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>> in public, bush administration officials continue to maintain that oil is not a factor in their war deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. >> mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? >> nonsense. it just isnt. there are certain things like that, myths that are floating around. im glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. literally nothing to do with oil. >> behind th...

Take it over far more than anything else. >> in public, bush administration officials continue to maintain that oil is not a factor in their war deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. >> mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? >> nonsense. it just isnt. there are certain things like that, myths that are floating around. im glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. lite...

Is more of a barry goldwater fellow than ted cruz is. by the way, they did talk on the senate floor and weve captured that moment. the c-span cameras caught it. there you see them encircled where john mccain takes ted cruz aside and lets him know what was on his mind. i can imagine the tenor of that conversation. mark murray, these two men have not liked each other for a while. and so theres a history here but clearly ted cruz has not done himself any favors with the senate colleagues. >> when y...

Deliberations. in this infinity cbs radio interview broadcast on c-span, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is pressed on that issue. >> mr. secretary, what do you say to people who think this is about oil? >> nonsense. it just isnt. there are certain things like that, myths that are floating around. im glad you asked. it has nothing to do with oil. literally nothing to do with oil. >> behind the scenes, though, planning for iraqs oil goes into overdrive. rumsfelds defense department has just rec...

Investigation. this is america. >> the hearing is adjourned. i gave you the opportunity to ask a question. >> this is when brian was watching c-span yesterday, fell out of his chair. >> i went to break early in order to get the sound. is this really happening? >> could it possibly be happening is what we thought. he said it was adjourned. comments came forward. if you have questions, you should have asked them forward. issa went on greta last night to explain. >> if the ranking member wanted to ...

Whered you go? actually when you watch that specific c-span clip on youtube, it auto populates with an ad where you can click to buy frank zappas "porn wars deluxe." somebody will look back on 2014 and be very excited about that the way im excited about 1985 when i look back at paula hawkins. paula hawkins, the senator sparring there with frank zappa, remains to this day the only woman ever elected to the united states senate from the great state of florida. elected in 1980. she served for one t...

His thighs are the size of pyramids. >> and shape. >> not that i would know that. do we need clowns? we have netflix and other things . >> thats a clown question, bro. anyone who watches c-span knows we dont have a clown shortage. they may not bewaring the make up or the costumes, but they are sout there. pop culture killed the clown industry. growing up it was bozo the clown. he was friendly and kids loved them. and then the clowns were evil and terrifying. the doll from "poltergeist" and kille...

Around the world. thats what we should be using those resources for, as opposed to wasting them to show off a country, or i think more cynically, to show off the politicians in a country. >> and we should remind all of you, mitt romney was the head of the u.s. salt lake winter games, so he has opinions there and shes sharing that for good reason. the filing deadline for taxes about two months away. federal taxes arent the only ones you have to worry about. a new analysis looked at the tax burd...

The bill which meant that it couldnt pass with just democratic votes. some republicans were going to have to cross the aisle to vote for it, or there would be international economic armageddon. but they were so embarrassed about doing it, they so did not want to be seen casting those votes that the republicans did something that has maybe never happened before in congress, at least as far as we can tell. you can tell from this tape, this is the way it usually goes when the senate is voting on so...

Mr. mccain. mrs. mccaskill. mr. mcconnell. >> its not that theyre not voting, but the republicans refused to allow their votes to be said out loud because they didnt want anybody to know how they were voting on the debt ceiling. they asked harry reids permission to do it this way and said out of deference and respect to his republican friends, he would let them do it. really weird. nobody has done this in congress in years. c-span was furious. all the reporters who cover this stuff from the sena...