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And he was sitting down, and the whole reason this process dragged out for so long was precisely because there was this very long, extended set of negotiations with republican senators ultimately at the same time those negotiations were happening, you had charles grassley back in his home state going around talking about death panels. and eventually, i think democrats wisened up and realized the republicans had no intention of helping them pass any legislation. capitol hill is remembering congressman jack murtha who died yesterday at 77 years old from complications following gallbladder surg...

Going after the antitrust exemption for insurance companies. i for the life of me can't figure out why there's price fixing. >> and why would you do the deal with the drug companies that you absolutely criticized before the whole thing started? you did the whole thing in secret. >> and then you can say, why did you do the deal with the big hospitals that you lied about publicly until the "new york times" caught you and put it on the front page of their sunday paper? listen, the republicans politically have all of the strong points here. they really do right now. unfortunately, they don't have ...

Had been there for so long. there was one part of the house they calmed murtha's corner where you would go to talk to him. every time you would come teen election, even fit was going to be close, you would just assume murtha was going to carry his district in pennsylvania. he has long been just a stalwart on the house when it comes to defense issues. he linked himself to nancy pelosi very closely. he oversaw the house defense appropriations committee. he held the purse strings for a lot of big issues in the pentagon. and had a lot of say about what congress did move forward and didn't move for...

>> what has gotten this guy to talk is that his father tried to warrant embassy about him, you know, was brought over hp his family was brought over. if you were in a military situation, that would not happen. >> exactly. >> don't we want our interrogators to have a lot of different tools to use? why would we want to create a system where they can only water board when -- under torture as we know from john mccain and others, when people will say anything to stop the abuse. from another senate military hearing today, the republican party line on all bush-era defense issues. listen to the gene...

Meeting. he's starting the conversation, if you will, with a fight by calling out each leader individually for not paying enough, contributing enough of their gdp to defense issues. this isn't a new argument. other presidents have done this repeatedly. barack obama did. george w. bush did as well. but in a very different way. if it was only this, that would be one thing, john. but this is really a part of all of the fighting that this president is doing with our allies. he's simply wanting to poke them in the eye. in angela merkel's case, when she's down. she's having a very complex time keepi...