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Fires and they want to put their lives on the line, and my hats off to them. probably like us they're looking and laughing at those kinds of semantics the politicians are playing. >> i could see president obama saying, okay, if that's their job, that's workplace violence. >> well, for special ops, every day for them is workplace violence, essentially, in terms of the combat. >> is this semantics? i don't think most people understand this, but is it semantics or are there actual benefits you get if you're classified as being killed in combat or killed with whatever the administration is calling...

I thank the government of qatar, especially its amir, who made sincere efforts for release of these leaders and for their mediation and for hosting them. the five men who were released, the chief criticism this morning and it started yesterday, is that these five men will return to the battleground. a direct threat to the united states and its allies. can we dispute that? >> no, these are major figures, fasil is a sort of feared commander. back to this basic point. we're leaving afghanistan, the president announced this week -- >> should we be concerned about potential terrorists? >> that's th...

Lying now? never lie? is it semantics? >> a lot of this is semantics but of course we're in the midst of a political fray here over the entire episode. there are people on the republican side who see this as tremendously danieling to president obama and -- danieling to thdamage --damagina administration and mastering al-qaeda. look at semantic since you point that out. they're important here. the difference is that in the document that susan rice basing remarks on she used the term "extremist" instead of al-qaeda. "tremists." that could include a range of people including al-qaeda but, of cour...

talk more about it in our "crime and consequences" segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure's gone down just a little bit. that's john boehner's way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that....

For any failed company. isn't that precisely what the government did in the bailout of aig and citigroup in 2008? so again, isn't this in truth, a bailout, notwithstanding with dodd and mr. obama and tim geithner to say? >> this is a structured way to deal with failures. i've got fdic insurance just like you do. if you have a checking account or savings account, any financial institution in this country you have fdic insurance. to try to call that a bailout is really being disingenuous. both the democrats and republicans spent a lot of time dismembering regulation of wall street. it's time tha...