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My letter is to the chairman frank lewis. it's me, melissa. i understand your job is a lot like hurting cats so job well done on bringing your republican colleagues to heel, by offering them that huge slice of snap reduction catnip. you all can rest well in the knowledge that if your bill passes, a deficit will no longer be burdened by the $20 billion of excessive spending and government inefficiency. except that it has a 90% efficiency rate. it does exactly what it was intended to do, put food on the table for those who need it the most. i know you're used to thinking about this in terms of l...

Need support and need to understand that they're not alone. brian is one of dozens of men who have come forward and become advocates on the issue. >> and just incredibly brave. you can see how raw the emotion still is. when you say it's a military problem, an important is chain of command issue. tell me what the new bill does to address that. >> it's many till tear justice improvement act. it would professionalize what is now an 18th century system. take it into the 20th century by making sure the experts are impartial attorneys and judges not commanding officers who don't have legal training ...

Substantive stuff. there's talk about the deficit and the republicans are saying the president's biggest problem is out of control spending. do you try to bring it back to issues like that or show them as the folk who is are scandalous? what is the best pivot to make? >> well, at some level you have to do both. at the end of the day the american people wan to see the president focused on the issues that matter to him. for him to talk about it, get out there and have the ability to do it, he did need separation. and he did do that by the end of the week. you also need to make clear there are no...

Situation where 19 people can be shot. it's just out of the news. is it because it's happening in communities where it's expected to happen? >> i think it is expected. the grandmother, the student, the athlete, that's the we? that juxtaposition of the element that they have to survive and go about their every day lives in this type of violence. you look at the poor communities and we saw in reporting after katrina, that they were trying to escape over the bridge to the west bank. >> so let me ask about this. joe, this feels like exactly the place where democrats and republicans or sometimes a ...

And if you think about it in the physical terms, yes. if armed guards came in, went in and carried it out, that would be an outrage. because it's done electronically it doesn't register so much on people. but you have to remember the mainstream press. is weaker than ever. back in the '70s newspapers were stronger. you had investigative units that could fight back. so it's almost like kicking the press when they're down but to the press, we represent all citizens. you should care. >> and a short answer to your question is the pentagon papers. each of those are from leaks. >> this is the argumen...