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Decision that he is making, that is just preposterous. >> under that distinction it is impossible for those who have been killed or injured to receive a purple heart and also additional combat pay as a result. jury selection continues today. organizers suspended the pay before they come up with a solution to the $100 billion pension crisis. the move should light a fire under legislatures. >> all statements of legislatures and salary of legislatures is removed every year. every day the pension ...

U.s. troops for up to eight countries. what is danger pay? its countries that theyre going to look and say, well, is it really a dangerous area? one of the ways in which they figured that out is if service members are allowed to bring their families with them for assignments in places like bahrain, then they determine that thats not going to be applicable to danger pay anymore. what does this mean? that $225 pay cut for members of the military. countries that will still be within this danger zon...

>> and you were one of the 13 victims in this situation. do you have any hope on tuesday congressman frank wolf introduced an amendment that would give the fort hood victims the combat pay and benefits he believe they deserve? >> a letter came out from one of the lieutenant generals in response to that saying that the army does not see it as workplace violence at this time. theyre trying to wait and see what happens after the trial, which there again is just a lot of paragraphs of them trying to...

>> bret: some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the man charged in the fort hood shooting that dad hassan fired his attorneys and told the military judge he wishes to represent himself. he goes on trial this summer for the 2009 army base shooting spree that killed 13 and injured 32. kxas tv reports that while sitting in jail hassan has been paid more than $278 taxpayer dollars under the military code of justice a suspects salary cannot be suspended until hes found guilty. meanwhile ma...

Message -- >> our mission continues! >> great day. the ceo of the mission continues joins me right now. its great to see you. just so everybody knows and your background, youre a former navy s.e.a.l. you used your combat pay to start the mission continues. where did the inspiration come from? >> i did, thomas. when i came home, one of the things i recognized was that this generation of men and women wanted to find a way to continue to serve. when i came home, i visited some of my friends who had...

International story. >> heres what made meso proud. i thought not only -- this was a moment when local folks proved what community means. they know this community. they knew the streets, they knew where to get information about the people. and all along the way, they were careful to say this is what we know now. and now were updating you to this point. its something were not sure about, they said that as well. no excuses. they made no excuses. they just went straight for telling people what they...

Combat pay is tax-free. and when youre working in a civilian job, thats all sub to tax. many states dont tax military pay and that will be sub to tax. so there is a downgrade in the income, if the income is the same because of taxes. and secondly, if you are separated from service because for something other than retirement, you dont have access to commissaries anymore. so you have to pay what the rest of us are used to paying for your everyday expenses. >> what can some servicemen and women cur...

Wanted to get somebody in the agency. it wasnt that she was joe wilsons wife, she was in the agency, she was fair game. >> patrick. >> all during this time, were talking urabout the washington inside game, there were 4,400 american lives taking in iraq, which is the most important lesson learned. you can talk about the $3 trillion or the $4 trillion that this cost, but look at the treasure of our country, and you compare it against a backdrop of the history of these foelks who wanted to get us i...

Poll numbers, with his high standing with republican polls not be invited to speak at cpac? >> its a good question. cpac is a very important event. i do like to go there every year and cover it. ill be asking for combat pay from msnbc to do so again this year. and its an interesting question. for years now it has been cpac was essentially the voice of the republican party that had gone in this conservative direction. is that changing now? are people like chris christie going to push back against...

Are the best of the best of the best and think of the professional athletes at the top of their game. training staff waiting on them, theyre getting all their needs met and when theyre done with their career theyre out there, like you and me at anytime fitness waiting at their doctors office in the regular world. and whats the big difference? that athlete was paid millions of dollars to do what they do. this navy seal made maybe 60 grand a year, plus some combat pay now he cant talk about what h...