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Wrong. isnt there a difference? >> its a very slippery slope. he had a staff of two dozen people. he has people trained to help him spin the lawmakers. and all the lawmakers know theyre going to get the story that the general wants them to hear and hes going to make his case. but what he did wrong here was going to a completely different set of people who are trained essentially to be a weapon. >> brainwashing. brainwashing. the stuff you do when you get a prison and interrogate him. the stuff y...

Class size. and the police officer said one óf the things that some police officers do is bargain over actually having bullet-proof vests. its about safety and education. its not only about their wages. its about lifting people in this country up, and thats what collective bargaining has done, by creating the middle class for the last eight decades. >> thats true. and i agree with you philosophically completely, governor. but in ohio, 1 in 12 private sector employees organized. maybe two or thr...

That the general wants them to hear and hes going to make his case. but what he did wrong here was going to a completely different set of people who are trained essentially to be a weapon. >> brainwashing.ç brainwashing. the stuff you do when you get a prison and interrogate him. the stuff you do when youre trying to screw up the enemy on the other side when you want to get this information, right? >> i think what wound up happening was pretty innocuous because the unit itself was resisting th...

Sector intimidating employees out of organizing? public sector employees tend to organize much more frequently than private sector employees. why is that the case? >> thats to me or the governor? >> you, senator. >> well, in part because of the huge industrial job loss has been overwhelmingly good-paying union jobs that have been outsourced to china, gone to mexico, whatever. there have been very sophisticated and expensive anti-union am pains aimed at organizers when we try to organize. i think...

>> they ought to know. and i think were seeing something similar with the mcchrystal case. youre seeing a disrespect of civilian command. there are very, very clear federal laws and military policies regarding this. the men themselves being ordered to do this were protesting saying look, this is not right, this is illegal and still they continued to do it. i think it speaks to how desperate they are to explain to the civilian command. >> i think its different telling jokes about joe biden, which...

To make the case to visiting american dignitaries for more resources and funding for the war effort. the story names a number of high profile leaders, reportedly subjected to the effort. catch this. john mccain, joe lieberman, jack reid, carl levin, admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs. heres the reaction to the story about being brainwashed. lets listen. >> i think first of all it has to be clearly evaluated as to what went on. what was the intent? were there any regulations violat...

Brains and create something or grow a business or support a public service, teaching, police, fire, health care, headstart, whatever, that they contribute and theyre reasonably adequately rewarded for that. theres nothing to me more american than that value of working hard and being able to have a middle class lifestyle as the result. >> governor omalley, your colleague up there, your republican colleague up in wisconsin got a phone call, one of those prank calls. theyre sometimes very useful to...

Collective bargaining is a 75-year-plus tradition in this country. its why we have this middle class. its why people who work with their hands or work with their brains and create something or grow a business or support a public service, teaching, police, fire, health care, headstart, whatever, that they contribute and theyre reasonably adequately rewarded for that. theres nothing to me more american than that value of working hard and being able to have a middle class lifestyle as the result. >...

Violated. if there was, there has to be suitable punishment. i didnt feel anything unusual going on. and its a result of simply trying to cast a vast net, talk to lots of people, not just in kabul, but to go out on the ground. >> the editor of "rolling stone" and a military analyst, director of globalsecurity.org. let me start with this. thank you, congratulations on this story. i dont know if magazines are still ineligible for the pulitzer prize, but you ought to win it with this baby. this is ...

This story. i dont know if magazines are still ineligible for the pulitzer prize, but you ought to win it with this baby. this is north korea stuff. the fact that were using brainwashing to go after our own civilian people who are in charge of setting policy is amazing. dont they give these generals copies of the constitution, eric? >> well, apparently not in this case. the general met more than a dozen times with the leader of this unit, information operations unit. and one of the most striking...