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I dont think. again, i couldnt care less. im accepting. >> what that about? >> its ridiculous. he thinks hes talking to like a montana audience maybe but this is -- i mean this is ridiculous. hes on a national stage and hes -- this is a liberal democrat? i mean, come on. does he understand the base of his own party and where his party is? >> again, its not something you joke about. i dont make insinuations about peoples sexuality. any good politician knows this. first rule of holes, stop digging...

All right, we have more breaking news this morning. this morning the west preparing sanctions now that crimea has voted overwhelmingly to split from ukraine and join russia. the preliminary result, 96% of voters saying they want to become part of russian territory, but president obama, he had a message for vladimir putin, calling the russian president to warn him that the u.s. thinks that vote is illegal. the president continues to insist there will be consequences if russia accepts these result...

And disturbed by the disappearance, not knowing whats happened to them. ive been speaking to friends, family, next of kin of all the passengers here at various hotels that theyve been put up in here in kuala lumpur, and you can just imagine the psychological trauma they are going through. some of them describe it as an emotional roller coaster. what we do know about the families is that captain zaharie was married to his wife, fisa. they had three children, two sons and a daughter in her 20s who...

Peter godwin is a former human rights lawyer in his native zimbab zimbabwe. he became an author. mandela wrote the forward his book. peter binart is at the university of new york. you pointed out that mandela was always different, even in prison you say everybody else wore rumpled clothes. he took pains to iron his clothes. he stood ramrod straight. he had the kind of imperial bearing. your foundation tried to train leaders in mandelas wake. do you think that the drop-off was inevitable ors had ...

That was former secretary of state colin powell dancing with forle williams and jamie foxx at a hamptons benefit this weekend. the document airing on "national geographic" last night, we saw powell, who supported the invasion of iraq as secretary of state, vealing how vice president dick cheney undercut internal discussions with the u.s. to lead the u.s. into war. >> in his speech he effectively shut down the proposal, shot down what we were getting ready to do. the u.n. couldnt do this. it was ...

Of world war ii. he was beaten to death yesterday during an apparent robbery in spokane, washington. some have questioned whether there were racial motives, but authorities do not believe race was a factor. belton was in his car, waiting to go bowling, when suspects allegedly assaulted whim flashlights. he tried fighting back but sustained brain damage and lost too much blood to survive. after authorities apprehended one of the suspects, a second teen was arrested late monday in connection with ...

Its like how people worry about plane crashes. they dont spend nearly enough time worrying about dying in auto accidents, which youre about twice as likely to die in the u.s. in an auto accident as are you to be murdered. so you have these -- things we should be worrying about in terms of whats making people unsafe. we should be worried about public health and obesity and cancer and various other big not-sexy risks. we should be worrying less about violent crime. i think both the left and the ri...

Are going to lay out their agenda for the next four years, they have to make an explicit case either that it is vital the president be given a democratic congress, my strong preference, or some new set of policies, tactics, approaches, inknow vagus to overcome or run an end around past republican opposition. whatever the case is, whatever the solutions are, we need to hear them because the republican party and its agenda of political destruction cannot be ignored or willed away. nor can the poli...

troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. ill explain. first, heres my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. im returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrial...

>> peter used to have this ability to be this great liberal moralizer about doing the right thing around the world. he was a big supporter of the war in kosovo, and now he just seems to have abandoned all of that so he can score some really silly debating points. >> and the . that we won the -- the point that we won the cold war and regan stepped it up. >> he is acting as fe we sat back and waited for it to happen. regan hayes -- hastened that. >> i will debate you on one thing. he is not trying...