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>> bill: impact segment tonight, general stanley mcchrystal says he will retire from the army because of the embarrassing "rolling stone" article. the central question remains did the magazine treat the general dishonestly. did it use off the record quotes to destroy the man? joining us now from washington general anthony tata who served in afghanistan and knows general mcchrystal. its hard to believe that a guy as smart as mcchrystal, savvy, been around, knows the turf, would open himself up to...

>> bill: impact segment tonight, general stanley mcchrystal says he will retire from the army because of the embarrassing "rolling stone" article. the central question remains did the magazine treat the general dishonestly. did it use off the record quotes to destroy the man? joining us now from washington general anthony tata who served in afghanistan and knows general mcchrystal. its hard to believe that a guy as smart as mcchrystal, savvy, been around, knows the turf, would open himself up to...

>> bill: impact segment tonight, general stanley mcchrystal says he will retire from the army because of the embarrassing "rolling stone" article. the central question remains did the magazine treat the general dishonestly. did it use off the record quotes to destroy the man? joining us now from washington general anthony tata who served in afghanistan and knows general mcchrystal. its hard to believe that a guy as smart as mcchrystal, savvy, been around, knows the turf, would open himself up to...

Violations. a senior attorney spent up to eight hours a day looking at porn. eight hours. thats like the entire work day. okay? another senior attorney had a separate drive with five full adult movies on it. then there was an accountant who was blocked from accessing porn site 16,000 times in one month. so with some employees devoting hours and hours online to this, what might they have missed in terms of regulation while they neglected their work? >> thats really the central question. look, one...

It was the worst act of terror inside this country at the time before 9/11. and it was all the more shocking because the bombers were americans. army veteran timothy mcveigh was executed, terry nichols is serving life without parole. and the nation is trying to come to grips with the harsh reality that we are vulnerable to attacks from within. former president bill clinton and others fear the antigovernment anger that led to the oklahoma bombing is thriving today. ahead, ill ask homeland secur...

Are constantly working, as i said, to minimize the risk that they could actually go from those kind of extremist and violent extremist beliefs into violent action. >> but certainly, madam secretary, there is a way of measuring which groups are most prepared, and perhaps most potentially threatening to the united states? >> well, im not sure. i think thats a question the media might ask. im not sure thats quite the way that law enforcement would respond. because if we are attacked internationally...

Hank paulson. and those hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars simply vanished into the pockets of the big banks with very few strings attached. the democrats claim that this bill will actually prevent future taxpayer bailouts of failing banks. it would create a consumer protection office for investors, regulate some of the complex investments that led to the collapse and create a $50 billion failure fund financed by the banks. treasury secretary tim geithner says hes confident the bill will p...

Of touch with the people and out of touch with the constitution. not that many people, a relatively modest celebration. very polite. theyre angry, dont get me wrong, but they were demonstrating in a very polite way. the question is -- their critics say theyre a fringe and theyre wrong. and also say theyre wrong that second amendment rights are under siege. but they are part of when you add up the pieces, the tea party was here last week, now you have these constitutionalists, states rights, gun ...

Senate floor as soon as possible. >> all right, dana, thank you very much. and covering the white house, we know that the president does not want that $50 million fund, potentially to bail out those banks in this legislation. i want to get more on the major sticking point now. that proposal for that pot of money that would be used to dismantle the failed banks. and we bring more of that with our cnn national political correspondent, jessica yellin, who is here. and jessica, can you explain this ...

Bridge philosophical differences that really has defined this congress, it is no different on this issue, even though when youre talking about financial reform, everybody agrees that the rules for wall street need to be changed so that taxpayers are not on the hook once again in a time of crisis. but republicans, to answer your question, do say they believe they have all of their senators lined up in order to block democrats from bringing the bill that they have crafted to the floor as they want...