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Decision that he is making, that is just preposterous. >> under that distinction it is impossible for those who have been killed or injured to receive a purple heart and also additional combat pay as a result. jury selection continues today. organizers suspended the pay before they come up with a solution to the $100 billion pension crisis. the move should light a fire under legislatures. >> all statements of legislatures and salary of legislatures is removed every year. every day the pension liability grows taxpayers pay more. the average lawmaker makes 68,000 dollars a year.

U.s. troops for up to eight countries. what is danger pay? it's countries that they're going to look and say, well, is it really a dangerous area? one of the ways in which they figured that out is if service members are allowed to bring their families with them for assignments in places like bahrain, then they determine that that's not going to be applicable to danger pay anymore. what does this mean? that $225 pay cut for members of the military. countries that will still be within this danger zone, afghanistan, iraq, iran, lebanon, syria, some that may come out, jordan. that's interesting 'c...

>> and you were one of the 13 victims in this situation. do you have any hope on tuesday congressman frank wolf introduced an amendment that would give the fort hood victims the combat pay and benefits he believe they deserve? >> a letter came out from one of the lieutenant generals in response to that saying that the army does not see it as workplace violence at this time. they're trying to wait and see what happens after the trial, which there again is just a lot of paragraphs of them trying to prolong the agony of making a mistake. >> it will be interesting to see if they deem it as a terro...

>> bret: some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. the man charged in the fort hood shooting that dad hassan fired his attorneys and told the military judge he wishes to represent himself. he goes on trial this summer for the 2009 army base shooting spree that killed 13 and injured 32. kxas tv reports that while sitting in jail hassan has been paid more than $278 taxpayer dollars under the military code of justice a suspect's salary cannot be suspended until he's found guilty. meanwhile many of the victims of the shooting are struggling to receive their wages. the pentagon classified t...

Message -- >> our mission continues! >> great day. the ceo of the mission continues joins me right now. it's great to see you. just so everybody knows and your background, you're a former navy s.e.a.l. you used your combat pay to start the mission continues. where did the inspiration come from? >> i did, thomas. when i came home, one of the things i recognized was that this generation of men and women wanted to find a way to continue to serve. when i came home, i visited some of my friends who had been injured or in the hospital and it was clear to me that what they most wanted was to find a w...