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0 has appointed to high-ranking positions in his administration. theres former republican senator chuck hagel leading the defense department. and before chuck hagel, president obama kept on president bushs republican defense secretary, bob gates. former republican governor jon huntsman was brought on as the ambassador to china. former republican congressman john mchugh was brought on. ray lahood the president appointed to be his secretary of transportation. he put former republican congresswoman...

0 bombing in saudi arabia in 1996. hes one of the people who helped pick patrick fitzgerald as the special prosecutor who went after the scooter libby, dick cheney, valerie plame outing the cia officer investigation, that bombshell investigation back in 2003. most famously, james comey was the guy who had the car chase to the hospital room and then the middle of the night hospital room stand-off with george w. bushs chief of staff and his white house counsel. when they ambushed john ashcroft who...

Victims in both the military and civilian worlds. in the military, army secretary john mchugh and army chief of staff general ray odierno told in a written statement, sequestration and associated civilian furloughs are likely to degrade aspects of our s.h.a.r.p. program. which hinders our ability to provide resolution for victims. joining me, the "washington posts" nia malik a henderson. this is what cuts look like. theres always somebody at the end of the line you often dont think about when th...

0 by these revisions. >> david, let me ask you this question, because you would know these -- david, you would know these facts better than i, perhaps. to an outsider, to a layperson, to hear there were 12 revisions to the talking points, that sounds ominous. in the normal -- in the normal course of events, how often is something like this edited, revised? >> i mean, if you look at some of the revisions, if you go through them, and i salute jonathan for putting this online. you can see in some o...

0 we get why the president didnt want to admit this was a case of terrorism, because, in fact, the entire part of his re-election on national security was, i killed osama bin laden, al qaeda is on its heels. they didnt want to admit it was an act of terrorism. but theres a bigger problem here, and that is that despite the fact that they knew that it was an act of terrorism, they kept pressing back. they kept trying to go back to this other story. i think, honestly speaking, thats one of the reas...

the issue of security versus civil liberties. that is our focus for the first 45 "washington journal minutes here on the c-spans "washington journal." first 45 minutes here on c-spans "washington journal." if you are a democrat, (202) 585-3880, republicans can call (202) 585-3881, and independents call (202) 585-3882. our portal -- our twitter handle is @cspanwj. lets look at the headlines. the story of the boston bombers as new information comes out today. the terror suspect revealing...

>> is posted weapons system a history of the united states or the history of mankind quite frankly. its an advanced warplane a fighter jet that is to be used by the air force, the navy and the marine corps. its the replacement for the f-16 for the air force and other planes for the marines and navy. its our new advanced all-purpose fighter jet. it was a plane that was supposed to be in the skies fighting them. its still in development. its an incredibly troubled program. its a program ...

Left on his person. >> reporter: shes since been laid off and says the president broke the promise he made, that the ft. hood shooting victims would be well taken care of. >> not to the least little bit have the victims been taken care of. in fact, theyve been neglected very badly. >> reporter: so the presidents promise was not fulfilled? >> no. >> reporter: what has so upset her and other victims and led them to file a lawsuit is the decision to deny the injured soldiers a purple heart, terming...

And decide he was offended at the job and would not take. he went on to resign from the senate. nobody really knows what happened with judd gregg there or since, but president obama did try to bring him on as yet another republican for his cabinet. and now today, for the fourth time, president obama has picked a republican, nominating chuck hagel, the former republican senator from nebraska for the job of defense secretary. that is four republicans that president obama has nominated to be in his...

0 thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for joining thus hour. president obama announced on mayday, on may 1st a couple of years ago that osama bin laden had been killed. the president said he had approved a covert mission inside pakistan that resulted in the death of the founder and later of al qaeda, the group that attacked us on september 11th, 2001, which led congress to pass the authorization for use...