office. You have tests coming back. Were very lucky. Our son is healthy. My wife had a very healthy pregnancy, we have a healthy baby. But you do have those moment where is these results are coming back and you dont know whats going to happen. I just feel like uncle sam should not be sitting in the Doctors Office with parents and a doctor having any role in making those decisions. That should be left to the mother. The father, if theyre involved and the doctor zk to you with regard to your religion, it shouldnt be the government involved. When we had brady and we were going through the process of having our son, brady, that became clear that these are personal decisions. Theres so manyb;]complicated scenarios that you just cant factor in that one federal law or state law is going to be able to adequately apply to all these varied circumstances. And that became clear when i went through that with my wife and we were involved in that process. Congressman tim ryan i wish we had more time tonight. Thank you very much for joining us. Coming up next, why i agree with ted cruz, for once. The lightest or nothing. The smartest or nothing. The quietest or nothing. The sleekest. Sexiest. Baddest. Safest,. Tightest,. Quickest. Harshest. Or nothing. At mercedesbenz, we do things one way or we dont do them at all. Introducing the allnew cclass. 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In the spotlight tonight its apples world, and we just live in it. Yesterday, apple reported the largest quarterly profit of any Public Company in history. Apple earned 74. 6 billion in revenue last quarter and 18 billion in profit. The company sold 74. 5 million iphones, or an average of 34,000 iphones every hour of every day in the quarter. In total apple sold over a billion devices in the past quarter alone. On a Conference Call yesterday the ceo revealed that the apple watch would ship in april. About the watch, cook said my expectations are very high. Im using it every day and i cant live without it. Joining me now is tim lee. Also joining us, the executive editor of the tech website we code, kara swisher. Nbc universal holds a minor stake in recode, but i dont. So this is going to be a perfectly share discussion. Karen, the numbers i just read are stunning. But theres something about saying them out loud. I thought when i was in the store last week getting the big giant iphone, theyre so lucky to have me here as a customer. But this is incredible whats happening with this company. Absolutely. This is a blowout quarter, especially when you compare it to every tech company reporting, these results are stunning. You know tim cook the new ceo, came after steve jobs. People were worried about him as a leader following the great steve jobs. But he seems to have proved he can really deliver the numbers and the products. But tim, they will turn on him, the media certainly will, if the watch isnt a big success. No, no no. These iphones have been a big success. I think this watch is an outlier. The apple watch, i think most people see this sector as a new area. So i think expectations are going to sell 10 to 30 million of them. Theyre going to be quite expensive. The question is, are we ready for these watches. Weve seen a few. They come and go and its hard to figure out whether people want those. But this one is probably going to be the ipod of these kind of watches. Thats the hope. Tim lee, i am prepared to buy any apple product i think is going to make things better for me. But ive got my i believe one of the big applications is you can just turn your wrist and look at it. Thats how much is that worth . Some people are willing to pay for it. Im skeptical it will be a big hit on the order of an iphone. But when you sell iphonei 70 million iphones a quarter lets listen to what steve jobs had to say. To the best of our knowledge, its not possible to make a smartphone that doesnt have weak spots. You can make i think you can make a really big one you know, that wouldnt fit in your pocket. Some of these guys are making hummers now, right . You can make a big hummer where you wouldnt even get your hand around it. But nobody would want to buy it. He was certainly speaking for me. 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Loretta lynch was introduced at her confirmation hearing for attorney general today by both new york senators which is customary. But new York Democratic senators have no power of persuasion over republican members of the judiciary committee. Thats why democrats relied on another new yorker, whom republicans do listen to. Shes going to be the new attorney general and im heartened by that. I mean, this woman didnt have to do this. She did it because she didnt like the injustice. So now and shell get confirmed, right . Joining me now is howard dean, former head of the Democratic National convention. So howard dean there you have the Democratic Senators introducing her in the judiciary committy. We know that Means Nothing to the republicans on the committee. But what are they going to say to bill oreilly . I think she is going to be confirmed easily. The hearings are going to be used as a hedge against eric holder. But some of the answers she gave today were really smart and well thought out. I dont think her confirmation is in doubt. She was actual hi asked by one of the republicans on the committee, literally are you eric holder, to which she said no . Im not sure what he meant by that. Are you everything we dislike about the Obama Administration i guess, Something Like that. What they dont like is holder doesnt put up with any crap from them. He stood up for Voting Rights where theyve been busy trying to take Voting Rights away, and a number of other things. He certainly is a strong figure. I think they resent that. This is their only chance to get him on the way out the door. But her record is outstanding. Bill oreilly thinks shes law and order, shes pretty law and order. Jeff sessions came up with a rational for why every republican senator should oppose this nomination. Lets listen to that. I guess we dont have it on video. He said no, thats the other thing. So howard dean how much of a problem do you think thats going to be for Loretta Lynch moving forward . I think its fairly minor problem. Shes entitled to her interpretation of the law, which is shared by most legal experts. So this is over the classic republican, i dont like the laws, and i dont like the action. Therefore, im going to declare that its illegal or not factual or whatever. You know, again i dont think its going to look very good for the republican majority to have one of their first acts to be turning down a qualified person to be attorney general of the United States. I expect some no votes and i expect senator sessions to keep his word and vote no. But i think a majority will vote yes. The good news for the white house is more republican senators take bill oreilly seriously than take Jeff Sessions seriously. Theres another thing she has going for her. Eric holder resigned as of the day of swearing in of his successor. So the longer they put off confirming Loretta Lynch, the longer they have to deal with eric holder. A vote against her is a vote for eric holder. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Chris hayes is up next. Tonight on all in, im proud of the fact that the Prime Minister has accepted our invitation. Boehner and bb tonight on all in im, frankly, proud of the fact that the Prime Minister has accepted our invitation. Boehner and bb, in the wake of the speakers back door invitation to netanyahu. We have a right to do it, and we did it. The hearing on the hill. What legal rationale would be in play that would prohibit polygamy . Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee played gotcha as Loretta Lynch bids to replace eric holder. Plus, the white house yanks their plan to roll back a college tax break as reporters who benefit from the tax break stage rebellion. And forgetting sarah palin. For it is they who point a