a blackwater operative by the name of ben thomas bragged openly of having used these weapons while heked for blackwater to shoot an iraqi in the buttocks and it killed him and ben thomas described it exploding the entire left side of his body. he went on to talk as though he was working for the company. the military had not been authorized to use these weapons yet blackwater operatives are using them in iraq to apparently explode the bodies of individuals by shooting them in the buttocks. when it comes to the questions of what else these individuals were doing, john doe number one described several specific instances of one of his blackwater colleagues using a squad automatic weapon, a saw automatic weapon which is the kind of gun you use to mow people down to shoot at civilians not posing a threat to blackwater. he then says that the blackwater operatives covered it up with the state department and tried to act as though it was a justifiable kill rather than a murder that he says it was. >> you used the term "hot wash." >> right. >> i mentioned it yesterday without really going into

let's bring back jewulie, tanya jack, ben and two new members, jay thomas and nick.hould the president be worried about these poll numbers and do you think he would go so far as to cut way back on this because it will cost him re-election? >> i think what he has to be worried about is making sure he effectively communicates what this program is and isn't. there are still too many people who believe the myth we just heard that last gentleman propagate the government will decide who lives and who dies. that isn't true. the administration and congress have to do a better job debunking a lot of these myths. >> you see the huge paternalism here. tanya comes from the point of view, well, the public is uninformed. that has the only reason they don't support this. once the are an enlightened, surely, they will support the democratic position. >> they're telling lies. >> you have your vice-presidential candidate the woman you supported last year telling people her son, trig palin with down's syndrome will be put to death under barack obama's plan, you don't think that's disin

ben franklin and thomas jefferson were amateur poticians who put together this count. it came here in the 19th cenry was amazed and love the fact that our political class were not bunch of professnal politicians like ty were in frae. >> people didn't leave college too into government. >> that's right. they were amateu it. when you look inventors from the wright brhers to ste jobs, they really had this passionor what they were doing. yeah, they wand to make money, probably. buit was really about the passio and that, that really is part of what makes us great. >>ou reminded me because it's in the book aut remembering whatteve jobs said. heaid it in a famous speech he made at the sanford business schl. >> yeah. >> what he said abt the most freeing time for him was when he was he lost his compan >> he was sked. >> he wasacked from apple. >> and he had to sort of start all over and h went anbought and created pixar and got back at apple. but what did he say about th period for him? he said that he ddenly felt's gat lightnes of ing freed of this, this, you know, success. and

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benning route is a popular route for drivers mainly going westbound. we will get more from stan thomasjust a while. this is an accident on 395 northbound after glebe road and before washington boulevard. we go to top stories now. >> thank you. >>> we continue our coverage of the death of ted kennedy and the legacy the liberal lion leaves behind. >> he left his mark on thousands of pieces of legislation. courtney robinson is live with more. certainly his imprint is far and wide. the patriarch for the family. the question now, who will succeed him? he was a voice for civil rights, alth care, education. now the roar of the lion has fallen silent. >> the work goes on. the hope still lives. the dream shall never die. >> ted kennedy carried their dream forward. we saw his personal failures -- chappaquiddick, and the loss of the 1980 presidential bid. >> i believe the camelot era passes today. i do not believe the next generation could ever measured up to the first. >> but the legacy continues. victoria and joe are said to be serious contenders for the late senator's seat. then there is kathl

thomas of itn. >> reporter: british interrogators questioning suspects abroad either just after mistreatments or during bouts of it. questions for u.s. authorities to fout ben amin mohammed while he was held illegally at guantanamo bay. handed over by states known to have tortured those they got it from. those are the accusations of uk torture that are swirling about. the committee of mps and lords are set out to answer three questions. is complicity and torture illegal? having defined complicity, they decide it is. do those things the government agencies accused of amount to such complicity? again, the committee decides they do so are the accusations true? on this, the committee was stumped. and that's the committee's beef. that the government has obstructed their inquiries leaving it unable to tell whether the accusations have credibility. this report doesn't pull its punches. accountability of a security and intelligent service, it says, is woefully deficient. ministers, too, have been determined to avoid parliamentary scrutiny. the report says behind a wall of secrecy. >> if they haven't done anything wrong there's no evidence that they have or all we h

. >> now you say coach thomas can help you get to the next level, which is the nba, better than some other coach, but john calapari at kentucky and mike krzyzewski at duke and benll have numerous players in the nba. why is isiah different? >> isiah's been to the leaguement he's played in the nba. he's been to the league. he's coached numerous years in the nba, and i, mean, he just has the players the back it up. you can coach college players, but he has players in the nba that he took them to the next level and turned them enter nba all-stars. what can you do with somebody coming out of high school and going to college. >> what parts of your game do you feel he can specifically help you improve? >> just making more of a weapon on the court. i mean, i'm labeled as a versatile player. i think he can make me even more deadly. he can help me with my jump shot. i don't know what type of stuff he has planned with me, like for drills and everything, but i'm pretty sure they're pretty intense and there are pretty good things to do. >> dominique, do you consider yourself a one and done after your freshman year, right to the nab? >> i'd like to do that, but i'm not going