jonathan aiken joins us next from london. >> a new book takes a look at margaret thatcher's life.t, the iron lady served as a member of parliament under her. joining us now is jonathan aiken, his new book is entitled margaret thatcher, power and personality, and she had lots of personality throughout her entire charge. congratulations on the book, we are reommending it to our viewers and it is not a small challenge. it is thorough and fascinating. please tell us about how you and lady thatcher got along when she was prime minister? >> i have known her a long time, 37 years to be precise. and i first met her when i was the youngest conservative candidate and she was still unknown, who kind of came through with a lot of it encouragement and we were in parliament for 23 years together. when she was running to become the leader of the opposition here and i was a youn member of parliament and i dated her daughter for three years and possibly not a great career move. because the romance ended and i was out of her favor and so leaving that little bit aside, i came to like and admire her

vatican be behind the closure to discuss this development a little bit more i'm joined now by jimmy aiken a senior apologist at catholic dot com jimmy thanks for joining me my pleasure mira so this. curity concerns as one of the reasons to relocate this embassy and now this might make a little more sense to me i guess if we were talking about and the things in the middle east but we're talking about the vatican what kind of security concerns could it possibly pose will there's been some people who try to connect it to the benghazi attack back on nine eleven and as you mentioned that occurred in a middle eastern country and you you sometimes have. kind of mobs develop i mean we've seen that across the across the middle east and and you had a mob apparently organized to break in and kill people but it's hard to imagine that happening in rome. so that couldn't be what they're thinking what they might be thinking is some kind of terrorist plot that would be trying to target u.s. interests in rome perhaps i mean it would involve a big mob or anything like that it might involve a bomb or someth

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i can think of exit this just -- efficacy in aikens. this was sufficient to converse in because they could not undertake the responsibility without the information. seems like a similar procedural and without a direct. too think there are issues work out. it would depend on whatever you call this was -- this position. all of the issues become much more joint. i think there would be no be able that they would to appeal, for example, denial by the fisa court, or if you don't, they just have abstract proceedings. and then it would be the courts response ability and the courts ability to hold the government to account. to return toke former congresswoman harman and ms. pell. the challenge of the authorization that authorizes secret activity, it almost seems like a contradiction. how do you address laws that we don't want to talk about in public? democraticke a fully function and the government will fully comply, but how do you write about things that the government doesn't want to talk about? >> we can talk about the purpose of the program

be behind this closure to discuss this development a little bit more i was joined earlier by jimmy aiken a senior apologist at catholic dot com i first asked him what kind of security concerns the government could possibly have about this embassy. will. some people who try to be connected to the benghazi attack back on nine eleven and as you mentioned that occurred in a middle eastern country and you you sometimes have. kind of mobs develop i mean we've seen that across the across the middle east and and you had a mob apparently organized to break in and kill people but it's hard to imagine that happening in rome. so that couldn't be what they're thinking what they might be thinking is some kind of terrorist plot that would be trying to target u.s. interests in rome perhaps i mean it would involve a big mob or anything like that it might involve a bomb or something or a sniper or something like that but you just wouldn't get that big mob effect in rome. of people trying to break in and burn everything until people so that's unreasonable there's been a lot of people have questioned whethe

i just can't state visit to the uk in april president aiken said he hoped to make it an experience that go beyond politics i know. making history was how we the seven year old ian paisley put it he was meeting president michael d higgins in belfast city hall. they were in the partner of them there she has faded somewhat chino one go. we're about to be delighted with presents given to mark the location. it was at the start gun and fired a specified she sang this morning. being that each one of her. the official. when he got. the show. we hope shortly afterwards the president still two pc of the wines were guests of honor at a function to honor st column about its location which is to allow them to celebrate their shared history. president told him of his planned state visit to the uk next year. his wish to make it an experience beyond politics. it was a very positive. since his actions and carried to teaching preaching and teaching me to add achieve understanding it would be a very empowering for braun said. most importantly not just its immediate hit sixty. but for our peak to peak is t

us a little more insight on how the church was responding to the allegations, i was joined by jimmy aiken. i started by asking him how detrimental this was with u.s. relations with the vatican. >> i don't think they're particularly detrimental. the attitude that father lombardi displayed in his statement i think is pretty cal of what you would expect. -- pretty typical of what you would expect. the italian press is pretty rumor fed. you can't place any confidence in what it says normally. but in this case, we know that all the major world powers spy on all the other major world powers all the time. i don't think the report is particularly endowed. i would assume na that the -- that the n.s.a. is spying on every country like. >> i mean, what do you really make of that response? >> i think the difference is because of what the vatican is. if you're a normal country like germany or england or france, you know the u.s. is spying on you. but when that comes to the attention of the press you want to act outraged to reassure your population that you're taking steps to deal with the problem. on t

insists its troops were not to blame and had no knowledge of illegal killings but journalist matthew aiken spent five months investigating the incident in rolling stone magazine he claims have seen evidence proving the guilt of american soldiers . had the chance to ask him what he found. the special forces team the green beret a team as they're called was deployed to an isolated valley west of kabul where the taliban and other insurgent groups have a very heavy presence and what happened was over last winter the locals are complaining that the special forces team and the translators were murdering people torturing them abducting them and disappearing them just extraordinary allegations that at the time were essentially unproven after the special forces team was forced out of the area by the afghan government bodies started showing up outside the base bodies that they said were the bodies of ten men who had been seen rounded up by the americans and then were not able to be found either by the red cross or by the afghan government afterward so essentially investigated these allegations assem

brian sack aiken is in the weather center and has more. >> vicki, typhoon haiyan is making its way across the south china seas and departed the philippines and headed towards vietnam and south china. northern vietnam is in the forecast track of the system and right here making its way to the northwest for tonight and its forecast to make land fall once again one a.m. pacific time. it will weaken significantly down to tropical storm strength with wind around 70 miles per hour but still the chance for flooding rains and damaging winds and coastal storm surge still a definite possibility for northern vietnam as well as south china. in the bay area, lots of sunshine today and warm temperatures into the 70s a lot of places, warm spot, san jose at 77 degrees. it will be cooler and cloudier for tomorrow. i will have the forecast coming up. >>> all right, brian. >>> a body was found floating in the bay at pier 48 this morning. that is near mccovey cove. a passer by spotted the body at 8:00 this morning. police are investigating the discovery but so far no information. >>> and coming up at 8:00, a

just look to the 2012 elections when you had people like todd aiken. so this is a risky strategy for lindsay graham. it could play well with his base and it could alienate independents and women. >> it seems to be that the democrats are not very worried about this. in fact, terry reed says he's hoping to bring this up for a vote. republicans embrace this bill at their own peril, but i wonder if there is a risk when you look at that poll that we showed and they put 42 senators as pro-choice and 46 on the other side. >> i think there is a risk for the republicans here. they continue to look extreme. they look anti-woman, and, you know, for most americans the abortion issue is settled. democrats are not trying to expand abortion rights. so, you know, most people, i think, do have a problem with abortion in this country, with but they want the majority of americans want abortion to be legal. they want limits around it and the limits are in place, so i think the republicans are pushing the issue and i think that politically it's not a good strategy for them

the same thing with aiken. they may have the republican candidate consults to do with your just trying to line their own pockets and not run the strongest candidate. speaking to people who are tea partiers, the main thing i would say is run -- good candidates, don't make mistakes and avoid primary our own and to have a nice big fat veto proof majority. i mean, seriously i wouldn't primary john mccain these days. he voted against obamacare. there is no republican ideas like more than john mccain, none. you may recall, i was for hillary in 2008. [laughter] >> we are going -- with a lot of books designed to we going to end this with a question from a 20 year-old journalism college student from cal state. he is holding a book, "never trust a liberal over 3" and he wants to ask you a question. >> i go to cal state long beach and was just wondering center in the neighborhood, with one if you come to my college and gives my liberal professors a talking to? [applause] >> well -- well, i book all my college beaches for

former missouri congressman todd aiken lost himself a senate bid.o another important issue. it's so crazy, though, wroyou'r not going to believe it's true. one of his constituents rebutted his legitimate rape fiasco by sharing her story. as a senior in college she was raped and became pregnant. nothing legitimate about it. it was rape. shawna made the tough decision to keep the baby. she gave birth to a baby girl. tried to move on and raised her child in an environment of love and safety. imagine her shock, then, when just a few months after her daughter's birth shawna was hit with a custody suit from the man who has raped her. the man who had took so much from shawna wanted to take her child, too. he wanted full custody. shawna said, quote, i was struck with terror not only with the idea of letting my child be around him, but also having to spend the next 18 years tied to him. but guess what? in pruitt's home state of missouri it was perfectly legal for her rapist to demand custody. and in 30 other states it is also perfectly legal. every year ther

aiken?ho is sean guest: he was an army medic, a in iraq who enlisted and afghanistan.e was civilian that she was severely injured by a rocket he was severely injured by a rocket propelled grenade. had brain damage in his right hip was pretty much destroyed. he was transferred back to a wounded warrior battalion in el paso, texas, and got there to discover he was not getting -- that his money was cut off. at that time there was no one at the base to argue for him. he and his wife lives entirely severer own, and with mental difficulties to try to fight to get money. while this was going on, they had to go to food pantries. it was christmas time and the only presents they got were donated by a charity for their children. because of these screw ups, this is how the military was treating heroes who had saved lots of lies and given so much of themselves. host: you say in your article affectis does not only guys like sean aiken, but peter shoemaker. who is he? shumaker was a general who retired and during the iraqi war he was brought back in two -- i am forgetting the term --

i can think of exit this just -- efficacy in aikens. this was sufficient to converse in because they could not undertake the responsibility without the information. seems like a similar procedural and without a direct. too think there are issues work out. it would depend on whatever you call this was -- this position. all of the issues become much more joint. i think there would be no be able that they would to appeal, for example, denial by the fisa court, or if you don't, they just have abstract proceedings. and then it would be the courts response ability and the courts ability to hold the government to account. to return toke former congresswoman harman and ms. pell. the challenge of the authorization that authorizes secret activity, it almost seems like a contradiction. how do you address laws that we don't want to talk about in public? democraticke a fully function and the government will fully comply, but how do you write about things that the government doesn't want to talk about? >> we can talk about the purpose of the program

i can think of exit this just -- efficacy in aikens. this was sufficient to converse in because they could not undertake the responsibility without the information. seems like a similar procedural and without a direct. too think there are issues work out. it would depend on whatever you call this was -- this position. all of the issues become much more joint. i think there would be no be able that they would to appeal, for example, denial by the fisa court, or if you don't, they just have abstract proceedings.

host: who is sean aiken? guest: he was an army medic, a sergeant who enlisted in iraq we believe the conversation here. live now to the cato institute about a discussion about the u.s. nuclear policy. they just released a paper about the rationale for the current policy and why it is outdated. discuss their findings. speaking now is laura odato of the cato institute. first up is ben friedman, a research fellow at the homeland security studies. his expertise is counterterrorism and defense policy. he is the author of dozens of articles and the coeditor of two books. he is a graduate of dartmouth college and a phd candidate of political science at the massachusetts institute of technology. also with us is christopher preble. before joining cato institute in 2003, he taught school at st. cloud university. he was also the commissions officer in the u.s. navy. holds a phd in history from temple university. now i will turn things over to ben. thanks, everybody, for coming. i will talk about the historical part of t

host: angela and aiken, south carolina. the gridlock in washington, i do not think it reflects the accurate division and our country. the media plays a big role in this by how they report. reporter that the someone said today, but does not reflect what someone said a week ago or year ago. this country cannot survive as long as we have this gridlock. the things that need to get done will not get done. democrats of agree with a lot of the things republicans are saying. republicans that agree with the democrats, but because it has become so now that politicians forget what they went to washington to do, this is about the country, not just about your constituent, this is about the , andd states of america we're sitting here destroying it. the ones that are benefiting are the media moguls and the talkshow host and talk radio. --ting richer and richer getting richer and richer at the expense of the country. instead of researching it and finding out 90% of what they hear is not true. >> jean says gridlock in d.c. does not come clo

they put up todd aiken who lost. ken buck lost.hey put up and they put them up, of course they can point to conservative states but you are right, you look at these groups and it is a matter of fact that the only reason harry reid is not retired in nevada right now and why reasons don't control the senate is because of these groups and their stupidity in the primary process. >> i agree with you, the government is too big and problem has disastrous policies. we need to be more strategic to win the elections to unseat the people who put the laws in place. you have to have a strantegy. >> we want to go to bill karinss following one of the most powerful storms ever recorded. bill? >> 12 hours ago, for the first time in human recorded history, a storm of this magnitude moved over a land area. think about that. katrina, the rita's and camilles. this was worse. we don't know how bad or catastrophic the damage is, yet. no one can communicate with the region where the eye moved on shore. the eye was huge. you could fit from baltimore to was