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Going with prevailing winds up the east coast. very stormy winds. a lot of precip here on the east coast today and just kind of grabbing across the sky looking like one of the balloons a child can buy at sea world. in real life, it is an enormous piece of electronics. it contains several on-board radar pods that are designed and marketed by raytheon to keep the skies safe over whatever given city. versions of this, predecessors of this product, not this exact product, used in the nations dual wa...

Summer day. versions and predecessors of these products highly visible in the dual wars over the past decade plus. they showed up in the skies over baghdad early on after the u.s. invasion there. witho us is marcus of defense one. have i gotten it right with the raytheon product? >> brian, there are only four of these, actually. two that are deployed right at the aberdeen at the three-year test program and two others in storage. theres been talk of deploying them around the country. right now, i...

Troops, for our taxpayers and for the american people. >> before i talk about this bipartisan budget agreement, i want to thank the speaker. i want to thank the speaker for his career. i want to highlight a few parts. we put a little video together inside conference and they put this poster up with the gang of seven. were in the minority and hes the last man standing. but what was the gang of seven? the gang of seven was the very beginning to change washington and clean it up. i look around this...

American people. >> before i talk about this bipartisan budget agreement, i want to thank the speaker. i want to thank the speaker for his career. i want the highlight a few parts. you know, we put a little video together inside conference and a poster with the gang of seven. were in the minority and hes the last man standing. what was the gang of sneceven? it was the change of washington and clean it up. i look around this room. i wasnt around at the time either. but there was a house bank and ...

Done or should have been done. and so when i took responsibility, i took it as a challenge and an obligation to make sure before i left the state department that what we could learn as im sure my predecessors did after beirut and after nairobi and after all of the other attacks on our facilities, im sure all of them, republican and democrat alike, especially where there was loss of american life, said okay, what must we do better, how do we protect the men and women that we send without weapons,...

And so, when i took responsibility, i took it as as a challenge and obligation to make sure before i left the state department that what we could learn as im sure my predecessors did after beirut and after nairobi and after all the other attacks on our facilities, im sure all of them, republican and democrat alike, especially where there was loss of american life, said, okay, what must we do better? how do we protect the men and women that we send without weapons, without support, from the milit...

When i took responsibility, i took it as a challenge and an obligation to make sure i left the state department. as im sure my predecessors did after beirut and fnairobi and al of the other attacks on our facilities, im sure all of them, republican and democrat alike, especially where there was loss of american life, said, okay, what must we do better. how do we protect the men and women that we send without weapons, without support from the military into some of the most dangerous places in the...

To spend time with his family, how that is totally important to him. you agree with that, you warrant want to allow him to go home. it ace a tough job, isnt is it? >> its a tough joub. credit to john boehner for spending years traveling the country and doing fund-raisers and promoting republicans and republican issues around the country. but i think it took a lot away from john boehner in terms of being able to work with the media and advocate for the positions were looking for. i think each spe...

>> pretty cool stuff. so jacob joins me on set. you were like billy on the street. i love that. first of all, was that fun to do, and were you surprised by certain reactions? because we started off there, people know who boehner is. >> first of all, it was extraordinarily fun. i have to say i wasnt surprised. you feel bad for john boehner at first because big chunk of americans dont know who this man is, the third most powerful job in washington. turns out his two predecessors, hastert and pelos...

While the world watched, sadat and begin took to bickering and negotiations built down. >> jimmy carter took advantage of sadats willingness to talk to the israelis. i think he thought he might be able to do something that his predecessors couldnt. it was a huge gamble. >> good afternoon, the stage is set and the participants are now beginning to arrive here in the washington area. president carter, egyptian president, anwar sadat and, the israeli prime minister will sit down together and attemp...