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Reporting the set, the motivation of the war hawks. the faults in the intelligence, the alternative paths that the leaders have failed to explore and, of course, a reasonable estimate of the horrors to come. well, tonight we discussed the good journalism that was done during the iraq war buildup and the bad decisions to bury so much of it. coming up next, "now with alex wagner." in the great gun safety debate, michael bloomber prefers data and wayne lapierre prefers wayne lapierres opinion. ...

Can see it, those same young men after four years of bloody civil war. it would take the lives of 600,000 americans, soldiers who spoke the same language, shared the same religion faith and history. at the end of the war, what could we have done to stop it? one thing is a vital free press. men and women set on telling the truth. the faults in the intelligence, the alternative paths that the leaders have failed to explore and an estimate of the horrors to come. tonight we discussed the build-up t...

Sure you remember, their voices were significantly marginalized. give us a sense of how that happened. >> theres a lot of context here. we have to start with the fact that the sort of american ethos in response to 9/11 was a sort of patriotism, people not in line with the government and a very war hawkish administration seemed to be anti-american. so in that environment, the voices that were speaking out against this war, but in that environment, those voices could be muffled and people were bei...

There may be a very strong humanitarian case. but it most definitely isnt the iraq model. the first step for people like john mccain is to admit and to understand how they went wrong and why they went wrong. america cannot introduce democracy at the point of a gun. >> and to continue to try to do it even now. thats why i brought it up. i want to go back to you, congressman, because you brought up about former vice president cheney getting four deferments and not fighting in vietnam. but sending ...

Well, i dont spend a lot of time thinking about my faults, i guess would be the answer. >> the american people spend time thinking about his faults. america spent clearly too much for that war. $60 billion spent on reconstruction efforts alone. thats $15 million a day over the past 10 years. thats why this comment is so shocking. >> this was a wartime situation. it was more important to be successful than it was to be loved. if i had to do it over again, id do it in a minute. >> joining me now, ...

Supporter, im so sick of this. like crisis number-- emerge from crisis to crisis, unless youre a die-hard partisan who want to say my side is doing a great job and the other side stinks, you cant credibly say that anybody there looks good under the sequester paradigm. because this is what the crisis out of the past six months and were about to have a continuing resolution expire and this is crisis number seven and-- >> this is just exhausting for normal people watching this the at home and think...

You get to a point where youre like, how did i get from there to here? through this fellowship, it has relieved me of those failings. i still have my faults and failures. everybody does, you know? romans 3:23 says we all fall short in the sight of god, you know, but this equals it. no ones worse than anyone else. no ones better than anyone else. we are all the same in the eyes of god. >> youre getting ready to go? >> yeah. >> two prison fellowship volunteers assist the inmates who must remain in...

>> i dont know what just happened but im sorry. she had another point to make and we have to move on. awkward but its live. joining me now, carrie woodruff-brown or politico and strategist chris kofonis. our apologies to the congresswoman. chris, the bottom line is you heard her say this is not the faults of democrats. she believes. as your party believes, that speaker boehner dropped the ball here. he is not making the next move. the republicans have not put up a proposal and theyre not prepare...

>> what do you consider your main fault? >> main fault, well i dont spend a lot of time thinking about my faults will be the answer. >> that is the start of a new showtime trailer. >> today with the historic ally filibuster, we have over 60,000 americans fighting a war in afghanistan, newly heightened tensions with iran and their involvement in the terrible war next door in syria where the war continues in its brutality, and iranian general was reportedly

Think the president will fundamentally restructure medicare in the way that lawrence is discussing. >> what do you make of marco rubios charge tonight? he specifically said that he should not be talking about what he likes about medicare. anybody not talking about what is wrong with medicare is constructing it to bankruptcy. that is very consistent with what mitt romney charged. >> save a few gauzy lines about immigration reform. that could have been a speech delivered by paul ryan or mitt romne...