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The obama administration to give him a break. it says, when someone reveals government officials routinely and deliberately broken the law that person should not face life in prison at the hands of the same government. president obama should tell his aides to begin finding a way to end mr. snowdens vili indication and give him an incentive to return home. snowden has been living in russia for the last few months to avoid espionage charges. and the times think his should get some form of klecleme...

Happening within the government, crimes against the american people. i think we should feel more comfortable with a precedent set that says whistleblowers who expose systemic problems deserve to be treated as heroes. not criminals. >> youre admitting a major fact, which is snowden took things that are far outside the scope of what youre choosing to talk about right now. >> youre assuming that. youre assuming that. where is your proof for that? you have no proof for that. youre simply assuming th...

Out. theres 78,000 buildings in the city awaiting demolition. you mentioned this is the way a company structures their own bankruptcy. sometimes a company be divides itself, and detroit is a very big city. its about 140 square miles. is there a precedent set where the city would divide up into different municipalities, and thats the way it would be saved? >> thats quite possible. that would be one option. you know, let me say this, detroit has a great mayor in dave bing, the former nba basketbal...

Of money, spend a lot of time and resources and at the end of the day theres no guarantee whatsoever theyre ever going to arrest this guy. and we agreed his statements were probably correct but we went to law school to try to make a difference in our community, to try to make everybody get equal justice. not just people from one side of town, but people from everywhere, especially in our community. so when they say i did all of this, i think they overlook the facts, the 2 million people that sig...

Taken us, because from appearance sake, they looked like they could be al shabaab. they were -- >> al shabaab, islamic militants which that would be the worst case scenario. >> that would mean the worst case scenario because im american and im a woman. and i knew that if this indeed was al shabaab, then my hopes of survival were -- they were nil. so you know, there hadnt been very many kidnappings taking place on land or taking place in this particular area, so there wasnt any precedent set to k...

Which that would be the worst case scenario. >> that would mean the worst case scenario because im american and im a woman. and i knew that if this indeed was al shabaab, then my hopes of survival were -- they were nil. so you know, there hadnt been very many kidnappings taking place on land or taking place in this particular area, so there wasnt any precedent set to know what was going to happen. >> when did you realize that she had been kidnapped? >> just roughly a half hour or hour after it a...

After hour after hour. >> was there any explanation about who these people were, why they wanted you? >> no, nothing. the initial like act of being abducted was terrifying enough, but it became heightened because we didnt know and we didnt understand who it was who had taken us, because from appearance sake, they looked like they could be al shabaab. they were -- >> al shabaab, islamic militants which that would be the worst case scenario. >> that would mean the worst case scenario because im am...

Its hard for a secretary of defense to overturn precedent set by the prior secretary of defense. i think it gets a little bit political, too, which is sad. the grounds for the medal of honor, its very simple. two eyewitnesses. thats all your need, just go. and the -- just two. and in the words of those marines in that room and the fact that those marines whose lives were saved by rafael, that theyre able to testify to this because theyre alive now because of what he did, thats enough for me. and...

Had. the ability to hand out lifetime federal judgeships without consensus from the other party. never happened before. they think the senate should be a rubber stamp for this president -- i guess every president -- even if that president wants radical supreme court nominees and judges who will roll back our rights. >> everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and th...

to stop. >> its not stopping. the peace keeping spokesman says countries that are supporting them needs to stop. the peace keeping department and the u.n. saying more u.n. unarmed observers turned back and three vehicles were fired upon by a source unknown when departing the scene. a very bad deteriorating situation. >> based upon what we heard, he said nearly all parts of the country in civil war. are we to assume its nationwide now? >> it certainly is spread. these unarmed observers,...