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Competitive bidding. >> some of them are. >> greta: not all. >> not all, but by the way, once you get-- the problem once you get a contract for a fighter plane or a ship, then the escalation above the baseline sometimes is two or three times as much as what you originally budgeted for. the biggest problem in the dod in the years ahead is going to be acquisition reform. fix the system for buying stuff and that's probably going to be the greatest return on our investment that we could make particularly if you're trying to save over the long-term. short-term it's people and training. >> greta: ni...

His own republican party. >> there's also a dark -- a dark vain of intolerance in some parts of the party. what do i mean by that? what i mean by that they still sort of look down on minorities. how can i evidence that? when i see a former governor say that the president is shucking and jiving. >> powell added that the gop is having an identity problem and if it doesn't change they're going to be in trouble. president obama ordered american forces to help france in a failed rescue operation in somalia. the u.s. briefly provided limited technical support to french forces trying to rescue an i...

Government to another it's not pretty. i'm not suggesting this is analogous in every way to the american revolution but it's certainly a big change from what had existed before. it's funny for me to hear conservatives fine for hosni mubarak who they never liked that much when he was in power. >> they liked him a lot he was pro-israel and proamerican. >> he's a dick taeutder. a dictator. >> allies are fine as long as they are allies. >> as long as they are dictators on our side they are good dictators. jon: we'll leave it there, alan colmes, jim pinkerton, our viewers should keep this in mind, ...

Think of the timing for this. >> would be hard to image if the senate does not require, at least ask him to thursday we need some answers. if i can draw a common thread between what happened there and what happened with iran, related to that drone, that the iranian fighter plane fired 00. we just learned about it after the lecketdz. even though it happened back on november 1st. is there a common thread in terms of how the white house is processing information waiting for perhaps political reasons to tell the american people about it? >> oh, no doubt. i feel like i'm alice in wonderland looking...

Very complex issue but that even goes back to before stealth jets. so i think the jury is still out on the impact on the ground crews. jon: i mean for a while the air force restricted them, you know, they let them go back into the air, this very expensive $143 million a copy plane. but they put limit tastes how high it could fly. it had to stay within a certain distance of base. i suppose if they were planning on using it in combat they would lift those restrictions but at the same time it is not very useful to have a fighter plane that is height limited. >> they will live the restrictions. ke...