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Chuck hagel over the controversy prisoner swap. did you see any of this today? they want to know more about the release of five taliban commanders in exchange for a captured american soldier. one congressman asking if the administration associated with terrorists just to get the deal done. >> we dealt directly with the government of qatar -- >> oh, thats our footnote now. now the new policy f of this administration is, we dont negotiate with terrorists directly? >> well, congressman, you didnt l...

See if you can name one person you know that is not on facebook, twitter, instagram or some other social network. youd probably be hard pressed to come up with anyone. and im not surprised. since 2005 social network usage has shot up from single digits to 90% of 18 to 29-year-olds and almost half of internet users are over the age of 65. in all, nearly three-quarters of internet users are on social media. but what makes for a successful site site? why is facebook worth billion of dollars while m...

There are democrats and republicans on five side and on the four side. and its a very complicated fractured ruling but the one thing in it that i think is very heartening, theres at least one place in washington, d.c. where its not always a partisan division, even though there are tough issues. >> pretty unusual to see scalia and kagan on the same id of an issue. >> and thomas and sotomayor on the other side. >> thats right. a really aggressive disagreement in these documents that came out of th...

Is to prevent the footnote of me being a trial witness in the o.j. simpson case. everything i do now is what i want my legacy to be. >> youre much more than that now. you have taken the whole image of you, the stereotype of you as the freeloading party-crashing, you know, couch potato and you made it a business. >> i came up with a clothing line with rhonda shere. and rhonda was a comedian i worked with 20 years ago on this show called "up all night" and we never lost touch with each other and i...

>> everything that im doing now is to prevent the footnote of me being a trial witness in the o.j. simpson case. so everything i do now is what i want my legacy to be. >> youre much more than that now. youve taken the stereotype of you as the couch potato and you made it a business. >> i came up with a clothing line. rhonda was a comedian i worked with 20 years ago. we never lost touch with each other. she became a very wealthy woman inventing a brachlt she asked me, kato, i want to do a clothin...

>> everything that im doing now is to prevent the footnote of me being a trial witness in the o.j. simpson case. so everything i do now is what i want my legacy to be. >> youre much more than that now. youve taken the stereotype of you as the couch potato and you made it a business. >> i came up with a clothing line. rhonda was a comedian i worked with 20 years ago. we never lost touch with each other. she became a very wealthy woman inventing a brachlt she asked me, kato, i want to do a clothin...

Awful instant? >> everything that im doing now is to prevent the footnote of me being a trial witness in the o.j. simpson case. so everything i do now is what i want my legacy to be. >> youre much more than that now. youve taken the stereotype of you as the couch potato and you made it a business. >> i came up with a clothing line. rhonda was a comedian i worked with 20 years ago. we never lost touch with each other. she became a very wealthy woman inventing a brachlt she asked me, kato, i want ...

>> everything that im doing now is to prevent the footnote of me being a trial witness in the o.j. simpson case. so everything i do now is what i want my legacy to be. >> youre much more than that now. youve taken the stereotype of you as the couch potato and you made it a business. >> i came up with a clothing line. rhonda was a comedian i worked with 20 years ago. we never lost touch with each other. she became a very wealthy woman inventing a brachlt she asked me, kato, i want to do a clothin...

Was 100,000 casualties, minimum, and a real mess. so no one wanted to do korea. and of course, the footnote was, as always, korea didnt have any oil. >> the public case is about weapons. 9/11 changed everything. the threat of weapons of mass destruction now drives american policy. but policy toward the nation posing the most clear and present danger on wmd, north korea, doesnt change dramatically. instead, inside the administration, it is the existing, pre 9/11 planning about iraq and iraqs oil ...

Nuclear bomb. >> we argued about this in the state department, why wasnt there more concern with north korea when the ci a was telling us that north korea probably already had plutonium-based nuclear materiel and the answer was 100,000 casualties, minimum, and a real mess. so no one wanted to do korea. and of course, the footnote was, as always, korea didnt have any oil. >> the public case is about weapons. 9/11 changed everything. the threat of weapons of mass destruction now drives american po...