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Across the country. air force is citing loss of trust and confidence in his leadership. the exact reason for the firing not immediately clear. this follows on the heels of the firing of a vice admiral in the navy who was also fired recently over a gambling problem. he too was in charge of nuclear missiles in the navy command. so a couple of big firings there among our military forces. jenna: well stay on that when we learn more about that. right now some of the biggest names in the convservati...

Check, check and check. here i come. now, i know the relationship between the president and the press can seem a bit strained at time. some in this room accused the president of being distant. when i asked the president about it earlier he said, oh, and then walked away. of course, its only natural, but, mr. president, your re-election was less exciting in 2008. on election night in 2008, you celebrated with hundreds of thousands of people in chicagos grant park. it was fascinating. this time ar...

You won. do you have a gambling problem we dont know about? did you put it all on gonzaga? you did, didnt you? he did. president obama has already made a lot of changes in his second term. sir, ug you recently appointed john kerry and chuck hagel. very smart move. you appointed the only two people in the united states who look even more tired than you. its a great strategy. mr. president, youre going to leave office as a very young man. and yet the presidency has taken its toll. i dont want to a...

The winners circle. i have a question and some of you also have this question, its been several months since you were re-elected, im curious, why are you still sending everyone five e-mails a day asking for more money? you won. do you have a gambling problem we dont know about. did you put it all on gonzaga. you did, didnt you? he did! >> president obama has already made a lot of changes in his second term. recently appointed john kerry and chuck hagel. the only two people in the united states w...

Gambling problem. >> thats the thing i draw the line at. >> the other thing too is, if it is pot tourism it will be like am amsterdam where when you go to amsterdam and i was there with my -- >> last week. >> with my fiancee. my wife. i proposed in amsterdam and we took pictures. we had 50 pictures. in each one a guy was in the background throwing up. everywhere you went there was a guy who could not handle the weed vomiting. this is what will happen with colorado and the altitude. everybody wil...

Violence went down. look at chicago and all of chicago is drug lords. >> all of it? >> you have an interesting point too. >> devon is learning how "red eye" works. >> this is going to be something that has to be watched for two years. >> i am tired of the government coming in and trying to regulate and legislate every single thing when basic parenting and teaching kids right from wrong has be to the only rule in place. you are taking away freedoms from everyone else based on what might happen to...

Magazines for his rival or whatever like that. >> not to be lost on this is the fact that two deputies were hit feet from where im standing. one, unfortunately died. the other one has a long recovery ahead of him. but dorner, authorities believe killed himself. theres a question of whether he could have possibly been injured. bill? >> bill: what a deadly trail he leaves behind. big bear lake, california. a former big city mayor admits to a big gambling problem. how about a billion dollars big....

That position to take the heat when those defense cuts ultimately go through. jon: so your prediction if the republicans get the information they are looking for does chuck hagel get in or -- >> i dont know, i think hes such a problematic candidate here for this job that at this point its probably a 50-50 proposition that he actually makes it. jon: well see what happens in the next couple of weeks. monica crowley, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: monica mentioned benghazi. the president is pushin...

Its a medical problem. it costs all of society, etc., etc. >> john: annie, as a professional poker player, youve seen this sort of casino sleaze. >> sure. >> john: people are chain smoking. some people do lose all their money. >> its true, but its a very small minority, so its wil less than 1% of people who engage in any kind of gambling activity that have a gambling problem. thats compared to alcohol where 7 to 9% of people, for example, use alcohol have issues. its a really, really small probl...

But its anecdotal. the real evidence shows the extent of the problem is massively overstated and critically we never hear about the positive side of gambling which is true and far outweighs the negative. >> i think the issue is we dont ledges late by anec ab anecdote. > >> john: we do. >> we shouldnt. fair point. there was an an eck d anecdote e slinging around about a kid who lost a lot of money on line and then robbed a bank. they were blaming that on internet gaming. when we look in the uk wh...