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Partly paid for. well washington post columnst you see down playing calling that 3.5 trillion dollar price tag misleading. joining us now with his reaction is fox news contradict tore joe concha what was misleading about that 3.5 trillion spending there? great question. [laughter] here s the deal. to use biden term, that s true it is not 3.5 trillion. it is misleading it is more leak 5.5 trillion, 6 trillion when you look at all of the gimmicks that are in there. in other words there are programs that are in place that are supposed to expire in two, three year an once you put a program in place once you give people something it is very hard to extract that from them. obamacare being an example right once the government gives you something then you can t say we re not going give it to you them. so to that that statement to be said on a show like reliable sources ....
Confessore, president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas, pulitzer prize columnst and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. you saw him on saturday night live and joining the conversation, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. kasie hunt. hopefully eugene won t act like the character on saturday night live. i won t. richard, you believe donald ....
Your dedication, your commitment to this mission, has been the driving force behind the remarkable progress that we ve seen here in baghdad and across this country. well, the war was initially justified for some as an effort to rid iraq of weapons of mass destruction. i never believed all these cases, anyway, which of course the country didn t possess in the first place. about 4,500 americans gave their lives in that effort over there. an additional 32,000 were wounded. the war cost nearly $1 trillion for us. to this day, it s impossible to look at these numbers and not ask the simple question, was it worth it? was it the right war to fight? kimberly dozier covered the war for cbs news. she was severely wounded by a car bomb, an experience she writes about in her book, breathing the fire: fighting to survive and get back to the fight. she now covers the intelligence community for the associated press. and bob herbert is a distinguished senior fellow at demos. he was a longtime colu ....