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Science or technology feels badly in need of services, let's roll out the welcome mat. is that like pitting one group of immigrants, the model minorities, the kind we want, the kinded from plarp countries against for example these young people coming from war-torn and dangerous nations to the south? >> there is a propensity to go down that road. we have to be careful when we make that argument because the larger argument is that immigration is good economically. i think the economists on the right and left will agree with that. and yes, the high-tech immigrants do help our economy, but we also...

Inspired listener. >> we've got to take them off the battlefield and get them the help that they need. >> there's a lot of confusion about post traumatic stress. what are some of the physical manifestations? >> in his hbo documentaries "war torn" and "alive," soldiers told their stories. >> they say you're alive but you feel empty. >> give it time. >> dexter pits was wounded in baghdad in 2005 and interviewed by gandolfini. >> i was just an infantryman. he took my story and gave me the spotlight. that's something a lot of soldiers doesn't gn't get the opportunity to do.

Tony nomination. earned a tony for best play of 2009. last year he took on a commanding, yet small part as the cia director in "zero dark thirty." >> any time there was a role that needed -- there was some kind of sense of a little bit of menace maybe and a little authority. he was a good guy to play that. >> everyone i talked to knew the exact date. >> reporter: the same year the sopranos ended he stepped behind the lens as executive producer with "home from iraq." a documentary where veterans opened up about their graphic war experiences. his interests went beyond the documentary. in 2010 he...

Functions are as crucial as the war-making ones. if general mcchrystal and his team had as much contempt as the article suggests and there was as much friction with all the various civilian agencies involved in afghan policy from vice president biden to the ambassador in cab towel richard holbrooke, how could he be working seamlessly with them to execute a harmonious counterinsurgency policy? compare mcchrystal's approach to that of general petraeus in iraq. who almost always gave his briefings with the american ambassador ryan crocker. he always praised his civilian counterparts and gave them...

Step back. we've got men and women over there fighting for our country, getting killed, risking their lives every night, every hour. what are we aiming for as a goal over there in the next couple years? we're only going to be there a few more years obviously. what are we trying to get done in a couple more years in afghanistan, richard? >> try to prevent the taliban from taking over the country again. and i think if afghanistan were able to become a country like, let's say, sierra leone or another war-torn but relatively nonthreatening, fairly undeveloped country in west africa or central afri...