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And then served two tours in korea and then fought in vietnam, where his fighter plane was shot down. he spent ten days evading his captors, was fine finally caught and game john mccains cellmate. and mccain credits bud day for saving his life and today credited him on the floor of the senate. >> to say he lived a full life would be quite an understatement. his was filled with so many extraordinary experiences, adventures, challenges, accomplishments, and with such love, compassion and courage, ...

Carrier. they do things like standing watch and charting the ships course and making meals in the galley. they work on something they call micromini repair. micromini repair. if something goes wrong with an electrical something onboard, they make the means up to fix it themselves. and for the last couple of years some of the sailors have been working on a brand new thing that no one has ever done before. it is this thing. the x-47b which is an experimental unmanned flying drone that is the size ...

Guest in austin. republican michael mccall. comingman, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> eric: first question. look, they say they are going to hit austin. their missile can get maybe 2500 miles. some would say, why should we worry? >> they dont have that capability to get past, say, guam. we know that. the reason they talk about austin, samsungs here, the largest foreign south korean investment in the united states. but that capability is want there. however, they are very dangerous. in the ...

Powers here and if you had a national security situation with that -- with tremendous urgency along the lines of pearl harbor or 9/11, you could see a situation where the drone, like a fighter plane, like a very powerful gun could be used in the united states. its just another weapon and the police have a lot of weapons in this country. >> and let me go back to chris lawrence for a inmaminute. theres no plans to target anyone in the united states or anyone for that matter, as far as you know? >>...

>> greta: any bidding, any competitive bidding. >> some of them are. >> greta: not all. >> not all, but by the way, once you get-- the problem once you get a contract for a fighter plane or a ship, then the escalation above the baseline sometimes is two or three times as much as what you originally budgeted for. the biggest problem in the dod in the years ahead is going to be acquisition reform. fix the system for buying stuff and thats probably going to be the greatest return on our investment ...

Competitive bidding. >> some of them are. >> greta: not all. >> not all, but by the way, once you get-- the problem once you get a contract for a fighter plane or a ship, then the escalation above the baseline sometimes is two or three times as much as what you originally budgeted for. the biggest problem in the dod in the years ahead is going to be acquisition reform. fix the system for buying stuff and thats probably going to be the greatest return on our investment that we could make particul...

His own republican party. >> theres also a dark -- a dark vain of intolerance in some parts of the party. what do i mean by that? what i mean by that they still sort of look down on minorities. how can i evidence that? when i see a former governor say that the president is shucking and jiving. >> powell added that the gop is having an identity problem and if it doesnt change theyre going to be in trouble. president obama ordered american forces to help france in a failed rescue operation in so...

Government to another its not pretty. im not suggesting this is analogous in every way to the american revolution but its certainly a big change from what had existed before. its funny for me to hear conservatives fine for hosni mubarak who they never liked that much when he was in power. >> they liked him a lot he was pro-israel and proamerican. >> hes a dick taeutder. a dictator. >> allies are fine as long as they are allies. >> as long as they are dictators on our side they are good dictators...

Think of the timing for this. >> would be hard to image if the senate does not require, at least ask him to thursday we need some answers. if i can draw a common thread between what happened there and what happened with iran, related to that drone, that the iranian fighter plane fired 00. we just learned about it after the lecketdz. even though it happened back on november 1st. is there a common thread in terms of how the white house is processing information waiting for perhaps political reason...

Very complex issue but that even goes back to before stealth jets. so i think the jury is still out on the impact on the ground crews. jon: i mean for a while the air force restricted them, you know, they let them go back into the air, this very expensive $143 million a copy plane. but they put limit tastes how high it could fly. it had to stay within a certain distance of base. i suppose if they were planning on using it in combat they would lift those restrictions but at the same time it is no...