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Increasingly getting liposuction to lose weight to help pass the body fat test. fitness experts argue the test isn't accurate and are urging the defense department to change requirements. the number of soldiers discharged for being overweight is ten times higher than it was five years ago. >> so what do you think? if we're in the marines and we probably instead of running 20 miles just going to go to the doc. >> we're well past marine condition, i'm afraid, joe. >> if we wanted to. i want liposuction. >> less than a week after five people were hurt on ride at the north carolina state fair anot...

Phones on listening to angela merkel's conversations, or president obama, it's very different. mike? >> but, mike, if the president knows, if he's getting this intel and if these reports are right that the white house and the state department signed off on it he knows without sitting there with his head phones on that we're tapping phones. >> i'm sure knees at some level the depth of this program. but probably not the entire depth of the program. but one thing that's missing in this conversation that we're having, that others are having, that's in the newspapers, is the level of anxiety, fear,...

We'll talk to columnist charles kraut hammer about his new book. and later, mr. october, our conversation with hall of famer reggie jackson. up next the top stories in the politico playbook but first bill karins with a check on forecast. bill? >> good morning, mika. joe at his best. one year ago today was when hurricane sand die was going onshore in southern jersey and this storm, obviously, left its mark on the worst we've ever seen in this country. i want to explain briefly why it was so bad and could it happen genotype scenarios. as far as the storm there wasn't a storm so bad a category 1 ...

>> he stopped water boarding. >> under bush's policy and under that program three people were water boarded. and they stopped water boarding in 2005. so thank god he got elected. the world loves us so much more today. you guys were all right. if we could only get barack obama in the white house we would once again be loved by the people of luxemborg. it's almost like kennedy is president. you can walk through ireland and feel the love of the people. when we walk through cork, we see people who loves the president. not somebody who shreds the constitution. maybe he accidentally dropped drones o...

This president has an i kwimmpi. he doesn't have a chief executive struck your. he's not just the professor in charge, the foreign policy guy he's the chief executive of the united states government responsible for the irs and all the agencies under him. maybe you consider that conceptual but it's real an every time something gets screwed up out there there's a sense he may not be involved. that's not way it ought to be. we only get one guy in there and that's the chief executive and he ought to be accountable. >> chris matthews thank you so much. we'll see you tonight at 7:00 on "hardball." j...