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Looking today at a big debate here that is unfolding on the war in afghanistan. you just heard congressman ron paul again pushing a topic that was near and dear to his heart before osama bin laden was killed. but in this case, he says, look, it s time to get our troops out of afghanistan. and that message is garnering a lot of support nationwide. msnbc political analyst karen finney is a former democratic national committee spokesperson, horace epstein is a republican strategist. good to see both of you today. boris, let me begin with you. how is bin laden s death going to influence the way republicans now take a stand on military action in afghanistan? i think there is going to be an impact but not as large as some think. in my perspective, this is just one man s death. we should not get out of afghanistan as fast as we did at the end of the soviet impact there in the 1980s, easterly ....
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Contessa@msnbc.com. again, we re keeping our eye on indianapolis at allison transmission where the president is speaking about green jobs. hello, hoosiers. sorry about the pacers. i m sorry, mr. mayor. give the mayor a big round of applause. he s doing a great job. along with the mayor, we ve got the secretary of transportation, ray lahood, in the house. ray. we ve got your own member of congress, andre carson, here. and i want to thank larry dewey and everybody here at allison ....
Wasn t correct last time. but on obama s ratings, this 11% bump is going to disappear. karen s right, it s on the economy right now, and most of the nation disagrees with obama on the economy and on health care as well. boris, karen, appreciate it. thank you. sidebar now, and actions and reactions today. this week while former bush administration officials were praising president obama for approving the military action that took out bin laden, they were also facing tough questions about why their boss went after saddam hussein instead of bin laden after 9/11. here s condoleezza rice with msnbc s lawrence o donnell last night. you obviously have a very different view. a threat to new yorkers that osama bin laden was? you may not view him as a threat, but most of the world did. i d like to review your feelings about things you said ramping up to 9/11. the threat of a mushroom cloud. we re not going there. from saddam hussein you now know was completely false. do you regre ....
[ male announcer ] make it yours. make it mio. welcome back to msnbc. i m contessa brewer. at least four people were killed in libya today, after gadhafi forces bombed a libyan port in misrata. four people there were killed. nato says it will keep bombing libya for as long as it takes to end the violence. sony hired a group of cybersleuths to catch whoever hacked into their network. personal dat aa from possibly 1 million gamers was exposed. according to the epa, the largest per barrel civil penalty assessed, more than 200,000 gallons was spilled there. and the united nations projects that the world population will hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100. it is expected to pass 7 billion this october. ....