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Up, right? this is a military news parody. a website called the duffle blog. the same idea as the onion but the stories are military related. one citizen fell victim to the joke and sent a letter to mitch mcconnell. was the issue put to rest by mcconnells office? not quite. the senator bucked the question to the pentagon and here is a look at the letter courtesy of wired magazine. i am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding guantanamo bay prisoners receiving post-9/11 ...

Word politburo as if bob woodward meant to call him a commie. victimhood used to be a democrat specialty. whats he doing this for? gee, whiz, hes calling me a communist. he only thought of it three days later. no problem at the time. go ahead. your thoughts. >> thats the surprise. he really is usually much faster than this in his response. hes quick to call himself something a victim. he finds himself a victim of his own making, the making here is that he created or was part of the creation of a...

Iraq war re-enactors. what people will believe. the gullible out there. up next, the republican party has lurched too far to the right. its one thing to hear a democrat say it, but a republican? and thats ahead. youre watching "hardball," the place for politics. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, whats next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the f...

The next washington crisis. >> it is still the economy. >> doomsday machine. >> 85 billion in cuts. >> whats getting cut? the pentagon. >> were only a few weeks away from this. >> it doesnt make any political sense. >> it would be brutal for everybody. >> devastatiing effects on the economy. >> pushes us into a second recession, something so terri e terrible -- >> all right. settle down. >> they recognize that the sequester is a bad idea. >> i dont like the sequester. >> we see the republicans p...

stepped up security in new york and washington, d.c., as authorities investigate a possible al qaeda terror plot tied to the anniversary. desperate hours aboard air force one, circling over america, trying to find a safe place for president bush to land on 9/11. my interview with the pilot of air force one, he flew that critical mission. president obamas new jobs plan, certain to be a hot topic when the republican hopefuls gather here in tampa. for monday nights presidential debate...

Federal government and 18% of the countrys gross domestic product, and congress would be prohibited from raising taxes unless approved by a vote of at least two-thirds vote in both houses of congress so why are republicans doing this? and do they think they can get this amendment joining me is ezra klein and david corn. it doesnt even look like a workable document. ive been following ever since i got into politics, theyve been talking about balanced-budget amendments, this doomsday machine that ...

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Joining us now is michael lewis, yay, who has written way too many of the best modern nonfiction books ever written. including "money ball" "liars poker" and now "the big short" inside the doomsday machine. its from the perspective of several men who got rich foreseeing and then betting it would happen. michael lewis, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me back. >> i completely immersed myself in the book. >> you read it? >> yeah. >> thats a new experience. you got all the way to the end?...

They still plan to vote en masse against the new rules anyway. joining us now is michael lewis, who has written way too many of the best modern nonfiction books ever written. now "the big short" inside the doomsday machine. michael lewis, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me back. i completely immersed myself in the book. >> you read it? >> yeah. >> thats a new experience. you got all the way to the end? >> yeah. its -- can we start with something thats probably academy but hugely impor...

Feinberg, remember we told you about this six months ago, he wanted them to get the bonus pool down to a certain amount of money. theyll have to withhold about $21 million to get down to that number. if youre a former employee, youre probably thinking they owe you that money. they say not so fast. >> here the deal. the division of the company that made the risky bets that made us pay -- bail out that entire company two or three times now is eligible for bonuses. what kind of system is that? well...