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Kind of open a can of worms. doesn't it make you kwae whole bunch of decisions made? >> the general's people denied this story, but a spokesman for the training mission that he oversaw did put in writing according to "rollingstone," if psy-ops were to be used against all distinguished visitors. some sort of investigation. what could the fallout be? >> possibly a resignation and complete rewrite of the chactua law was broken. as an american, chris, if in fact something like this happened, this is absolutely disgusting. this is tantamount to perhaps maybe even richard nixon using the fbi to go a...

You're not going to pull the wool over their eye it's unclear what general caldwell may have been thinking. >> i would suggest that a general using psy-ops on the chairman of the joint chiefs, not a really smart career move. it's a stunning story. you know, you're right. it depends on whether they pass along raw data. it seems to me, this is just my gut, intuition, if you even have a general calling on the psy-ops unit for any data, using any data that is supposed to be collected for the enemy and turning it instead on visiting dignitaries, it seems to me even that request may have crossed the...

Administrative requirements are for individuals under the general's command in terms of what we would call, you know, prebriefing, manipulating through arguments, manipulating through briefings that happened to these senators all the time. every time they arrive at a military base, they know a can-do general will get his best guys around him, trying to convince them what they're doing is right. whether these individuals as part of this spy-ops team ought to be part of the congressional affairs operation of a general is a genuine administrative question that ought to be investigated. it does so...

Tactics, what exactly are these guys doing? >> i don't know that -- it's not completely spelled out in this "rolling stone" article but it's a campaign of influence. they sort of lobbying, finding out what the senators likes and dislikes are, which would be normal in any sort of meeting with senators. i think there's a suggestion that what was done was illegal. psy-ops are illegal. they did something to influence united states senators which would be completely shocking. there's no suggestion that senators were hypnotized or something or waterboarded into providing more troops. i think it's mo...

Obvious. >> right. so nasa, jay barberie's listening. he's waiting for a decision here, folks. thank you, jay. good to see you. and we're watching for that shuttle liftoff again here this afternoon. you'll see it here on msnbc. i'm contessa brewer, thank you for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. out west. up next, "andrea mitchell reports." andrea, hi? >> hi, contessa, thanks. we'll have the latest on breaking developments in texas, where a saudi college student has been arrested on terror charges. plus, general petraeus investigating reports that a top g...