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the hearing. not only do they want to hear from the director of the u.s. secret service, mark sullivan, what happened in columbia. this is the first time we'll hear publicly from the director himself. but also what the secret service investigation has found, and then the lingering question, many lingering questions, of is there a pattern here or a culture that has been many questions been raised within the secret service that the secret service should have seen this coming as senator lieberman has said. listen first here to the chairman. >> it is hard for many people, including me, i...

It's disheartening sometimes. i feel you on that. yes, we are making progress. barack obama is the president. when we make those kind of huge leaps in history, there's going to be some backlash. we have been dealing with a lot of that backlash in presidential politics and in the political sphere. we're dealing with around not abolishing the death penalty. we have work to do. your show is about that work. you know i'm about that work. we can't allow the right to just sort of cast a negative cloak over discussions about race because we can't move forward and move beyond some of the historical th...

Are out there. we see the hatesters out there on the president questioning his faith. >> it's hard. it's disheart rning sometimes. i feel you on that. yes, we are making progress. barack obama is the president. when we make those kind of huge leaps in history, there's going to be some backlash. we have been dealing with a lot of that backlash in presidential politics and in the political sphere. we're dealing with around not abolishing the death penalty. we have work to do. your show is about that work. you know i'm about that work. we can't allow the right to just sort of cast a negative cloa...

We see the hatesters out there on the president questioning his citizenship, you know, his faith. >> yes. >> it's just -- >> it's disheartening sometimes, ed. it's disheartening, and i feel you on that. but, yes, we are making progress. barack obama is the president. but when we make those kind of huge leaps in history, there's going to be some backlash. we have been dealing with a lot of that backlash in presidential politics and in the political sphere. and sadly we're dealing with some issues in the public sphere, around police brutality, not abolishing the death penalty because we don't un...

Secure its people so that those people can indeed declare their allegiance if you will. if the government has not been able to secure the population in an area, particularly in a country that has been at war for some 30 years and where the people have in some cases been professional chameleons and side with whichever side appears is going to prevail and that's how you survive. and so, again, our first and most important task with our afghan security force partners has to be to improve security for the people so they literally can cast a vote not just in the elections in september for their par...