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Know the figure, you quote it all the time, joe, about how much were spending just in afghanistan. >> $2 billion a week. >> if we got out of afghanistan, iraq and germany, places like that, we could rebuild the american infrastructure and put millions of americans back to work. and it would be so much more productive. you want to talk about hard. i always thought i could express almost anything and express it well. i call every guardsman family in pennsylvania whose son or daughter dies in afgha...

Is t is disgraceful what we are going to men and women in uniform and their families in afghanistan. by dragging out a war where there is no good ending to that war. we have politicians in washington, d.c. that are letting our men and women die in afghanistan right now. after the mission was accomplished years ago of hunting down al qaeda. and yet theyre doing it not for military reasons, doing it for political reasons, because they dont want to be blamed for losing the war and young men and wom...

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Offseason. >> 250 million a year? >> we dont have that kind of money. >> your payroll is higher than ours. >> you have a crazy owner. >> yes. >> that always works. >> im sorry. governor, what do you think, the yankees or the red sox in the a.l. east this year? >> well, actually the blue jays who were the best team in the east last year. theyve been stripped, again, because the way baseball is structured. >> hes a sports writer now. >> my column this week was can the fiphillies be beat? the answe...

Fareed and david are aligned is that were not investing in infrastructure. theres probably a trillion dollars of costs repairing roads and bridges. theres a whole level of infrastructure, which is conservati conservation. >> do you think were in decline? >> yes. >> you look skeptical. >> im going to read the article. i think to say were still number one is definitely denial. and that we are -- we have a condition right now that exhibits itself on every level this terms of our health, our outlook...

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Those civilians. i think it is so important, something he has said over and over again that we cannot have civilian casualties. i think the other reason is we have to help train the afghanis to be able to take over the security of their country. i was over in afghanistan for new years eve, spending it with the troops and looked at the kabul military training center. we do have a very good effort going on with coalition forces to be sure that the afghanis can take over security of their own count...

The team for violating the pre-marital sex part. hes gone. >> really? >> and byu suffered mightily last night in his absence. sports is next. in a few minutes well reveal the new cover of "fortune" magazine. >> didnt jim mccann go to byu? >> yes. >> theyre actually enforcing these? do you think ed mcmahon was a saint when he went to byu? >> maybe they werent looking as hard. keep it on "morning joe." [ male announcer ] youve climbed a few mountains during your time.

Reprehensib reprehensible, a small group of them on capitol hill who are thinking we can make this to make obama look weak. still ahead, senator okay hagen. up next, we get a look at the new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll with chuck todd. first, a check on the forecast. today new england, if you stepped outside from albany, new york, massachusetts, vermont, new hampshire or maine you feel it today. wind chill in albany, minus 7. welcome to march. thankfully this is it. its a one-day q...

Well, because hes not. he may have cracked the door open a bit with this comment to conservative magazine national review. christie says "i see the opportunity but i dont believe thats why you run. i have people calling me and saying to me, let me explain to you how you could win. im like, youre barking up the wrong tree, i already know i could win but i have to believe im ready to be president. but i dont." how is this cracking the door open? someone needs to tell me. >> i said i can win. >> iv...