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Ads on the attacking president obama, from his base. >> chained cpi makes my head swirl. the other thing that president obama told diana williams was that he went off boehner and suggested he has been weak ened by this whole process. listen here. >> and he goes back and it turns out he cant control his caucus. so the challenge here is, can you deliver on agreements that are made? >> chris? >> well, cant control his caucus? now look, when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, she did control her...

Long before you hear republicans bashing government again. >> let me go back to liz. you know, they say they like defense, republicans tend to be, as a group, a bit more hawkish than democrats, but not in terms of supporting the military. both parties are whatever they are, but theyre not particularly ideological about veterans benefits and things like that. but along come the republicans. it seems like they wrote that bill, shutting down the government, they wrote the exceptions. they never mad...

Yours and mine are the young people who are dying. the very notion that their parents, that three could not immediately receive that death benefit. they call it a gratuity, but its $100,000. and they also support the burial and travel for family. so the notion that they could not receive that money, i think is really objectionable to me. the fact of the matter is congress was briefed about this flaw. they were briefed on september 27 by the pentagon controller who said if you go through with thi...

He knows a thing or two, mr. rove does, about how it works inside a white house. my question is whats going on there? why doesnt he answer the question? >> one answer may be that he doesnt know. the white house press secretary is kept out of a lot of discussions for the purpose of giving him information he then has to deny knowing to the press corps. they may not have told jay carney when he knew. he may have been trying to hide his ignorance. this is troubling. if robert hale, the controller of...

He knows a thing or two, mr. rove does, about how it works inside a white house. my question is whats going on there? why doesnt he answer the question? >> one answer may be that he doesnt know. the white house press secretary is kept out of a lot of discussions for the purpose of giving him information he then has to deny knowing to the press corps. they may not have told jay carney when he knew. he may have been trying to hide his ignorance. this is troubling. if robert hale, the controller of...

Republicans support what they call zero baseline budgeting, where you would create funding for each program, each year. democrats think thats a losing proposition. well, i dont understand why they would ever try to do it this way. so, again, i think it wont be long before you hear republicans bashing government again. >> let me go back to liz. you know, they say they like defense, republicans tend to be, as a group, a bit more hawkish than democrats, but not in terms of supporting the military. ...

My question is whats going on there? why doesnt he answer the question? >> one answer may be that he doesnt know. the white house press secretary is kept out of a lot of discussions for the purpose of giving him information he then has to deny knowing to the press corps. they may not have told jay carney when he knew. he may have been trying to hide his ignorance. this is troubling. if robert hale, the controller of the defense department thought it was a problem last week, it strikes me several...

First with a slight turn toward the south. two minutes later it disappeared completely from indianapolis radar. >> the controller who lost flight 77 assumed it crashed. >> he believed american 77 had experienced serious electrical and/or mechanical failure and was gone. >> meanwhile, in new york, an air traffic control manager tracking united flight 175, tried to report its hijacking to her superiors. she was turned away. >> the manager tried to notify the regional managers and was told that the...

Know something is wrong. >> can you hear boston center? acknowledge. >> i dont think you immediately thought hijacking. >> absolutely not. i have been in the agency at the time about 20 years. had never seen a hijack. we thought, okay, we have a catastrophic failure of some sort with the aircraft. they cant talk to us. well clear the airspace away from them and let them fly to wherever theyre going to fly. >> as the plane turned south, the 9/11 commission report believes the hijackers tried to t...

Star 349, spelling fix on the key pad. flaepts asking about coffee makers that didnt work or entertainment systems that needed fixing. at 9:36 a.m. the call belme answered was chilling. it was from flight 93. >> then a female voice comes on the line and goes, a flight attendant has been killed. theres two guys. one guy in the cockpit. one guy is at first class behind the curtain, and extremely calm. i was trying to act calm. as a controller we always want to be calm in & in control. she had me b...