>> we saw an opportunity and we seized it. and i make no apologies for that. >> but that's not stopping some people on the other side of the aisle from talking about impeachment. a republican mayor in north carolina teams up with the head of moral monday. their extraordinarily unified message. people are going to die if this state doesn't expand medicaid. first, 15 general motors employees have been fired after an internal review of more than 51 million documents and interviews with more than 230 people found, quote, a pattern of incompetence and neglect inside gm. >> repeatedly individuals failed to disclose critical pieces of information that could have fundamentally changed the lives of those impacted by the faulty ignition switch. >> the investigation was called after faulty ignition switches were blamed for the deaths of at least 13 people. victims' families interviewed before today's news conference were hoping for more of an explanation.

>> we know what happened. we want to know why it happened. >> i need to know the facts of what killed my daughter and took my daughter's life. >> they could have been avoided. >> back in april, barra deflected numerous questions about the recall during a congressional hearing saying she was awaiting the outcome of the probe. those answers didn't come today. congressional documents showed gm noticed the ignition switches had problems as early as 2001. and that a fix would cost just 90 cents per switch when the cars were in production. yes, the company waited a decade to issue a recall. as a result, federal regulators slapped gm with a record $35 million fine earlier this year. today's barra set august 1st as the deadline that she hopes the company will be ready to pay out compensation to victims and their families. gm hired ken feinberg to run the program. he said today, quote, i'll be

spending the next few days seeking advice and input from all interested parties as to the terms and conditions of that program. but as several federal investigations continue, there are bound to be more reactions like that of connecticut senator. it absolves upper management, denies the deliberate wrongdoing and dismisses corporate culpability. an automotive expert and a washington bureau chief and automotive reporter with the detroit news. on the question of whether or not just looking at this report, it is as the governor of connecticut said, does it come across as self-serving? >> you know, i don't think that's true. it's very, very tough. it lays out a series of failures from people not talking to one another, to not changing part numbers. i mean, a systemic series of problems over ten years. yes, there are some questions that it doesn't answer, namely why did these engineers not make the fixes earlier.

but it spares no criticism, and nobody looks good at gm, in the wake of this report. >> that was the senator, not the governor, i meant to say. as far as the families here are feeling, what they really want is a why. the answer to why they decided to wait ten years. and just going through the "what" of it, is there a way -- is there any sort of technological, any logical explanation why you wouldn't want to go ahead and do this 90-cent fix? >> i agree with you, there is no logical method. standard engineering procedures, and i've worked in manufacturing most of my life, is when there's a product that does not meet the original blueprint, and then is in production and there's a fault, you go back to that blueprint. you make a revision and change the part number. everywhere down the line knows about it. the fact they didn't do it, what really upset me, when mary barra said the engineers didn't realize when the ignition switch in the off position that the air bags didn't function. to me that is standard common

sense in engineering, when a car is parked, the ignition switch assumes it's parked, the air bag doesn't deploy. that is when we read through the 300 pages that are part of this report, we'll get to know a little bit more details on what happened and why. >> that begs the question, david, were they not testing these cars? those of us out in the consumer world i guess are trained to believe that periodically these -- they do test the cars to make sure they're safe and meeting federal regulations. was it just a decade of no testing? >> they did test the vehicles. in fact, by the specifications of the part they designed, it would have been fine. but what happened was gm agreed to buy parts from its supplier that did not meet that specif s specification. we designed the switch the right way, and others feel -- without others knowing, agreeing to buy the substandard parts. in fact, when the switch was

finally improved five years later, even that switch didn't meet the technical specifications. so you had a company where information wasn't shared. and they spent years and years as the report says looking for the root cause, holding meetings. but nobody ever really taking ownership to say we've got to fix the problem. and nobody high enough in management knowing we've got a number of fatalities and something has to be done urgently. even last year, after ten years, it took months more to get the recall done. >> quickly, just staying with you, david, who was let go? and what was the explanation for why they fired these particular people? >> 15 people, the two engineers most responsible for the day-to-day operations, vice presidents, lawyers, and they were fired for two reasons, incompetence or wrongdoing. either they didn't do their job or they simply looked the other way and didn't alert people when they should have. >> let's listen to mary barra issuing an apology to the families who died in, i think

more than a dozen crashes, today. >> i want to first take an opportunity to again express my deepest sympathy to the families that lost loved ones, and to those who were injured. i realize there are no words of mine that can ease their grief or their pain. i want it known that we will face up to our mistakes and we will take them head-on. >> so, lauren, the apology, there have been some firings. if you were representing those families or dealing with those families, what more do you think they would want to know? >> well, i think that mary was very sincere in her apology. she truly does feel sorry. but i think as an attorney who would be defending -- helping their clients, i would think that you want to know why this happened. and if this was under the old gm, and they were actually at fault, and there was proof of this, and this is something that will require, again, reading through the report, i would

definitely try to lift the bankruptcy and try to get as much money as possible for my client. any good attorney would do that. and even though they have a fund they're setting up, you have to look at the details. what the big print gives, the small print takes away. it's possible if you sign on to this fund, you may release your rights in order to go back and sue them again in the future, if more information is disclosed. >> david, you heard lauren talk about the old gm. the new gm is heavily invested in by the american taxpayer. basically every american has an interest in what happens here. is there any sort of factor that plays into the fact that gm was in local parentheses of the taxpayers of the united states? does that factor into the story at all? >> it did not factor in as far as the senior management didn't know about the problem, didn't deal with it seriously because they didn't get reports. certainly there was a factor in the run-up to gm's bankruptcy, they were running out of cash,

they were cutting staff. the report says they didn't have as many safety engineers as they could have. it does not blame the cost cuts or the bankruptcy for failing to miss the problem. but rather, the systemic cultural problem at gm where no one wanted to accept responsibility. things were done by power point, no one kept records of who went to meetings. there was a pass-the-buck mentality. that's why mary barra said, you have to speak up, you have to alert your superiors. if you see anything about safety problems, because the whole future of this company rests on it. this can't happen again. >> in terms of speaking up, this was also something that didn't come up when the united states was considering bailing this company out. that people didn't speak up, including to the united states government that was about to bail them out and save the company. >> exactly. all the treasury got was basically a list of dollar figure of liabilities they thought that gm faced. they never got any details on

these issues. because fangly, it didn't get taken seriously by management. the culture at gm was not to come forward to say this is a problem, because it might have delayed the small car launch. and it might have cost sales. people -- sorry, go ahead. >> no, no, go on. >> oh. people were instructed at gm not to take notes during safety meetings. i mean, it was very much a culture of minimize liability, don't do things that could hurt the company. and that's really why ten years later, you know, you had lawyers inside the company saying, we did basically nothing for almost a decade. this is really going to come back to haunt us. >> final word from you, lauren, what do you make of the fact that this whole saga hasn't really cut into gm's bottom line in terms of car sales? why do you think that is? >> if you look at may sales, they were up 14%. their fleets were up 21%. when it comes to the fleet you're talking about municipalities and corporations. if the government has nothing to do with it, they obviously

wanted general motors to make contract deals with municipalities, local municipalities. a lot of cars are going to fleet. i think they make really great products right now. and some people don't realize that general motors is also chevrolet and buick. we also have to remember that because of that, people that love gm will always love gm. some people think of it as government motors, will never come back. but they're starting to draw in more sales with their products. they have some exciting products. >> thank you both very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, president obama travels to europe and tries to rally allies to help deal with vladimir putin. are his attempts to isolate the russian leader working? bringing both parties together, and that's in north carolina of all places. >> it's time for our leadership on this issue to put down their swords and do what is right. ♪

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a day ahead of celebrations honoring the 70th anniversary of d-day. president obama is in europe meeting with allies drumming up support for continued sanctions on russia over ukraine. the biggest question is will he or won't he speak with vladimir putin. the tension is so thick, french president francois hollande is holding separate state dinners so the do won't accidently dine together. president obama was rather coy on whether he will speak with putin. see him? yes. speak to him? nah. >> i have no doubt that i'll see mr. putin. and he and i have always had a

business-like relationship. should we have the opportunity to talk, i will be repeating the same message i've been delivering to him throughout this crisis. >> hugely underscore the difficulty of isolating putin. br joining me now, our director of research and programs at a project that the center for american progress for crimes against humanity. mark also worked at the united nations for several years. mark, why do you suppose it is so difficult to get the united states and allies in western europe to june the u.s. in trying to isolate russia? >> well, i think the u.s. has succeeded in part because the allies want to go along with this. increasing sanctions on russia, on talking about increasing sanctions even further, on economically isolating russia.

i think there's a difference between economic isolation and diplomatic isolation. and in the united states, we often think that if we don't like someone, or if someone is an adversary, we shouldn't be seen talking to them. i think what the european allies are doing is they're reiterating their position about russia's activities, the illegal seizure of crimea, the continuing influence in ukraine, and destabilization in ukraine. and making it very clear in those meetings that this is problematic. so i actually -- it's less important to me whether president obama talks to president putin or doesn't talk to president putin. i think the most important thing, and really probably the most important thing for putin himself is whether the economic screws are tightened on russia rather than on whether he gets the cold shoulder or not. >> at the same time, you say

there is a difference between economic and diplomatic isolation. but there's also a huge gulf behind the message you might want to send to a country that is militarily aggressive, as russia under putin has been. there's a piece in which they say the following. our allies, not only were the g-7 leaders unwilling to snub the russian leader entirely, as president obama sought, they would go ahead with the $1.7 billion sale of powerful warships to moscow, along with plans to train 400 russian sailors in france this month. does it make any sense for a europe that is the neighbor of the country that just invaded and i guess snatched crimea back from ukraine, to give them military assistance? >> joy, that's a very important point. once again, in some ways, the decision to snub or not to snub is secondary to the actions of

the french government. right now, we're seeing the classic problem with collective action and collective security in the international community. france has very specific economic interests in going ahead with that sale. europe in general depends quite a bit on russia, on fuel from russia. so it's -- we're seeing this tension between wanting it take action, but not wanting to take action that causes real hardship on the part of the country taking action. and france is clearly not willing to take that hardship. >> that's a great point. because, of course, there's also the issue of energy and oil and basically these western european countries are the customers of russia. at the same time, while all of this kind of we'll still play ball action is happening, you've got the continuing crisis, vis-a-vis the ukraine.

russia has drawn down its uniformed forces from ukraine's border creating the impression that there's no imminent threat of an invasion. that's good news. at the same time, connections with intelligence services is inside the southern neighbor. essentially, russia is still being militarily aggressive on the continent. i'm wondering what kind of a message diplomatically now fran france's move will send in that case. >> i think france's move sends a very negative message. and sends a message that domestic economics might trump collective security and collective action concerns. once again, i think that to snub or not to snub, i would say if you're going to pass along a hard message, if you meet with putin, and other senior russian officials, it's perfectly fine to have such a meeting. but going ahead with lucrative

economic deals that were signed before this crisis, sends a message to russia that, well, maybe we can continue to do business even as we say we don't like what you're doing. >> so then what about -- what do you think effect it might have if the united states were to get tired of and say we no longer want to be the guarantor of europe's security. we are esingsly the military presence. nato refuses to arm and invest in their own security militarily. has there been any consideration that you've heard of, of maybe pulling back from doing that and say if you want to train their military and do business with them, then you secure it yourself? >> that's a really good question. and a very big question, especially given the speech president obama gave last week, and the review that the u.s. is doing of its foreign policy. it has been a security guarantor in europe, also a security guarantor in asia.

in asia, tensions are rising in the south china sea. between china and a range of countries in the region. tension is rising now in europe over russian actions in ukraine. i have a feeling that it will be -- that it remains in the u.s. interests to stay involved in europe, but it's been a classic problem of whether the u.s. can induce its allies to continue to -- or i should say to increase their expenditures for defense and their actions for defense. that problem is going to continue. but i don't see the u.s. pulling back. >> indeed. whether or not president obama has dinner with vladimir putin. thank you, mark. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. bobby jindal appearing on "duck dynasty." what could possibly go wrong. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do.

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up in washington. all right? that's par for the course. but i'll repeat what i said two days ago. we have a basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform behind. >> that was president obama in brussels today, defending his administration's decision to make the deal that freed army sergeant bowe bergdahl. six days into the huge uproar over the prisoner swap, the white house is no closer to convincing d.c. lawmakers that the five-for-one trade is worth it. now, surprise, surprise, the fury over the deal has triggered a favorite theme among some on the right. you guessed it, the impeachment threats are already flying. getting things started, based on a growing fear that the release of five taliban prisoners was the first step to closing the u.s. prison camp at guantanamo bay, south carolina senator

lindsay graham is warning the white house about the need to get congressional approval before releasing any more. >> it's going to be impossible for them to flow prisoners out of gitmo now. without just a huge backlash. the people on our side are calling for his impeachment if he did that. >> not that we're rushing to judgment or using hyperbole or anything like that. after a briefing yesterday, that included the viewing of a classified video showing bowe bergdahl's condition just before the prisoner swap deal was made, some centers, including at least one democrat, continued to question whether sergeant bergdahl's health was actually failing. west virginia democrat joe m manchon said it was not a critical factor. you could tell he was drugged and in a different state five months ago. saxby chambliss called the video unconvincing. >> there's no indication that

there were any health issues with sergeant bergdahl. i can say that very matter of factually. he was probably coerced into mumbling the words that he mumbled. he didn't look good. >> no. >> but that's not enough to tell me that he's in imminent health danger from a health standpoint. >> in the taliban released video recorded on saturday, bergdahl appeared somewhat dazed but does manage to walk on his own to an american military helicopter. several senators say they want the previous proof of life video made public. meanwhile, bowe bergdahl's hometown of hailey, idaho, has canceled its planned bowe is back event. city ofgficials said they've ben flooded with the angry calls and it doesn't have the resources to handle the thousands of protesters descending on the town. as they wait for him to recover and the debate over to free him intensifies, you have to wonder where the politics should go

next. joe is at the national memo, and joan wash is an msnbc political analyst. thank you both for being hee. joe, you wrote a book back in the day, seminole reading for anyone who wants to understand the clinton years, but i think it has never been more relevant "the hunting of the president." president obama said in that sound bite that he was never surprised by controversy and this is par for the course. it seems it's only par for the course for him and bill clinton. am i right? >> no, you're right. president obama knows bill clinton. i think he's observed bill clinton's career. he knows hillary very well, who is likewise the target of the hunting as much as president clinton was. and will be more now as we are seeing with the benghazi hoax, and all the rest. so yeah, it does strike a chord. the thing about the characters

in the hunting of the president, and they were characters, is that they were actually funny some of them. they're sort of the detectives from arkansas, and weirdos trying to make money from the so-called scandals, and ken starr who had his own sort of humorous uptight persona. but now, it's just pure -- i think pure viciousness directed at the president. there's nothing funny about it. what i wrote about today in "national memo" we're seeing the wholesale abandonment of basic principles here. libertarians are supposed to believe in the law, and the respect for the military. and in the military code of conduct, that you don't leave a soldier on the field. or in captivity. whatever the gossip, rumor, report on that soldier might be, that's something for the pentagon to handle when the soldier comes back. but you don't leave them there.

>> i think that is a good point. one of the things that these characters that you wrote back in "hunting the president" and now is the relentlessness. you're talking about a decades-long campaign to get bill clinton. but this is a more truncated, more intense issue by issue, just seeming to veer from thing to thing, whether it's fast and furious. now it's going to be health care reform. and just sort of really seizing on anything, but a viciousness about it, is that too strong a word? >> no, i don't think that's too strong a word. what's somewhat different is the intensity of formerly mainstream and somewhat credible republicans like john mccain, the idea that john mccain would be so strenuously against this deal when he was strenuously for it only a few months ago. he now says he needed to know all the details. but the details aren't very different from what they -- what's been under discussion.

and this principle, it should be more important to nobody than john mccain, that we retrieve the soldier and ask questions about whatever may have happened later. and the idea that even he has walked away from that, i think just shows how it's simply become -- a lot of us have captured the flip-flop on the part of many republicans who were clamoring, obama's about to leave this soldier behind. now obama went and got him? i mean, if the president does something, they have to be against it. >> it's interesting, because it has not been national news. it's also been some of the base, too. the national memo cataloged this flip-flopping, like john mccain, we're saying, we need to get this guy home. as soon as obama does it, then it has obama on it and it's a bad idea. even ordinary people, joe, it's been fascinating to watch, and chris hayes did this on his show last night, people on twitter chronicled by a guy named matt

bender, literally chronicled -- >> so awesome. >> -- withen a couple of days, 48 hours, people on their accounts demanding that president obama not leave this guy behind, turned on a dime and all got on the same page that this was an outrage. >> i tweeted matt bender yesterday. i saw that, and vox published those, too. they're hilarious. it's mindless. manchurian candidate behavior on the right. what it tells you is, there's not much hope of purr sueding anybody than whatever it is, 28% of the population, that locks steps with that nonsense, okay? you can't get to them. because they are programmed to -- and they hate the president, i will say. and it's quite irrational. but what's important is to try to show the rest of the public xaes going on with this. and you're absolutely right. there is a similarity. i'll tell you what it really is, the president was reelected just

like bill clinton. he kicked the butt of their candidate. and they don't like that, okay? along with a host of other things they don't like about him, which are all things that i like about him. but that's the real problem here. and they can't let it go. >> yeah. i think we have to comment, joan, on -- because there's a professionalization of this kind of outrage now. >> right. >> you have the tea party starts out with people just out there with homemade signs, next thing you know they've got printed signs that were created for them in a bus and it's all professionalized and goes into the republican offices. i think you've had genuine, authentic anchor at bowe bergdahl. >> absolutely. >> understandable outrage from people who served with him. but i think it's completely fair. but then you have republican operatives booking their television. is that something we should be uncomfortable with? >> i'm not saying their stories shouldn't be told, but the coordinating messaging once again that we see, that republicans have participated

in, is something new. and then, you know, in the end, it possibly backfires against these soldiers. and that they're being held up as somehow knowing the definitive account when there are gaps in some of the accounts. we're going to find out. i mean, i don't want to seem really old-fashioned or pretend things used to be great, because joe books shows that they weren't great in the '90s either. but there's a point in time, maybe the '80s, where there would be a sober kind of debate about this. there are some democrats who are uncomfortable with this. not just joe mansion, often against the president. but we would have -- it would be fine to have congressional investigations. we would have some questions answered. but this is just a rush to judgment without the facts, with very few counter veiling forces. i think the president was quite rightly dismissive of this rage and orchestrated rage. i can't believe that he's being criticized for saving a soldier. and is just not having it.

i kind of like that today. >> it's an outrage, okay, that the republican party in a coordinated way has cooked up a lynch mop against an american soldier. i don't care what he did. it's up to the pentagon to discover what he did, in a judicial proceeding that they will oversee, not reince priebus, not any of his minions or stooges. it's an outrage they're doing that to a soldier. i don't blame, as you said, the soldiers who are angry at bowe bergdahl. maybe they have the best reason in the world. this is not the right way to do this. >> joe has a great piece up in the national memo, and joan walsh, who has a pretty great book out, too, that you should check out. up next, the good news today in the affordable care act, as 6 million more americans now have coverage thanks to the medicaid expansion. now some republicans in the south are starting to ask, well, why not us? people like options.

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adam o'neill, i want everyone to remember that name, he is the republican, let me say that again, republican mayor of bell haven, north carolina. on wednesday, mayor o'neill joined the organizers of the moral monday rallies for progressive politics in the tar heel state to deliver a message to his fellow republicans who control the state government. stop with the partisan point scoring and accept the federal money that expands medicaid to millions of poor and uninsured around rural america. including the ones in his tone of just over 1,000 people. take a listen to the piece of video, because this truly is extraordinary. >> without medicaid expansion, the reimbursements have fallen and hospitals like the one in my hometown are on the brink of possibly even closing. you can't let hospitals close and people die to prove a point. >> that's right. that's right.

>> is this the way in the end the medicaid expansion ends, that state by state, people figure out we're the ones deprived because of the ideological opposition, we're actually hurting ourselves? >> i think people like the mayor of bell haven is uniquely positioned to see the impact on real people's lives. that hospital is the biggest employer in his town. when that hospital leaves, people will have to go 75 minutes for emergency care. the affordable care act is like a house. if you take some of the bricks from the base of it, some of it will come crumbling down. that's exactly happening in states not expanding medicaid. hospitals are losing their reimbursements because they were supposed to be made up with the medicaid reimbursements. the mayor does not care about partisan politics, he cares about the folks in his town.

>> the supreme court data, the sort of decision on affordable care act, kind of two americas, 26 states you can get the medicaid expansion and other states where essentially the poor are left behind. it is a real cons quen to rural hospitals. who are the people who are not getting the medicaid expansion? give us a little sketch of who they are. >> i've met with folks all around the country. they don't make enough money to qualify for medicaid. in texas, you have to make around $3,000 a year to qualify for medicaid, unless you're pregnant. a young woman, the first time she's ever been involved in politics. she's 27 years old. she has cervical cancer. she's a mother of two. cervical cancer is something that the malignancy could be reduced by early screening and detection, potentially access to a vaccine. and she has none of those things. how is she going to be there for her children if she doesn't have health care coverage for her cancer. >> and this is not just north carolina, we should say. we're talking about georgia,

we're talking about a lot of particularly red states, particularly southern states, where this is going to unfold. are you going to be continuing to look at that across the south? >> absolutely. we've already been to several states. we've had coverage on msnbc.com of folks who are falling into this gap. i think unfortunately, a lot of this es folks are so busy with their lives, they're working hard, raising families, taking care of elders, and they don't have time to march or get arrested. crystal, the woman we met in north carolina, she got arrested. now she can't go back into the capitol until her court date. ultimately it's going to be pressure from hospitals, that republicans may listen to. it may be mass movements the way you have mobilized on moral monday that will make the difference. >> hopefully they'll have time to vote. erin, thank you so much, national reporter for msnbc.com. in just the last year, american women have saved nearly $500 million in out-of-pocket costs on birth control. are those pocketbook savings

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if ronald reagan were alive today, he'd be 103 years old. he would also probably be an outlier in his political party. sure, reagan was the guy who launched his presidential campaign in mississippi near the notorious site of the abduction and murders of three civil rights workers in 1964, and did so proo claiming states' rights, who struck the earliest hammer blow against the labor movement by breaking the air traffic

controller's patco union who fought the idea of divestment from south africa's apartheid movement. reagan remained silent as a national health crisis call aides tore through america's gay communities. 241 were killed in a terrorist attack in 1983. then the administration decided on a novel strategy to free seven american hostages held by iranian terrorists in lebanon. >> officials were determined to get this man back from lebanese kidnappers. william buckley, the station chief in beirut taken hostage in 1984. his freedom was something the officials at the highest levels were trying to buy. the president and other administration officials have said, that the release of the hostages was only one of several reasons they decided to ship the arms to iran.

>> and then the north used the proceeds to fund a war in nicaragua. on the domestic front, the same ronald reagan granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in 1986. he enacted a ban on fully automatic assault rifles in support of the brady bill, named for his aide who was nearly killed in an assassination attempt with a gun against him. reagan raised taxes 11 times, never submitted a balanced budget request, and bemoaned the brinksmanship that consistently brings the government to the edge of default before facing its responsibility. plus the federal deficit nearly tripled. the federal debt increased by president. he signed the emergency medical treatment and active labor act, the very law that prevents hospitals from turning away sick people because they can't pay or aren't u.s. citizens. reagan ignored the neocon serve tifs, many of whom later showed

up in the george w. bush administration and engaged with the soviet union. the tea party which now controls reagan's republican party forgives and even venerates reagan because of his matchless ability to market conservativism to the masses. if reagan were in politics today, perhaps he would be forced to succumb to the impeachment hunting and target of intimidation tactics of the tea party gop. but as it stands he remains the ultimate irony in a party he would likely be too mild mannered for. that wraps things up for "the reid report." be sure to visit us online at thereidreport@msnbc.com. we're diving into the bowe bergdahl story. it's taking on a lot of legs

this week. talking about an article that answers a lot of our questions. that will be great. we'll, of course, spin on that. as you know, we are never short for opinion. i will rant on it as well and how we're missing the bigger picture of this spire thing. we have the surgeon who worked on gabby giffords after the shooting. it will be fascinating to get his take of that day. a film critic to talk about the best films of all-time. joy, what is your favorite film? >> oh, my god. i think probably "the color purple." >> yeah. >> great film. loved it. i also like "the wiz." because you have to have a little balance. you're never short on opinions. and we love them. "the cycle" comes up next.

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peril. and -- >> imminently? >> you say imminently, it's easy for us to sit here and look behind and say, well, 24 hours, 48 hours? it was our judgment, and it was unanimous, by the way, i might add, it was the secretary of defense, secretary of state, joint chiefs of staff, director of national intelligence, attorney general, that we all came to the same conclusion, that we didn't want to take any chances here. >> you can have a basic principle, we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform behind. we had a prisoner of war. whose health had deteriorated, and we were deeply concerned about, and we saw an opportunity and we seized it. and i make no apologies for that.