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Ordered to stop what they were doing, from reconstruction projects, to looking for members of the senior taliban leadership, everyone stopped and shifted everything to searching for private bergdahl. >> let me rewind. his capture as you called it, it's been described by some in multiple news organizations now that he kind of walked off post. >> well, bret, i'm deliberately trying not to use the word capture. our understanding and as we're seeing now all over the internet from soldiers who were with him at the time and were involved in the search are all clear that he walked off post, that he l...

Folks. since 9/11 we've spent almost $1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and there's a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. we've wasted more than 13% of the money that we've sent over to iraq. now, we're spending billions on roads and bridges overseas while here in america we can't get the politicians to work together on an infrastructure package when we've got bridges falling down, killing people? when the ...

Of jobs like they said it would. and of course put two wars on the american credit card for the next generation. and let's just get it straight, folks. since 9/11 we've spent almost $1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and there's a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. we've wasted more than 13% of the money that we've sent over to iraq. now, we're spending billions on roads and bridges overseas while here in ...

$1.5 trillion on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. and there's a troubling new report. much of the money has been wasted. now, the special inspector general says the united states has wasted $8 billion on failed reconstruction projects. you know, nation building over there. we've wasted more than 13% of the money that we've sent over to iraq. now, we're spending billions on roads and bridges overseas while here in america we can't get the politicians to work together on an infrastructure package when we've got bridges falling down, killing people? when the republicans say that they can't affor...

Because they did not belong to the union, they were not allowed to help out. those stories, i think, were debunked after that. >>brian: not really. they weren't confirmed. >>gretchen: this is a separate thing. this is post-sandy workers have to belong to a union ostensibly. >> yes. this is a much grander scale. this is all work using government money to rebuild the losses from sandy in the state of new jersey. and a new jersey legislature has passed by a straight party-line vote but with a significant majority saying if you don't belong to a union, you cannot work on these reconstruction proje...