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Ordered to stop what they were doing, from reconstruction projects, to looking for members of the senior taliban leadership, everyone stopped and shifted everything to searching for private bergdahl. >> let me rewind. his capture as you called it, its been described by some in multiple news organizations now that he kind of walked off post. >> well, bret, im deliberately trying not to use the word capture. our understanding and as were seeing now all over the internet from soldiers who were with...

Folks. since 9/11 weve spent almost $1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and theres a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. weve wasted more than 13% of the money that weve sent over to iraq. now, were spending billions on roads and bridges overseas while here in america we cant get the politicians to work togeth...

Of jobs like they said it would. and of course put two wars on the american credit card for the next generation. and lets just get it straight, folks. since 9/11 weve spent almost $1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and theres a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. weve wasted more than 13% of the money that we...

$1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and theres a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. weve wasted more than 13% of the money that weve sent over to iraq. now, were spending billions on roads and bridges overseas while here in america we cant get the politicians to work together on an infrastructure package when...

Because they did not belong to the union, they were not allowed to help out. those stories, i think, were debunked after that. >>brian: not really. they werent confirmed. >>gretchen: this is a separate thing. this is post-sandy workers have to belong to a union ostensibly. >> yes. this is a much grander scale. this is all work using government money to rebuild the losses from sandy in the state of new jersey. and a new jersey legislature has passed by a straight party-line vote but with a signif...

Gretchen, to you and brian. >>gretchen: the new jersey state senate has a message for construction workers. if you dont belong to a union, dont bother to apply for a job. >>brian: thats because they voted to ban nonunion workers from jobs related to hurricane sandy cleanup. stuart varney, the focus was on getting it done. we heard the governor. he wants to get things done. >> by what right does one group of workers exclude another group of workers from working on a state-funded project in an eme...

Jon: time for a quick look at some international headlines were following. a federal report shows a new aspect to the human toll of rebuilding iraq. at least 719 people have been killed working on reconstruction projects since the 2003 u.s. invasion. nearly half of those killed are americans. in afghanistan the u.s.-led coalition says insurgent attacks over the past three months are up 11% compared to the same time last year. the number of attacks in june was the highest for any month since fi...

from penn state university. that doesnt add up. lets go "outfront." good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, party time. both sides spinning the health care verdict. the president celebrating his individual mandate ruling at the supreme court. >> today, im as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now or ten years from now or 20 years from now, well be better off because we have the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward. >> and republi...

from penn state university. that doesnt add up. lets go "outfront." good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, party time. both sides spinning the health care verdict. the president celebrating his individual mandate ruling at the supreme court. >> today, im as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now or ten years from now or 20 years from now, well be better off because we have the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward. >> and republi...

good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, party time. both sides spinning the health care verdict. the president celebrating his individual mandate ruling at the supreme court. >> today, im as confident as ever that when we look back five years from now or ten years from now or 20 years from now, well be better off because we have the courage to pass this law and keep moving forward. >> and republicans seeing a way to rally the base. after all, this is now a fight fo...