joining us tonight now for the interview is democratic congressman barney frank of massachusetts, who has been a very vocal proponent of at least being able to discuss the military budget as a thing that operates on the same kinds of dollars that other things in our budget operate on. congressman frank, thank you very much for being with us. nice to see you. great to see you, rachel, on this topic, where you have also done such very important work. thank you. since the presidency, maybe not the presidency, but the rise of ronald reagan, the political common wisdom is democrats can t go after republicans for being profly gat on defense spending, but that s exactly what the obama campaign is doing.
the white house says this could be a sign that the rogue nation has improved their launch technology which it could potentially use according to the experts for nuclear warheads. this state tv video from iran shows the monkey waving. the iranian news agency reports the team strapped the monkey into the orbit and the animal returned safely somehow but we don t know how. we do not necessity if the report is true. it is it true, when this all may have happened is beyond us. or the location of the alleged launch site, we do not know any of that. the united states profly used monkeys in the early days of the space race with the soviet union and the united states sent a monkey to space in 1950 so to they have accomplished this they made it to ther paragraph black and white tv but they is given few details about the link to ballistic missiles. they claim the nuclear program