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Above. the dead, the dead, the dead, ours all. joining me with their own thoughts we have liliana sigoura, michael doherty, politics editor. new york "daily news" columnist john mcworther and a professor of linguistics study and news woo wooek. >> this who is a skog ar of the civil war. i was surprised to find the origin of memorial day. because it seems like something modern. >> i cant believe i didnt know that until just now. >> i couldnt believe i didnt know it david blight has essentially wa...

Supported same-sex marriage, in may, the numbers were flipped. >> what do we make of this? >> can you look at that and think wow, something the president, it bears mentioning that hes black. the black president says something. one might think, wow, what kind of influence this man has, thats a nice thing. hes being a black president, in a way i dont think we thought about. it shows the opinion was low-hanging fruit. it shows that things -- people would have saidreflectixively. >> supporting gay m...

In abortion clinics, will often say that everybody believes in three exceptions, rape, incest and me. you often see people in clinics saying i dont really believe in abortion but you have to understand my situation. >> im just not sure that i see people who read the "new yorker" and drink chardonnay calling them pro life because of michael, the things youre mentioning, which are i think very real. i dont feel it in that class of person. which i think i belong to. >> you actually, you have an ope...

during this long decade of war. we fought more war with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population taking part. theres no draft and military service is increasingly rare in elite circles in a 2010 speech at duke, secretary of defense spoke about this divide. >> whatever their found sentiments for men and women in uniform, for most americans, the wars remain an abstraction. a distant and unpleasant series of news items that do not affect them personally. >> so while the fallen e...

sergeant evander andrews, a member of the 366 civil squadron died in a heavy equipment accident, while constructing an air strip in qatar. he was the first american casualty of operation enduring freedom. the first doorknock at the home. the first flag-trapped coffin in this long era of war. he left behind a wife and four children, when i reached his mother, mary, she wanted to make sure i was pronouncing his name right. evander, her oldest child, enlisted right out of high school and ...

The economy back to higher employment. obama needs to keep trying with the stimulus. of course it will probably not work, but he needs to keep trying. and another thing, too, i think he can go after china. that may not be a big thing, but it would help. >> i think we will see moving on the china thing. robin wells, and were going to come back and talk more about jobs, and i will make michael doherty defend his allies of the blockage of the jobs bill after this break. [ female announcer ] among m...

benefits. we have our panel here. author, michelle goldberg, writer to "newsweek" and "the daily beast." i will put in a plug for business.com, you are doing fantastic work. good news or slightly less bad news for the jobs report, the economy added 80,000 jobs in october, and the private sector added jobs. the official unemployment rate dropped from 9.1% only down to 9.0%, which means the job crisis continues. and republicans blocked a bill to create infrastructure to create jobs. cong...

obama that thats not worth the benefits. we have our panel here. author, michelle goldberg, writer to "newsweek" and "the daily beast." i will put in a plug for business.com, you are doing fantastic work. good news or slightly less bad news for the jobs report, the economy added 80,000 jobs in october, and the private sector added jobs. the official unemployment rate dropped from 9.1% only down to 9.0%, which means the job crisis continues. and republicans blocked a bill to create infr...

States want the tsa to back off. a picture of a baby getting a pat-down sparked the latest round of anti-tsa outrage. there is that picture. now lawmakers were pushing laws that would charge tsa screeners with a felony sex crime for touching passengers private parts. new jersey state senator michael doherty introduced legislation to restrict pat-downs and bar body scans and so has texas state representative david simpson. both republicans join me now. gentlemen, good to see you both. >> thank yo...

So as an american citizen, im pretty outraged that our government actually identified that detroit christmas bomber, yet other intelligence agencies of the u.s. government said let him through and immediately after that, this new tsa security procedure including the invasive pat-down procedures were implemented. >> senator michael doherty, representative david simpson, gentlemen, thank you, both, for joining me. appreciate it. >> thank you, contessa. a high school head mistress is refusing to ...