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Ability to fight on the front line, especially with many of these conscripts who are sitting there wondering, as their leaders squabble among themselves, what thad ear doing in eat earn ukraine. >> how does this change the strategic approach to the war at this moment or does it? >> the things that are going to make their counteroffensive successful would be the destruction of the russian headquarters and russian logistics. so everything we can do to help them accomplish that with long-range prec...

Never go over well with the rank and file. where do you evaluate the democrats to be nationally right now. >> you look at what we have to do. its about rebuilding, modernizing and its about winning. what weve been able to do is invest in organizing. we lost our commitment to sustained organizing everywhere. we didnt do that well. we have redoubled those efforts. and we have seen success in places like oklahoma, where we won three special elections earlier this year and beat red districts because...

When loretta lynch canceled jim comeys plan to write an op-ed about this way back in august, you know, i think that the american people was left with a confidence that was simply poorly grounded and may in the end have affected the election results. so i think, you know, obviously we need an investigation to look at what trump did, but i think its also only fair to look at the mistakes on our side. >> josh, do you want to respond to that? because at the time, people were looking at the wikileaks...

I have to people around you who dont just say yes, sir, who tell you, well, the argument against what you ear doing is this or i see this from a completely different perspective and keeping yourself open to those points of view strikes me as a crucial part of succeeding as a president. >> we are seeing the president-elect reach out to people on different sides of the aisle and different walks of life so a lot of the people weve been talking to on our show said thats a positive and hope he does t...

Side. when you get the bureaucratic bumbler in there who have neither their experience or brilliance to understand what is going on and yet are making policy decisions, you cant get anywhere, gregg, and this from day one, last june when it was announced, should have been in fact a covert program. that is, no public announce. s about what wear doing, how were doing it or how much money were spending, strictly a covert program that "the new york times" next year or the year after would say, we jus...

Talked about top secret america, these corporate factions so unaccountable that nobody even knows what nay ear doing. this is really the powerful faction that runs washington. even if he wanted to, it would be difficult to come in and challenge that. what they care most about is being able to operate behind a wall of secrecy. thats who the president is protecting. >> we see it everywhere and you see it in the pentagon, too. how do we get beyond such institutional power? >> you do have instances ...

He says the essence of -- he says here, wait a minute. where are we, i can think of no more damming indictment of the strategic thinking than this, it never considered the scenario where mubarak faced a popular revolt. its a deaf vigs, and to think through the best responses to him. his point is he thinks theres a whole lack of a grand strategy. i must think in the weekend you did see an awful lot of spinning against the state department. i thought it was kind of an ugly scene. i seemed like it ...

It was just going to be a bubble. arizona congressman gabrielle giffords is reportedly relearning how to speak by mouthing song lyrics such as "twinkle, twinkle little star" according to "the new york times" which says giffords spoke with her brother-in-law scott kelly on the international space station telling him, hi, im good. shes been receiving bedside briefings on things such as current events in egypt. brian williams will have an interview with mark kelly tonight on nbcs nightly news thi...

He won in 2008. he miss it is par put badly. he shot a 75 in the final round ending the day a disappointing 20th place. the shot of the day came from this guy, elvaro kiros. he sinks the hole in one. he finished 11 under and wins the trophy for the dubai classic. in case you missed it on friday night, this was the -- i dont know what to call this scene. >> whats going on here, willie? every day you tell us -- >> the penguins -- >> its happening a lot this season. the penguins are involved a lot....

Security first because david brought it up. social security, we could sit down. you know how bad i am with numbers. we could figure that out in an hour. medicare is a mess. medicaid is an even greater challenge. but nobody has come on board. >> medicare is the biggest of the three. medicare is by far the biggest of the three. its the biggest of the three because of a lot of tough choices we or not prepared to make like end-of-life care. it consumes an enormous portion of medicare. >> this will h...