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Urgency went away and it's really quite disappointing and quite tragic. >> sam, give us the cliffs note version anecdotedly of something you've seen in your reporting thus far that people who haven't read your work would understand. >> oh, god, there's so much of it. public defenders, for instances are one of these things no one really knows about. public defenders play a huge role. public defenders are going without investigators are for their defense work. can you imagine a lawyer without an investigator to do his or her work? it's not a defense. we're doing an article now on stream gauges w...

Huge story with this headline. secret assault on terrorism widens on two continents. with u.s. troops starting to leave iraq and plans for the same in afghanistan next year, how many other countries are we fighting in? and how long will we do it? mark mazzetti is one of the "times" reporters on that story. we're also joined by cia officer bob baer who writes for time.com. i was thinking this weekend that saturday morning dr. laura was probably elated when she saw how big that mosque story got from friday night because it knocked her "n" word tirade right out of the news. but on sunday you had ...

Why don't you give us the cliffs note version of what you reported? >> sure, the gist of the story is that quietly they are expanding a number of operations. it's not just in afghanistan or iraq or even pakistan, which we do write a lot about with the cia drone campaign. it's in places like yemen and the horn of africa, like somalia. yemen is a particular focus of the investigation buzz it's a country with an al qaeda presence and training of yemeni forces but also air strikes on suspected al qaeda compounds. >> a sound bite it's a scalpal approach as opposed to the handle approach. >> unlike ...

Sunday's "new york times" had a huge headline. secret assault on terrorism widens on two continents. with u.s. troops starting to leave iraq and plans for the same in afghanistan next year, how many other countries are we fighting? how long will we do it? mark mazzetti is one of the "times" reporters on that story. we're also joined by cia officer bob baer who writes for time.com. i was thinking dr. laura was probably elated when she saw how big the mosque story got from friday night because it knocked her "n" word tirade right out of the news. but on sunday you had this tremendous front page ...

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