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Weve been discussing senator frank lautenberg of new jersey died monday at age of 89, the last remaining member of the senate to have served in world war ii. there are just two world war ii veterans left in the house, congressman john dingell of michigan who away the longest serving member of congress in history, and republican ralph hall of texas. lautenbergs death marks a significant decline in the number of military veterans serving in congress overall. in 1977, 81% of the senate served in th...

No reason to be doing this. i think you have to recognize that this is partly, frankly, the military of industrial complex. guys who want to sell tanks and planes and partly a bureaucracy that always wants to placate our opponents. >> sean: all right. mr. speaker, always appreciate having you, thanks for your insight and your time. coming up next, well bring you the brennan tames. you dont want to miss these, the irresponsible reckless comments from the cia director that they do not want you to ...

Term imminent so it means something other than an imminent defense. >> sean: and they can decide and manipulate it any way they want. senator reisch, what the white house is saying that these drone strikes against american citizens without any real criteria is legal, ethical and wise, but not water boarding which by the way we only used against three people. >> you know, sean, were at the incipient stages of a new way of fighting war. theyre going to be fought by using drones and as a result of ...

President delegated power to them. and there are a lot of strike-- anybody who has seen "zero dark thirty," those interrogations gave us a lot of intelligence information and in a war against a terrorist movement intelligence may be more important than killing and were cutting ourselves off from that. and the third problem is the drone avoids an easy way of thinking. peep described it as whack-a-mole. it isnt. comparing one particular missile from one particular drone in one particular country i...

Terrorism. >> were not wage ago war against terrorism because terrorism is, but a tactic that will never be defeated any more than the tactic of war will. rather, such thinking is a recipe for endless conflicts. were not at war against terror because terror is a state of mind. >> sean: good grief. thats not all. just a few months later he said this about jihad. >> nor does president obama see this challenge as a fight against jihadist. describing terrorists in this way using a legitimate term ji...

I must have done a total of 13 to 16 hours of just pure physical exercise and literally, they want today take every ounce of energy that i had and take it out of me and then theres the mental aspect on top of it. they are torturing you, they are he breaking you down and they want to find your weakest spot and they do, they find it. and you know, for me it was at six oclock in the morning when i was soaking wet, i was in my army fatigues, i was exhausted and i was in and out of water, and i must ...

Brings us even closer to deflation and brings us closer to the phenomenon where lower prices feed on themselves. we right now face a crisis of spending in our country, believe it or not. our savings rate is already up 6.5%. my guess is it would go dramatically higher and we would be facing the possibility, and i hate to say this, of a depression, if we dont fight these deflationary forces. think instead this country, government and business alike, should be focused on building additional industr...

Released is not released in the united states because they could be very dangerous. thats what im trying to do. >> greta: what about gitmo? >> gitmo itself is a well run prison. but i believe that it continues to be a problem in the greater war effort. that it is being used by our minds. no allied partner, no nation will turn prisoners over to us now knowing they may go to gitmo. president bush wanted to close it. i think we need to look at closing it safely. that means a statute that would allo...

The united states because they could be very dangerous. thats what im trying to do. >> greta: what about gitmo? >> gitmo itself is a well run prison. but i believe that it continues to be a problem in the greater war effort. that it is being used by our minds. no allied partner, no nation will turn prisoners over to us now knowing they may go to gitmo. president bush wanted to close it. i think we need to look at closing it safely. that means a statute that would allow us to keep certain prisone...

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