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montanans. and as i said earlier, its in dire need because our forest is dying with over one million acres of dead and dying trees. this bill has been a subject of intense public debate for the past year and a half since i dropped, we had a senate hearing a year ago, a year ago yesterday, i believe it was. we have had town hall meetings, 11 in total across montana. we have had unprecedented transparency with this bill with it being on-line and explaining and taking input and changing t...

concrete way. it puts at risk the relationships that we have with important allies around the world. we have an active, ongoing, criminal investigation with regard to this matter. >> nbcs, jim miklaszewski is live at the pentagon. jim, what do you think? how seriously do you think this damages our relationships with the allieallies? >> well, cenk, one example is the exchange that occurred last general between general david petraeus and the president of yemen, in which it appeared they ...

host: the former governor of their york recently wrote that the congressional lame-duck session which begins tomorrow should be the last in history. she wrote, on november 2nd, the voters replaced the democratic majority in the house representatives with at least 61 new republican members who campaigned on lower spending and less government power, allowing members who are not reelected to legislate a national policy or set the federal budget for 2011 is like allowing a fired employee t...

host: three hours of "washington journal" the head. good morning. welcome to the program. one day after the iraqi elections and on the first day of the week, the first of several appearances by set -- president obama talking about his health care legislation. we are talking about this this half hour or. we will also spend the first 45 minutes talking to you about closing guantanamo and comments from senator lindsey graham from south carolina yesterday on his efforts with the president ...

where do you fall on that? >> guest: i would love for athletes today to read the book, because there was something about sugar ray robinson that was very humbling. if he heard somebody he would go to the locker room to see how that person was doing. if he hit somebody in the ring and knocked out their mouthpiece he would pick it up. i mean, he was a very gracious fighter, and he cared about what the public thought about athletes. he really did. and i think just the way he carried himse...

questions? so dont wait until lier shows up. use a spiral notebook so that you can write it down and have your own authentic record. >> thank you very much for speaking here at the miami book fair. i live up the road in hollywood, florida. i wrote a book called hollywood gambler thomas story about the unsolved murder of dust gus guo. we all now know there were no massive weapons of mass destruction. i would like to comment on your experience and how that may relate to our current confl...

1%. theyre basically rolling back the tax cuts that george bush gave them. all this fearmongering. somebodys coming for our sugary drinks, theyre going to take it away from families trying to fish at a lake. thats all i know, theres a lot of fearmongering doctor on. that alone would pay for it. >> can they sell it, sam? >> of course they can. ill tell you how. all these centrist democrats asking for more time. this is what you say will cost you more time. 140,000 people will lose their...

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Take us behind the scenes if you can. did the interviews start or is this getting the pens and pencils lined up? >> i havent the slightest idea and the simple reason is that i havent, i doubt that he very much, i very much doubt that he has decided how hes going to do this. the last time this happened was in 1999, under janet reno, when she brought in somebody from outside the government to do one of these special council investigations. theres a big difference there. that was the decision to in...