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To laos or germany or wherever to look for downed air men that might have been missing for 40 years and analyze the remains at the largest forensic laboratory in hawaii, and it's just very strange to me that the military would make such a strong commitment to no one left behind for, yeah, a finger bone in vietnam, but won't even use a backhoe at arlington. very, very strange. >> i can imagine a lot of veterans out there want it fixed and want it fixed now. mark benjamin, "time" magazine, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. moments after the presidench syria stood before his country and ...

Says they're going to do the best they can. i think it is interesting to note that evidence suggests that each one of these burial errors is a multiple error. in other words, you dig down and find somebody not supposed to be there, but their head stone is another place and you have to dig down to that person and so on and so on. what the army is faced with here is not just a scandal, but a massive scandal. it is possible they don't want to get into that. >> mark benjamin, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. i'm contessa brewer. that wraps up this show for me. i'...

Shoddy record keeping. in the new issue of "time," we hear from cemetery workers who talk about how deep the problem goes. one employee estimates one in ten graves has the wrong head stone. "time" magazine contributor mark benjamin wrote that article. and, so when you go to talk to the military authorities, what do they say they're going to do about it? >> well, what they say they're going to do is look at the paperwork that keeps track of who is buried where and try to figure out where people are. but what they say they're not going to do, which is just as, i think, more important, is they're...

America but the very hope of a country. >> killing their brothers over drugs and money. >> mark leaven, executive producer of brick city and joins me now. explain to us what was it about newark that made you want to create "brick city"? what drew you there? >> one, i happened to grow up in jersey, and the second was when mayor cory booker took over, he promised he was going to make newark the model for urban transformation in america. that was a bold promise, and we, my partners, mark benjamin and forest whitaker want to see what does that mean? how do you change? especially the report you gav...

Which i think seems like an unlikely scenario. >> mark benjamin, thank you very much for joining us from salon.com. >> maggots aboard a plane. in fact you're going to hear from a passenger who saw and felt it all coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] crunch, wheat thins. ♪ that's what's gonna happen here. why? ♪ because you're tasty with toasty whole grain.