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Battle, you have earned the eternal gratitude of the entire american nation. you face down the evils of communism, you defended our flag and you showed the world the unbreakable resolve of the american armed forces. thank you and thank you very much. after serving in operation tailwind, mike went on to become an officer in the army and served for over 20 years. now mike and his wife, margaret -- margaret, stand up. i met margaret. margaret is lovely. [applause] reside in a fantastic place, where...

>> to mike and all of the service member whose fought in the battle, youve earned the eternal gratitude of the entire american nation. you faced down the evils of communism. you defended our flag, and you showed the world the unblakable resolve of the american armed forces. thank you, and thank you very much. after serving in "operation tail wind" mike went on to become an officer in the army and served for over 20 years. now, mike and his wife margaret -- margaret. stand up, margaret. i met mar...

In my statement to paul, it also includes the nato companies and countries. they are really sort of letting us down in that one respect and we dont want people taken advantage of the united states and thats not going to happen for very much longer. im going over there very soon and were going to have it and everybodys going to be paying and were going to be a much happier country and a much happier world no matter the circumstances everyone will know, we act from this core conviction that americ...

In my little statement to paul, it also includes the nato companies and countries. they are really sort of letting us down in that one respect. we dont want people to take advantage of the united states. thats not going to happen for very much longer. im going over there soon and were going to have it and everybody is going to be paying and were going to be a happier country and a happier world. no matter the circumstances, everybody will know that we act from this core conviction that americas ...

To move forward and get the country going on my agenda? you know, hes always been good about changing direction and people forget his position. >> are there core convictions that you can point to? >> well, i think if we look to his campaign where he was saying america first, and i think that if were looking for something outside of his own success that would drive him, i do think theres a traditional america that hed like to restore, one that may even just be in our fantasies of what the 1950s a...

Republican skepticism and this administrations foreign policy. certainly some of it is political. how much do you think the general furor in this administration is informing the decision rather than the actual deal and the actual policy? >> i would only be able to guess and im not good at guessing. there is deep ideological threads behind republicans are doing. the party has a core conviction that one of the best ways to effect the world in your image is through military and not through diplomac...

To do whats right and come down and decide this policy does not work for gay youth. >> they want more deliberate review of the membership policy. what do you believe that means? >> this sounds like the dont ask dont tell policy in the military in the 90s. it took them 15, 16 years to overturn that policy. there is a tremendous amount of damage done during that time. the dont ask dont tell policy was dropped and its a nonissue. once they stop being so fearful, they will realize this policy is onl...

Debate edition. >> in the spotlight tonight, so-called moderate mitt. that was president obama in ohio reflecting how the mitt romney from wednesday sounded a little different from this mitt romney from february. >> we conservatives believe in freedom. as conservatives were united by a set of core conviction. conservative conservative. i was a severely conservative republican governor. i think hes a conservative. six months after mitt romney, he chose the more conservative paul ryan as his run...

Code that we have to live up to. i want to walk with jesus christ. i want to live by the commandments of the lord. i dont want to go anything i dont want to do. >> joanna teaches literature at san diego state university and is author of a candid memoir called "the book of mormon girl." >> ever since i was a kid, ive had this core conviction that men and women are equal, but are also raised in a church with very clearly delineations of what men should do and what women should do. my daughter says...

killing seven people over the past ten days are facing off. the suspect has confessed to the killings of three french paratroopers, a jewish rabbi and three jewish children over the past ten days. dan rivers is at the scene in the city of toulouse with the latest. >> reporter: well, erin, its been a pretty dramatic day of developments here in toulouse, france. first of all, the news that mohammed merah who has been surrounded, a siege has ensued after an initial shoot-out with police w...