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0 on in the first term of the obama presidency. one of the things that we decided to do as a country after 9/11 that we had never done before is something that everybody expected to be dialed back very quickly by the new administration. nobody expected it to survive. but it is still here, and it is why we have this. this is a prison in illinois that has nobody in it. it's on 140 acres near the mississippi river. it is surrounded by an electrified fence that is capable of carrying 7,000 volts. it has hundreds of surveillance cameras. it has hundreds of motion detectors. it has armed inner perim...

0 issues at the heart of it. you've been really, really kind. >> well, it was jaw-dropping. >> yeah. >> you know, you almost feel guilty living through that period. but there were voices on the left, only 23 in the senate that came up with a very courageous vote. i hope it's a lesson to america for generations to come. great work, my friend. >> thank you. i really appreciate it, ed. thanks a lot. and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. as ed mentioned,last night we did air this new msnbc documentary on why the iraq war happened. it has sparked a lot of discussion, part...

0 was it personal because of what happened with his father? his father not finishing off the job? after 9/11, did he just feel the need to be proactive, to do something to show the country he was willing to take a risk with the lives of others, of course. >> what shocked you the most? >> and go along with the neocon plan. >> i got to get this in. david, what shocked you the most about doing your research on this? >> there was one story in the book that we didn't get on last night because it's kind of convoluted. there was a woman named lori milroy, really a conspiracy theory who said for years...

presidential candidate paul ryan? michelle goldberg is with newsweek and the daily beast. last year, todd akin and brian co-sponsor the no taxpayer funding for abortion act that attempted to redefine rape. >> rape is rape. the idea that we should be qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about, does not make sense to the american people. it certainly does not make sense to me. >> then, "the invisible wounds of war: coming home from iraq and afghanistan." marguerite guzmán bouvard and the record number of soldiers committing suicide. >> this issue, suicide, is perhap...

activist rafif jouejati and longtime journalist patrick seale. >> the situation is getting worse by the day. it is a very ugly struggle. it is reduced to something like kill or be killed british >> more u.s. soldiers have died this year by taking their own lives than on the battlefield. we will speak with suicide survivor kevin hines. in 2000, he survived a jump off the golden gate bridge in san francisco. he now counsels soldiers returning from the war. also with us, bonnie carroll, co-chair of the department of defense task force on the prevention of suicide and the armed forces an...