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. >> brown: charlie, so the step? there is how much went into the behind-the-scenes to try to construct the right sort of language to fit into this long-running debate that the professor is talking about? >> well, it's something of a black box but as best as i can tell there has been weeks of deliberations. we know that one theory that was played with for a while with whether they should stop using armed drones after may 20, there would then be no direct strikes by u.s. forces and that might bole store case that this is not hostilities. ultimately the white house decided not to go that route, to leave the mission unchanged an to say that what you're seeing is not hostilities as we interpret it. >> brown: jamie raskin, if the questi is a estion othe definition of hostilities are there legal definitions to help? the supreme court has not weighed in on this, correct? >> the supreme court has offered no ill luce decontamination of the term. there's nothing in this statute that elaborates on the definition that's sort of s

to honor that, we combined the audio from last night's show with video from "be my valentine, charlie brown any luck this is something they'll show their grandkids one day. >> amazing butt. and rocking legs. and having heretical my [ bleep ], that's the extent of my interest. >> my gut items me stells me to trust him. >> wow that was -- it started out good but it sucked toed the end. i would literally rather be swimming in pee than try to plan a wedding with her. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i wish he was that tough with lucy. elsewhere on abc last night, we premiered a new show called "extreme makeover: weight loss edition." ty pennington takes morbidly obese people and adds a front porch to them or something like that. is there anything more ironic than sitting on a couch watching people lose weight? last night a contestant named rachel got a special reward for reaching her goal of losing 80 pounds. normally on these shows the reward they get is an extra rice cake or something. but rachel got to go bungee jumping. >> when it came time to do it i'm thinking am ingoing to be able to do this? beca

it says, still loosely, that's the appropriators, holding the football that it will never let charlie brown have. that's really what we see here. this is a mirage, a promise that they are going to do something because if they just did it in the bill the way we reported the bill out of the committee, you wouldn't need the subterfuge. there's no reason to be doing this the senate reported it out clean, no diversion, 95-4. they voted it out of the senate. and i don't even know why we're here debating this at this point. if we believe that the whole -- that the one primary purpose of patent reform is to deal with the fee diversion, then we need to deal with that first and that's exactly what we did in the judiciary committee. i don't know why i'm here defending what we on a broad, bipartisan basis reported out of our committee. it ought to be the chairman of the committee that's defending what we reported out of the committee. yet, we are here instead of defending what we reported out of the committee, the manager's amendment waters it down and makes it ineffective and that's not what we should

i think charlie davis looks like a fool in that the republicans got mad because reggie brown began toublicans, but he was impersonating obama. what do you think he was going to do? gop, learn to take a joke. laugh. it's okay. >> i totally agree with you. larry the cable guy is hilarious. but listen -- >> he is! >> "the daily show" senior black correspondent at the congressional correspondents dinner in d.c. in march gave quite a performance. >> i was there. >> let's listen. >> a lot of people said with the election of obama, it shows that america is not racist anymore. i don't know if i agree with that. i mean, if we had elected flava flav, i mean, that would show we're past, you know -- no, because obama, that is a very comfortable level of black. be honest, people. be honest, white people. you are very comfortable with that level. that's the will smith/oprah level of black, right? be honest. be honest. it is. >> so, what is the difference between this guy and reggie brown? >> well, there you go. and also, let's be honest, you might have had a few more black people in the room that l

charlie, an old friend of ours that i went to high school with. >> really. >> really, in high school. he does a lot of this in the city and he's come and given us one of these brown bag lunches with acoustical separation and talked about just what he's saying, using different thicknesses of material. the assembly has to go beyond the glazing, it has to be the building wall assembly that reduces outside noise. >> tempered glass is designed to take impact. that would have broken the window glass or the plate. i'm trying really hard. this doesn't want to break. let's give it a real... you know, so it's a good product. it's interesting. this center is the strongest part. the weakest part is at the edg edges. it takes quite a bit of impact, as you see. but -- in a quake, when they say don't leave the building, you know, there's a reason. you're probably better staying inside, under a desk or whatever else, because it's probably not going to be the glass that falls down but the cornice, some of the ornamental brickwork. who knows. we're likely to get hit by a power line. >> stay in the building. >> stay in the building, get under your desk. keep a bottle of scotch ther