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Us more about the battle for ramadi. good morning. >> the battle for ramadi goes on, as you say, very slow going at this point. now, the u.s. fields so far the months of training iraqi forces is beginning to pay off. that the iraqis are showing the ability to move into the streets, root out fighters, move past these ieds and obstacles. if they can hold the territory remains to be seen but they are continuing to be on the move. as this is happening, there is a very quiet conversation inside the administration about whether or not to loosen the rules of engagement, the rules governing when the u...

Community is not helping the u.s. root out would-be terrorists. here's more of the msnbc interview from earlier today. >> donald, along with this plan you're proposing, i know that you and joe talked a little bit about engaging muslims and you called it beautiful words. but i do want to take it further and ask you, along with your plan -- let's say it could actually be carried out -- what would you do alongside that to engage the muslim community here in america and around the world? >> well, i wouldn't want to engage the muslim community but the muslim community has to help us, mika. they're ...

lied about his end date at bain. in a series of interviews on friday, romney accused of obama campaign of stooping to new lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here's what he said. >> first of all, we've done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don't get attention in the news. >> the president said they've ...

After labeling it a national security issue, assigning the levers and machinery of government, in this case, his justice department, to go after, root out, discover, and probably go after an anonymous author from within his own ranks? >> well, it is completely inappropriate to use the an rat rus -- apparatus of the government, the authorities and capabilities of the u.s. government, to go try to squelch political dissent, political chrriticism. he'd be invoking national security in an authoritarian mode, to try to root out anybody who is a political critic. it is interesting, brian, because if...

Root out, discover, and probably go after an anonymous author from within his own ranks? >> well, it is completely inappropriate to use the apparatus of the government, the national security authorities and capabilities of the u.s. government to go try to squelch political dissent, political criticism. he'd be invoking national security in an authoritarian mode, to try to root out anybody who is a political critic. it is interesting, brian, because if you re-read that op-ed, it was all about the fact that people in the government are simply ignoring the president and basically doing their job ...