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Say a billion sounds like a lot of money. it is, obviously. with citizens united in a presidential election against barack obama i don't think we have any idea how much money will be spent on the other side. news about a contender for republican kay bailey hutchison's seat there running as a democrat. >> this really surprised me. retired general ricardo sanchez commanded u.s. troops in iraq, lives in san antonio will be the democrat to run for that seat. democrats have had their eye on texas. that was one of the six states they hoped to switch over. they talked about a 6 in well12 flips next...

Lives. you were a commanding officer in the war, in effect -- >> civilian. >> yeah, but a commanding officer. which mistakes do you think you made which directly cost lives? >> cost lives? well, there's so many pieces of the thing that it's hard to -- lives were lost on my watch. and you carry that with you -- >> but in that specific case? that's what every military guy will tell you. >> someone on the ground could tell you something like that. at my level it would have been, you know, having a commander who shouldn't have been there. or something at that level, decision. i'll give you an exam...

Made which directly cost lives? >> cost lives? well, there's so many pieces of the thing that it's hard to -- lives were lost on my watch. and you carry that with you -- >> but in that specific case? that's what every military guy will tell you. >> someone on the ground could tell you something like that. at my level it would have been, you know, having a commander who shouldn't have been there. or something at that level, decision. i'll give you an example. the -- to my amazement, general sanchez's headquarters was staffed at about a 37% level when it should have been staffed at 100% level. h...

>> cost lives? well, there's so many pieces of the thing that it's hard to -- lives were lost on my watch. and you carry that with you -- >> but in that specific case? that's what every military guy will tell you. >> someone on the ground could tell you something like that. at my level it would have been, you know, having a commander who shouldn't have been there. or something at that level, decision. i'll give you an example. the -- to my amazement, general sanchez's headquarters was staffed at about a 37% level when it should have been staffed at 100% level. he had made his request, they'd b...