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More than panetta. he is calling the shots. >> he would rather have firepower and ordnance and weaponry than have this more power to the cia? >> hes got to go along with the generals. and the generals want as many people as possible. thats military mentality. theyre saying if we have 350,000 soldiers in afghanistan, the cias got to have a thousand. but thats way beyond the cias manpower. >> but isnt that the reason we won initially in afghanistan was the agency guys? >> yeah, but it was few guys...

Slam dunk. >> thats one reason that lynn of california was sticking with this bill. a big push to be solid on this thing. shows some solidarity and to be with your constituents. anyway, ron brownstein, thank you. >> up or down parliament vote. >> i think its a no-confidence vote. >> absolutely right. >> if you vote against it. attorney general eric holder says no way that well ever get osama bin laden alive. why is he making these assumptions, these declarations? theyre so provocative. how doe...

Contributor bob bare. you wrote a fascinating article. in an op-ed, panetta defended what happened. we have no found no console lags, like saying marines who die in a fire site brought it upon themselves because they have poor war fighting skills. in your article, you say it was poor trade craft. >> it was inexperience. the cia puts people through a course thats a power point presentation on suicide deaths. the people died when this mole and came into the base and blew himself up. it was clear t...

The military that the cia has actually become in these country an add junk to the military. we need to reduce the size of our stations in kabul and baghdad to as few as ten people, 15 people. that way you can deploy people for a year, give them the language, do what the cia does best and does it very well. i add that we need the cia, we need competition to the military. only way to keep the military intelligence honest and keep the president informed. if we lose the cia and this continues on lik...

Forces jumping out of airplanes. we were told that was in direct response to tweets from president trump about north korea. >> cnn military analyst and retired army general mark hurt ling and former cia operative bob bare. first to you, jonathan, i am curious to get your reaction to what we are hearing now on this breaking news. of course it has not been confirmed in north korea. south korea has confirmed this test theyre calling a failure but will rippley saying the north koreans may never hear...

Called the international media to. turns out, as expected, they conducted a missile test. we dont know what type of missile it was. we know that it failed. it could be part of the ongoing u.s. campaign to disrupt their missile launches using cyberattacks and other covert methods. so i see this as a -- its certainly never a positive when north korea does a missile test, but it was kpchd and it failed. to me, thats good news. >> i think the next question, bob, is what is the reaction, if anything,...

About. >> good to see you, bob. >> julie: president obama taking aim at republicans suggesting their pledge to america blueprint for nations future would really keep us trapped in the past. >> in fact in the pledge, the republican leadership is promising to scrap all the incentives for clean energy projects including those currently underway with all the joq and potential they hold. this doesnt make sense for our economy. it doesnt make sense for americans who are looking for jobs. it doesnt mak...

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