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my grandfather started the company in 1917, and he was an italian immigrant that came from a small town near venice, and he was 16 years old when he came here, and eventually he saved up enough money to open up a little one room workshop where he began making wagons. once he had built up the business and he learned that the world s fair was coming to chicago in 1933 he decided there would be this once in a lifetime opportunity to introduce his brand and his product to the world. so he took out a loan from the bank that was in the middle of the depression, so times were really tough, and he built this giant 45 foot tall exhibit of a boy riding a wagon. my grandma always said it was the only time that she ever really saw him really stressed out because so much was at risk. it was really a water shed event in the company s history because it was when my grandfather ....
Anwar al alaki on a kill list. a water shed event in america s seemingly endless war. joining me now, jeremy scahill. great to be with you. let s talk about jsoc. this force, i will read an excerpt from the washington post series, top secret america which touches on this top secret community. dana priest writes, the two presidents have asked jsoc to mount intelligence-gathering missions and lethal raids mostly in iraq and afghanistan, but also in countries with which the united states was not at war, including yemen, pakistan, the it has its own intelligence division, drones, reconnaissance planes, even dedicated satellites, in combat, they wear no name or rank i d fires. ....
When the war began. it wasn t just the president who suffered what we saw, but the demise of the neoconservative world view. vice president cheney and rumsfeld in which the u.s. sought out enemies and used force to spread democracy. the establishment of a free iraq at the heart of the middle east will be a water shed event in the global democratic revolution. what americans saw was a bleed quagmyre that destroyed the credibility on those who promoted it and the republican party as a whole. it spikeed from 486 to more than 2100 by the end of 2005. in the mid-term opposition led to a crushing defeat for republican who is lost both the house and senate. any question that the war played when secretary rumsfeld resigned ....
Of having tunnel vision. but you talked about our country. listen. i didn t vote for president obama, but you know what? he s my president now. he s my leader. i need him to step up. okay? mr. boehner, the speaker, he s a cincinnati guy. okay? he needs to step up. i know this microphone is powerful right now because we re playing the fourth best team in the country. i m not going to have a microphone like this the rest of the year, maybe the rest of my life. and i m going to be an agent of change with the 13 young men that i get to coach every day and the two little girls that i get o raise. brian: coach, what do you want to hear from the president? you talked about from the top down, are you hearing the right stuff? you know, i think so. i just think is a water shed event and the 9-11, pearl harbor, hopefully this moment which was one of the most tragic massacres in the history of our country, is a turning point and it s a wake-up call for awful us. it wasn t just a call of acti ....
The most recent attack wounded seven americans today. meanwhile afghan officials are hunting for one of their own, an intelligence officer is wanted for killing two u.s. officials inside the afghan interior ministry yesterday. msnbc analyst and retired colonel jack jacobs joins us. our fellow military colleague general mccaffrey had this to say, this could be a water shed event. what s your assessment. i think this is very big news and very big business. we ve had a lot of incidents like this where americans have been killed and wounded by afghans that were trying to train. i, myself, was an adviser in vietnam and know how difficult it is to deal with indigenous people you re trying to train. i think the timing of it and the circumstances of it and the location of it are such that this is going to have a very, very big negative impact on a relationship with afghanistan. all this because of the accidental burning of the koran ....