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Connection between farook and a convicted terrorist. Investigators believe farook had tied to a radical group the fbi arrested in nearby riverside, california. Cnn justice reporter evan perez joins us live to talk about this. Walk us through the link you have seen between farook and the recruiter for this group. The key here is the fact this group was rolled up, arrested in 2012. Now that theyre investigating farook, the fbi is looking back. Theyre now going back and figuring out where he has ti...

Serial. he told mark bowle that he walked off his base in eastern afghanistan with the attention of bringing awareness to bad leadership there. >> what i was seeing from my first unit all the way up into afghanistan, alls i was seeing was basically leadership failure to the point that the lives of the guys standing next to me were literally, from what i could see, in danger of something seriously going wrong and somebody being killed. now, as a private first class, nobody is going to listen to m...

Disturbing. in one case, particularly disturbing case, after they killed a 15-year-old boy, a few nights later they were playing poker and threw the boys finger in as a bet. there were other soldiers around and a female medic who hadnt had anything to do with the killing. it was an atmosphere in which everybody was seen as the enemy, really. all afghan people were seen as the enemy. >> mark, what can be the impact of pictures like these? we know what the photographs from abu great britaghraib wh...

Well be talking much more about the latest there in just a moment. joining the table we have the executive editor of "rolling stone" magazine, eric bates. and "rolling stone" is out with a hard-hitting new article on their website this morning on alleged crimes by the so-called u.s. kill teams in afghanistan. its a very difficult subject that you may not want kids to hear about. so well start there. were waiting to hear from richard engel and when we get to him, well go right to him. first, lets...

Of his handling of libya, it is consistent with who he said he was going to be as president, is it not? >> its absolutely consistent with his world view as he projected it during the campaign. this is a coalition he built to some extent but also came to him. the arab league, the united nations, that did not require a lot of heavy lifting. this is something the world wanted done. thiscy moodle for how the president would like to operate. >> your second story of the week. >> libya is overshadowing...

Shot. >> the tea party needs to be ready to cut medicare, medicaid, social security and raise taxes. >> theyre willing to do it. >> and the die fence budget, dont forget that. >> are they ready to stand by the cuts they put out there? >> it should be more than the number they already have, correct. >> its the biggest question in american politics today and has implications for the next presidential race and the presidents place in history. >> those are marks top three stories driving the week. g...