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0 was, in fact, taken offline after 30 yards of hard duty. being a heavy duty ice breaker is really hard work. the ships can't last forever. and so at the end of its expected 30 years, in 2006, the "polar star" was not moth balled exactly, but they stopped deploying it. it basically retired as a ship. four years into that retirement, though, in 2010, the only other ship that the coast guard had with that same capacity broke down. that one was the same vintage, a sister ship. it broke down in 2010, pretty catastrophically. it had engine failure. when that ship broke down, that left the united s...

0 on day two. there are 1.3 million people in this country right now dealing with that completely undeserved ministry. >> i agree with you. to say to continue writing them a check is the right prescription for that problem is wrong. i think there's a lot of really great ideas out there as to how to address this issue. the american enterprise institute has done fabulous work on this. some ways to look at this system, and continue to have a safety net that actually encourages workers and allows people to search for a job and rewards them for doing so. >> here's what i will agree with you. it is ...

0 >> stop right there, again. i will agree with you kicking the can now for three months, let's just extend it permanently. let's put in benchmarks of unemployment rates, right, so we don't have to keep doing this. totally agree can you. instead of just having to do this every three months on an emergency basis, let's say if we have unemployment at a certain level, have the long-term unemployed at a certain level, it just renews automatically? that would be great. my question to you, there seems to be some confusion on the right whether they're ideologically opposed to the very idea of long-te...

Open stance than popes have made in the past. but for myself, i will be much happier when religion does not influence public policy. >> do you think though that this will help the dialogue, not just with where we stand as certain catholics in this country might be conflicted or disenfranchised with the catholic church, but in seeing a change from pope benedict to pope francis. >> i do think you'll see a change, a more embracing attitude. i'm hoping the catholics around the world take serious note of that, who am i to judge frayed from the pope and make that a part of their own lives. >> it see...

Is that to be believed? because this is the antisodomy laws were struck down over ten years ago so why the need to strike up this type of entrapment or this type of snare program? >> those -- that backtracking is absolutely not to be believed in my opinion. we were talking about 12 arrests since 2011. this is a fairly recent sting that's been going on for the past couple of years and we're now a full decade away from the lawrence v. texas decision that declared unconstitutional the law in texas and 14 other states regarding consensual sex between gay men -- adults. >> matthew, quickly, were th...