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Have to assume that the democratic party has lost any sense of patriotism, in a sense of balance, in a sense of propriety. in you would think when you are dealing with something like the korean war, the nuclear weapons in north korea, the potential to maybe get a breakthrough. it may work but it may not work and its a courageous step. you would think most of the democrats would have said, we can do this next week when he comes back home. but it tells you the bitterness, the hatred, frankly, is s...

>> the winner bill mcraven and the loser all of us, the voice of aretha franklin has been forever silenced this week. >> winner of the week is cara monch, she has miss america and she spoke us very boldly and bravely today on bullying within her organization, mistreatment and i think anytime youre a whistle-blower thats always a courageous step. shes a brown university graduate and i want to commend her for being a whistle-blower. my loser for the week is the iranian regime. no longer doing busi...

New leader of saudi arabia and his willingness to be very cooperative with israel and that paints a target on his back but i think its a courageous step. >> kimberly: thats a game changer in terms of an ally that would be willing to position themselves along with the united states and then our first -- left them april 11th. two strike groups like you said the harry truman and the two each mow jima. we are in a good position. we will see what happens. >> dana: indeed. another controversy involvin...

>> as a precaution anti-terror teams are deploying across the middle east in and around embassies. we are hearing from world leaders, guys, everywhere from iran, china, syria, lebanon, and even the pope weighing in on things. all of this ahead of vice presidents trip to jertz in less than two weeks. brian: all right. so not much controversy with the decision. its just business as usual. thanks, griff. they are going to move it officially not going to be waiving it. six months to build the buildi...

As the senate voted, as john mccain walked out and gave the thumbs down, president obamas voice was nowhere to be heard. do you think he should be more of an activist in speaking out on his agenda as we move toward fall? >> i think president obamas voice and his message have been very clear, which is that health care is a right for all and not a privilege for a few. thats why he took the courageous step. it was politically unpopular at the time but it was the right thing to do and he never waver...

Stance on issues like consent decree and all that you could not vote for him. thats a courageous step. but tell me why you think those are disqualifiers for him being attorney general. >> yeah, i dont know if its courageous. i mean, theres this thing around the senate called senatorial courtesy, and people think that means if a senator wants something, is nominated, you kind of automatically vote for him. i dont buy that. its never personal. i told senator sessions -- and i call him jeff -- i to...

Interlocutory between the two countries until this very moment. >> peter, let me ask you about the castros. rah rule castro is 83, fidel castro is 88. what does this deal, do you think, mean to them personally and what do you think it means to their legacy? >> well, i think that this change in u.s. policy is a tremendous legacy for president obama, frankly. its a foreign policy victory of great significance. its changing 55 years of policy. he has taken the courageous step that none of his prede...

Putting your neck out? we know a similar mayor gavin newsome took bigge chances a decade ago in san francisco. are you following that track? >> well, no. im a nobody. the real people here are squon and bill who decided 11 years was enough. they had relegated to this second class citizenship and took this courageous step. im not worried about collateral damage to myself. im more interested in celebrating this great relationshipment now that they can finally call each other husbands, i think its a...

Citizen and that will decrease the chance to commit new crimes. i think the right thing to do. >> why did you decide to take this step? >> ive been working on this a couple of years. ive restored more rights than any governor in virginia history and improving the system and getting responses in oef days. we try to get a constitutional amendment passed this session with republican and democrat support to automatic restore the rights and that failed and so because of that, im using the power ive g...

Legislation passed, that must make you feel as though youre really accomplishing something as you represent your fellow former officers. >> we do feel like were accomplishing a lot. we have 125 fellow veterans on capitol hill sharing their stories about being stories about being sexually assaulted while they were in the military. theyre doing that courageous step so others dont get assaulted and harmed. >> are there retaliations or do they have to worry about their safety, those still in the sft...