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That. there are people in bahrain who are allowed to bring their families with them on deployment and they're getting combat pay. if you're allowed to bring your spouse and children, you're probably not in combat. i don't have a problem with -- >> if you're in a combat zone, are you taxed? >> that's the second part. when you're in a combat zone, you are not taxed and you get your whole paycheck. it's, in fact, great because you feel how much you're being taxed when you are not in a combat zone. >> what they're consider changing is now, if you're in a place that's not necessarily at war at the ...

>> they risk their lives every day and for that, our government provides extra combat pay for troops on the front line. but there are two types of combat pay. there's hostile fire pay that provides $225 per month to troops in combat and then there's imminent danger pay that gives the same amount $225 to soldiers who are in places that are considered dangerous even if they're not in the line of fire. >> i did not know that. but now, as part of the department of defense cuts, the pentagon is recommending combat zone deductions. here to weigh in on this, the recommendations is the founder of the ...

He is one of several egyptian parliament members who met with the obama administration to discuss diplomatic relations this week. the problem, he is a member of the islamic egyptian group that the united states has designated a terrorist organization run by this guy. are you kidding me? >> the blind sheik. >> now serving a life sentence for planning the 1993 attack on the world trade center. he claims he had nothing to do with that attack or any other. nonetheless, this morning, there are questions. >> we'll have other problems because the guy that won the elections was a member of the muslim ...

Frankly, i think this is beneath the dignity of the white house. to travel to three battleground states and go to three large college campuses on taxpayers' money to try to make this a political issue is pathetic. his campaign ought to be reimbursing the treasury for the cost of this trip. >> sean: all right. joining me with the reaction to the campaigner in chief's very busy week. the co-host of "the five," they deal with bob beckel every day of the week and they get combat pay. >> that's a good point. >> sean: and he has a jar out there. there has to be millions of dollars out there. >> but ...

today marks one year since syria's uprising began with a day of rage. it is clear the rage has not let up. we're keeping an eye, too, on afghanistan. defense secretary leon panetta just met with president hamid karzai as the u.s. soldier who is a kutsed of slaughtering 16 people is moved from the country. the washington monument is sinking. it's sunk a fraction of an inch since the quake hit last august. today the circus ends and the prison sentence begins. former governor rob blagojevich has left illinois and might not be back for quite some time. he's on his way right now to ...