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To upgrade the military. those are the big question points. you want to talk to the president, youll get him. you want a classified briefing, youll get it. heres one of the problems for the president. as he makes the case. ill close on this personal footnote. heres a president, who when hes on the phone or in a meeting with most of these lawmakers, especially republicans, he has either strained relationships as hell have with the speaker. or in many of these cases, no relationship at all. this d...

I appreciate you joining us today. >> i will still come back. i grew up in d.c. >> up next, eight years since hurricane katrina. my footnote. [ school bell rings ] [ male announcer ] from the last day of school, back to the first. theyre gonna create a ton of research papers and important projects. so make sure theyve got a safe place to keep them all. this week only get 16 gig flash drives for $7.87. staples has it. staples. that was easy.

Opinion, in that opinion just judge beats found the nsa collection programs in some respects division on stat torrie and constitutional grounds. joins us to discuss kirk icon wad,s thor of "500 days." welcome back to the program a bit of drama in this opinion. the judge was clearly caught off-gua off-guard, and he wrote this in a footnote, said the court is trouble that the revelation mark the third instance in less than three years in which its been disclosed in a a -- regarding the scope of a ...

Heather: another footnote. buried in president obamas new health care law costing tax pacers billions of dollars. well turns out native americans are exempt from the individual mandate and wont face any fines if they dont sign up. they already get free health care and taxpayers foot the bill at the same time. native americans will qualify for additional benefits if they do sign up and once again, guess who pays? william la jeunesse is live in los angeles with these details. william? >> reporter:...

>> edward snowden, what is your overview -- >> limbo. at least out of the hotel. >> its very likely the programs have been looking into american citizens e-mails if they are looking at somebody or e-mailing somebody abroad. the more we find out about this the more suspicious it looks. >> i agree. we need to learn more about the nsa and the surveillance is about and if some comes from leaks via snowden through "the guardian" the real news organization and that stuff thats dangerous for security, ...

>> and may punish nbc journalist for merely talking about gay issues on television. so i think its going to boil over. i think people will think it is and they are kidding themselves. >> edward snowden, what is your overview -- >> limbo. at least out of the hotel. >> its very likely the programs have been looking into american citizens e-mails if they are looking at somebody or e-mailing somebody abroad. the more we find out about this the more suspicious it looks. >> i agree. we need to learn m...

Snowden is really a footnote. whistle-blowers are self-martyring people. this isnt about him. its about the information and we need that information. >> finally, nadal hasan trial seems to me utterly ridiculous. his first line is im the shooter. he wants to give himself the death penalty. hes still being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars as an american serviceman. what is served here? particularly, if hes about to start grilling victims. >> sit a farce. it shows a lot of whats wrong with mil...

And obviously behavioral we deputies. hes highly connected in the al qaeda structure. there is a real threat. well-being. theyre the biggest providers of mental health care, rikers island, the l.a. county jail and it was supposedly just limited to yemen. the cook county jail. >> we turn them into prisons. but if you look at the >> how ironic. peninsula, the fact they have a >> yes. >> illness, actually. new leadership, the fact they >> and so -- >> you see it play out in the are still angry abou...

Guys rebutting closing argument which we saw a moment ago, which he said this is not about race. then he tells a story, gary casimir, lets imagine the situation is reversed and trayvon martin is the shooter and hes put on trial. we know how that would turn out. footnote, thats a reference to john greshams "a time to kill" if youve read that book or seen that movie. anyway, coming back to my main point. he says at the end, its not about race. is he saying its not about race or it is about race? >...

Charm, he can be very charming. but theres -- theres just this sense in washington that he needs to use that charm more effectively. >> in the book you say he talks, he was worried during the election, if he lost his presidency would be a footnote to history. now that hes got the second term and the new problems and you call it obstructionism, new problems on the hill, will he be able to build out his legacy? you know this man, will he be able to build out his legacy? >> i think whats going on r...