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This is the stupidest brinksman ship episode we have had yet. the republicans don't want to do this. a smart republicans don't want to cause a government shutdown or a government default. they're doing it anyhow and they can't stop themselves. it is just crazy. are we out of touch with reality to think that bob dole and tom daschle voices from the past could bring in reason? >> i don't know. i hope so. let's get ban ki-moon to come in and mediate, too. anything would help at this point because the republican party is just on the verge of a nervous breakdown. it just can't function. >> it is th...

Bureaucracy let him slip through the cracks? we're beginning to learn that he apparently three months ago had three unknown people talking to him. had a micro wave oven keeping him from talking. the police told the navy that these things were happening because they knew he was going to go to a naval facility. that somehow didn't get in the system. we know he had at least eight disciplinary problems in the navy. they decided it was too hard to give him a dishonorable discharge, so they gave him an honorable discharge just because they couldn't function. we know he shot out somebody's tires. he ...

Was there some actual failure in the system where it should have been spotted that there was this background information on him. and it was not. he by all accounts, he was never convicted of a crime although he had several run-ins with the law. it will have to be determined by investigators weather any of this might have legally kept him from getting a security clearance. this is a terrible incident. no one's excusing any of it. but let's remember, there are hundreds of thousands of contractors that have security clearances. edward snowden who leaked the nsa information, he had a security clea...

>> if angel decides to talk to prison officials, he will most likely be placed in protective custody, also known as pc or sny, short for sensitive needs yard. once an inmate debriefs, there's no going back. >> i don't like to run the yard. i like to play pinochle or cut hair. i don't like to run around on the yard. >> george mariscal is a northern structure ex-gang member who lives in sny. because this yard is a mish-mash of inmates who can't function in general population, some consider it an even worse place than ad seg. >> this is the dirtiest place of all places. you're pc, you get to be a...

An institution almost completely removed from dealing with anything that's relevant to their actual lives. >> neera tanden, mcconnell making a point and saying what are they so upset about? the president's gotten most of what he's wanted. these are particular nominations that legally we have a right to challenge. we also know it's ideological as well. >> yeah. no. i think what people are concerned about is there are a number of agencies, not just the ones that mitch mcconnell, senator mcconnell was talking about, it's epa, it is cpfb, consumer financial protection board, but it's tallas depart...