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>> it doesn't diminish what is going on elsewhere. there has been all kinds conditions and they were coming their first, but i saw a renewed sense of purpose here. >> years ago i was honored to spend some time there. the hospital there, on base, matt, stand by for me if you will. any more insight into how the president decided to stick with that deadline despite the pressure to extend it? >> the counter weight to the pressure, it has been arable, for peoples just watching events unfold has been the president's
have shot off a letter to the defense secretary say, hey, it's time for explanations, and what they're really upset about not necessarily, allison, the raw numbers that people aren't requesting as many ballots out in the field, but rather a recent report that's come out from the pentagon's inspector general which shows that this 2009 law, the military and overseas voter empowerment act, again, that was just a few years ago, was supposed to make military voting much easier. and one of the requirements wase on-base set-ups where military personnel were given a lot of assistance to make sure that they were enfranchised and able to vote and what this report has shown is that at least half of military bases still lack that basic requirement of legal compliance. and i just don't think there's a single excuse for that. alisyn: so what is that? i mean, i guess the answer is we don't know yet, but is it just about belt tightening? is it about bureaucracy that doesn't allow all of these
know, bringing david down. he stays with me when he's in washington, d.c., and i sit in the mcdonald's while he visits manning. they asked our car to drive on the base and wouldn't let us drive it off because they said it was illegal to drive it off. i had a pdf of my insurance and not a paper version of my insurance. the question remains why this took two hours, why they would not allow us to leave the base. they say we are not detained. we absolutely were. it became apparent that they were going to release us right before 3:00, which was the end of visiting hours. so david could not have any possibility of seeing bradley, though he was an approved visitor. >> you have done this before? you've driven david down before? >> many times. they've been very nice and allowed us on base. thement menmen minute we drove said they receives orders in order to do this. >> you didn't grab your cell