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Their adopted home? their uncle thought he knew why. >> again, i say what i think whats behind it. being losers, not being able to settle themselves. and thereby just hating everyone who did. >> losers. is it as simple as that, as simple as being a loser, or was there something more in their heads that led them to such a tragic end? wendy walsh joins me now. wendy, what do you think? what drove these young men to commit such an atrocity? will we ever know? >> we may never know. but there are cer...

238%. in 2011. not a huge spike. its really more a testament to whats happened to men. >> ally, that is exactly the point. there has been a collapse. charles wrote a whole book on this actually last year. the problem with this and people snicker about it is have you a society in which the average man cant support a family? that has all kinds of consequences for the way your society is structured. things fall apart. >> i agree. the psychological and power dynamic. expect the not. stereotype of th...

Down the road again, why not, you know, get this done in a real bipartisan fashion when you dont have the sword hanging over your head, the clok ticking? >> i always think of congress as kind of like a college freshman who waits until the end of the semester to do all the work and all the papers that were assigned during the smeser. congress works like that. they are a deadline driven, reactive institution. frankly, nobody wanted to give up any leverage ahead of the elections, they could have do...

Power is operating. >> i think the other power dynamic that changed is speaker boehners power has changed. he worked really hard to re-elect his caucus and got a majority of his caucus when a democratic president won in a difficult economy. he can say to his caucus follow me here. hes gotten things done in his career in washington. if you look at his power, his changing power within his caucus, hes going to be able to pull a few more members with him. i know there are definitely conservatives sa...

Part of three decades and was thrown out in a revolution 16 months ago and the muslim brotherhood said they would not run anybody for president and now it is a real possibility that he will win, that is, mohamed morsi, the muslim brotherhood candidate, who many fear wants to turn egypt into an islamic state which would change things drastically here and the other thing to think about is if ahmed shafik, the former prime minister under president hosni mubarak, one of the other candidates in the r...

Nobody is talking about american money, im talking about american leadership to come together in order to help. >> historically the relationship with the winter -- its basically a power broker between the asia and the middle east. with various levels of deforestation, if you were to walk into a fresh room today with what exists now, how would even describe the power dynamic between america and the middle east in. its a really complex strategic priority. this is a president who said a settlement ...

Thing. john boehner is not just at war with his own caucus in the house. but theres a power dynamic between the senate is gone. they passed their bill and you know, its left to the house to swallow it, effectively. >> can we go back for one second to what mr. speaker boehners staff said. theyre legislating responsibly. this is a house of representatives that passed seven continuing resolutions this year. then they passed their own funding bill and they cant pass a middle class tax cut for two mo...

on coming up with a plan for the deficit. at this hour, things really dont look good. our congressional correspondent kate baldwin is standing by. shes in the capitol building now. kate, congress, washington, missing deadlines becoming all too familiar. where do we stand now? >> i think we can say, don, at best the super committee is on the brink of failure as talks have all but fallen apart. especially in the last, i would say maybe 24 hours really. the question, the conversation is n...

I think thats a big part of it. >> yeah. but dylan, theres another problem here, yall, and that is that you have these mandatory sentencing -- >> bingo. >> -- procedures. and im sorry, i get -- so you get smoke -- get caught smoking pot three times and you two to jail 20 years, but you murder somebody and you get out on good behavior in 16? i mean, who in the hell is coming up with these crap? >> those are the rockefeller laws in new york working for you. >> well, they dont work! and by the way,...

Forward and make our workplaces safe." >> linsey davis with us tonight. this evening, were learning details about what nbc news employees were told by their boss after matt lauers firing? >> reporter: yeah, and david, he would not give the details about that complaint, but he did describe a power dynamic at play, which he said made the encounters inappropriate. >> all right, linsey davis leading us off. linsey, thank you. and one more major name. russell simmons resigning from all of his compa...