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Al qaeda and the extreme cysts, and the war is not over. we are going to be fighting these people, probably for the rest of my life, but we will not have to use 150,000 troops in every engagement. but if they beat us in afghanistan, and if the taliban capture or regain control of afghanistan, it will make it hard in yemen to help us because the ones that chose us to help us in afghanistan are going to meet a very unseemingly bad fate. what i try to tell my colleagues, and people back in south ca...

There, if their life is going to change, they have to get themselves home. all the kids and boys together. he said tony, theyll never make it up the hill. he said its impossible. i said, is it physically impossible or just for them? he said with a gun to their head, maybe. guess what? theyre not going home without this change. the crew is saying, tony, we cannot film this. at the end, theyre going like a bat out of you know what running as hard as they can to the end of this thing. you watch thi...

Work in progress for anyone. for us to come out and say our life is like -- we have no problems anymore and no challenges and that we just communicate perfectly well every time. >> its a dream. >> that would be a dream. but the fact is that we have tools in place. we have a strategy in place to deal with our relationship, our parenting, our finances, our business. the most amazing thing for me is just that in the amount of time that tony gave us, it just -- it was just putting the train back on ...

Some dispersed with chemicals, a lot of operation and were trying to judge right now the metabolic ability of the gulf to really absorb this stuff through biodegradati biodegradation. were working through an oil budget where were trying to estimate the total flow and then subtract out what we know we removed and try to come up with an approximation and thats being worked on by the science team because we do need to know if its subsurface. not a lot of oil on the surface right now but were still ...

And repeated delays in sbi net raise fundamental questions about sbi nets viability. americans need proven, cost-effective border security solutions. now, they say, not ten years down the road. >> still a work in progress. >> very much a work in progress and a lot of critics particularly on capitol hill. >> thank you, jeanne. >> you bet. were seeing new anger in arizona in response to the judges ruling blocking parts of the states immigration law. arizonas two republican senators john mccain a...

Look, i think its a work in progress here. part of what the challenge progressives are figuring out for fall elections is support candidates may not support necessarily all the policies. >> karen finney and chris bowers, lively discussion. thank you both. up next, an actual storm is coming to the gulf of mexico. by the way, so is the first family. well get the latest on the oil spill as that storm approaches, plus details of president the obamas overnight trip to the gulf coast. this is "hardb...

Maximize progressive power as much as possible. thats both within legislation and in terms of elections. but as an activist, you know, i always want democrats to win but where i put my energy and my time and my money and my effort as a blaug blogger in terms of driving buzz, thats going to go to the champions that are really exciting to the progressive activist community. thats people like representative alan grayson or on the senate side people like barbara boxer or feingold, both of whom are f...

Theyve done extraordinarily well most of the time. this is a work in progress. the dni hasnt fungesed as it should. this is an opportunity to get that better. >> and a fair point there. we dont talk about the successes. they arent publicized and we dont sit and debate them on cable news. >> thats right. and campbell, the information sharing, i think fran would attest to this. has -- is much better today than it was. and we have been able to stop large conspiracies. were having trouble with the l...

In all, more people than live in our nations capital have top secret security clearance. >> its again the size, the lack of transparency and the cost. if we dont get it right, the consequences are gigantic. >> joining us now from "the washington post," the co-author of this article "top secret america" dana priest. her co-author is william arkin. thanks very much for joining pups. >> thanks very manager we, wolf. >> what shocked you the most after this two-year investigation? >> well, really two...

A critical crushing need for additional capability the government didnt have. remember, avenue the draw down of the resources in the intelligence community, when 9/11 happens, the government needs all sorts of capability .. and it krcontracts it. they set some rules in the road about not permitting contractors to do essential government functions, that the government was going to have to lay out a plan for when it was going to use contractors, how much it was going to cost, and theyve been going...