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More about the interconnectedness of the two fields of study. >> why dont we say nasas core competence is building equipment that can observe the earth remotely in ways very much similar to how its been observing planets remotely using space probes to gather information about planets of the solar system. we learned a great deal this way. what nasa has done is used the core competency to create a technology that has expanded our knowledge of the earths eco system about 100 fold. we now have reall...

Ive gotten the privilege to work with over the years, but right now theres really what i would describe as a real crisis of confidence. >> wouldnt the new director have to know about this incident? >> i would imagine within minutes. >> if he really wanted to send a message, that hes cleaning things up in the secret service, why wouldnt he just fire them? >> obviously everybody wants to have a review make sure the facts are as they understand them. but so much information here youre in a public p...

Was new. these types of tactics happen all the time, by the u.s. and others, officially, on the battlefield, on the fly. this happens, dont treat it lie its new, thats being intellectually dishonest, do you agree? >> i was the deputy commander of a task force of about 220 personnel with investigatives and interrogate everybodies at guantanamo, afghanistan and iraq. i can tell you we did not do this and we did not observe this. >> why would they have done such horrible things that are detailed in...

>> first of all, it is a piece of good news. i think moscow will thwart the monitors to the extent they can get away with it. but it is good news. the bad news is moscow is using a playbook theyve refined very well using intelligence operatives to create trouble, o far beyond just collecting intelligence. we have to expect this in the east and south of ukraine, too, and thats whats going on right now. the russians are very, very adept at this. this is almost a core competency for the russian int...

Down the street from you. i think, well, thats the internet. free access thats down the street from you isnt your local college anymore. it is internet classes. >> which is an interesting point, because as the cost of learning is becoming cheaper, ironically the cost of education keeps going up and up and up. so why might that be? >> interesting. >> one of the problems -- this is what i like to call the "u.s. news & world report" industrial complex. >> oh, i know this one. >> people rank schools...

Brooks on "meet the press" and this is what she had to say about the romney campaign or goldberg there. does this explanation hold mitt romney specifically. >> mitt romney does not have the passion for the stuff he is talking about. he is a problem solver and water? >> well, president obama has been going around doing a lot of nonideological person running an of the sbr views with the "the view" with the "the pimp with a limp" and a lot of people have extremely ideological age and been questioni...

ahmadinejad on the spot. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called him out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who of course is a supreme leader of iran. now, ahmadinejad tries to make jokes and he made no secret of his distain for the event saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i gu...

and "outfront" tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made no secret of his disdain for this event, s...

good evening, everyone, im erin burnett. and "outfront" tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made n...

loyalists. gadhafis sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemens embattled president has arrived in riyadh. hes expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. t...