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it is so good to be here. let me ask you, dont you love your freedom? >> shes back after a season of reality tv. sarah palin returns to what she does best. >> wow. >> scaring the heck out of some republicans. >> tea party americans, youre winning. >> is she the king maker or the queen? and baseball and ponzi schemes. >> i got it, i got it, i got it! >> jeff toobin say the new york mets and bernie madoff used to be on the same team. can the mets survive and win again, or will they str...

stories were digging into tonight. it is so good to be here. let me ask you, dont you love your freedom? >> shes back after a season of reality tv. sarah palin returns to what she does best. >> wow. >> scaring the heck out of some republicans. >> tea party americans, youre winning. >> is she the king maker or the queen? and baseball and ponzi schemes. >> i got it, i got it, i got it! >> jeff toobin say the new york mets and bernie madoff used to be on the same team. can the mets su...

matter how painful they might be. after some initial frustration voiced by those families, officials are in overdrive trying to provide answers. we will talk with one official trying to help. but first, here are the other stories were digging into tonight. it is so good to be here. let me ask you, dont you love your freedom? >> shes back after a season of reality tv. sarah palin returns to what she does best. >> wow. >> scaring the heck out of some republicans. >> tea party americans...

The border patrol. now, theyre going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol or theyll want a higher fence. maybe theyll need a moat. maybe theyll want alligators in the moat. theyll never be satisfied. and i understand. thats politics. >> 44 past the hour time now for our must read opinion pages. mark mckinnon. they do keep moving the bar, dont they? >> they do. a real shame. one of the consequences of 9/11. right before 9/11, president bush and president mexico were in serious talks abou...

Measure. it also has $12 billion in cuts and it funds the defense department through the rest of the fiscal year. the white house has said the president has said he would veto this. it probably wouldnt get that far. i dont think it would get down the hall behind me to the senate. it wouldnt pass there. republicans are trying to do is say, look, at least were trying. thats on the policy level, on the political level. they dont want to get the blame if there is a shutdown and theyre trying to make...

Construct a meaningful government out of that. >> what about the colin powell pottery barn analogy. do we own it? >> i actually believe we do. i know at the policy level we try to push this off as an international thing or european thing or u.n. thing. but frankly given what the united states is today, when we do what we have done, when we said what we have said, we do own it. we take -- i believe this strongly. we take an operational and an ethical responsibility for the final outcome here that...

Professors. i think youre paying a lot of money and a lot of these kids are saddled with loans that arent bearing out in the marketplace, and if we dont hold our teachers accountable on high school and college levels its not going to happen. i think a lot of that burden has to be on the parents saying my kid got a "b" or "a" but i dont see any critical thinking in the home. >> in a lot of colleges if youre an adult, they dont even have to show your parents your grades, right? >> thats right. but...

Two in the taliban hierarchy. some officials are saying his key aide is another former gitmo prisoner. lets bring in lieu tent colonel tony schafer, he served two combat tours in afghanistan, he also worked with general stanley mcchrystal who, of course, is our commander there back in 2003. colonel schafer, good to see you. this guy supposedly told those at gitmo that he wanted to go back home and help his family, and this is what we find him doing. howd we get fooled? >> well, he lied to us and...

For me, all of this really does affect my life. that hearing today was talking about my job. but you know how it really affects me personally and i think personally for all of us that are here, were wearing our rings and on my west point ring, it says honor. the first day i learned the honor codes. a cadet will not lie, and you will not tolerate those who lie. but when i told the truth, i went on national tv and told the truth, i went to drill next weekend and we went on the rifle range, and as ...

That hearing today was talking about my job. but you know how it really affects me personally and i think personally for all of us that are here, were wearing our rings and on my west point ring, it says honor. the first day i learned the honor codes. a cadet will not lie, and you will not tolerate those who lie. but when i told the truth, i went on national tv and told the truth, i went to drill next weekend and we went on the rifle range, and as we were cleaning our weapons, one of my soldiers...