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show. and some of the far right are taking it even farther. newt gingrich says the mosque is like putting a nazi sign next to the holocaust museum. comments like that, plus calls from leading republicans to ditch the constitutional right to birthright citizenship has moderates in the party worried. could this kind of talk hurt the party long-term? plus, afghanistan and iraq get the headlines, but under president obama, the stealth war under al qaeda has expanded to nearly a dozen count...

Surgical that might possibly have a blowback effect and in other words, create more militants than youre actually capturing or killing. >> bob baer, give me a gut check on the "times" reporting of this story. i note that jack devine was an individual quoted by mark mazzetti and his colleagues, a former cia clan des stin officer who among other things was concerned whether or not there were rules. what are we getting into as we pursue this stealth path? >> well, i think its a good story. but what...

president out of the mainstream. well get into the mosque debate and how its playing out politically at the top of the show. and some of the far right are taking it even farther. newt gingrich says the mosque is like putting a nazi sign next to the holocaust museum. comments like that, plus calls from leading republicans to ditch the constitutional right to birthright citizenship has moderates on the right worried. could this hurt the party long time? plus, afghanistan and iraq get the...

permitted? guest: it is a great question. as you say, magnetometer screaming -- screening is very common in most federal buildings. it is inconceivable. there is a lack of staff, a lack of funding, and the secret service has this really callous attitude, "we are the secret service, we are supermen, we are impervious." that is the mindset. and we see that in some of the other scandals. the madoff scandal, the sec ignoring a, or the wall that exists between the fbi and cia. people scratc...

to win this election. you came here because you knew that america can be a little fair, a little bit more just, a little bit more efficient. we can provide better health care coverage, we can make sure that we use less foreign oil. . . >> all their hopes wr dashed because this is a tough, cynical town. were going to be able to show them that basically you cant get anything done in this town. you cant change things. and everything always immediately becomes partisan. and governments -- ...

reading c-span.org/healthcare >> the new york times has official saying the cia hired the security firm blackwater to locate and assassinate top arabs offer this. we will hear from the top cia director next on c-span. after that, attorney general eric holder talks about the release of the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing. later, president obama on the politics of the health-care debate. . . from the national press club this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> well go ahead a...

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Type violence was just violence for violence sake. he is a mass murderer. >> oliver: within days of launching operation enduring freedom, the taliban and al-qaeda were on the run. they were no match for the northern alliance backed by cia operative special forces, u.s. marines and american air power. >> for a couple weeks there it seemed like the taliban were hanging on but eventually they couldnt maintain frontline positions because we were pulverizing them. >> on 12 november, the taliban fled ...