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Fires and they want to put their lives on the line, and my hats off to them. probably like us theyre looking and laughing at those kinds of semantics the politicians are playing. >> i could see president obama saying, okay, if thats their job, thats workplace violence. >> well, for special ops, every day for them is workplace violence, essentially, in terms of the combat. >> is this semantics? i dont think most people understand this, but is it semantics or are there actual benefits you get if y...

I thank the government of qatar, especially its amir, who made sincere efforts for release of these leaders and for their mediation and for hosting them. the five men who were released, the chief criticism this morning and it started yesterday, is that these five men will return to the battleground. a direct threat to the united states and its allies. can we dispute that? >> no, these are major figures, fasil is a sort of feared commander. back to this basic point. were leaving afghanistan, the ...

Lying now? never lie? is it semantics? >> a lot of this is semantics but of course were in the midst of a political fray here over the entire episode. there are people on the republican side who see this as tremendously danieling to president obama and -- danieling to thdamage --damagina administration and mastering al-qaeda. look at semantic since you point that out. theyre important here. the difference is that in the document that susan rice basing remarks on she used the term "extremist" ins...

talk more about it in our "crime and consequences" segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressures gone down just a little bit. thats john boehners way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a...

For any failed company. isnt that precisely what the government did in the bailout of aig and citigroup in 2008? so again, isnt this in truth, a bailout, notwithstanding with dodd and mr. obama and tim geithner to say? >> this is a structured way to deal with failures. ive got fdic insurance just like you do. if you have a checking account or savings account, any financial institution in this country you have fdic insurance. to try to call that a bailout is really being disingenuous. both the de...

>> shannon: we talk about this. i know you use the word "manufacturered" but many people, including the president and treasury secretary tim geithner referring to this as a serious economic process or crisis. is it semantics? do you take issue with them say that? >> all we needed to do was have a clean vote on the debt ceiling. tarp came, i voted against tarp. they didnt say you had to have all the financial reforms in place before the government antied up $700 million to wall street. they made ...

Refers to the term authorized by law, as authorized by law, thats referencing congress power, pursuant to article 1 section 8 clause 2 of the constitution. to incur debt in the name of the united states. whats thats been authorized, it has to be honored. what that actually says is we may not default. it would be unconstitutional for the treasury secretary to allow a default. fortunately, we dont have to default and thats why its irresponsible for the treasury secretary to suggest otherwise. we h...

Economic process or crisis. is it semantics? do you take issue with them say that? >> all we needed to do was have a clean vote on the debt ceiling. tarp came, i voted against tarp. they didnt say you had to have all the financial reforms in place before the government antied up $700 million to wall street. they made tarp funds available to wall street. i didnt vote for it. but what were trying to do is to pour years and years of fiscal angst in a few moments to see if we can come up with the so...